Re: [ga] Who has standing

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 15:41 29/02/00 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:

>People who don't have domain names clearly have a stake in the DNS,
>because they will get domain names in the future.  For example, policies
>that led to domain names costing hundreds of dollars each have vastly
>different consequences than policies that lead to domain names costing a
>dollar. 

True, but that is not what the DNSO was created for.

> By your reasoning developing countries that currently have very
>few domain names don't have any stake in the DNS, and can therefore be
>ignored.  That is patently false. 
>

My reasoning concerned individuals, not countries.
Individuals without computers, that Nii talked about.

--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  , founder  of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org  (or direct:) 
http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/

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