>>Beside we have plenty of NSI skeptics on this list ;-) So I'm not too
>>worried!
>
>
>Might as well earn my keep...
>
Thank you Dave for your words of caution. They will be heeded.
But where do you stand yourself on the participation of Individual DN
owners in the DNSO?
You qualify for IDNO membership, yet you have not joined us.
Do you really want us to succeed?
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>Here is my own assessment of NSI's offer:
>
>1. The group is seriously trying to develop itself as a representative of
>Internet domain name holding individuals.
>
>2. The group is quite young in that effort and quite small.
>
>3. In my opinion, it is premature for the group to be named as a
>representative. Recognition of being a representative group needs to come
>AFTER reaching a sufficient 'mass', not before. For all of the enthusiasm
>of the early members, take a look at the group's size and composition and
>consider honestly whether it can yet claim that it has developed a broad
>enough and large enough base of support to claim that it is a GLOBAL
>representative for Internet individuals?
>
This appears to be an assesment of *us*.
Who we are and how numerous we are is of political value, sure, but what we
stand for is a principle:
that Individual DN owners are stakeholders in the DNS.
When the interim ICANN board decided to gerrymander the DNSO into
constituencies, the Individual DN owners should have been included and
given recognition as stakeholders.
AFTER that we can organize and grow as a group.
Only really motivated people join a group *before* they know that they are
going to get any representation.
Our critical mass is in our motivation.
--Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap puller of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
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