RE: [ga] Who has standing

[Jean-Michel Becar <Jean-Michel.Becar@etsi.fr>]

Kent and Nii,

Please don't say that I said that developing countries doesn't have a stake
in the DNS story , I just said that everybody who is aware of the DNSO and
ICANN has at least 20 dollars in pocket to participate!!! That's something
different. Because to be aware of ICANN you need at least a computer and a
modem, isn't it?

About the At Large : it costs nothing so no problem for everybody to
participate. You still need a computer and a modem so what about people not
having that materiel?????? and they have a stake because those are the
future user and buyer of domain names !!!!!!

But if we need resources to build a DNSO GA membership structure, MAY BE we
will need some money and I think 20$ is reasonable and we can also study the
case of people not having the money for example people coming from
developing countries but IMHO I don't think that people who don't have 20$
really care about the DNSO -- that's different of they don't have a stake --
because those people are first looking for food, water, or how to make their
lands productive before to go to buy a computer and a modem !!!



-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Crispin [mailto:kent@songbird.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 12:41 AM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] Who has standing


On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:47:52AM +1300, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> >
> Nii is absolutely right.

Indeed he is.

> There are many people without computers who participate on the Net.  They
> have the right to be at large members in ICANN.
> 
> But these are largely not the people who register Domains or  have
> otherwise a stake in the DNS to justify their membership of the DNSO GA.

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.  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. 

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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