Re: [wg-review] SME constituency?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:15:30PM -0500, Joanna Lane wrote:
> Philip,
> During our previous dialogue, it was certainly not my intention to give you
> the impression that I am advocating a particular group of individuals are
> included in IDNH (which I understand you support in principal) if they
> already have the opportunity for representation elsewhere. So where does the
> UK sole trader fit in?
> 
> Given that a sole trader cannot not join a Chamber of Commerce (which
> represents only limited companies/ corporations)

I don't believe that is true in the US.  Moreover the ICC web site says 
that individuals can be accepted as members.

> and I am not aware of any
> other associations that represent sole traders, the only part of the BC's
> charter that I have found that may be applicable is:-
> <snip>
> b. Any legally recognized for-profit business enterprise that has been
> delegated a domain, that uses the Internet to conduct for-profit business
> and that has been in business for at least one year. >
> 
> If I am a sole trader, can I join the BC?

Is a sole trader a "legally recognized for-profit business enterprise"?

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