> That's
>clear enough: any person or organization using the Internet for
>commercial activities is excluded. The definition of commercial
>activities is given in various authoritative texts including U.S.
>and international trade and commerce laws.
I think these constituency lines are not going to be so definitive as you
suggest. If someone adds a Netscape icon to his/her website, is that a
commercial use. If I link my book title to its listing at amazon.com, is
that a commercial use even though I transact no business directly?
And after you answer those questions, here are a few more:
1. What criteria will be applied by ICANN to acknowledge a new
constituency? (I'm thinking education constituency and name reseller
constituency).
2. Is there a limit to the number of constituencies that can be
recognized? Doesn't appear so from the DNSO concepts ICANN adopted.
3. Can the Names Council just grow and grow as new constituencies are
added? 4. Why does a constituency of 249 (ccTLDs) get the same
representation as one of 2,000 (say, trademark)?
5. Why do business people conceivably get to be in three constituencies
(say business, ISP and trademark), while non-commercial, by exclusion, get
to be in only one?
6. What are the objectives behind dividing the membership pie into these
constituencies? Oh, I know. More acronyms. Or to keep us battling over
constituency definitions while the really important matters get decided by
the ICANN board -- behind closed doors.
Ellen Rony Co-author
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