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.
>One has to remember that any individual-oriented group is always going to
>be comparatively less structured than a business group that has people
>whose job it is to be "goers" and that have budgets to cover the expenses.
I'm not questioning the issue of structure. Just degree of representation.
>ICANN's board, to be true to its principles, ought to have allowed the
>DNSO to "self organize". But that has not been allowed to occur.
>Rather, it has been guided, or perhaps a better description would be "led
>by the nose".
In case no one has noticed, there are very few examples of global,
self-organized groups. The IETF is not one. I can't think of any group
that is.
So it's just dandy to toss around a theoretical requirement, and quite
another to deal with real-world constraints.
>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.
d/
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