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

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Harald and all,

Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> 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).

  We already have over a 100,000 members currently.  The ISOC
is not ever likely to reach that goal under it's current leadership structure.
Some of our members are also ISOC members, most are not.  Some
are members of the @large, and many applied but have YET to receive
their Pin #'s for various reasons that have been expressed by me as their
spokesman and themselves to ICANN, with only a few resolved
at this point.  It seems obvious to me anyway and most of our members
that ICANN is blocking our members from joining the @Large.

>
>
> >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.

  This is categorically not true Harald, see my comment above.

>
>
> 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.

  Scaling is not a problem.  It is often used as an excuse though.

>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
> +47 41 44 29 94
> Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no

Regards,

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