Re: [atlarge-discuss] 006 Deciding Name for Organisation

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

On 12:46 09/08/02, Richard Henderson said:
> The name of the organisation itself has to be a fairly urgent "task" to be
> accomplished and determined by our members. It's linked, perhaps, to Mission
> Statement - as some people may want the name of the organisation to reflect
> a fairly broad mission (I favour this, to broaden membership and make us
> more truly representative) - while others want a narrower technical
> relationship to ICANN (in which case ICANN-style terms like @large may
> figure... personally I'd prefer we steer clear of this, but I may get
> outvoted)
There is no reason why the word "@large" would be associated with ICANN. It 
has aquired its repuation. If we drop it we lose part of our legitimacy 
(ICANN is known and interests, we do not ... yet) Also ... someone else 
will take it as the ALOC did. ccTLDs know what @large is and its 
legitimacy: actually the @large are the ccTLD legitimacy. If we drop that 
flag we lose part of our soul and part of our outreach capacity.

Our branding is to use it everywere: gac@large, isoc@large, ietf@large as 
there is france@large.
To extend the concept, because @large is @large everywhere.

Sotiris has the name world@large ( http://worldatlarge.org ) the site is in 
operation, he proposed his PHP-Postnuke. Well we are all set.

I personnally have a small fundation under the name of world@wide. This 
kind of graphism is simple to make people understand that we are talking of 
Internet.  Large in English, French, Italian, Spanish etc. implies the idea 
of majesty, size, etc.. We should only consider it as a name meaning ... 
"us". Up to us to make the message accepted.

For example, Richard, I think the text you just proposed would be a very 
good initial
000 "world@large general" policy statement.

We can certainly *add* things lke "World Internet User Association".
I have "International At Large Network Association (IALNA)" available at 
http://ialna.org .I can give it (the project was stopped by 11/9). The 
IALNA sounding shows what we want: to control our network.

With that we are operational right now.
jfc


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