Re: [ga] Resolution for Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Supporting Organization

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

I am reading this NCDNH statement with somewhat mixed feelings.

Two comments:

1. The first ICANN Board Director ever elected by the DNSO was
   Alexandro Pisanty, as a NCDNH candidate.
   The "Who voted for whom" record may be visited at:
   http://www.dnso.org/votes/vote02/fullrecord/whowhom-b04.html
   and the election summary at:
   http://www.dnso.org/elections/1999.DNSO-ICANN-election-result.html

   Alejandro's contributions to the DNSO, his knowledge and expertise,
   his background as scientist in a research lab with a large experience 
   in Internet matters was convincing enough to several Constituencies.

   We may then deduce that the NCDNH concerns may be well understood
   and widely supported by the Names Council and Constituencies.

2. I have been working for 25 years in various research laboratories,
   all of them public sector, non commercial. My Internet experience
   is rooted in works on international connectivity for research
   networks, both for space program and for general purpose education.
   All of these was requesting for the real dedication and the big
   responsibility, which research labs are able to provide, and which 
   was and is well respected by the industrial private sector.
   My background makes me naturally sympathetic to non-commercial 
   approach in the Internet.
   For unknown reasons, I do not perceive that theses communities 
   from universities or research labs are represented by the NCDNH.
   At least not the ones to which I belong, and I have been asking
   several colleagues.
   I admit that I do not follow the NCDNH mailing lists, and that
   it is certainly uncomplete vision, but still, I would like
   to understand what are matters on which focus the NCDNH group.

Elisabeth Porteneuve

<snip>
> 
> August. 17, 2001
> 
> YJ Park
> 
> 
>                                     Resolution for
> Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Supporting Organization
> 
> 
> The current Non-Commercial Domain Names Holders Constituency of Domain Names 
> Supporting Organization has been recognized by the ICANN Board in Santiago in 
> August ICANN meeting, 2000.
> 
> Since then, non-commercial domain names holders constituency has been 
> encountering an endless challenge in the DNSO. It is always outnumbered in 
> DNSO decision-making process by the majority votes.
> 
> It turned out that it is almost impossible for Non-commercial domain name 
> holders constituency to address its concerns which has been many times quite 
> different from the other constituencies especially commercial-based 
> constituencies easily to be buried due to innate DNSO imbalanced structure, 
> five commercial constituencies, Registrar, ISP, IP, Business, gTLD, one 
> non-commercial and ccTLD [note1], which has been pointed out by WG-Review 
> report earlier this year and by At-Large Study Committee process, recently.
> 
> On the other hand, there have been concerns expressed by NCDNHC members that 
> there are too diverse interests mixed in this same group under the name of 
> non-commercial domain names holders
> constituency, which is too vague to define its common ground and too broad to 
> reach consensus many times within the constituency: There are education and 
> research organizations, civil society groups, consumer groups, activist 
> groups for citizens, non-commercial
> purpose lobbyist groups etc..
> 
> Therefore, the non-commercial domain name holders constituency of the DNSO 
> hereby declare its withdrawl from DNSO in Montevideo and its new formation of 
> Non-Commercial Domain Names Holders Supporting Organization, NCSO.
> 
> [Note1] ccTLD is difficult to categorize whether it is commercial or 
> non-commercial in a simple way.
> 
> 
> 
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