I would encourage you to come to Berlin and to meet/join with the two constituencies mentioned below. Then you can decide if yet another constituency is really necessary, and make whatever pobulic comments you want. Esther At 04:08 PM 19/05/99 +1200, Joop Teernstra wrote: >Members of the interim ICANN Board, > >On your web page I now read the following discouraging phrase: > >>"As the Initial Constituencies will not yet have been recognized, the >ICANN Board will not be considering any additional Constituencies at its >next meeting in Berlin." > >As I am just in the process of preparing to fly from New Zealand to Berlin >in order to have the Individuals considered as a constituency in their own >right, I may be forgiven for urgently requesting you to reconsider this >unfortunate decision. > >I feel that it is not right that the Individuals are disenfranchised at >this moment, just when ICANN prepares to give the DNSO its structure. > >Strong arguments can be made that set the Individual Domain Name Owners >apart from either Business Interests or Non-Commercial organizations. >These arguments have been made by many, including now the Internet >Governance Committee of the ACM. >http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/comment-dnso/msg00022.html > >Including a Constituency for Individual Domain Name holders now will >facilitate the formation of both the Business Interests constituency and >the non-commercial Domain name holders' constituency and help delineating >the different interests more adequately. >Please reconsider. >I am no longer speaking on my own behalf, but on behalf of the individuals >who have already joined this constituency as co-founders. >Their sentiments should convince you that there is a strongly felt need >for separate representation. > >--Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- >the Cyberspace Association, >the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners >http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/ > Esther Dyson Always make new mistakes! chairman, EDventure Holdings interim chairman, Internet Corp. for Assigned Names & Numbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 (212) 924-8800 1 (212) 924-0240 fax 104 Fifth Avenue (between 15th and 16th Streets; 20th floor) New York, NY 10011 USA http://www.edventure.com http://www.icann.org High-Tech Forum in Europe: 24 to 26 October 1999, Budapest PC Forum: March 2000, Scottsdale (Phoenix), Arizona Book: "Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age"
