My support is coming soon . . .
http://www.pdnha.org
Jay.
At 08:20 AM 4/10/99 , Dan Steinberg wrote:
>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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