Joop and all,
First of all I find this a departure from your past statements. Second,
We (INEGroup) completely disagree with your proposed conclusion as well
fro several obvious reasons.
1.) The White Paper by definition requires that the ICANN and it should be
assumed any of the SO's must be a "Bottom-Up" based structure where
"All Interested Parties" have equal right to determine policy.
2.) That to disallow any member of the Stakeholder community equal
voice and participation due to their specific status is a form of
Gerrymandering which in the US, is NOT legal. In addition it
was determined by unanimous consensus at the IFWP Boston meeting
All stakeholders have equal status.
3.) All Stakeholders whether or not they are DN holders are paying thru their
respective ISP's paying for this Internet infrastructure and should have by
that right to be considered as equals as members.
Joop Teernstra wrote:
> At 19:44 18/01/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Why is it E-Mail holders - Should it not be domain holders ? peop[e that rent
> >a name only and have no stake in storage / web page /name etc may not have
> >desire or interest in the nuts and bolts.
> >
> >People that sign up by the ton to be on the net and have an e-mail name, are
> >not the ones i believe are the stakeholders.
> >Just a thought
> >thanks
> >steve witkin
> >
>
> Dear MAC participants,
>
> I have expressed this point of view on several occasions. Especially the DNSO
> membership should not be stuffed with non-taxpaying "email only" members, who
> only serve to dilute the interests of real DN stakeholders.
>
> There is no question that the millions of DN holders do not form a broad
> enough
> basis for decisionmaking and there can always be mechanisms (petition,
> referendum) to look after the interests of email-only internet users, without
> giving them the right to elect Board Members.
>
> --Joop--
> http://www.democracy.org.nz/
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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