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Stef,
The one missing piece in this discussion has been how it would
tactically work. Any ideas? Wanna take charge?
Gene Marsh
Diebold Incorporated
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From: Einar Stefferud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 1999 9:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Domain policy; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Subject: [IFWP] Re: the Individual Domain Name Owners constituency
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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}Dan Steinberg
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