Re: [icann-eu] Draft comments on Study Committee

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 00:45 23/11/2000 +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote:
>Are the organizations you mention or at least some of them, "open to
>*all*"? Would it be possible for a 100,000 people to join them?

Certainly several of the non-commercial organizations that are NCDNHC 
members could use another 100.000 members (for example the Internet Society).

>Or are you telling me in a friendly manner, I did not understand what
>the white paper is referring to? That is possible, naturally.

The argument was raised to me that the (relatively few) persons who cared 
enough to get well informed would also find it easy to participate using 
existing mechanisms, and therefore the At Large is not needed.

I do not agree - I think a wider participation is good, and the number of 
people who care enough to get informed is not small.
But we still have 6 billion people who are not At Large members - any time 
we ask other orgs if they scale to 100.000, we can get asked about whether 
we could scale to 6 billion.

Just making the point that while it seems to us that the At Large is 
obvious given the white paper text, it is not the only possible implementation.





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