- Define the long-term goals of an organisation explicitly.
- Interpret these narrowly.
- Give stakeholders a vote, both in the election of officials and on certain topics.
I would argue that there exist (hundreds of) thousands of usually small, non-profit organisations that are run pretty efficiently. I think of pretty much all of the social and sport clubs for adults and kids I know of. A lot of interpersonal drama, but also countless of volunteers and people just working for their local community organised by their hobbies. So there's something about scale and dissociation with the original goals going on.
I would have thought all of those points would apply to ICANN. The issue isn't having clearly defined goals, the issue is that for some value of N, the Nth administration of an organisation eventually behave like exploiters rather than stewards. They don't care about your silly words.
I’m curious if a law as code approach code help? Define bylaws publicly with a good specification. Decisions could be validated against the specifications. The checker’s consequences could be setup to be immediate and binding as the system matures.
- Define the long-term goals of an organisation explicitly.
- Interpret these narrowly.
- Give stakeholders a vote, both in the election of officials and on certain topics.
I would argue that there exist (hundreds of) thousands of usually small, non-profit organisations that are run pretty efficiently. I think of pretty much all of the social and sport clubs for adults and kids I know of. A lot of interpersonal drama, but also countless of volunteers and people just working for their local community organised by their hobbies. So there's something about scale and dissociation with the original goals going on.