RE: [wg-review] [IDNH]Membership criteria

[J J Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 23:18 7/01/01 -0500, Joanna described different possible Constituency
membership options.

>I would simply say either
>a)  "IDNH constituency membership is open to any person who is an individual
>domain name holder" or
>b) "IDNH constituency membership is open to any group of individual domain
>name holders"

I have almost no time to go into option (b), but this option has recently
been debated on idno-discuss.

To have another constituency like the NCDNHC, made up of
"groups"(organizations?) would introduce all the problems associated with
weighing voting power of unequal groups, checking membership numbers of each
group, people playing different groups off against each other, groups made
up of hundreds of IP lawyers, ISP's or registrars with their individual
Domains, 
in short a BAD idea, compared to having an undivided constituency where each
individual DN holder has a single vote and all are equal.
A better approach to channel inevitable infighting and personality issues is
allowing the natural formation of "parties"or "factions" within a single
Constituency of individuals.
Joop Teernstra, LL.M.
the Cyberspace Association
the Individual Domain Name Owners'constituency
www.idno.org


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