Re: Online 'hum'
Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>
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On 26-Apr-26 06:13, John R Levine wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2026, Joel Halpern wrote:
>> I don't know that we are inherently bound by any particular slogan. However,
>> the avoidance of voting still seems to me to be an extremely good idea.
>
> As ICANN discovered the hard way about 25 years ago, you can't have a
> meaningful vote if you have no idea who or what the voters are. I think
> we all agree that it's a good thing that the only bar we have to
> participation is the ability to set up an email address, so votes would
> only be exercises in ever more ways to stuff the ballot box.
>
> R's,
> John
>
> PS: I'm not saying our processes are anywhere close to perfect, but this
> isn't one that's broken.
Yes. The combination of "no kings" and "no voting" is pretty unusual (well,
maybe it goes back partially to classical Athens, but it's unusual in modern
times). It is more than a slogan. Humming is a side-effect.
Brian