Proposal for a DNSO Membership Committee (Re: Comments on Draft 7)

Michael Sondow (msondow@iciiu.org)
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:36:18 -0500


Proposal for the Formation and Function of a DNSO Membership Committee.

A Membership Committee of the DNSO shall be formed, comprised of one
member of the Names Council, who will also act as the Committee's
Chairman and report on Committee activities to the Names Council, and
one member of each of the Constituencies. The Membership Committee's
function will be to review applications for voting membership in the
DNSO.

The Names Council member of the Membership Committee will act to assure
that all applicants for membership in the DNSO fulfill the minimum
criteria for membership in the DNSO, for example that they possess a
domain name (if that is so decided). The other Committee members will
act to assure that applicants have applied with the appropriate
Constitutencies, and that they fulfill the Constituencies' minimum
requirements for membership.

The Committee will circulate applications for membership among its
members, or otherwise perform its function, with as little expenditure
of time and effort as possible and by employing Internet-based
communications. It is further understood that the Committee's function
is to include in the DNSO as many entities with a legitimate interest in
domain names as possible, rather than to exclude any entities or parties
by devising restrictive practices or by exerting personal opinion, and
that cases of rejection of an application for membership in the DNSO
will be unusual, the onus of defending such rejections bearing on the
Committee.
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[ On Thu, 17 Dec, 1998 Kent Crispin wrote:

> > Section I. Subsection D.
> >
> > I really don't recall that we agreed to let the NC decide who can and
> > can't be a DNSO member. In any case, why should the Names Council, or
> > anyone else, decide this? All there needs to be are criteria for
> > membership, and a secretary or specific membership person who checks to
> > see if applicants comply. Putting it up to the Names Council is like
> > saying they can choose who the members will be. This looks very bad.
> > Also - it's work for them, to no good purpose.

> I think you may be right about this. Suggest some wording.]