Re: [aso-policy] RE: [aso-comment] IP address holders - are they represented?

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

Someone typed:
> I have no need to read the protocols. I am not discussing it on that
> level. I am saying that the users, the end-users, must be allowed to
> participate in the negotiations that will determine the protocols,
> which is what the ASO is for.
Surely, if one suspends critical judgement of this claim for a
second, and accepts this line argument as valid, there
is a missing constituency which is far larger and as its far larger
then its far more important than current users. Future users should also
have a say, and indeed considering that there needs have not yet been
even partially addressed, their voice should be louder (or their voting
power should be greater, because this is all about representative
democracy and voting rights isn't it). And of course its not just
users is it. People don't get internet addressed, devices get internet
addressed, so we should really weight voting power such that
each existing device allows its owner a single unit of weighted vote,
and each future device allows its future owner to have one unit of
weighted vote right now, as surely the device needs to have its say
now about what kind of address it should be given.

So the ASO is all about universal compulsory sufferage  that
transcends mere time is it?

Evidently so.





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