Stef and all, This is a good suggestion Stef. However I would differ with you with respect to your statement below, "ORSC has the greater collection of all prospective new gTLDs". In fact you know this is not correct or a bit of an overstatement. With respect to Stakeholders INEGroup is far an away larger that the ORSC and much better funded as well. In addition pgMedia has far and away more prospective gTLD's that ORSC does, which you also know as well.... Therefore, might I suggest an alliance??? >;) Einar Stefferud wrote: > But, lets not define it in ICANN terms;-)... > > Lets just form it as a Trade Association and occupy the membership > space of what woudl be an ICANN consituency if there was one. > > As I see it, ORSC has the greater collection of all prospective new > gTLDs, and I am sure that we can get NSI to join if we can show that > we have a cohernet membership support. > > I suggest that we not settle the isue of incorporating as a trade > association until we have a mass of membership that can make that > choice. In the meantime, we alreay have the ORSC charter in place, > though it is essenially dormant. > > In any case, we need to be entirely open to all gTLD aspirants, > including IRSC and any others. ORSC holds no monopoly on this, but > ORSC does hold a central postion in terms of the ability to form a > constituency. > > Last Questions: > > 1. If no us, who? > > 2. If not now, when? > > Cheers...\Stef > > PS: My concern about not defining the prupose in terms of the narrow > meaingin of an ICANN Constituency is that I do not see that we shoudl > be supporting ICANN from the beginning. If we do so, we forfiet all > rights to later claim that ICANN is not doing a legitimate job, > because we will have become an internal part of ICANN adn wil thus be > preempted from many interesting actions that we might take...\s Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
