Joe and all,
Joe Sims wrote:
No Joe, the point here is in part that the "Accreditation Policy"
unilaterally and behind closed doors was not a based on consensus,
as was not the "Constituency Based Model" for the DNSO, hence
the Registrar constituency mentioned is of questionable legitimacy
and therefore does not have standing without a vote of the stakeholders,
which is also not possible in that the Membership for ICANN in not
even in existence yet.
Nice try Joe, but no cigar here!
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> So I guess the point here is that, if the members of a constituency -- in
> this case everyone who has applied for and received actual or provisional
> accreditation, which was open to everyone in the world -- elect their
> representatives, and they are not amenable to Sondow, it's just another
> part of the global conspiracy?
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> The Registrar Constituency, it has just been announced, has been
> taken over totally by CORE. Amadeu Abril i Abril is a member of the
> gTLD-MoU (CORE) Policy Oversight Committee; Richard Lindsay is the
> director of interQ, Inc., a CORE member; and Ken Stubbs is the
> President of the Executive Committee of CORE.
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> So much for "the global and functional diversity of Internet users
> and their needs" that the U.S. Department of Commerce committed
> itself to in its Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN.
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> So much for the DOC's pledge to "not apply standards, policies,
> procedures or practices inequitably or single out any particular
> party for disparate treatment."
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> So much for Joe Sims' testimony that the ICANN interim board was
> chosen from among "people who were specifically not representatives
> of any particular stakeholder group."
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> So much for Internet privatization by the diversity of stakeholders.
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> So much for freedom on the Internet.
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> So much for democracy and the public good.
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> From: DNSO Listadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [announce] Registrars Constituency
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> 21 June 1999.
> The Registrars Constituency has elected its three representatives to
> the initial Names Council. The names are, in alphabetical order:
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> Amadeu Abril i Abril
> Richard Lindsay
> Ken Stubbs
Regards,
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