William and all, We are in complete agreement with williams assertions here. He is completely correct. The actions and lack of action and discussing relative maters in a closed manner is in complete conflict with the White Paper, and contradictory to their own set of proposed bylaws. This kind of silliness and other rather questionable actions of this group must cease or others will make other arrangements fairly quickly. William X. Walsh wrote: > It has come to my attention that significant discussions are taking place on > the Participants list that have significant impact on the DNSO and its policies. > > This is UNACCEPTABLE, as it implicitly excludes a very large portion of the > stakeholder community. > > As long as the DNSO continues to hold private non-open discussions, it is > nothing more than a special interest group server the interests of CORE/PAB and > not at ALL dedicated to truly representing all stakeholders in the domain name > industry. > > It is time for the DNSO to open its participants list or to move ALL discussion > to the Discuss list, and carry NO substantive discussions on private or closed > lists. > > If it does not do so, and soon, movements to setup an alternative DNSO to apply > to ICANN will develop, and present a serious and compelling case for > recognition. > > Those that will oppose a closed special interest DNSO have a loud voice, and > while we differ on many things, we will unite on our consensus points to oppose > the acceptance of the DNSO application unless and until it begins taking open > processes and open input seriously and stops just paying lip service to it. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > William X. Walsh (WXW7/WW1506)| TJ Network Services - The .TJ NIC > Network Operations | http://tjns.tj / http://nic.tj > william@tjns.tj/william@nic.tj| Domain Names, DNS, Email, > +1-(209)-493-6144 | DynamicDNS & Web Hosting Services > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Date: 16-Dec-98 / Time: 23:28:02 > > __________________________________________________ > To receive the digest version instead, send a > blank email to ifwp-digest@lists.interactivehq.org > > To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: > subscribe-IFWP@lists.interactivehq.org > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: > unsubscribe-ifwp@lists.interactivehq.org > > Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email andy@interactivehq.org. > ___END____________________________________________ Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
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