RE: [wg-review] Representative Figures

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

Darryl,I think there is co-existence for your views, and mine on this topic.

IF I consult with members of an association, and the association takes a
position, the position it represents is that of it's members.

Let me give you an example: I am the chair of a committee of an
international association. The association has several thousand members. The
process of the committee requires
 1) publication of the agenda 2) taking comment on positions/statements 3)
development of white papers/draft statements on positions/with comment from
all members possible 4) publication of a policy position/statements via a
white paper, letter, notice on the web site, etc.

that is the typical association process, as I know it. Live with it. It
means that sometimes, I agree. Sometimes, by the way, I disagree as an
individual company member. But I live with the association speaking for the
industry. 

If I disagree strongly enough, then I am free to speak, as an individual, or
individual company.

Why does that not work? 

Just curious and seeking to understand your concern here.

Marilyn 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dassa [mailto:dassa@dhs.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 5:15 PM
To: WG-Review
Subject: RE: [wg-review] Representative Figures


|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: owner-wg-review@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-review@dnso.org]On
|> Behalf Of Kent Crispin
|> Sent: Friday, 23 March 2001 10:20 AM
|> To: wg-review@dnso.org
|> Subject: Re: [wg-review] Representative Figures
|>
|>
|> We've been around this tree before.  The BC, IPC, and ISP constituencies
|> have members who are organizations and/or organizations of
|> organizations.  For example, the International Chambers of Commerce is a
|> member of the BC -- it has thousands of businesses *and
|> associations of businesses* who are members, and thus the ICC can
|> legitimately claim to represent at some level perhaps a million
|> individual companies.
|>
|> That's an extreme example, but in general it is safe to say that those
|> three constituencies represent the interests of a very broad set of
|> their defined populations.

Actually it is, to put it plainly, crap.  I am in a company which has over
160,000 users on the Internet, my being a member of any constituency or
group
does not automatically mean those users are represented.

Nor are all of the members of various other organisations represented.
Unless
there is a defined procedure to associate the individuals responses to the
declared respresentative, there is no true representation.  Those
constituency
members only represent their own position, not all of the
users/clients/customers/subscribers to their organisation.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.

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