RE: My DNSO review comment (Re: [ga] DNSO Review Committee)

[Liz Bartlett <khyri@idyllmtn.com>]

At 07:55 PM 8/30/00 +0200, Alf Hansen wrote:
>I think we could change a lot if we focused on "DNSO", Domain Name Support
>Organization", as one common group of people (like At-Large which also is a
>large group of people with different interests).
>
>This large group of people in DNSO have one thing in common: They are
>interested in Domain Names and the development of the Domain Name structure
>in the Internet.....

This brings up a point which has worried me for a while - what it
the nature of the dividing line between members of DNSO, and At-Large
members? There seem to be a large number of individuals who are
members of both groups - and no rule in place to stop someone from
being nominated to stand for the ICANN board in both venues, in the
hope of doubling their chances of "getting in".

The ICANN web site doesn't help in defining this at all; if a person
reads the descriptions of the DNSO sections, and finds they fit one of
them, should they then resign as an At-Large member? (And let's not get
side-tracked into a discussion on the merits or otherwise of the ICANN
web site - this has already been covered in many places!)

Alf's second paragraph above would seem to apply equally to the At-Large
membership as it does to DNSO membership. And if it is the defining
characteristic of DNSO members, why does it also appear to be the 
most dominent qualification for people standing for At-Large nominations?

--Liz

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