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>Sunday, May 30, 1999 10:14 PM, Joop Teernstra wrote:
>>Kent Crispin wrote:
>>>On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 11:41:30AM -0400, Bret Fausett wrote:
>>>> ICANN's press release read:
>>>> >The constituencies, which will elect the
>>>> >Names Council to act as the governing body of the Domain Name
>Supporting
>>>> >Organisation (DNSO), are the core of the DNSO.
><snip>
>>>
>>>Indeed. There is an unavoidable "catch all" character
>>>to individual domain name holders -- they cross all categories,
>>>and as such it is hard to imagine a constituency
>>>that meaningfully deals with that diversity.
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>>The constituency deals not with the diversity,
>>but with the commonality.
>>The diversity is what enriches it.
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><snip>
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>Yes, I can imagine the IDNO as, even the only, constituency of the DNSO.
>All interests be they corporate, institutional, non-commercial, or
>individual could be effectively advanced through the collective voice of
>individuals as is currently done in many democratic societies.
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>In fact it is this filter of the individual as source of authority in a
>collective model of democratic governance that buffers against
>cataclysmic reactions otherwise afforded to those chosen for positions
>of power.
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>Arnold Gehring
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>>--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
>>the Cyberspace Association,
>>the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
>>http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
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