Re: The Price Of Admission. Unacceptable.

[Heather Islip <heather@vbc.net>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 08:45:21AM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
> > 
> > *	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.

I'm puzzled as to exactly what you mean by "the Nominet experience"
in this context.   Nominet has a board of non-executive directors 
comprising

	* Keith Mitchell, Chairman of the LINX representing 40+
	  major ISPs
	* Rob Blokzjil who works for RIPE
	* Alex Bligh, who is an ISP
	* Ivan Pope who owns Netnames

All of these people make their living full-time from the Internet;
all of them are fully committed to the good of the Net.  None of
them is fully committed to the interests of trademark owners or
telcos.

> 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

The Nominet board was elected.  By the members.  Democratically.

Personally I find it rather difficult to understand why an American 
is apparently so very opposed to the democratic process.

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