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

["Eric" <eric@springbreaktravel.com>]

Kent Wrote:
That is, the vast representational gap claimed by some is a pure fiction.

The question is, (and I don't know the answer) do the constituencies fairly
and adequately represent the interests of all their members?  It is true
that everybody could fit in to at least one of the constituencies (I think).
I wonder if it is possible that only having 7 constituencies is simply too
few to be effective representation to the internet public as a whole.  Does
it makes sense to split them down further so people can find a constit. that
more closely matches their needs?  (I don't know enough to advocate this as
a solution so I am throwing this out as a suggestion for debate.)
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Subject: Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC,
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:31:14PM -0500, Judith Oppenheimer wrote:
> A statistician I'm not, but I don't believe the difference is germane to
my
> point.  The vast majority of domain name registrants are *very* small
> businesses - fewer than 10 employees - and consumers.

Lumping consumers and businesses isn't typical, you know.

The difference is not germane to my point, either.  Small businesses are
businesses; the business constituency explicitly allows small
businesses, and, as greg pointed out, if they actually participated in
the BC, they would control it.  That is, there already is a
representational home in the DNSO for from 80 to 90% of all domain name
registrants -- actually, more, because we do have the non-commercial
constituency which allows non-commercial domain name holders who are
organizations of any size.

That is, the vast representational gap claimed by some is a pure fiction.

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Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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