I also support formation of such a constituency.
I suggest that it not take its direction from ICANN as to its
ineterests, but first organize an membership fo domain name owners and
find out what are their interests.
It is my interest to protect the interests of domain name owners, adn
not to protect the interests of ICANN!
How do I become a member? My domain is NMA.COM.
Cheers...\Stef
>From your message Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:20:11 -0400:
}
}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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