Re: [ga] the IDNO

[Bob Davis <bob.davis@netzero.net>]

Mr. Teenstra and everyone,

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 12:23 10/11/00 -0500, Ken Stubbs wrote:
> >joop...
> >
> >i would then assume by your comments below then that your would pofess that
> >IDNO speaks for all the individual domain name holders of the world
> >and the ICIIU speaks for the balance of the users.  !!
> >
> >NO SALE HERE !
> >
>
> Ken,
>
> Very happy that the Chair of the Names Council at last deigns to address
> the IDNO.
>
> Speaking only about the IDNO, the short answer is yes.
> We are surely as representative as the other constituencies are for their
> typical interests.
> More representative, perhaps, than the "Biz constituency" is for "the
> World's businesses".
> Yes, we are set up as a geographically diverse structure. Yes, typical
> individual DN holders from around the world are members and are
> participating as officers.
>
> Please tell me, who else are there  to speak for typical Individual DN
> holder's interests?

  We represent some +60,000 individual domain name owners
Sir.

>
>
> This is not meant as a rhetorical question.
>
> Please list the individuals and organizations and propose to make them part
> of the constituency that will speak for their interests on the NC.
>
> The IDNO has been formed as an open democratic constituency, which all DN
> holders of the world who are concerned enough, can join.
> It has grown to 200 and it will continue to grow, if only due to the
> continuing flow of cease-and-desist letters that DN owners find in their
> letter-boxes.
> There is a transparent structure that will bring out the
> spokesmen/representatives and leadership that the majority of the members
> want.
> Show me another organized structure specifically asking for interested DN
> owners to join in order to gain representation on the DNSO.
> Show me one that has petitioned the ICANN Board for a seat at the table
> ever since it created its DNSO "constituencies".
> Show me one with a more democratic, bottom-up charter.
>
> I'll humbly join it.
>
> BTW, is this you official reply to the GA's request to initiate discussions
> and form a WG to review the existing DNSO constituency structure?
> I have been waiting since after the GA vote in Yokohama you promised  to
> get in touch with us.
> I am quite willing to have an open dialog here with you, reasonable and
> without ad-hominems.
> I can understand your personal unwillingness to buy into the concept of an
> IDNO, as paid representative of registrar/registry interests  that would
> rather have the customers unorganized and without any input in DNSO
> policymaking.
> But as Chair of the Names Council you have to take a broader view.
>
> Curing the festering democracy deficit in the DNSO will be in the best
> interest of ICANN as a whole.
>
> --Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
> the Cyberspace Association and
> the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
> Elected representative.
> http://www.idno.org
>
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