Re: [ga] Re: Documentation request

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

L Gallegos wrote:

I fully agree that the at-large is important in addressing both the
DNS and IP addressing.   However, I still believe that the DNSO
needs an individual domain name holders constituency, as there is
no representation there for those individuals.

The at-large is a different ball game.

Leah

Those are indeed two quite different critters. As part of the DNSO,
the GA is concerned with domain names; the At-Large would be
concerned with everything that concerns ICANN (and a lot that
ought not to concern ICANN, but it has its nose into them anyway.)
The At Large bypasses the NC and thus avoids its road block,
and might indeed be better suited for a lot to the things that the
GA has for years ineffectually pretended to address.

CAUTION -- BRAIN AT WORK: Now, if you have a group
wrapped around domain names, then you will necessarily
have vested interests.  You will have the self-centric egos
that Joanna recently commented on.  But in an At-Large,
there is no such liability.  Maybe we should toss the GA
and let the economic interests there do battle with each
other in the kind of "marketplace" thing that our good friend
William X Walsh loves so much, and as to the Internet as a
whole --in the interests of its users rather than those who
profit from it -- run with the At-Large instead? Hmmm???

Life is but a series of possibilities.

Bill Lovell

Bill Lovell
 
 

 

On 15 Aug 2001, at 10:58, Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:

>
> Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:
>
> >  What do you think about http://at-large.org?
>
>
> ==> It starts:
>
>     "The proposed At-Large Constituency (ALC) of the DNSO (not to be
>     confused with the proposed At-Large Membership of ICANN) is
>     intended to fill the widely acknowledged representational gap in
>     the DNSO structure ..."
>
> ==> Why not take a synergy with At-Large ?
>
>     Several people have been contributing on this list about
>     Individuals being not only consumers but also producers
>     of content.
>     Indeed, it is (was ?) one of the paramount strenghts of
>     the Internet, the possibility to everybody to be both,
>     consumer and producer.
>     This possibility request for several things to be granted,
>     two important of them are: IP number and domain name.
>
>     Now, have a look on market cost for domain names - few USD
>     up to 35 USD per year. Free within many ccTLDs. Cheap.
>     But what about a cost of ONE IP address for an Individual
>     willing to get an ADSL at his home ?
>     I know about Individuals being requested more than 600 USD
>     per year for ONE IP address for an ADSL line (and this IP
>     address is not granted to remain the same, several providers
>     change it each few weeks).
>
>     The rivers of comments has been sent out about domain
>     names, there is a dangereous silence about IP numbers.
>
>     I do believe it makes much more sense if the Mission Statement of
>     Individuals organization within ICANN, which is still to be
>     devised, could focus on preserving the possibility to Individuals
>     to be both on the Internet, producer and consumer. To well
>     describe what are fundamentals to that (IP number and domain name,
>     but also freedom of choice of operating system and softwares for
>     PC of Individuals). It implies subsequently to consider
>     responsibilities and duties of everybody.
>
>     Elisabeth Porteneuve
>
>
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