[IDNO:237] Re: NSI's interests

Karl Auerbach (karl@CaveBear.com)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:59:19 -0700 (PDT)


> > > There is a difference between supporting a principle and supporting a
> > > specific implementation. And to consider the current group, given it's
> > > size and breadth of membership to be 'representative' of all Internet
> > > domain holders is a rather impressive stretch.
> >
> >It's a stretch that I'm willing to make. Especially since the alternative
> >is voluntarily oblivion in the ICANN structure.
>
> Karl, of course YOU are willing to make that stretch, because YOU want to
> be a voice that has leverage. But that's not enough. You need to do what
> all other constituencies need to do in a political process, namely develop
> a demonstrated basis for taking that effort seriously. That is the hard
> work of forming a constituency and you seem to be complaining that it is
> necessary.

We are doing that work.

By-the-way, you might have noticed that I've already help to create a
reasonably effective body called the Boston Working Group. We managed to
cause ICANN to have a general membership and other fairly significant
changes that IANA was unwilling to consider. So I'm pretty familiar with
the ropes.

> >Those will develop and firm-up as we self-organize. Indeed the IDNO is
> >vastly further along in an electoral system than any other part of ICANN.
>
> Ahh, I see. You want to be allowed to drive the car before you do the work
> of learning how. (Or, you want to be paid, before you do your job, or...)

That same brush can be used on every other constituency, the DNSO as a
whole, every other SO, and ICANN itself.

It is silly to expect the IDNO to burst forth fully formed in all details.

It is very clear that a Jim Crowe standard has been established -- bodies
of individuals have to prove their worth in ICANN while commercial
elements are presumed to be authoritative, unbiased, and broadly based.

(For those outside the US, Jim Crowe is a term that applies to laws that
were enacted to enforce racial segregation but did so using
neutral-looking language.)

--karl--

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