Karl Auerbach

"I (also) do not want anyone to believe that I accept constituencies except as a lesser among a collection of very evil evils.

I also do not want to let anyone believe that I accept the "interim" board's move into substantive matters to be anything less than a violation of its charter as an interim body.

The trouble is that there is no way to effectively say "no" to constituencies -- the current system has been rigged so that silence is consent to lets others usurp my voice.

I absolutely reject the notion that ICANN can create a working DNSO in Berlin on the terms which it has incorporated into its bylaws without the approval of a working general membership or a board selected by that membership.

All of that said, I will not stupidly go down with the ship by rejecting the lifeboat of a constituency for what are the *only* legitimate voices and votes in the internet debate, the voices and votes of living breathing human beings.

So I endorse a constituency of individuals. And at the same time I utterly reject the legitimacy of constituencies formed on any other basis.

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