RE: [wg-review] 3. [Constituencies] Report requested by NC

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

On 01:02 28/12/00 -0800, Karl Auerbach said:

>
>My objection is to "official" constituencies - that represent some third
>party's dictat as to who shall be lumped with whom on what issues and with
>what degree of voting power.
>
I have always agreed with Karl on this. 
New constituencies develop in reaction to policies, like clouds develop
from evaporation and condensation.
Today, in the DNSO, they exist mostly as ready-made power blocs and this
has led to underrepresentation of real interests, those  that happened not
to have formed into solid organizations yet.
ICANN policies of the future will lead to new common interests and such
interests cannot be expected to instantly transform themselves into well
organized and well financed organizations.
What is already well organized and -financed today are Industry-financed
organizations, such as DN Registrars, ISOC and the IP Lobby.
What is starting to get organized are money-making TLD registries, such as
the ccTLD's.
But the Individual registrants  who are at the other side of the
registration-contracts have the greatest trouble to organize themselves.
What can they expect to get in return for their trouble?
They will need the DNSO's sympathetic assistance to get on their feet, even
more so than the non-commercial orgs. 


>> Perhaps if we could identify the factions than are NOT represented now, we
>> could make some progress.
>
>That is an infinite list, one that is not amenable to enumeration.  The
>subtleties of individual opinion are not consistent with the coercive
>grouping that are the present "constituency" structure.
>
>The atoming unit of interest is the invidual person. Thus we ought to
>allow each person to decide for himself/herself how to best proceed and
>with whom to join forces, if anyone.  If people chose to join together,
>who are we to say no?  If people chose not to join togeher, again, who
>are we to say no?

A yes will help<g> , but a little more might be needed to make the
representation really result in a balanced DNSO.



--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  
the Cyberspace Association and 
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
Elected representative.
http://www.idno.org