Re: [ga] Business Constituency and the GA

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Joop and all assembly members,

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 10:56 22/11/01 +1300, Peter Dengate Thrush wrote:
>
> >In my country, the registry is contractually bound by policies developed by
> >the consensus processes adopted by InternetNZ.
>
> Which means in practice that registrar-registrant contracts are no longer
> unilaterally written by the registrars or by the registry.

  Yes it would seem so.  In addition as well, the registrants have no
say so in the provisions in these registry contracts to which they
are bound.

>
>
> >That is why, incidentally, the DNSO needs to remain as it is, as the
> >debating chamber for the development of consensus policies affecting the
> >g-TLDs, including those interested in and affected by gTLD policies, while
> >the ccSO* is the forum for developing both the binding and the voluntary
> >policies across the ccTLds.
>
> Agreed.
> With the addition, of course, that new constituencies such as the
> Individual DN Holder constituency and (now necessitated by the purge within
> the BC) a SME constituency can enter the DNSO to take part in these debates
> and in any policy proposals that are sent up to the Board.

  Well the Individual DN Holder constituency (IDNHC or IDNO) is not
yet a ICANN constituency.  In addition with the problems that new
constituencies being "Approved or Accredited" by the ICANN BoD
it is also unlikely that and "SME" constituency has a chance of
coming about.

>
>
> Joop Teernstra LL.M.
> Councillor
> InternetNZ
>
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Regards,

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