On 7/26/13 8:40 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
On Jul 26, 2013, at 11:05 , David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
On Jul 26, 2013, at 7:58 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
You can change anything you want. ARIN & ICANN are both member organizations. Propose a change, get the votes, and POOF!, things are changed.
Err. ICANN isn't a membership organization. It is possible to change things at ICANN, but the mechanisms are ... different and much slower (since it involves getting consensus in a multi-stakeholder environment). Sure it is, the membership is just very .. uh .. selective. :)
"Stakeholder" is just a fancy way of saying "member". They vote, things change.
Like I said, this is _exactly_ what Ryan wanted. Only the "anointed" get to decide things. Works out well, doesn't it?
Actually the member / non-member distinction is important in California corporations law. Also important is the distinction between agency of government and anything else, there's about two reams of double-sided 11pt text on the subject, and that's just between Michael Froomkin and Joe Simms. Cheers, Eric