[ncdnhc-discuss] clarification (sort of) on ICANNatlarge.com and other ICANN "at-large" things

[todd glassey]

Personally from all the noise on this list I am beginning to think that a
smaller US-Only Domain Owner/Operator's Association is in order. Its intent
would be to protect the rights and capabilities of US Domain Owners as a
whole. It would present to IDNO/ICANN and to the US Congress as
representative of the voting American Citizens that own operate or
administer domains and their interests.

Anyone else have any commentary on that?

Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Love" <james.love at cptech.org>
To: "Alexander Svensson" <svensson at icannchannel.de>
Cc: "NCDNHC Discussion" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] clarification (sort of) on ICANNatlarge.com
and other ICANN "at-large" things


> Alexander Svensson wrote:
> > You are (mis)portraying ICANNatlarge.com and the ALOC as two
> > competing entities. In fact, ICANNatlarge.com is represented
> > /on/ the ALOC. But I'm not trying to defend what the ALOC does
> > or doesn't do: The point is that I believe it would be a bad
> > idea if user organizations started to fight against each other
> > to become the Single Authoritative Voice of the Users. I
> > believe we need an interface between a multitude of user
> > organizations and ICANN. And someone has to reach out to
> > user organizations worldwide (which is what Denise Michel is
> > doing). Of course, that interface must be composed of and
> > elected by user organizations in the end.
>
>     I guess this is something that people will disagree about.  I don't
> think it is unimportant that the Denise/Esther effort has hijacked the
term
> "at-large" and turned it on its head to bless a decidedly undemocratic
> effort.     Maybe some others feel differently.   By the way, how does the
> Esther/Denise effort get its own legitimacy?  And has the at-large
> organizing committee have any proceedures, ways of electing leaders or any
> real role other than to make ICANN look like it has a real voice for
users?
>
>    Jamie
>
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