Re: [ga] Business Constituency

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

FYI I resigned from the BC wich means that at least 3% did not reniew.
I am happy yuo quote about the WISTA as a member, in two years of active 
membership I never realized they were a member. I known the Medef is there 
because I meet them sometimes, but never heard about them there. If 
Songbird is an individual part time business, the Darwin group is an 
important organization: ine of the 18 internet infrastructure investors 
(like the ASCAP, packets rusching  violon chords) and ICANN supporters:

<quote>
American Intellectual Property Law Association
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Marlyn Cade : AT&T Corporation
Broadcast Music Inc.
BT North America, Inc.
CABASE
ECOM-LAC
International Trademark Association
Internet Commerce Coalition
Internet Software Consortium, Inc.
Motion Picture Association of America
RNA Associates
Software and Information Industry Association
Mike Roberts : The Darwin Group
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
US Internet Industry Association
Verizon Communications Inc.
Vint Cerf: WorldCom, Inc.
</quote>

May be you know who the 15 other ICANN supporters are.?

On 16:57 20/09/02, Jonathan Weinberg said:

>On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Philip Sheppard wrote:
> > Just for the record. The Business Constituency is alive and well. Over
> > 98% of members renewed their fees in 2002 and new members joined. See
> > the web site for the membership list.
> > [snip]
>
>         For readers' information, that membership roll lists 34
>individual, named businesses (two of which are Songbird and the Darwin
>Group).  (Maybe fewer -- I couldn't always tell which of the members were
>individual businesses, so I erred on the high side.)
>
>         The BC also lists a set of associational members, and states that
>the associational members extend its outreach directly to tens of
>thousands of businesses worldwide.  The largest are WITSA (World
>Information Technology and Service Alliance), which is said to have 20,000
>members (actually, WITSA has no members other than national IT
>associations, so presumably the 20,000 figure is an estimate of the number
>of members WITSA's members have), and MEDEF (Mouvement des Enterprises de
>France), which is said to have 10,000 French employers as members.
>
>Jon
>
>
>Jonathan Weinberg
>weinberg@msen.com
>
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