Re: [ga] the IDNO

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

At 09:08 8/11/00 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
>Hello Joop,
>
>Wednesday, November 08, 2000, 1:35:57 AM, you wrote:
>
>> GA members  might want to look at the members' list and see who have joined
>> lately. www.idno.org/members.htm
>
>They might be more interested to know that only a small fraction are
>voting and participating, and that you have not made a concerted
>effort to verify ongoing membership and qualifications.
>
Roughly 25% of the membership is voting and participating at the moment.
The rest just wants to be represented. A big membership drive will probably
see the percentage of actively involved members drop even further. Not
untypical for a democracy.

>I've verified that at least 2 on your membership list are no longer
>eligible under your "charter" rules, and how many joined thinking it
>was something else, but are no longer interested at all?
>
The list will need tidying up by the new membership committee, and a few
may drop off, but this is not relevant to support your or Kent's wishful
assertion that the IDNO is "a dead horse".
The Charter has been recently ratified by 44 votes against 3.  Your opinion
about it is not widely shared.

>Only you can tell us this, since you are the only one with access to
>the membership list, and for all we know, half of those people are
>made up.
>
The Charter provides for an elected membership comittee to address
membership issues. The election process has started. 
I'll ignore the slur on my integrity.
Please confine yourself here to what is relevant for the GA. 



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

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