Re: There is an alternative to ICANN - The TLDA (was Re: [ga] a quote from Lynn)

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

At 14:42 10/07/01 -0500, John Palmer wrote:

>2. TLDA is a democratic body. ALL officer positions are open for election by
>TLDA members (exception: a few of the interim board members will be
>retained for a few months to a year after the current election). TLDA is
>currently holding
>nominations for its officers and committees with the first election
>scheduled for July 27 - 29.

John,

That's all very fine for TLD "holders", but how does the TLDA provide for a 
structure that takes democratic input from registrants under your members' 
TLD's?
This is what ICANN is being lambasted for and what it has to try to rectify.

According to the website the TLDA is only a trade association for TLD 
holders. As such it would seem to be an alternative for only one aspect of 
ICANN.

Do your members have contracts with registrants?
Could you point to a URL with a typical sample contract?




--Joop--
Founder of the Cyberspace Association.
Former bootstrap of the IDNO (www.democracy.org.nz/idno/)
Developer of    The Polling Booth
www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/


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