Re: [wg-review] Review WG Report on Constituencies

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

On 20:09 4/03/01 -0500, Babybows.com said:
>The Topic Report on Constituencies has been posted to the Public Comment
>Forum.  It may also be viewed at the following URL:
>http://www.babybows.com/constituencies.htm
>
>The report is a little more than sixty pages long (so it might take a little
>longer than 2 minutes on a 56K modem to download).  All comments are
>appreciated.
>

Danny,

Your report is very comprehensive. Thank you for all the work that you have
put into it. I believe the mood, opinions , proposals and motions in the WG
are adequately reflected. 

The section on the Individual Domain Name Holders constituency is quite
complete and there is little that I could add to it.

But , does the recording of our opinions achieve what we want it to achieve?
Or does it play into the hands of those who feel that the DNSO is already
too much democracy?

We have just seen the ICANN Staff and Mike Roberts happily ignore the
existence of the DNSO altogether in what are possibly the most important DN
policy decisions for years to come: the  Verisign deal and the proposed
policy changes for .org.

By emphasising how rotten the boroughs of the DNSO are, are we not helping
the ICANN staff to justify "routing around the DNSO" and put themselves in
the place of the NC when it comes to policy-advice to the Board? 




--Joop--
Former bootstrap of the CA/idno
       The Polling Booth 
www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/

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