Re: [ga] Another committee of cronies?

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> May I know which are the other more authoritative Internet standard setting
> bodies that pop up every now and then on this list as alternative to the
> IETF (and maybe an estimate of the share of the market that follows them
> rather than the IETF as guidance for products and services)?
> As a former employee of a telecom standard making body, I am just curious
> about the answer. Personally, I suspect that on this list we lose track of
> the dimension of the reality: a couple of dozen people should be
> representative of all Individual Domain Name Holders, a posting with a
> couple of "me too"s should be adopted by ICANN as a consensus policy
> statement,

It's more than ICANN uses to justify decisions.

What I have great difficulty understanding is why certain parties feel it
is appropriate to set the bar so incredibly high for recognition of
an Individual's constituency when nowhere in the ICANN structure has the
level of consensus/involved parties/documentation been required to
justify actions.


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