Why not to keep the things *simple*?
Are @large those who bother to be and survive this list.
jfc
At 09:08 19/10/02, DPF wrote:
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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