[ncdnhc-discuss] Non-Commercial Supporting Organization

[YJ Park]

August. 17, 2001

YJ Park


                                    Resolution for
Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Supporting Organization


The current Non-Commercial Domain Names Holders Constituency
of Domain Names Supporting Organization has been recognized by
the ICANN Board in Santiago in August ICANN meeting, 2000.

Since then, non-commercial domain names holders constituency
has been encountering an endless challenge in the DNSO. It is always
outnumbered in DNSO decision-making process by the majority votes.

It turned out that it is almost impossible for Non-commercial domain
name holders constituency to address its concerns which has been
many times quite different from the other constituencies especially
commercial-based constituencies easily to be buried due to innate
DNSO imbalanced structure, five commercial constituencies,
Registrar, ISP, IP, Business, gTLD, one non-commercial and ccTLD
[note1], which has been pointed out by WG-Review report earlier this
year and by At-Large Study Committee process, recently.

On the other hand, there have been concerns expressed by NCDNHC
members that there are too diverse interests mixed in this same
group under the name of non-commercial domain names holders
constituency, which is too vague to define its common ground and too
broad to reach consensus many times within the constituency: There
are education and research organizations, civil society groups,
consumer groups, activist groups for citizens, non-commercial
purpose lobbyist groups etc..

Therefore, the non-commercial domain name holders constituency
of the DNSO hereby declare its withdrawl from DNSO in Montevideo
and its new formation of Non-Commercial Domain Names Holders
Supporting Organization, NCSO.

[Note1] ccTLD is difficult to categorize whether it is commercial or
non-commercial in a simple way.