Let's put that Board resolution into a form that says what it really means:
> DNSO Constituencies
>
> The Board discussed the applications received to date from groups desiring
> to form Constituencies of the Domain Names Supporting Organization. After
> consideration, the Board unanimously adopted the following resolutions.
>
> RESOLVED,
that non-commercial interests and individual holders of domain names
shall have no means of participation in the critical early decisions
of the DNSO, and indeed may perhaps never participate in the DNSO.
In particular, it is resolved that non-commercial interests and
individual holders of domain names shall have no means of
participation in the debates on, and the decisions about, the WIPO
matters which the board has delegated to the DNSO.
The Board Resolves that the Domain Name System of the Internet shall be
the property of commercial registrars, commercial ISPs, and commercial and
business entities.
The board wishes to emphasise that individuals, indiginious groups,
schools, churches, charities, and community organizations have no place in
the DNSO or the Domain Name System.
The board finally wishes to point out that, as this resolution was adopted
unanimously, that this feeling is held by all members of the board.
--karl--
