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

[todd glassey]

I registered the USDOA.ORG domain for this purpose if anyone is interested
in starting this up.

Todd Glassey

----- Original Message -----
From: "todd glassey" <todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net>
To: "James Love" <james.love at cptech.org>; "Alexander Svensson"
<svensson at icannchannel.de>
Cc: "NCDNHC Discussion" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] clarification (sort of) on ICANNatlarge.com
and other ICANN "at-large" things


> 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
> >
> > --
> > ------
> > James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
> > http://www.cptech.org, mailto:love at cptech.org
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> >
> >
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