Esther dyson as pupeteer.... how nice. take a fling Joop.....spend a few
thousand on our rigged roulete wheel. esther you are doing a great job of
showing in whose pockets you have your hands. keep up the good work. you
are making a great place in history for yourself.
At 1:05 PM 5/19/99 -0400, Esther Dyson wrote:
>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/
>>
>
>
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