Karl Auerbach a �crit:
>
> > The Barcelona/Monterrey DNSO has a quite broad base of participation:
> > registries, ccTLD NICs, ISOC, various telcos, business and trademark groups,
> > etc.
>
> It is my position that "groups" should not have any voting role whatsoever
> in any part of ICANN or its SO's.
Well, philosophically that's a good position. Unfortunately, it's not much
use in determining a membership for the ICANN and its SOs. Do you deny that
people working in registries, ccTLD NICs, telcos, Internet user businesses,
ISPs, etc. should be members of the DNSO and of ICANN?
I don't think anyone, with the exception of the trademark groups (whose
lawyers probably should not even be allowed as members) has seriously
suggested giving the organizations themselves a vote. They are the format
through which the individuals are filtered for membership in the
constitutencies that represent their interests. You would rather that there
were no constitutencies? Okay, but it changes very little.
> People should have the sole voting power.
>
> Of course people can form groups to share ideas and to agree upon common
> approaches and pay for the expense of promoting those common goals.
>
> But such groups should achieve power only by means of the number of people
> they can motivate to vote in accord with those organizational/group
> agendas.
>
> For example, if the trademark folks can convince people that it is a good
> idea to restrict the number of new TLDs, that's fine.
>
> But it is not fine to pre-build in a power for trademark folks that is not
> based on anything more than a guess as to their relative strength at some
> arbitrary point in time.
That may be true as regards the trademark groups, but it's much less a
propos of the operators of the DNS. Their relative strength needn't be
guessed at. The Internet can't function without them. They are the Internet.
But all this is not a response to my post. It remains true that the DNSO
(dnso.org) has succeeded in regrouping many players of significance in the
Internet community. This gives it legitimacy in the eyes of ICANN. It may be
recognized as the DNSO. Do you want to let it organize its voting on the
present lines, or do you want to help change that, to be more in accord with
your own concept? The NTIA and ICANN aren't going to do it.
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