On Sat, 20 Sep 1997 23:45:07 +0200 you said:
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.
Also, if you look at the participating members of the PAB it starts to become a joke. The totally unrepresentative PAB which has no power but recommends to the [i]POC which is unrepresentative and has no power but recommends to the some day CORE which is supposed to have power but doesn't because according to the gTLD-MoU the ISOC and IANA have veto power over everything. Neat, huh?
And if everyone in RIPE joined the PAB, you would become a controlling force rather than what you refer to as "a joke".
I don't really want to stir up yet another debate on this list since there are plenty to bore everyone on the other related lists, but personally I'd rather see RIPE make an effort to work on a logical, workable, reasonable solution than to support the IAHC mess.
My 0.02 Euros... Ray http://www.STOP-gTLD-MoU.org/
Hank -------- Logged at Sun Sep 21 10:36:26 MET DST 1997 ---------