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

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

Sotiropoulos wrote:
> 
> 1/12/01 9:10:33 PM, "Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M." <rod@cyberspaces.org> wrote:
> 
> >As many posts to this list have indicated, Individuals are a special case,
> >and I think it is particularly important to express the WG's consensus in
> >our report to the NC that an individual domain name constituency be included
> >in the DNSO (I am assuming that this is a consensus position of this WG).
> >
> > I do not think, however, that we should go on to arbitrarily  list other
> >proposed constituencies. We are bound to miss some important groups, and we
> >may waste valuable time trying to gain consensus on other groups of dubious
> >distinction.
> >
> >May I suggest that we propose objective criteria on how the DNSO may
> >consider additional constituencies?
> 
> I personally believe in a dissolution of the TM constituency, that it be absorbed within the BC.  After all, the lawyers are hirelings of the Business
> Constitency and its community.  As Kent Crispin keeps trying to convince us, the BC represents "all" business interests, surely those who
> speak for the BC should only be allowed to speak on their Clientele's behalf, and not on their own.  Unless,of course, the NC is meant to be weighted in
> the interests of the BC, thereby necessitating a TM trump card on the NC.  (how's that for jargon?)
> 
> As for other constituencies besides the Individual, what need will there be for any more?  do some groups of Individuals have more rights than others?

Apparently, they do, under the proposal above.

If an individual is a member of the Individual Constituency, and, the
Business Constituency (I trust that is what BC represents in this
context), then an individual business owner has twice the rights of any
other individual.

"All animals are equal, and, some animals are more equal than others"...

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Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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