Re: [ga] Icannatlarge.com - conflict of interest

["Ken Stubbs" <kstubbs@digitel.net>]

joann & others...

i would hope that as an individual i would be able to participate in the
icann-at-large without any concern of being "intimidated" into not
participating .

correspondence of this sort is not constructive. if you have concerns
joanna, i personally feel  you should take them DIRECTLY to Marilyn instead
of trying to make a public 'thing" out of it.

this is not a good way to start out here.. many of us work for companies
which may already be participating in some way in one or another
constituancy or already be part of a specific "interest group" (i believe
that Karl Auerbach has some financial relationship with Cisco and no one
questions his right to participate)

suggest you "back it down a notch or two"  here

regards

ken stubbs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanna Lane" <jo-uk@rcn.com>
To: <mcade@att.com>
Cc: <ga@dnso.org>; "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>;
<DannyYounger@cs.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:37 AM
Subject: [ga] Icannatlarge.com - conflict of interest


> (I am posting this to the GA because the ALSC forum list has been killed.)
>
> Dear Marilyn,
>
> I notice you have just signed up as an individual member and domain name
> holder of the new At Large Members Organization at
> http://www.icannatlarge.com. In what capacity may I ask?
>
> As you know, the At Large Organization is being set up primarily to lobby
> ICANN for representation of those who are currently not able to
participate
> in the process through membership of other groups, specifically individual
> domain name registrants, users and the public in general.
>
> Now, please correct me if I'm wrong, but you are a professional Internet
and
> Government lobbyist in fulltime employ with AT&T, a Telco. In that
capacity
> you are a member of the DNSO Business Constituency and represent that
group
> (some 33 Businesses) on the Names Council. You Chair two of the NC's Task
> Forces, namely the Transfer Task Force and the Whois Task Force, and will
be
> speaking on behalf of both of those groups (representing the views of all
7
> constituencies) at the forthcoming Names Council Meeting in Accra
> http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc09/msg00210.html. Furthermore,
you
> have some unspecified involvement with the IDN Task Force
> http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-idn/Arc00/msg00036.html which still
leaves
> time for you to be an active member of the DNSO General Assembly. This
> amounts to your representing every single member of each constituency of
the
> DNSO at one time or another in the current process.
>
> Now, are we to understand that in addition to this, you now seek for your
> voice to be heard in the formation of this new bottom-up organization? If
> so, would this be on a level playing field with every other individual,
> including the possibility of standing for election as an officer of the At
> Large? Or are we to understand that you have joined simply to make a (no
> doubt generous) pledge on behalf of AT & T, with no desire to expand your
> role into areas such as seeking election as a representative of At Large
> Members within the ICANN process?
>
> Thank you for the clarification.
>
> Regards,
> Joanna
>
>
>
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