At 12:01 AM 1/13/99 -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>
>> Look at the DNSO propsal a la ORSC
>> <http://www.dnso.net/library/dnso-orsc.proposal.shtml>
>>
>> To whit:
>>
>> >The Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) shall be composed of any
>> >individual, firm, association, corporation or other entity who is the
>> >holder of a second level domain (SLD) in any top level domain (TLD)
>> (Hereinafter "Domain
>> >Name Holder").
>
>I'd suggest amending that to be ... "holder of one or more second level
>domain(s) (SLD)..."
Where in here does it not cover that case? I asked that question myself,
when this came up in the ORSC list. This covers both COM/NET/ORG type TLDs
and ccTLDs. Hmmm, it may be a bug. Mikki, can you check this? I seem to
recall slightly different wording that covered the ccTLD case.
As to your concerns, A member is any legal entity that hold a domain name,
it doesn't specify how many domain names they are holding, they still only
get one vote. They could have 500,000 domain names, it makes no difference.
Adding your specification would be redundant.
>Then I'd further add that they get one and exactly one vote.
>
>And I'd add a membership audit committee that went around and looked into
>questionable cases (their call as to what constitutes "questionable") to
>see if somebody is creating shell entities.
I would assume that would be part of the membership process. There must be
validation to provide evidence of completion/compliance, of course.
Regardless, considering that, in COM alone, there are over 2 million
domains, how many of them are owned by the same entities? It is still a
rather large number. How many shells must one create in order to sway a
particular vote? Would it be worth it? The order of magnitude is in the
thousands. Not only is it a lot of money, it is a lot of paperwork.
Creating a legal corporation is not trivial, especially when you are
discussing those kinds of numbers. Don't forget that there is taxation
issues with each shell entity. The time/trouble/money adds up pretty
quickly. Then there is the issue of the local authority, who will quickly
realize the 1000 shells per day, from the same individual, is a little
fishy, their next call would be to the DEA/IRS/Drug Czar, to talk about
possible money laundering issues. I just moved $8000 across State lines,
the next thing I knew I got a call asking why I didn't register it with the
IRS/DEA. Yeah, they watch this stuff like a hawk.
The sheer numbers are against what you are worried about.
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