Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees

[Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>]

   ...which way the wind blows

Ron -

Said tounge-in-cheek, or for real?

--- REgards, walts


On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Ron Sherwood wrote:

> 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
>

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