Re: The Price Of Admission. Unacceptable.

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 08:45:21AM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> > > (hopefully with principle f fixed), but others don't want the change. If
> > > this change does happen, then several hundred people could join PAB and
> > > demand a fundamental change in policy, without having signed the MoU.
> > 
> > This is, in my opinion, a waste of time.  You can sign the MoU with a 
> > caveat that you have problems with section f, and the rest of it is 
> > really pretty vanilla.
> 
> The vanilla has some interesting bits, such as
> 
> *	a permanent role for the ITU, WIPO, and INTA
> *	a permanent role and second vote for the "depository of
> 	the MOU" .... hmmm, that's the ITU again!

WIPO, ITU, INTA: 4 representatives, total.
IANA, ISOC, IAB, CORE: 8 representatives.

It has been pretty much decided that PAB should have voting 
representation on the POC -- right now there are two observers who 
participate fully, but they can't become voting members without 
ammending the MoU (which will be done)

> *	but no representation at all for ISPs, without whose 
> 	networks there would be no Internet 

Given the Nominet experience, it seems likely that the 2 voting 
representatives of CORE will represent ISP interests to some extent.

There has been extensive discussion in PAB and in POC about adding 1
or more representatives from ISPs.  The main problem has been deciding
a means of selecting representatives, but this will be resolved, and
getting more direct ISP representation will probably happen fairly
quickly. 

Changing the representation structure is one of the highest 
priorities of POC, I believe, second only to getting CORE off the 
ground. 

In any case, it is a pure fantasy to claim that the POC is in thrall 
to "trademark interests".

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