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I must agree. Whether or not Joop's efforts have validity or not (I
happen to feel that they do), there should be a formal reconsideration
of this stance.
ICANN, please reconsider.
Gene Marsh
interim secretary, TLDA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joop Teernstra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 12:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IFWP] Request for reconsideration: inclusion of the
> Individuals' Constituency at the Berlin meeting
>
>
> 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/
>
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