RE: [wg-review] Representative Figures

["Dassa" <dassa@dhs.org>]

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: owner-wg-review@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-review@dnso.org]On
|> Behalf Of Kent Crispin
|> Sent: Friday, 23 March 2001 10:20 AM
|> To: wg-review@dnso.org
|> Subject: Re: [wg-review] Representative Figures
|>
|>
|> 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.
|>
|> That's an extreme example, but in general it is safe to say that those
|> three constituencies represent the interests of a very broad set of
|> their defined populations.

Actually it is, to put it plainly, crap.  I am in a company which has over
160,000 users on the Internet, my being a member of any constituency or group
does not automatically mean those users are represented.

Nor are all of the members of various other organisations represented.  Unless
there is a defined procedure to associate the individuals responses to the
declared respresentative, there is no true representation.  Those constituency
members only represent their own position, not all of the
users/clients/customers/subscribers to their organisation.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.

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