Re: [wg-review] [constituencies] A proposal for reform

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

At 19:12 1/01/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Joop:
>These are helpful comments. However, I still think that you are getting too
specific for this stage of the WG endeavors. 
>
>As I said in an earlier message, what we need to do is DOCUMENT and PROVE
the problems we are asserting exist in the DNSO and its constituency structure.

Milton,

I read your message after I posted mine. The perennial problem of
asynchronicity is especially acute when one is on holiday.
The proof is in the voting record of the NC. Although I have witnessed a few
physical NC meetings, the full record is with those who have participated in
all the teleconfs.

YJ could be very helpful in collecting this documentation.  
The fate of Kathy Klein's recommendations on suggested improvements on the
UDRP should provide a good case-in-point.

> We will not be able to agree on a solution to them in this round, and even
if we did, we don't have the power to implement them. 
>

Even when we make a well stated case, we still don't have that power. The
Board has.  

Let me respectfully submit that getting representation in a situation like
we have here is not a matter of gathering evidence and building a case
(unless we intend to have a Court of law looking at it) , but of ,eh,
creating the political equivalent of the Boston tea party, combined with a
well stated Case. 
Getting representation from a position of political and financial weakness
is not likely to be successful without hard organizing work.
We are working on creating new political realities and a consensus of this
WG is another political reality, even if the WG has no "power". 

>What facts can you provide that would prove that the NC voting structure is
currently imbalanced toward business interests? 

I did not say "business interests", but "registration industry". I actually
grouped the Business DN Holders together with the Non-Com and Individuals in
one new voting bloc.

Joop Teernstra,
Individual Domain Neme  Owners'constituency
www.idno.org