Re: [ga] Re: Recent BC Membership Decision

[PacificRoot Hostmaster <idno@tallship.net>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Milton Mueller wrote:

> 
> This is a very disappointing development. I would 
> strongly urge the B&C to reconsider its decision and 
> its policies.
> 
> Companies should not be excluded from
> participation in the DNSO constituency structure
> simply because they advocate views that other
> members don't agree with.

Nor should Marylin be given the artistic license to draft her position
paper as such against the "Competing Root Systems".

It is her position and not that of those who have sought membership (only
to be excluded) in the BC. It's not the position of most of the BC
membership either, and for that reason I implore everyone who is a member
of the BC to VOTE AGAINST Marylin Cade in her current election bid this
month.

> 
> As the NC Chair knows, I objected to the Final Report of
> the DNSO Review Task Force and entered a minority report
> questioning the "representative" character of the DNSO
> constituency structure. My objections concerned the great 
> degree of overlap between certain constituencies and the 
> refusal to recognize new constituencies and open working 
> groups. 
> 
> This situation is worse than that. It seems
> to indicate that membership in constituencies 
> and access to the process can be denied based on 
> whether the people who are currently in control agree
> with you. In other words, not only is the structure 
> tilted toward business interests, but it seems to be rigged 
> to prevent even divisions WITHIN the business community
> from being aired and resolved! That kind of a closed, 
> self-reinforcing structure can only produce bad policies. 
> It drastically undermines the legitimacy of the DNSO 
> and ICANN.
> 
> When the gTLD constituency was formed I proposed 
> making it possible for prospective registries to be 
> members of the gTLD constituency - essentially, anyone 
> who had paid the $50,000 application fee to 
> participate in ICANN's new TLD process. 
> 
> Those companies are legitimate stakeholders who
> deserve to have a voice. And yet, our existing
> structure makes no room for them. It is, as I
> said at the time, equivalent to allowing Ford,
> General Motors, Toyota and Honda decide who
> gets the enter the auto manufacturing business.
> 
> So, excluded from participating in that venue 
> they try to join the general Business constituency.
> Again, the door is shut in their faces. 
> 
> Now, will our B&C representatives please tell
> us how New.net is "supposed" to participate?
> 
> If you are confident of the truth of your ideas you
> don't need to silence or exclude parties who
> disagree with you.
> 
> Either the B&C decision has to be reversed or the
> issue of who is eligible to join the gTLD constituency
> has to be reopened. I personally am sick to death of dealing with manipulation of the representative structures of ICANN.
> 
> 
> 
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Bradley D. Thornton
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