Tuesday, July 20, 1999, 8:02:01 PM, Bret A. Fausett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The Internet community is invited to make comments on the proposed
>> Amendments. Comments should be emailed to
>> http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/comment-dnso/maillist.html.
>>
>> The following proposed Amendments to the ICANN Bylaws are intended to
>> implement an evident consensus among participants in the ICANN process
>> that no single company should be able to place more
>> than one representative on the Names Council of the Domain
>> Name Supporting Organization
> Rather than amending the Bylaws, another solution to the "3 NSI reps is
> too many" problem would have been to either (a) allow prospective
> registries and existing registries in alternate roots to be members, or
> (b) adopt the "open" vs. "closed" TLD model (which NSI itself advocated).
> In either scenario, NSI would have been sorely outnumbered, and it's
> doubtful that it would have received enough votes to get *any*
> representatives on the Names Council.
> -- Bret
A solution which NSI supported, by the way.
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William X. Walsh
General Manager, DSo Internet Services
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The Law is not your mommy or daddy to go crying
to every time you have something to whimper about.
