Jay and all,
Yes, we would object to any constituencies as they are divisive
in nature,a promote discrimination by class...
Jay Fenello wrote:
> 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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