William Walsh wrote:
>I know the directors of all of these services and they would easily organize
>(and work together better than some of these consituencies appear to be).
>
>By what basis would ICANN deny them recognition?
I think we will quickly see why self-organizing constituencies are going to
be problematic. What about an academic constituency? And an arbitrage
constituency -- for domain name brokers. speculators and cybersquatters?
And if we can all be in as many constituencies as are appropriate,
eventually the lines of distinction will fade. The set-up is a bit like
our mailing lists. I'm on 6, I think, and frankly there is the same core
group of people participating on domain policy, ifwp, dnso.org, so that I
no longer know what issues belong to which because we're all basically
talking about the same DNS concerns to the same people. It's
so...so...Penguin Island redux (see book of same name by Anatole France if
you don't recognize the reference)
Why we can't all meet in one DNSO melange, with one person = one vote?
Ellen Rony Co-author
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