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

["Judith Oppenheimer" <joppenheimer@icbtollfree.com>]

For clarity's sake, particularly if you are going to use my name, the
relevant statistic is that 75.5% of domain registrants are SMALL businesses
of BETWEEN ONE AND FOUR EMPLOYEES.

Judith

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg-review@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-review@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Eric Dierker
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:29 PM
> To: Kent Crispin
> Cc: wg-review@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC,
> TC,Chair prior to co-Chair elections
>
>
> Thank you for your response.  The debate yesterday regarding
> adhesion contracts
> and registrars and TMs would be a point of argument regarding
> being very careful
> not to violate.  Microsofts failed defense of the justice
> departments attack upon
> it would be another point of argument here.  And I think we
> could agree that ICANN
> is not in competition with anyone, although the alternative
> root servers may argue
> this point.
>
> So it would appear that while coming from different angles we
> agree that a larger
> constituent base would be a very good idea for ICANN,
> assuming that we are trying
> to fix the structure as opposed to replacing it.
>
> Looking again at the organizational chart I think several
> more constituencies
> would not hurt at all.  Once again this could be done simply
> by creating interest
> blocks in the GA and increasing the percentage of directors
> flowing therefrom.
>
> This has to be done in conjunction with Ms. Merry's
> suggestions which will
> increase the participation level, of Ms. Oppenheimers 85%, a
> clear majority above
> the 67% as set forth in the metamorphising definition of consensus.
>
> So moving in this direction we are formulating Charter
> corrections even while
> working within the existing charter. Please heed the
> intelligence of the recent
> suggestion not to get bogged down in semantics, I do not
> stand by any rigid
> definition at this point.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kent Crispin wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:09:15AM -0800, Eric Dierker wrote:
> > > Mr. Crispin,
> > > This is a very nice insight into the truth of the monopoly matter.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > >  But it is
> > > also true that it will only continue to exist if it does
> not cause a problem
> > > that anti-trust laws are designed to prohibit.
> >
> > Quite true.
> >
> > > ICANN is doing that right now
> >
> > No, it's not.  If there is anything that ICANN has been very careful
> > about, it is avoiding antitrust.  It has been, as I said, a primary
> > concern from the very beginning.
> >
> > > and if it does not get fixed from the inside I am certain
> it will get fixed
> > > from the outside. So we had better get busy and get the
> people or entities
> > > affected by ICANN into the decision making process.
> >
> > In general, getting affected entities involved in the
> decision making
> > process is not at all necessary to avoid anti-trust.  For
> example, we
> > don't deal with Microsoft by holding at large elections for
> the board of
> > directors of Microsoft.
> >
> > --
> > Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> > kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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