<Kent Crispin, who was not there, but observed remotely, had written> >Precisely because Milton Mueller and Michael Sondow insisted on a >structure with the two of them in positions of power. There was no >other reason; that particular point was the last sticking point. > > >> The current DNSO is now mainly a trade organization. > >Thank Milton and Michael. Then Richard wrote: ****************** I'm not interested in getting into a pissing contest so I'll state my observations once and don't care to discuss it. I was in attendance for the NC meeting, as was Esther and John Klemsin. Ask them if my observation is correct. Michael Sondow had the first NC propoasl. The ISOC/Heath proopsal was second and had 30 ISOC/IAHC friendly organizations as signatories. The Mueller/ACM proposal was supposed to be a compromise. I watched Sondow and Mueller make all sorts of compromises I didn't see Heath make any. I talked to him about it and was told "my constituents won't accept this". I asked how he knew this without asking them or explaining the situation. In the end the dispute was about one paraghraph - how to elect the names council memebrs. Heath wanted the 30 orgs he signed up to elect them, many other peple pointed out one names council member from each of the 3 groups invoilved in this seemed reasonable. Heath would not do this, hence more than one NC proposal, hence no NC constituencey at this time. ******** This is how I experienced it too. I would only like to add that, thanks to the compromise proposal of Milton and Kathryn Klein, I was able to be there as a "legitimate gatecrasher" and explain the membership criteria for our IDNO constituency. Both the non-commercial proposers were united that there was no place in their setup for individuals, who might be sometimes commercially active. So, exit the compromise proposal--the IDNO spokesman had to leave the room. At least I was able to argue what a bureaucratic nightmare it is going to be to determine when a Domain is commercial and when not, in the case of Individuals. They didn't seem to mind. At that time they were bickering about who would be on that special interim compromise-making committee (Mueller, Gaetano, Sondow and Heath--much more than a membership committee, really). Don Heath wasn't even interested to speak to me. Not then and not later. Clearly the Individuals and the power-hungry are not a good mix. --Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- the Cyberspace Association, the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
