RE: [ga] Individual domain name holders and the DNSO

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Bret A. Fausett [mailto:baf@fausett.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:03 PM
> 
> Joop Teernstra wrote:
> > It is all very well to start quantifying the hurdles and 
> put a number on
> > them, but what is the use if such a goalpost (and its 
> rationale)  does not
> > come from the ICANN board?
> 
> Hi Joop -- My point was only that if you brought in an 
> application that
> exceeded even unrealistically high expectations, how could it 
> be denied?
> You're unlikely to get any guidance from the Board, and you may face
> opposition from other constituencies. Against that backdrop, your only
> choice is to deliver so far above the target that any 
> opposition is unmasked
> as self-interested politics.

Been there, done that, a number of times. Personally, I lost interest in
charter writing after ICANN Berlin. I'm rooting for the IDNO, but I have
little hope.

> > Hurdle 2: Stable Infrastructure. What does this mean? An absence of
> > disagreement or public personality conflicts among members? 
>  A Charter
> > approved by the initial 200 and impossible to change by the 
> next 800?
> > What about ICANN's bylaws?   Is ICANN itself stable by your 
> definition?
> 
> I meant something more mundane. A web site for information, a 
> webmaster, a
> mailing list, a physical address to collect mail and checks, 
> a bank account,
> and someone willing or paid to handle the day to day details.

Name a constituency that is up to this level, please.

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