As everyone well knows I consider the constituency mechanism to be total
insanity - a form of first-class Gerrymandering, and a vehicle for abuse.
I've heard that there are other constituencies forming besides those
initially put forth.
These include:
- The small business constituency. I've heard from small business people
that they do not feel themselves properly represented if thrown into a
boat mainly populated by national-scale businesses. Typically these
people do not have registered marks.
- The educational constituency. These folks, like the church people,
below, do no feel that they fit well into any of the existing
categories.
- The church constituency.
- The non-profit/charitable organization constituency.
- The constituency for decency in domain names (yes, the censors are
starting to wake up.)
- Native American constituency (I would assume that something similar
would arise for any indigenous peoples who feel that the ccTLD facility
does not cover them.)
- The domain name brokers constituency. Yup, the buyers and sellers want
their own.
I expect to start to hear more of these.
And these are all as legitimate as the seven constituencies of ICANN
section 3(b) and the seven layers of the ISO/OSI model.
--karl--
