Joop and all,
This announcement to which Jay Fenello also pointed out yesterday
to the IFWP list and is being followed up here by Joop Teenstra is yet again
stark and overwhelming evidence in the willingness of the ICANN to actively,
without public input to engage in divisive political maneuvering that is
in plain violation of their own bylaws as well as the White Paper.
When will the NTIA do its job and reign this ICANN Interim Board in?
Joop Teernstra wrote:
> Members of the interim ICANN Board,
>
> On your web page I now read the following discouraging phrase:
>
> >"As the Initial Constituencies will not yet have been recognized, the
> ICANN Board will not be considering any additional Constituencies at its
> next meeting in Berlin."
>
> As I am just in the process of preparing to fly from New Zealand to Berlin
> in order to have the Individuals considered as a constituency in their own
> right, I may be forgiven for urgently requesting you to reconsider this
> unfortunate decision.
>
> I feel that it is not right that the Individuals are disenfranchised at
> this moment, just when ICANN prepares to give the DNSO its structure.
>
> Strong arguments can be made that set the Individual Domain Name Owners
> apart from either Business Interests or Non-Commercial organizations.
> These arguments have been made by many, including now the Internet
> Governance Committee of the ACM.
> http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/comment-dnso/msg00022.html
>
> Including a Constituency for Individual Domain Name holders now will
> facilitate the formation of both the Business Interests constituency and
> the non-commercial Domain name holders' constituency and help delineating
> the different interests more adequately.
> Please reconsider.
> I am no longer speaking on my own behalf, but on behalf of the individuals
> who have already joined this constituency as co-founders.
> Their sentiments should convince you that there is a strongly felt need
> for separate representation.
>
> --Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
> the Cyberspace Association,
> the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
> http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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