Re: [ga] new constituencies

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

At 11:21 19/08/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Peter,
>
>In my opinion, the consumer/end users are better represented in the 
>AtLarge, but I will raise nevertheless the subject in the DNSO Review 
>task force.
>
Peter and Roberto, 

Please let us not confuse the consumer/end user with a Domain Name Holder
who has a clear and personal stake in the DNS and should be represented in
the DNSO NC. 
I agree with Roberto that the pure consumer should be represented by 9 At
Large directors. Let us see if that will happen.

>FYI, there is the concrete possibility to build a more permanent forum 
>for AtLarge members, that will remain also after the elections.
>This is a primary need (see my comments in Yokohama on the subject), and
> we have to work on it.
>

There should be such a central, official and archived  forum. A number of
private-initiative AL fora have of course already sprung up, highlighting
what ICANN could have done.




--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  
the Cyberspace Association and 
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org  

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