Re: [wg-review] We are in the starting line......

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> In fact, the current constituency was developed bottom up -- the
> constituencies that exist (with the sole exception of the NCC) are
> there because the members considered the DNSO important enough to
> participate in from the very beginning.  

This is untrue. Many stakeholders involved in the NewCo process were
denied the right to have a constituency. This includes especially
the independent domain name holders and the non-commercial domain
name holders, who were represented throughout the formation of the
DNSO by people such as Joop Teernstra, myself, Jay Fenello, and Karl
Auerbach. All stakeholders who were not chosen by CORE and ISOC to
have constituencies were eliminated from the DNSO, which was created
by CORE through a series of manipulated and jerrymandered meetings.
There was no bottom-up process whatsoever.

> The constituency structure was
> not imposed from the outside -- it was developed by actual
> "stakeholders" fighting it out (literally).

The fact that there was fighting is evidence that it was not a
bottom-up process and that the structure of the constituencies was
indeed imposed from the outside. If the constituencies had been
allowed to develop naturally there should have been no fighting. All
would have been accommodated. Instead, the winners of the fight (who
won because they were aided and abetted by the Board, which had
destined the DNSO for certain interests) pushed out their opponents.

> The NCDNHC, on the other hand, did not have a coherent group arguing for
> it during the formation of the DNSO, and if it hadn't been for the
> support of Christopher Wilkinson, the NCDNHC would not have existed.

Also untrue. The NCDNHC was first proposed by the ICIIU, which
submitted an eminently coherent proposal for its operation and was
supported by a number of independent non-commercial stakeholder
organizations, some of them international. But the NCDNHC was
created and destined by the Board to be the province of ISOC, and
that is what it became thanks to the Board's manipulations.
Christopher Wilkinson had nothing to do with it, except that as a
supporter of CORE he was perhaps amenable to the NCDNHC being
controlled by ISOC.

Michael Sondow
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