Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Considerations for membership the rules
Joop Teernstra (terastra@idno.org)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:13:02 +1200
At 21:13 29/06/1999 -0700, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that domain name ownership by an individual, in the
case of
>> eligibility for membership in idno, is to be determined by that person's
role
>> in the control of that Domain. ie: Technical or Administrative contact.
>
>Not quite. Whether one is a tech or admin contact is merely a fact that
>is evidence that one has control of domain that, in the mind of a
>resonable person, amounts to "ownership".
>
>(I tend to also ask the question whether the membership candidate has the
>undisputed discretionary authority to relinquish the domain name -- to me
>that is extremely compelling evidence of "ownership".)
>
>The reason for this kind of soft, subjective test is to deal with
>situations in which someone may have the domain owned by a convenient
>intermediary -- like a corporation wholly owned by and controlled by the
>membership candidate.
>
>So, in your case, if you can instruct whoever is holding your domain to
>relinquish it, then you have a pretty strong case to be a member of the
>IDNO.
>
>I'm sure that over time we will build up some experience that will let us
>write done examples of things that are supportive of membership and
>examples of things that are not.
>
>Right now, the intent is to be flexible and let the general subjective
>rules ripen with experience into something more concrete and clearly
>delineated.
>
Quite so. This is why I stepped away from previous (ORSC) Domain Name
definitions and defined them only negatively:
not TLD's and not SLD's in which individuals or companies can't register.
I think we are flexible enough with our current definition.
At some time in the future we have to be ready to speak up for individuals
who register under ISP's (in Europe) too.
We also have to be ready for possible conflicts of interest between those
individuals and some of our members who also represent ISP's, or who are
ISP's.
But for the moment our focus is on ICANN and its DNSO.
--Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org
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