On Sat, 20 Sep 1997 22:14:30 +0100 (BST) you said:
If you measure things in Internet terms, by looking at host counts, for example, Europe represents something like 25% of the Internet. From this point of view, two seats are insufficient.
What region does WIPO and ITU represent? If none, then we are left with 7 people: 2 IAB, 2 ISOC, 2 IANA, 1 INTA. Out of those 7, 2 are from Europe, or 28%. But once we start down the slippery slope of politics, why do we assume that it will be based on Internet demographics, and not, population size or GNP or whatever other metric politicians will come up with? And even if we select Internet demographics, there will be cat fights about it as well. The current "checkers" acknowledge that more and more sites can't be polled. And what were to happen if a country with say 10,000 hosts says that for every host in their country there are 1000 users, vs country B that has 30,000 hosts and the Internet stats says 10 users per host.
Of course, if you look at things from a functional point of view, the Internet itself is seriously under-represented on the iPOC.
Which is what we should be worride about, and not whether the person comes from Japan, UK, Canada or the USA. Hank
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