Re: [ga] Fwd: DNSO Constituency issue

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, William X Walsh wrote:

> 2 In keeping with the selective membership criteria of other DNSO
> constituencies, the Business Constituency represents the interests of a
> specific sector of Internet users. The purpose of the Constituency is to
> represent the interests of businesses using the Internet for electronic
> commerce with customers. To avoid conflicts of interest membership is
> typically limited to those entities (or their representatives) whose
> primary use of the Internet is to conduct their business as users of
> electronic commerce in their dealings with customers or suppliers.

> This excludes for-profit entities whose business means they are likely to
> formulate views from the perspective of Internet or Domain Name service
> providers, as well as from other groups whose interests may not be aligned
> with business users.

The really absurd thing about this is that it is a complete non-sequitor.
New.net conducts all of their business electronically, so by the
definition in the first paragraph they would be exactly the sort of
business that the revised constituency would encompass if not for the
second paragraph.

More bad actors playing their parts. Good work guys.



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