Ok, here's my support for such a constituency.
Joop Teernstra wrote:
>
> Friends,
>
> The effort that I undertook in Singapore, together with Jay Fenello and
> many others, to have the Individual Domain Name Owners recognized as one of
> the bootstrap-constituencies in the DNSO has been only partly successful.
>
> What the ICANN board has edicted is
> 1. a constituency for non-commercial DN owners
> 2. a constituency of business interests.
>
> Yet, Esther said (perhaps facetiously) that forming the constituencies
> prior to the Berlin meet, is now a bottom-up effort.
>
> Well, right here from the bottom,
> I propose a constituency of Individual DN owners without the artificial
> caste-barrier.
>
> There are hundreds of thousands of DN owners who do not want to be
> classified as non-commercial even if they might be so today.
>
> Yet in the business-interests constituency they will not get the
> representation they will want and need: protections against the WIPO lobby,
> that will, if unchecked, let big business with large law firms ride
> roughshod over small business.
>
> As small and , for registries, insignificant players, they will also need
> special protections against arrogant behaviour and abuse of power by
> registries. They need to have their ownership of their Domain recognized.
> These protections will have to be lobbied for in the DNSO.
>
> If these protections have to come from the at-large ICANN membership, they
> will come too late.
> I am convinced that the policy recommendations that will come out of the
> DNSO will carry a great deal of weight for the future elected ICANN board.
> Why else would the DNSO formation have mattered so much for the ICANN
> interim Board to have both Esther and Joe Simms present all the time?
>
> All we need to do is to present the constituency in Berlin, as a united
> front of both business and non-business DN owners, concerned about the same
> issues.
>
> Please email your support for such a constituency to the list or to me.
> I will need to know who supports such a constituency, well before I would
> decide to go to Berlin on your behalf.
> Actually, it would be more economical and practical if someone based in
> Europe could represent us in Berlin.
>
> Please comment or react. Your enemy is apathy.
>
>
>
> Joop Teernstra LL.M.
> Democratic Association of Domain Name Owners
> http://www.democracy.org.nz
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