Re: [ifwp] Re: Constituencies

Kent Crispin (kent@songbird.com)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:56:07 -0800


On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 02:36:04PM -0500, Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
> What would be examples of entities or individuals who would fall under the
> At Large constituency?

Me/Songbird(r), any freelance web developer/internet consultant, eg
Dave Crocker.

San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ISOC

A private attorney who didn't want to spend the money to be, or
didn't feel they fit, in one of the other constituencies -- eg, a
trademark attorney that didn't want to be part of the TM
constituency. Concretely, maybe Brett Fausett.

An ISP in a developing country that didn't want to spend the money
necessary to be a member of the normal "presence provider"
constituency.

Interested individuals -- Elen Rony. Karl Auerbach. Dan Steinberg.
Marty Schwimmer. Dave Farber. Joop Teernstra. Milton Mueller.
Patrick Greenwell.

A domain name pirate.

A website owner with a virtual domain who has been impacted by a
domain name pirate.

An individual fed up with harvesting of email addresses in whois
records, or otherwise concerned with privacy matters associated with DNS.

A person with a point of view on dispute resolution that they don't
see reflected in another constituency.

I could probably go on for some time. Basically, any entity that didn't
feel their interests were represented in another constituency. Note
that the operative definition is what *they* think about the matter,
not what the definitions of the constituencies are.

-- 
Kent Crispin, PAB Chair				"Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com				lonesome." -- Mark Twain