Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

Good morning, Bruce:

There is another possibility.

We should apply to ICANN for a grant to form an independent, international
Internet Users Association called ICANN@Large or Internet@Large that would
satisfy the DoC requirement for bottom-up representation.  How easy it would
be for ICANN to comply with our request and show that they have seen the
light. If we fail, they could claim that our failure supports the need for
their ALAC. How hard for them to justify a refusal, without blatantly
exposing their top-down control-everything model.

We can claim a thousand-plus grass-roots members; a democratically elected
leadership; an active and informed on-line participation (over 9,000
contributions in the past year - [compare to ALAC zero] ). We place our name
on the ICANN table, and before the DoC.

We have nothing to lose from such a request.

ICANN will have to wriggle their way through an embarrassing refusal.

Ron Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: <bruce@barelyadequate.info>
To: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 8:12 PM
Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees


> This is a general response to this thread.
>
> This may be one of the harderest decisions we make.  On the one hand, I
> agree that his organization needs funds if it wants to be effective.
> However, any level of dues we set that would provide significant funding
for
> our organization would also likely be an unreachable burden for many of
our
> potential members.   And I am unalterably opposed to basing the influence
of
> a member in this organization to their level of financial support!  The
very
> idea is anathema to the bottom-up philosophy may of us have fought to make
> real for years!
>
> So, as I see it, this leaves us with two options:
>
> -  A graduated dues tied to the member's local economy in some fashion.
>
> -  Finding funding in some other fashion: donations, fund-raising
> (e-commerce?), etc.
>
> Bruce Young
> Portland, Oregon USA
> bruce@barelyadequate.info
> http://www.barelyadequate.info
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