On Jul 26, 2013, at 11:05 , David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> wrote: > On Jul 26, 2013, at 7:58 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patr...@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? -- TTFN, patrick
