[ga-full] RE: [ga] Who has standing

["!Dr. Joe Baptista" <baptista@pccf.net>]

This sort of thing has been discussed here before.  To be aware of the
DNSO all you need is access to a computer - I'm not surprised a telco civl
servant would be ignorant of that.

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Jean-Michel Becar wrote:

> Kent and Nii,
> 
> Please don't say that I said that developing countries doesn't have a stake
> in the DNS story , I just said that everybody who is aware of the DNSO and
> ICANN has at least 20 dollars in pocket to participate!!! That's something
> different. Because to be aware of ICANN you need at least a computer and a
> modem, isn't it?
> 
> About the At Large : it costs nothing so no problem for everybody to
> participate. You still need a computer and a modem so what about people not
> having that materiel?????? and they have a stake because those are the
> future user and buyer of domain names !!!!!!
> 
> But if we need resources to build a DNSO GA membership structure, MAY BE we
> will need some money and I think 20$ is reasonable and we can also study the
> case of people not having the money for example people coming from
> developing countries but IMHO I don't think that people who don't have 20$
> really care about the DNSO -- that's different of they don't have a stake --
> because those people are first looking for food, water, or how to make their
> lands productive before to go to buy a computer and a modem !!!
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent Crispin [mailto:kent@songbird.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 12:41 AM
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] Who has standing
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:47:52AM +1300, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> > >
> > Nii is absolutely right.
> 
> Indeed he is.
> 
> > There are many people without computers who participate on the Net.  They
> > have the right to be at large members in ICANN.
> > 
> > But these are largely not the people who register Domains or  have
> > otherwise a stake in the DNS to justify their membership of the DNSO GA.
> 
> People who don't have domain names clearly have a stake in the DNS,
> because they will get domain names in the future.  For example, policies
> that led to domain names costing hundreds of dollars each have vastly
> different consequences than policies that lead to domain names costing a
> dollar.  By your reasoning developing countries that currently have very
> few domain names don't have any stake in the DNS, and can therefore be
> ignored.  That is patently false. 
> 
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