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

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

At 17:14 11/01/01 -0800, Eric Dierker wrote:
>Well then, are we proposing a constitiuency which will make up only a very
small
>percentage of internet users?  Or shall we propose a small business &
individual
>constitiuency? 

We are proposing a  constituency of Individual DN holders. This constituency
should be hospitable to small businesses that are largely owned by individuals.

There is no known effort underway to create a SBDNH constituency (small
business DN holders), but this could of course change.
The DNSO needs to be ready and open for it.

Somehow I don't have the feeling that small businesses can capture the
Business Constituency. How could they match the funding?

Funding is also going to be a key need to keep an effective IDNH or IDNO
constituency alive.
As a minimum an arrangement for travel funding, like currently in place for
the NCDNHC, should be mediated by ICANN with the Markle Foundation (which
professes to be  especially devoted to promoting democracy in Internet
Governance matters).


JOOP TEERNSTRA, LL.M.
the Cyberspace Association
the Individual Domain Name Owners'constituency
www.idno.org


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