Re: [ga] Business Constituency

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Dear Asaad,

I too submitted my membership application to the BC in Melbourne, and once 
more resubmitted it thereafter only to hear the same song and dance from 
their Secretariat that you have experienced.  I wonder how many other small 
businesses have now had their applications lost or denied by the BC?  Most 
every small business that was formerly a BC member is now gone.  

But we aren't the only ones they discriminate against... Their charter 
specifically excludes registries from being a member (which is why they 
rejected the application from new.net), yet they maintain on their membership 
roster the Socièté Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautique (SITA) 
which operates the .aero registry.  They don't respect their own Charter, and 
they don't respect the bylaws -- they only seem to respect the telco industry 
(and re-wrote their own Charter in the middle of an election to make sure 
that two telco reps were elected to the Names Council).  

As you indicated, they have no sense of handling their internal business.  
The archives from the Marina del Rey session reveal the following:  "the 
Constituency has an inherited debt derived from the third party costs 
incurred by the previous secretariat. These costs relate chiefly to the part 
time employment of a co-ordinator and to use of third party web hosts. The 
debt resulted from an over-optimistic estimate of membership income. This is 
equivalent to 45 category 1 members or 440 category 3 members.  The 
Constituency has reached agreement with the previous secretariat to pay-off 
this debt in installments."  http://www.bizconst.org/archive/BCLA11-01.doc

Hopefully, ICANN will soon release the criteria necessary for the formation 
of provisional constituencies and we can start a new constituency that will 
be more responsive and involved.

Best wishes,
Danny Younger



Asaad wrote:

Philip, who are you kidding here!

The business constituency has no regard for many business entities and 
definitely not well nor alive. You have no sense in the first place of 
handling your internal (BC) business to represent the rest businesses to 
start with.

I personally passed an application; as witnessed by Marilyn; for my different 
companies to join the BC during ICANN Melbourne meeting to the constituency 
secretary by hand delivery to find out latter that it was lost and never 
processed. And since then the current secretary failed to get us going.

Many of us view the BC as a big FAILURE and a definite dead cause.

Regards,

Asaad Alnajjar
CEO Millennium Inc. ( Home of the Arabic Domain Name )
AINC Executive Director
http://www.any-dns.com
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