Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees

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

Walter Schmidt wrote:
> Said tounge-in-cheek, or for real?

For real.

If it is met with silence (as Hugh Blair suggests)... it is still on the
record and will remain as a testament to the ICANN attitude to at-large
users.  If it is met with any other response, we are free to leverage that
response to our advantage.

Any kind of grant would be helpful.  When we are legitimized by
incorporation, and we have an elected BoD with President, Secretary and
Treasurer (or their Trustee equivalents), there are many foundations that we
could apply to for grants.  In addition  I, along with many other members,
will be happy to make an annual donation to help with expenses.  However,
ICANN has a mandate to build at-large participation in its affairs. It is
therefore the obvious first place to apply for financial assistance in this
effort.

I repeat, we have nothing to lose by asking ICANN for seed money.  ICANN has
a lot to lose by refusing us.

Ron Sherwood.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Schmidt" <walts@dorsai.org>
To: "Atlarge Discuss List" <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Cc: "Walter Schmidt" <walts@dorsai.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees


>
>    ...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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