Michael Sondow wrote:
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 00:11:12 -0400
From: Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [IFWP] Non-commercial domain name holders?
Below is a partial list of the organizational members of ISOC, taken
from their website. ("*" = founding member).
Are these non-commercial domain name holders? If this is ISOC's
membership, is ISOC an organization that represents non-commercial
domain name holders?
Should ISOC be organizing the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders
Constituency of the DNSO? Should they even be allowed to join it?
I think the answers to these questions are clear enough.
3Com*
America Online, Inc.*
Ameritech*
Compaq*
AT&T Labs*
Cisco Systems, Inc.*
France Telecom*
GTE Corporation*
IBM*
Intel Corporation*
J.P. Morgan*
MCI Communications Corporation*
Microsoft*
Network Associates*
Novell, Inc.*
Oracle Corporation*
PSINet, Inc.*
RAND*
Siemens AG*
Sprint*
Sun Microsystems, Inc.*
Telstra*
Alis Technologies, Inc.
ARTEL, Inc.
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Adobe Systems
Crawford Communications, Inc.
CyberCash, Inc.
Deutsche Telekom AG
Dun & Bradstreet
Ericsson
Federal Express
Fujitsu Limited
Tektronix, Inc.
Teledesic Corporation
Teleglobe International Corporation
Time Warner Telecom, Inc.
Geneva Financial Center
Hitachi, Ltd.
Rabobank
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
O'Reilly and Associates
Korea Telecom Corp.
Lucent Technologies
NEC Corporation
Merita Bank Ltd.
Macmillan Computer Publishing
Hongkong Telecom
Infonet Services Corporation
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Could the members of this list please address the questions themselves,
rather than the questioner?
If you ask wether ISOC isn't more "qualified" than the ICIIU to organize
the non-commercial constituency, shouldn't you also ask who is the more
disqualified of the two?
(actually, this is the very reason for creating a constituency for
'"individuals only")
Esther just gave a telephone interview to try to calm down New Zealand
apprehensions about what is happening to the ccTLD "souvereignty".
She is quoted as saying: "I think people should calm down and not worry.
We are going to try and be open and let people see what we are doing , and
we are going to try and give people a say. We are not going to run off and
do things half-cocked."
She indicates Icann's efforts to arrive at policy decisions through
consensus don't necessitate it relying solely on structured and formal
democratic procedures-such as "one member, one vote", or allowing countries
to veto proposals.
"It's more suble than that, because opinion counts for more than votes."
I'd like to hear your comments on that.
--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
