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Re: [Membership] ICANN: The Issue of Membership

At 19:44 18/01/99 -0500, BRPWIT@aol.com wrote:
>Why is it E-Mail holders - Should it not be domain holders ? peop[e that rent
>a name only and have no stake in storage / web page /name etc may not have
>desire or interest in the nuts and bolts.
>
>People that sign up by the ton to be on the net and have an e-mail name, are
>not the ones i believe are the stakeholders.
>Just a thought
>thanks
>steve witkin
>

Dear MAC participants,

I have  expressed this point of view on several occasions. Especially the DNSO membership should not be stuffed with non-taxpaying "email only" members, who only serve to dilute the interests of real DN stakeholders.

There is no question that the millions of DN holders do not form a broad enough basis for decisionmaking and there can always be mechanisms (petition, referendum)  to look after the interests of email-only internet users, without giving them the right to elect Board Members.



--Joop--
http://www.democracy.org.nz/