Friday, August 20, 1999, 11:56:26 AM, Bret A. Fausett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Esther Dyson wrote:
>>Second, I am more concerned that the voices and interests of individuals be
>>*represented* in the work of the DNSO, than with precisely how that happens.
> Another avenue for individual domain name holders to let their interests
> be known would have been through participation in the constituencies with
> which they are naturally allied. Individuals using their domain name for
> commercial purposes could participate in the Business and Commercial
> Constituency, individuals using the domain for non-commercial purposes
> could participate in the Non-Commercial Constituency, and individuals who
> have interests in the interface between their registered domain and
> trademark law could participate in the Intellectual Property Constituency.
> The ICANN Board recognized the value of such of scheme in Singapore. In a
> Board resolution, it wrote: "Individual domain name holders should be
> able to participate in constituencies for which they qualify." (See,
> http://www.icann.org/dnso-formation.html). Unfortunately, all of the
> constituency proposals accepted by the Board to date have disallowed
> participation by individual domain name holders.
I have to disagree here. All this will do is dilute the interests of
individual domain name owners (who have found themselves to have a
common interest that is not met by those constituencies). This will
divide them up, and those dilute their ability to be represented.
This suggestion would not be acceptable, and would be vociferously
opposed.
> All of these recognitions are provisional though. ICANN could rectify
> this by forcing all contituencies to open up their membership to
> individual domain name holders in order to receive formal, permanent
> recognition. Short of that though, the only way for ICANN to give life to
> the statement quoted above from the Singapore compromise is to recognize
> the IDNO at the Santiago meeting. I hope it does one of the these two
> things.
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