Re: [ga] Matthew Hooker from Los Angeles ICANN meeting

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael and all,

  Thank you for posting and exercising your responsibility for your
members.  One of the problems with the ICA is as you correctly
stated it, ICA primarly represents ONLY commercial Domain name
holders AND is seemingly only interested in becoming a member of
the BC of the GNSO.  As such, the ICA can't possibly represent
a majority of commercial registrants or for that matter small business
Individual Registrants whom are fiercly and in my view, correctly
Independant as well as the vast majority of Domain name registrants.
Yet the ICA is a valuble voice, all be it limited that should be heard
and considered withing the GNSO and subsequently ICANN.

Regards,

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Michael Collins wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Ted, thank you for this excellent opportunity to introduce myself. I
> am Executive Director of ICA and am a long-time subscriber to this
> list, but have not posted before. I am glad that Ted brought up his
> membership in Internet Commerce Association.
>
> I agree with Roberto, ICANN should not preemptively screen speakers
> and require them to substantiate their claims of representing a
> community. Establishing credibility is the responsibility of the
> speaker. I think that everyone in the audience quickly realized that
> Mr. Hooker didn?t grasp the subject of the meeting and then it was
> correct to ask him to stop wasting everyone?s time.
>
> The important part of this discussion is the effective representation
> of our members and registrants in general at ICANN. ICA has applied to
> the Commercial and Business Users Constituency. Since we represent
> only domain owners that register domains for commercial use, we should
> be able to represent our members through this constituency. We have
> not yet received a reply to our application. However, at least one
> member of our association who is a known advocate and voice for
> domainers and who should qualify according to the BC charter posted at
> http://bizconst.org/ was refused membership without explanation. I
> hope that ICA is accepted into the BC and we don?t have to ask
> questions about how to assure our members a voice at ICANN.
>
> ICA welcomes a change to the constituency structure that creates an
> individual registrant?s constituency. Hopefully, representation in
> such a constituency would come without the high price tag of the BC. I
> am sure that there are many individuals for whom membership in ICA or
> the BC is too costly. We should not be blocking them from policy
> input.
>
> Thank you for enduring a long introductory post. I look forward to
> being a part of constructive dialog in the future.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael Collins
>
> Internet Commerce Association
>
> InternetCommerce.org
>
> +1. 202 657 4570
>
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Prophet Partners Inc.
>
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 8:56 AM
> To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ga] Matthew Hooker from Los Angeles ICANN meeting
> Hi Joop,
>
> Prophet Partners Inc. is a member of the Internet Commerce
> Association, which is proactive with respect to ICANN issues and sends
> representatives to ICANN meetings. We would also be receptive to
> discussing a reasonable plan for formal registrant representation
> within ICANN, such as a registrant constituency.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ted
> Prophet Partners Inc.
> http://www.ProphetPartners.com
> http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com
>