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Jim Dixon jdd at vbc.net
Sat Sep 20 23:14:30 CEST 1997
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:30:46 +0000 you said: > >RIPE-27-TLD-5: > > - RIPE to nominate European candidate to iPOC seat. > > [?] > > As a former IAHC and iPOC member let me ask a few questions: > > a) How does one define what Europe is? > b) If you use the conventional definition of Europe, then why would not > Africa, North America, Asia and the Middle East each request a seat? > c) How do you then not make the process political - rather than functional? > d) Europe has 2 people currently sitting on iPOC: Geert Glas, appointed > by INTA (a lawyer) and Patrik Falstrom appointed by the IAB (a techie from > Tele2). How do these people *not* serve a *European* perspective? (Don't > forget the WIPO and ITU reps who live and work in Geneva who also sit > on the iPOC - and you get to a total of 4 resident Europeans currently > on the iPOC - a number way out of proportion to Europe's size) If you measure things in Internet terms, by looking at host counts, for example, Europe represents something like 25% of the Internet. >From this point of view, two seats are insufficient. Of course, if you look at things from a functional point of view, the Internet itself is seriously under-represented on the iPOC. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 -------- Logged at Sat Sep 20 23:39:57 MET DST 1997 ---------
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