Re: [IDNO:226] Re: NSI's interests
Kent Crispin (kent@songbird.com)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:03:34 -0700
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 02:19:55PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
> >How in the world are we to "focus on growing the organization" when the
> >ICANN board has rejected our even the most basic form of our
> >participation?
>
> To use an exemplar with which you are familiar, that is like asking to have
> an IETF working group formed before demonstrating a constituency of
> participation and before writing a real working group charter.
>
> This is a group that has tiny membership, fluid specification of its rules
> and goals, and no history of process for developing positions on matters of
> content. Do the real and hard work of these specifics and the
> "recognition" will flow through automatically.
I might add that the precise place for that real and hard work to be
done is in the General Assembly, which is indeed (according to the
bylaws) open to any interested parties.
Please also note the formal DNSO mailing lists are now in place, and
that discussion of what should or should not be happening in the
DNSO (as opposed to what might be happening in the prospective IDNO)
should be taking place on the DNSO discuss list.
That is, we can argue about all kinds of things that maybe ICANN and
the DNSO should be doing, but they won't see those arguments if they
take place here.
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain