Re: [atlarge-discuss] voting and polling

["todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Williams" <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>
To: "todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>; "James Love"
<james.love@cptech.org>; "atlarge discuss list"
<atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] voting and polling


> Todd and all stakeholders or interested parties,
>
> todd glassey wrote:
>
> > Joop - No matter what commentary you came up with below the first time a
US
> > Congressman gets a call from the At Large membership group and it has
10K +
> > US members the DoC will very quickly start rethinking its ICANN alone
> > stance. The DoC is easily swayed by one thing and that is the American
> > Voting Public.
>
>   How true Todd.  Especially during an election year, which 2002 is as
> some here know.  We [INEGroup] have found that a number of
> congressmen in key states, are particularly attentive of late...

And they should be. This, as a grass roots constituentcy has the possibility
of as I said, being the first Global PAC.

>
> >
> >
> > Todd
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>
> > To: "todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>
> > Cc: "James Love" <james.love@cptech.org>; "atlarge discuss list"
> > <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
> > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 4:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] voting and polling
> >
> > > At 06:33 a.m. 2/06/2002 -0700, todd glassey wrote:
> > > >DNSO could easily swamp ICANN if it ever got its act together.
> > >
> > > Hmm.
> > > ICANN has the IANA function and the MoU with DoC.
> > > ICANN has the funding from the gTLD registry tax.
> > > ICANN can do with a 9 person staff and remain nimble on its feet ,but
the
> > > DNSO, to be legitimate as a stakeholder body, must lumber itself with
a
> > > large Registrant "parliament" slowed down by democratic on-line
> > procedures.
> > >
> > > Only an automated streamlining of the procedures, such as was proposed
> > with
> > > The Polling Booth with its procedural charter , would mean that the
DNSO
> > > would become a real influence.
> > > I guess this is what you mean by 'getting its act together'.
> > >
> > > But it would be an intensely political body. Nobody would be sure of
the
> > > ultimate allegiance of candidates for office. If it would start making
> > > deals with the GAC, the ccSO, US Congress and the EU, the lobbying
power
> > of
> > > the big corporate interests now dominating the Names Council would
still
> > be
> > > undiminished.
> > >
> > > Its main function would be to provide ICANN and its operations with
> > > glasnost and legitimacy.
> > >
> > >
> > > >It represents
> > > >the only large group of voters that are capable of participating as
> > > >individuals in the Internet Process. This is a very serious issue
since
> > > >there are so many fracturing influences in the DNSO.
> > >
> > > Think this through a bit more, Todd.
> > >
> > > >If I was ICANN I would run in fear that DNSO would achieve a real
> > membership
> > > >behind a real charter, and start getting active here in the US as a
PAC
> > and
> > > >not just an independent Internet Only Working Group.
> > >
> > > If I was ICANN I would see the above scenario for my DNSO as my
biggest
> > hope.
> > >
> > > What I would really fear is a completely independent At Large driven
by
> > > real Individual concerns.
> > >
> > >
> > > --Joop
> > >
> >
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> Regards,
> --
> Jeffrey A. Williams
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