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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/26/16 12:55 AM, Evan Leibovitch
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ms,sans-serif">Karl makes a compelling case why ICANN should
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That was not my point at all.<br>
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One can go to pretty much any country, any state, on the Earth and
will find similar laws.<br>
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There will, of course, be variations in color and texture among
those laws. But no matter where, when people pool their interests
in a common enterprise there will be the same questions of control
during times of agreement and times of disagreement. From the 17th
to the 20th century European ideas of organization were spread
around the world.<br>
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These laws have been polished through centuries of experience.
Those who think they have a better idea often discover that that
idea has occurred before and was found wanting.<br>
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I am old enough to have come of age during the "flower power" era of
the 1960's. I saw (and experienced) a lot of people and groups who
rejected "the establishment" and sought to reshape the world along
lines that were less confrontational, more "personally empowered",
more "love, peace, and good vibes". Those attempts, like previous
Utopian movements, faded because they were based on aspirations
rather than recognition of hard lessons of experience with human
nature.<br>
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These proposals to restructure ICANN are similarly aspirational.
And similarly unrealistic.<br>
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Perhaps most unrealistic is the idea that "we can just pick up and
move to somewhere else".<br>
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The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. And
if one takes a look around it's going to be hard to find a place
that is more amenable than California to innovated organizational
structures. Which is a good reason to look at what the aging
Hippies who now run California have put into California's
public-benefit/non-profit corporations law with regard to membership
and the powers of that membership.<br>
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Don't fight the system. Use it. <br>
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--karl--<br>
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