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Re: [ga] Business Constituency
Dear Asaad,
I too submitted my membership application to the BC in Melbourne, and once
more resubmitted it thereafter only to hear the same song and dance from
their Secretariat that you have experienced. I wonder how many other small
businesses have now had their applications lost or denied by the BC? Most
every small business that was formerly a BC member is now gone.
But we aren't the only ones they discriminate against... Their charter
specifically excludes registries from being a member (which is why they
rejected the application from new.net), yet they maintain on their membership
roster the Socièté Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautique (SITA)
which operates the .aero registry. They don't respect their own Charter, and
they don't respect the bylaws -- they only seem to respect the telco industry
(and re-wrote their own Charter in the middle of an election to make sure
that two telco reps were elected to the Names Council).
As you indicated, they have no sense of handling their internal business.
The archives from the Marina del Rey session reveal the following: "the
Constituency has an inherited debt derived from the third party costs
incurred by the previous secretariat. These costs relate chiefly to the part
time employment of a co-ordinator and to use of third party web hosts. The
debt resulted from an over-optimistic estimate of membership income. This is
equivalent to 45 category 1 members or 440 category 3 members. The
Constituency has reached agreement with the previous secretariat to pay-off
this debt in installments." http://www.bizconst.org/archive/BCLA11-01.doc
Hopefully, ICANN will soon release the criteria necessary for the formation
of provisional constituencies and we can start a new constituency that will
be more responsive and involved.
Best wishes,
Danny Younger
Asaad wrote:
Philip, who are you kidding here!
The business constituency has no regard for many business entities and
definitely not well nor alive. You have no sense in the first place of
handling your internal (BC) business to represent the rest businesses to
start with.
I personally passed an application; as witnessed by Marilyn; for my different
companies to join the BC during ICANN Melbourne meeting to the constituency
secretary by hand delivery to find out latter that it was lost and never
processed. And since then the current secretary failed to get us going.
Many of us view the BC as a big FAILURE and a definite dead cause.
Regards,
Asaad Alnajjar
CEO Millennium Inc. ( Home of the Arabic Domain Name )
AINC Executive Director
http://www.any-dns.com
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