RE: [wg-review] Representative Figures

["Joanna Lane" <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Kent Crispin wrote:-
We've been around this tree before.  The BC, IPC, and ISP constituencies
have members who are organizations and/or organizations of
organizations.  For example, the International Chambers of Commerce is a
member of the BC -- it has thousands of businesses *and
associations of businesses* who are members, and thus the ICC can
legitimately claim to represent at some level perhaps a million
individual companies.

[.....]

At the start of WG-Review, I contacted ICC direct to invite their
participation and received absolutely no response whatsoever. I conclude
that they are not at all interested in representing their members interests
to DNSO, however many that may be.

> The question is:  Is this an adequate figure of
> representation to claim anywhere near sufficient
> consideration of the interests of the Internet
> Community as a whole?

Within their respective classes, there is absolutely no question that
the constituencies are in general quite representative.

I disagree regarding the BC Constituency, see above.

I am also taking this opportunity to note that the gTLD Registries website
is copyright VeriSign 2001. http://www.gtldregistries.org/ It strikes me as
wholly inappropriate for the copyright to the content of a site purporting
to represent the interests of  various competitors to be vested interest in
one only.

Joanna

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