[CCWG-ACCT] Membership thoughts

[Greg Shatan]

Could you explain your reasoning so that we can better understand your
position?  Thank you.

Greg Shatan

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On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.na> wrote:

> Just to state this early, over my dead boy will the Regional Organizations
> of the ccNSO have anything to do or say in this.
>
> I would not mind every (cc)TLD Manager.
>
> el
>
> Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini
>
> > On Jan 24, 2015, at 01:32, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Greg,
> >
> >
> >>> Just brainstorming: one possibility may be to create "mirror" or
> "alter ego" organizations (perhaps corporations, perhaps some other form of
> organized entity), roughly along the lines of the NRO/ASO relationship (the
> ASO is an ICANN internal structure, while the NRO is not, yet they are
> essentially "alter egos").  Thus, each SO and AC could create an entity
> independent of ICANN, but answerable to that SO and AC.  The external
> entities could then be members of ICANN.
> >
> > My understanding also is that to be "members"  the organizations would
> need to be legal entities.   In a few of the examples given in this
> thread,  the "coordinating" organizations are not yet established as legal
> entities.
> >
> > For example, the Number Resource Organization ( https://www.nro.net/)
> is a coordinating body for the 5 Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).
>  These five RIRs are legal entities - so it may make more sense for them to
> be the "members" of ICANN.
> >
> > My understanding is that groups like the Registrar constituency, and the
> registrar stakeholder group (http://www.icannregistrars.org/ ) are
> deliberately not established as legal entities, or as trade associations.
>   They are coordinating groups - but any legal agreements etc are always
> between individual registrars as legal entities and ICANN.      Recently a
> domain name industry association was established - I assume this is a legal
> entity (http://www.thedna.org/ ).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bruce Tonkin
> >
> >
> >
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