Of course I can help.
> As a last item for the membership articles, I would like a brief discussion
> on the desirability of having a 2 class membership structure to enable
> people who are as yet without a DN to support us too.
> Drawbacks: it gives ICANN one more argument to relegate us to the "at
> large" membership. Pro: it gives us more members in this critical initial
> period.
Two points -- as for the "general membership is enough" argument. We must
never let that pass unchallanged. There is no equivalence between general
membership and membership in an SO. We are entitled to both.
As for two classes -- In the materials we've put together so far we're
pretty liberal about membership already. And we answered the concern
about conflicts by saying "go buy an unconflicted registration" on the
presumption that that is a pretty inexpensive way to obtain resolve a
dispute. It is this latter point that makes me feel that we ought to
simply require everybody to have a domain name under their belt.
By-the-way, since I suspect that we all are pretty immune to the closed
meeting disease, I suspect that none of us will object to non-members
observing.
--karl--
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