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Re: [icann-eu] Draft comments on Study Committee
- To: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>, Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
- Subject: Re: [icann-eu] Draft comments on Study Committee
- From: Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:17:10 +0100
- Cc: icann-europe@fitug.de, members-meeting list <members-meeting@egroups.com>
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At 17:31 22/11/2000 +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote:
>"Board Members should be elected from membership or other associations
>open to all" is what we could focus on, though people might invoke
>the next half sentence to let this disappear. If I read it correctly,
>it does say that in any case there must be directors that are elected
>by users. Only the process is open, not the result.
FYI, the IETF, ARIN, RIPE and APNIC all regard themselves as open
organizations - in the sense that anyone who wants to be a member can be.
The DNSO supporting organizations are all open to the relevant organization
types (at least in theory).
W3C and ETSI will be happy to let in any organization that pays the fees, I
think. ITU is controlled by members who are controlled by governments.
There are a lot of paths that people are calling "open". The At Large just
happens to be the shortest (and so far least organized) path.
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
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Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no