[ncdnhc-discuss] FYI

[Milton Mueller]

Kent:
A clear and hard-won part of the 
NCDNHC charter is that we exclude from
membership eligibility organizations 
that are voting members of other
DNSO constituencies. We were forced
to do this in the early stages of
DNSO formation, when ccTLDs, 
registrars, and other interest groups
packed our constituency meeting in
Berlin with the idea that they
could expand their representation on
the Names Council by colonizing the three
NCDNHC seats. I am sorry to put it so
baldly, but that,s exactly what was
happening and everyone knew it.

That policy has been reasonably 
successful at protecting the integrity
of the NCDNHC and establishing within
ICANN a clear vote and voice for non
commercial interests.

>From its inception the constituency has 
established online review of membership 
applications. Some of our practices are 
informal outgrowths of that review process.
Specifically, we have for some time 
established a precedent that organizations
that legitimately span the NCDNHC and 
other constituencies must appoint another
voting representative. Rather than attacking
this policy, you should recognize and welcome
it as an attempt to soften the exclusion
policy to accommodate legitimate organizations.

The "Potter Yachters" organiyation appears to
be nothing more than a vehicle for you to gain 
voting status in NCDNHC. If you are unable to 
find another member of this so-called organization 
to represent its "interests" in domain names
I suggest that the legitimacy of its status
as an organization might be in question.