esters making a good suggestion here - if you want input - this is a way.
Why dose the idno not join ip in mass.
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Esther Dyson wrote:
> And the IP constituency has *invited* individual members.
>
> Esther
>
> At 09:31 pm 09/01/1999 +0900, Adam Peake wrote:
> >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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