[ncdnhc-discuss] Re: [ncdnhc-announce] ORG divestiturepolicynears completion!

Dany Vandromme vandrome at renater.fr
Wed Jan 9 16:58:12 CET 2002


Milton Mueller wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Rob for the suggestion. Here is what
> I am proposing:
> 
> "The initial delegation of the .org TLD should be to a non-profit organization that is noncommercial in orientation and the initial board of which includes substantial representation of noncommercial .org registrants. "
> 
> It is a bit more specific than your proposal but
> it gets rid of the "controlled by" language which
> causes problems for several people.
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I support Milton's proposal
Dany
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> 
> >>> Rob Courtney <rob at cdt.org> 01/07/02 17:14 PM >>>
> At 9:26 PM -0500 1/5/02, Milton Mueller wrote:
> >  >>> Don Heath <heath at isoc.org> 01/05/02 16:07 PM >>>
> >>  My comment was based on the fact that VERY few non
> >>  profit organizations are "controlled" by
> >>  noncommercial .org registrants!
> >
> >OK, this is just a misunderstanding. We may need to clarify the
> >language, as you make a good point.
> >
> >ISOC is an .org registrant and is (more or less)
> >noncommercial. The Ford Motor Co. may have an .org
> >registration or two, but they are not noncommercial.
> >That is simply the distinction we were trying to make.
> >
> >More broadly, the intent of the policy is to require an
> >organization that bids for .org to gain support and
> >participation from a wide variety of noncommercial
> >.org registrants. ISOC, or ACM, or Hong Kong University, for
> >example, might want to "lead" an application, but the policy is
> >trying to tell them
> >that their bid will be stronger if a lot of other
> >organizations that are .org registrants, and individual .org
> >registrants, line up in support
> >of their bid. Is that intent clear?
> >
> >If you can propose a better wording I'll put it
> >in there.
> 
> What about:
> 
>   1a.The initial delegation of the .org TLD should be to a non-profit
>   organization that is responsive and accountable to noncommercial
> .org registrants.
> 
> r
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