At 1/30/99, 06:41 PM, Mikki Barry wrote:
>At 6:43 PM -0500 1/30/99, Bret A. Fausett wrote:
>>A balanced, fluid, constituency-based Names Council (along the lines
>>advocated by CENTRE) simply initiates and then guides this open, public
>>process. There are very important commercial and consumer interests
>>though that have made a huge investment in the internet and who want a
>>guaranteed venue for participation. It is obviously important to include
>>them in this process. If a seat on the Names Council gives them some
>>comfort that the process will work better, then I'm certainly not against
>>it. As long as the policy recommendations come from a larger, open, flat
>>membership (a la the "General Assembly"), I'm satisfied that the process
>>will work.
>
>And there are many commercial and consumer interests who have made a huge
>investment in the Internet who would also like a "guaranteed venue" who are
>not represented. That is why I still advocate a flat membership structure.
>
>Not all investments can be measured in money or commercialism. If the non
>commercial interests hadn't made the Internet such a desired venue for
>communiciation, and if governments, academic institutions, private, and
>commercial entities hadn't made committments to the medium, there would BE
>no e-commerce. Yet that fact is consistantly left out of proposals for
>constituencies. There is no provision for public interest, universal
>access interests, schools and universities, freedom of expression, and
>several other important constituencies that are left out of every proposal
>(although it has been talked about in the DNSO.org draft, although it is
>being shot down as "brought up too late" when in fact it has been brought
>up time and time again over the years).
>
>This is why I continue to be for the flat membership.
If we ignore the question of membership model,
and we assume a constituency based Names Council,
are there any objections to adding a public
interest constituency?
Jay.
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