The message below has been intercepted from the ENRED mailing list. It demonstrates clearly the illicit methods being used by ISOC to co-opt the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders constituency, take control of it, and exclude others from participating. This constituency has not been formed yet, and neither David Maher, nor ISOC, nor anyone else has a mandate as its organizers. The ENRED list and the others that ISOC has access to or which they have created are limited to primarily their members, and in no way are available to the wider community. David Maher himself is a trademark lawyer, a representative of IBM, and a commercial domain name user, and as such has no legitimate claim to even participate in the NCDNHC, much less organize it. Furthermore, he and his organization cannot lawfully hold elections, nor even nominations, before the membership of the constituency has been ascertained and approved; and the ICANN board itself has stated publicly that elections for the Names Council will not be held in Berlin, much less before Berlin. The outrageously unfair and undemocratic tactics being used by this man and his organizations - POC, CORE, and ISOC-, tactics which border dangerously on a sort of fascism, must disqualify him and them from any further participation in this process. ................................................... Subject: [Enred-DNSO] Non-commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:22:16 -0500 From: "David W. Maher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To the organizations forming the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency: As you know, ICANN has scheduled its next Board of Directors Meeting in Berlin on May 24-25, 1999. Details and the agenda are posted at the ICANN web site: http://www.icann.org/berlin/berlin-details.html A meeting room for each of the constituency groups, including the non-commercial group, has been reserved at the Adlon Hotel on Tuesday, 25 May, and the first meeting of the DNSO General Assembly has been scheduled for the afternoon of 25 May at the hotel. It would be helpful to know in advance who plans to attend the Berlin meetings. If each organization could respond to this message with a list of representatives planning to attend the meetings, we can post the list on the NCDNHSO web site. If the Non-commercial constituency is to have an effective voice, we should also elect interim Names Council members before the Berlin meeting. Nominations should be made to this list so that an election can be held by email on 21 May. This is my nomination for election to membership in the Interim Names Council of the Non-commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency: Name: David W. Maher Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
