The Business Constituency of the DNSO is considering making the following change to its membership rules:
<quote> 2 In keeping with the selective membership criteria of other DNSO constituencies, the Business Constituency represents the interests of a specific sector of Internet users. The purpose of the Constituency is to represent the interests of businesses using the Internet for electronic commerce with customers. To avoid conflicts of interest membership is typically limited to those entities (or their representatives) whose primary use of the Internet is to conduct their business as users of electronic commerce in their dealings with customers or suppliers. This excludes for-profit entities whose business means they are likely to formulate views from the perspective of Internet or Domain Name service providers, as well as from other groups whose interests may not be aligned with business users. Such entities may find other constituencies offer more appropriate means of representing their members' interests. </quote> They are doing this because New.net applied to be a member of the BC, and they don't want them there, but in doing this, they have also eliminated almost all of us from being qualified for members, since we also do not qualify for membership in the "registrar" constituency since we are registration providers, but not registrars. They ignore that we, as registration providers, are businesses on the internet, participating in one of the largest sectors of e-commerce, the Business to Business sector (aka B2B). I'm no fan of New.net or the other alt.root'ers whom they are targetting, but this step is simply not an acceptable response to that issue. I encourage RSPs to let the the BC Reps know what you think of this: "Philip Sheppard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marilyn Cade [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grant Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] the BC website: http://www.bizconst.org/ Their mailing lists: http://www.bizconst.org/mailinglist.htm Also you may want to CC the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, feel free to CC me also. Mr Sheppard is also the chair of the DNSO Names Council, the other members, and their email addresses, are at http://www.dnso.org/constituency/ncmembers.html -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Webcertificates.info SSL Certificates for resellers from $49ea
