Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC, TC, Chair prior to co-Chair elections

[Robin Miller <robin@minervan.com>]

Kent Crispin wrote:

> The question is, of course, who are the customers? The primary customers
> of the domain name system are in fact *businesses*, not individual
> netizens -- a very large majority of domain-names in use are used for
> commercial purposes.  Not surprisingly, business interests dominated the
> consumer side in the DNSO formation process, and they continue to
> dominate.  The bulk of the affected customer base, in other words, *did*
> participate in a bottom-up process, and did arrive at a rough consensus,
> and that rough consensus is the current structure.


please provide the statistics that support your obviously fallacious opinion... 

Its my experience that if any business has any majority on the net at all, its
the small businesses owned by individuals. Some of those small businesses that
were birthed by individuals became larger businesses like Amazon and Yahoo. I
am also a small business owner and an individual at the same time - and my
business is totally dependent on the Internet - the opportunities for me were
birthed out of the amazing technologies of the Internet - which were also
invented primarily by INDIVIDUALS. 

The big corps were late-comers to the Internet game, all of us that have been
on the Net for a while KNOW this... Even Esther Dyson herself has noted the
majority of us are individuals and small business owners - most being one and
the same thing. 

And so, now the owners of small business want their individual and business
interests represented. Those interests have NOT been represented. I had no idea
all this was going on until I found out the hard way that I was losing my
rights as an individual and a small business owner. 

Big business interests are NOT the Net majority that registers a domain name,
they do NOT represent the Internet consumers, they do NOT represent the huge
diversity of business on the Internet, and they are the business interests that
have been EXCLUSIVELY catered to in that so-called 'consensus' that resulted in
the current structure. 


Robin
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