> Membership is completely open to organizations worldwide.
...
> Participation to standardization work is open to any individual designated
> by a Member.
That's nice. It is a sorry thing that the PSO fails to recognize that
standards decisions have impact on far more than standards bodies.
Until Singapore, the ICANN bylaws had an explicit provision that mandated
that individuals have a role, on parity with organizations, in all
Supporting Organizations.
That language was quietly removed from the ICANN bylaws at the same time
the placeholders were added for the PSO, and ASO.
In other words ICANN, without discussion, without disclosing its
reasoning, without any attempt whatsoever to have open processes, charged
all of us a heavy fee for the DNSO, PSO, and ASO.
And that fee was the removal of the right of individuals in ICANN to have
any parity role in the Supporting Organizations.
--karl--
