Joe Sims wrote: > ... there are > constituencies, which are > intended to provide ways for the DNSO (and thus ICANN) to get > input from a > number of specific different perspectives. ... With > respect to the registrar constituency, that was specifically > intended as a > vehicle for accredited registrars to provide their specific > input. Joe, This is a totally wrong, though not atypical ICANN attitude. You cannot say that the Registrar constituency was "specifically intended as a vehicle for accredited registrars". I quote the bylaws at http://www.icann.org/bylaws-09apr99.html#VI-B (a) Each Constituency shall self-organize, and shall determine its own criteria for participation, ... (b) The initial Consituencies shall consist of (in alphabetical order): 6. registrars I am most interested in how a constituency that will 'determine its own criteria for participation' can be deemed to be 'specifically intended as a vehicle for accredited registrars'. That is a nonsense. The constituency is fully empowered to decide who may be members. As can all the other constituencies. This is supposed to be a bottom-up process. You must stop assuming that you can impose a scheme of things. >Since, > as you point out, there are other ways in which your input > can be provided, > including general public comment in addition to the other > constituencies, > there seems no particular reason to dilute the focus of the registrar > constituency. Again, you just assume that you know what the Registrar constituency is made up of. You do not. Nor, actually, does the Registrar constituency. >To the best of my knowledge, you get no prizes > for being in > a particular constituency, and your voice and views are certainly not > excluded, so why the fuss? This is pathetic. Either there is value to constituencies and their representative structures or there isn't. You seem to imply that there is no real value, so don't bother with it. We tend to take this a bit more seriously. We have been in the industry for years and have used the Registrar/Registry structure for years. I believe that it is vital that Registrars of all hues have input to ICANN. Where else are they supposed to go? If you wanted a committee of ICANN accredited registrars, you should have created one yourselves. Ivan Pope NetNames
