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

[DPF <david@farrar.com>]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:05:26 -0800, 'Kent Crispin' wrote:

>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

Thanks for this Kent.  Something which is becoming apparent to me as
we debate how sufficient and representative existing constituencies
are, is that we don't know a lot about the actual makeup of the
existing constituencies.  I have to say I know stuff all about the
business constituency and whether it is all dominated by IBM and
Microsoft or mainly small businesses like your own.

Some constituencies don't need much elaboration such as the ccTLDs
because they have their entire potential population as members but
others are not the same.

To give us some idea of how well existing constituencies are covering
and attracting people would it be possible for someone from each
constituency (Netsol need not bother from gTLD for obvious reasons) to
post a quick summary of their constituency, perhaps along the
following lines:

1) No of members
2) No of votes cast by members at last Names Council election (good
indicator of how many members are active)
3) URL of list of members if public
4) Is funding equal amount per member or relative to size of members.
What does it cost to join basically - is this a barrier to small
businesses, organisations, ISPs, Registrars?
5) Other germane details

The reason this would be useful is at present I would have no idea
whether the small business constituency proposed by some is a good
idea or not.  If it turns out that the business constituency (as an
example) consists of Microsoft, IBM and WorldCom then I would be
inclined to think we may have a problem.  If it turns out (other
extreme) that it has 15,000 members who get an equal vote and is not
dominated by large businesses then I would be less inclined to
recommend adding on a small business constituency.

DPF
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