Adam, respectfully, having observed some of the events of the capture
of the non commercial constituency by ISOC, including the abandonment
of DNCR by Kathy Klieman and the naive participation by Barbara
Simon's on behalf of ACM, I have concluded that this constituency is
tainted.
Karl I suspect can speak more eloquently on the DNSO constituency
process than I.
>Karl Auerbach wrote:
>
> > > That's why I was in favour of financing ICANN in a different
>way, like for
> > > instance with a $1 fee on domain names, or with a membership fee.
> >
> > I'd be happy to pay the $1/name tax if I had a voice in the making of the
> > policies of the Domain Name System or IP address allocation.
> >
> > But I don't.
> >
> > There is no constituency of the DNSO that allows individuals who have
> > domain names to be members.
> >
>
>Karl, have you tried to join the non commercial constituency?
>
>And anyone know if the commercial constituency has rejected any
>applications from individual domain name holders?
>
>Adam
>
> > The DNSO General Assembly and Working Groups are being used by the DNSO
> > Names Council as clerical bodies.
> >
> > And the DNSO constituencies are biased 6:1 in favor of commerical
> > interests.
> >
> > The ASO and PSO exclude participation by individuals altogether.
> >
> > The At-Large Membership has just been dismembered.
> >
> > The board engages in performance art that they call "open meetings".
> >
> > The board finds consensus to extend its term despite the fact that
> > virtually all comment on the official comment place was against it.
> >
> > --karl--
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