And the IP constituency has *invited* individual members.
Esther
At 09:31 pm 09/01/1999 +0900, Adam Peake wrote:
>Karl Auerbach wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> 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.
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>> But I don't.
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>> There is no constituency of the DNSO that allows individuals who have
>> domain names to be members.
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>Karl, have you tried to join the non commercial constituency?
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>And anyone know if the commercial constituency has rejected any
>applications from individual domain name holders?
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>Adam
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>> The DNSO General Assembly and Working Groups are being used by the DNSO
>> Names Council as clerical bodies.
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>> And the DNSO constituencies are biased 6:1 in favor of commerical
>> interests.
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>> The ASO and PSO exclude participation by individuals altogether.
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>> The At-Large Membership has just been dismembered.
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>> 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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