[ncdnhc-discuss] Re: [ncdnhc-announce] ORG divestiture policy nears completion!

[Don Heath]

At 07:07 PM 1/4/02 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>More responses to Don's comments:
>
> >>> Don Heath <heath at isoc.org> 01/04/02 06:42PM >>>
> > Suppose a non profit organization decided to enter
> > the fray, they were selected, and then found themselves in a position
> > where the registrants voted out the senior management provided by
> > the selected organization.  I can tell you that any entity desiring to be
> > selected as the sponsoring organization for the .ORG registry, would 
> be > at least slightly frightened by such logic.
>
>I have settled this issue with Ken Stubbs. The current language does
>not REQUIRE that Board members be elected by registrants, it
>allows applicants to propose EITHER that, OR election of a
>policy council, or BOTH. So any applicant that feels the way
>you do can avoid proposing an officers' election.
>
>We will revise the language slightly to make that clearer.

Great.

> >>  Nevertheless, applicant
> >>  organizations should be able to demonstrate support and participation
> >>  from a significant number of international noncommercial .org
> >>  registrants. The organization's policies and practices should strive to
> >>  be  responsive to and supportive of the noncommercial Internet user
> >>  community, and reflect as much of its diversity as possible.
>
> > This is VERY exclusive and looks as though it was designed to fit some
> > organization that is yet to be formed!?!?!
>
>It seems to be INclusive to me. It asks applicants to gain support from
>a wide variety of the noncommercial community.

Well, if you had not clipped out the part I was referring to, my comment 
would be more clear.  Here's the part of the paragraph you clipped.  I 
would have immediately preceded the part you did include above, beginning 
with "Nevertheless."

  "1a. The initial delegation of the .org TLD should be to a non-profit
  organization that is controlled by noncommercial .org registrants. We
  recognize that noncommercial registrants do not have uniform views
  about policy and management, and that no single organization can fully
  encompass the diversity of global civil society."

My comment was based on the fact that VERY few non profit organizations are 
"controlled" by noncommercial .org registrants!

>As for "some organization that is yet to be formed," no, this is a policy
>criterion we would like to be imposed on ANY organization. The new ORG
>administrator must be responsive to, representative of, and supportive of
>the noncommercial .org registrant community broadly. Surely you don't
>disagree with that?

As I point out, VERY few organizations can make the claim required by the 
full statement!