Re: [wg-review] [ICANN] WORLD @LARGE ASSOCIATION

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

1/26/01 4:05:53 AM, Phil King <yofelipe@excite.com> wrote:

>Sotiris, I'm all for it.  I've been very nervous ever since the @large study
>group was announced and several specific queries as to ruling out
>dissolution of, or other removal from effectiveness, the at large membership
>of ICANN were not answered.  It was merely re-stated that the at large study
>was to have, words to the effect of, no limitations or mandates what so
>ever.  Scary when coupled with the members that aren't members in the
>bylaws.

Yes.  But the real problem for ICANN lies in the fact that the Members who are not "members" actually voted in 5 
members of the ICANN BoD!  This clearly makes their membership valid!  Under California Corporation Code (or any 
toher for that matter).

Thanks for the public support Phil.  I have been contacted by others off-list who agree with our sentiments.  I urge 
others on this WG Review to carefully consider what is going on here in the WG...  NO LESS THAN 7 (perhaps 
more?) Members of the Names Council, are involved in the WG-Review!  The same NC which is to receive the 
"report" from the WG.  If anyone is even remotely interested, I suggest you go back and read the posts to the WG 
made by these very same Names Council Members.  Question: Did the Names Council members offer anything 
PRODUCTIVE to the WG?  Question:  Did the NC members offer anything of a constructive, positive nature to the 
WG?  YJ Park aside, what business did the rest of the NC have in participating in the WG?  

THE @LARGE MUST ORGANIZE!!!  

With or without help from other @Large members who are on this WG, we will put up the WORLDATLARGE.ORG 
web site!  With or without the other members of this WG, we will draft a charter and actively begin soliciting 
members to take part and make their voices heard.  

Some people have already begun exploring this option, ever since the Marina del Ray meeting.  

If the @Large "Study Group" does not disturb MOST members of this WG, then I suspect it is because they are 
*cronies* for those who would dissolve/hobble the @Large.

The time for effective @Large action and organization is short and certain people are trying to make it shorter...

Imagine!  They will consider dissolving the @Large and they never even gave it any chance whatsoever!! 

Is it any surprise that the @Large Membership has been closed to any NEW Members since the last election?

Well, considering what some people have in store for the @Large... it really shouldn't be!

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>On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:11:16 -0500, sotiris@hermesnetwork.com wrote:
>
>>  I have registered the domain name WORLDATLARGE.ORG
>>  
>>  The Registrant Organization:  WORLD @LARGE ASSOCIATION (donated 
>>  by Sotiris Sotiropoulos).
>>  
>>  I think it's time we began organizing the @Large from within, before some
>
>>  ICANN fiat dissolves the @Large Membership as a whole!  
>>  
>>  The thought even crossed my mind that all this talk of an added IDNH/O 
>>  Constituency is quite possibly a smokescreen for the dissolution of the 
>>  @Large Membership.  That, perhaps, while we're busy scrabbling for this 
>>  concession, an even greater gambit is being played out in relation to the
>re-
>>  organization of ICANN.  I'm not ruling anything out at this point!
>>  
>>  Now is the time for the World @Large to organize itself.  
>>  
>>  We really have no other alternative at this point.  Individually, we're
>sitting 
>>  ducks.  Together, we are pretty formidable... which is why NOBODY will 
>>  ever make a move to organize the @Large from without, but SOME 
>>  PEOPLE will try to dissolve it, or render it utterly ineffectual.  
>>  
>>  Here's the path... who will walk it?
>>  
>>  
>>   
>>  
>>  
>>  Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>>            Hermes Network, Inc. 
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