Re: Exclusion of non-commercial Internet users from ICANN

[william@dso.net (William X. Walsh)]

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 17:14:25 -0400, Michael Sondow <msondow@ICIIU.ORG>
wrote:

>We protest in the strongest terms possible against the exclusion in
>this proposal by Don Heath (ISOC) of those organizations which have
>adhered to the NCDNHC
>through the ICIIU, the first organization to submit a proposal for
>the constituency. The organizations listed below are clearly posted
>on the ICANN website as founding members of the constituency. How
>dare ISOC exclude them from their list of founding members?
>
>The organizations which have adhered to the NCDNHC through the ICIIU
>will immediately be put on ISOC's list of founding members, and a
>place made in the compromise proposal for newly-adhering
>organizations that wish to join independently of ISOC, or the ICIIU
>will discontinue discussions with the other parties.

Oh please, make good on this last sentence.

BTW, being the first to submit a proposal doesn't mean a single thing.
It is the quality of the proposal that has weight.  Your
overly-exclusive position was totally unacceptable to other
stakeholders, as well as to ICANN.



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