Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership

[DPF <david@farrar.com>]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 02:33:21 EDT, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

>As we look forward toward the prospect of bylaws and a Charter, I think its 
>time that we had a real discussion on who is and who is not an At-Large 
>member.  We are generally agreed that membership in the At-Large is open to 
>both organizations and individuals... 

I would think it is open to individual or natural persons only.
Organisations and Corporates have other avenues of representation
while individuals do not unless they happen to be IP lawyers.

>but does that mean, for example, that 
>Tucows or NeuStar are entitled to be an At-Large member?  How about Roger 
>Cochetti, the policy advisor for VeriSign... is he entitled to be an At-Large 
>member?  What about the Business Constituency?  Is it entitled to call itself 
>a member of the At-Large?  What about individual active BC members... can 
>they simultaneously be considered to be At-Large members?  

I would keep it simple and say only individuals can join.  That
includes Roger Cochetti but naturally people with links to other
stakeholders should declare them as appropriate.

>Even ICANN recognizes the fact that if you are a member of one constituency, 
>you shouldn't simultaneously be a member of another consituency... this was 
>made crystal clear in the proposed bylaws:  "No person or entity that is an 
>active member of any one Constituency shall be a member of any other 
>Constituency". 
>
>Perhaps one of the reasons that we don't yet have bylaws for this group is 
>that many in the current leadership know that by any sensible definition they 
>would be excluded from membership in the very organization they now lead.

I think it would be counter productive to say that if you are involved
in ICANN in any other capacity you can not be involved in the at
large.  

DPF
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