Joop Teernstra wrote:
>
> Ellen Rony wrote:
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> >Economies don't vote. Individuals do.
> >
> >MAC presented ICANN with an unworkable solution--a membership too grand and
> >vague to be authenticated without great cost.
> >
> >ICANN is tasked to administer names and addresses. Its stakeholders are
> >those who have names and addresses or provide infrastructure and services
> >related to same. In order to have an IP address or register a domain name,
> >one must have access to computer hardware and connectivity. Those who can
> >afford such access most likely can afford a nominal membership fee. Those
> >who cannot, probably likewise do not care about these complex, convoluted
> >technical issues.
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> This was also the concept of my model for NewCo membership.
> I agree with Ellen, that there is much merit in the idea of limiting ICANN
> membership to the assigned name and number stakeholders.
Do you, Joop? Then why didn't you support the ICIIU criterion for
DNSO membership (reproduced below) when it was proposed, instead of
opposing it as you did? Was it because you wanted to split the user
opposition to ICANN, so that you could take away potential
supporters of the ICIIU and form your IDNO? Now that you've done
that, you claim the ICIIU's proposals as your own. Is that honest?
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Proposal:
DNSO membership is open to any person who is the registrant of a
second level domain name under the generic TLDs, or of a third level
domain name under a ccTLD whose second level domains are generic; or
any person directly delegated to represent such a person.
(This criterion for DNSO membership is restrictive and therefore
easily attacked for not being in the spirit of inclusiveness that
many, including ICANN itself, claim to champion. However, it may be
necessary in order to counter the offensive of the trademark
interests, whose proposals uniformly exclude users from the DNSO.
This membership criterion, while not excluding big business and the
trademark organizations, limits their participation in the DNSO and
their ability to dominate DNS policy.)
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