Re: PAB Outgoing message

Sascha Ignjatovic (sascha@isoc.vienna.org)
Tue, 23 Dec 1997 14:50:17 +0100 (MET)


dear antony dear pab officers

thank you for your words and your work in pab

On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Antony Van Couvering wrote:

> Dear PAB Members,

> I will try to keep in mind why I support the
> gTLD-MoU -- because I believe that the domain space, like all the Internet,
> belongs to the entire world, not just to commercial imperatives, and that
> its stewardship really is a public trust, both for those who use the
> Internet and those who will.

so this is an nes way of thinking
this aplyes also when it comes to involvment of policy in internet
governance

> As the first attempt to bring participatory governance to any non-technical
> part of the Internet, the gTLD-MoU movement has attracted a lot of
> attention. Of the three groups in the gTLD-MoU, the PAB is the most
> original and important part of the gTLD-MoU. If it fulfills its promise of
> bringing previously unheard voices to the debate, and gives them a say in
> how this little part of the Internet is managed, the PAB will have achieved
> a tremendous thing that will be copied again and again. If it fails in
> that promise, we can expect that large-scale participation in the
> governance of other areas of the Internet will suffer a significant setback.

hope you will continue as you have done helping bulding a
internet selfgovernance

> Antony

thank you and all other pab officers very much

sascha