[wg-review] [IDNH] my posting to the ICANN forum

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

Recommendation for an Individual Domain Name Holders' constituency

The IDNO has petitioned the Board on 23 April 1999 to approve the admission
to the DNSO of an Individual Domain Name Holders' constituency in principle.
This is now nearly 2 years ago and no policy response has been received,
except by way of an unofficial rejection letter by Esther Dyson and through
the postings in public fora by Dave Crocker ("the IDNO is not even on the
Board's radar screen") and Kent Crispin, who has revealed that the Board
lost it's initial inclination to consider an IDNO constituency when it was
told that it has become a magnet for disgruntled individuals with an axe to
grind, or an "anti-ICANN constituency". 

There is no question that being rebuffed without given reasons increases
the levels of frustration, bitterness and cynicism of those who try to
participate in good faith.
The stonewalling is the cause of anti-ICANN feelings in the constituency
and it has to be recognized as such.
To reverse cause and effect is not a basis for good policy.

Personally, I am on the point of giving up on ICANN.
Perhaps this is better for the IDNO.
Attempting to participate in ICANN via this "bottom-up" constituency
formation, has been very costly for me in personal terms.

But as soon as the Board will approve the addition of an Individuals
constituency to the DNSO, a great deal of frustration will melt away and
the members of this constituency will be motivated again to work in a
positive and constructive way to legitimize the DNSO as a representative
body of DNS stakeholders.

The decision is up to the Board and the Board alone.

The Names Council would do well to let its Review task force read and
summarize the Report on the Constituencies that has come from the WG
(posted here in this forum) and heed the recommendation of the WG-Review to
create a WG specifically dedicated to the formation details of an IDNHC.

Joop Teernstra LL.M.
Former bootstrap of the IDNO
www.idno.org
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