Esther and all,
Sure the IP constituency has, after the fact that they have
had their elections for representatives. That is sort of closing the barn
door after the horse's are out. Dumb and somewhat disingenuous
of them... They also supported the IDNO in Santiago as well....
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--
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Esther Dyson Always make new mistakes!
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