Re: [ga] LSE Report and 3 "superconstituencies", and broader participation

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

However, the IP constituency is heavily weighted toward large businesses
because naturally they own more Intellectual Property than small business
owners. So large companies are in the BC, represented again in the IPC,
registries, which by the way are large companies for the most part due to
exhorbitant ICANN fees for applying to be one, give businesses yet another
place to be represented, and ISPs again, mostly large businesses as well.
And while there are similarities between large and small business there is
much more representation of large business all around throughout the
constituencies.

I'm rambling. It's late, but you get the idea I hope. It is not in the best
interest of larger businesses to have more competition from smaller
businesses so there are no real similarities. If you look to big business to
foster competition, then it will never happen. The only people who want
competition are those who are not currently doing as well as their
competition. Small business owners want to become big business owners and
compete. large business owners want the opposite. It's human nature.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Kirikos" <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] LSE Report and 3 "superconstituencies", and broader
participation


> Hello,
>
> --- kidsearch <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For me that makes it even tougher for proper representation. Don't
> > believe the BC represents small business owners at all and neither
>
> There are members of the BC like the International Chamber of Commerce,
> MEDEF and WITSA that are associations of companies that include small
> and medium-sized companies:
>
> http://www.bizconst.org/members.htm
>
> My own company has only 1 employee (me!), and even though it counts as
> a Category 1 company for BC membership purposes (and for voting/fees)
> due to its success, I know where my roots are, and so do some of the
> others in the BC. For Euro 250/yr, smaller companies can join as
> "microenterprises". I'd like to see the BC be 10x larger through
> outreach, so that fee could be 1/10th the size (I don't think the costs
> would scale linearly with membership numbers).
>
> I think, from what I've seen, the BC does a good job of representing
> all business types, and doesn't seek out anything that jeopardizes
> small companies to favour larger ones. Indeed, what's good for small
> companies is often good for bigger companies too. There are more
> similarities between small businesses and larger businesses than there
> are between businesses in general and registry operators, for example,
> when it comes to ICANN policies.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
>
>
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