At 18:08 17/06/1999 -0400, Srikanth Narra wrote:
>What a Individual Domain Name Owner should be able to expect from IDNO (or
>new name when we vote for it) to do -
>
>I. To fight for (and later act like a watchdog) for Individual Domain Name
>Owner's -
>
>1. Right to Exist :-
>
>Its about Individual Domain Name Owners not having to wake up one fine date
>to find their whole dream and effort of craving out a tiny individual piece
>of internet existence forced down tubes because of some arbitrary decision
>by some agency (NSI or ICANN or whatever).
>
>2. Right to some Sanity and Civility :-
>
>Its about individual domain name holders, despite exercising due care and
>common sense, not having to wake up one fine day to find a notice of some
>frivolous lawsuit or a attorney's letter and related expenses and trauma
>staring at their faces.
>
>3. Right to Freedom of Expression :-
>
>Its about the right of being able to communicate our individual point of
>view through medium of internet (with aid of domain names) freely with
>assurance of our anonymity (if we choose to exercise it), personal and
>material safety and security for ourselves and our loved ones intact and
>unharmed.
>
>4. Future Parity :-
>
>Ensuring that the system works equally fair and on equal footing for the new
>domain name holders that come on board.
>
>(Feel free to add to it and build on it).
>
>Essence :-
>
>Its about giving a hope and expression in immediate future (and to protect
>and safeguard at later date) to the little people of internet world - The
>currently voiceless marginalized diverse individual domain name owners world
>wide in the global internet spectrum of things.
>
>How :-
>
>Besides and in addition to what's being debated.
>
>By joining or aligning or participating with and in any agency/forum (post
>ICANN ?) - be it ICANN or NSI or ACLU or Consumer groups or USG or UN.
>Including courts - not limited to these alone.
>
>What ever it takes to ensure the goals and interests of Individual Domain
>Name Owners are created, protected and safeguarded.
>
>[ It is and should be lot more than working along with ICANN or NSI - its
>about the fundamental interests of Individual Domain Name Owners and if I am
>stretch it a bit - the freshness and bubbling liveliness of internet !]
>
>In one sentence :-
>
>With the sprit of Open Source Movement (going by the debates and comradely I
>guess we have that !) and muscle of Microsoft (for lack of better example -
>pls. don't blast me for blasphemy !)
>
>Comments ?
>
>Sri
>
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--Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org
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