Another avenue could be At-Large. The North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) - uniquely amongst the RALO's - accepts individual members.
http://naralo.org j On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> wrote: > > Well, yes, ICANN could have contracted parties (e.g., the new gTLDs) do > this. A bit late to get it into the Applicant's Guidebook, but maybe > something could be slipped in after the fact. Who is going to lead the > contingent from NANOG to raise this in the GNSO? > > Of course, changing existing contracts tends to be challenging since the > contracted parties have to agree to the changes and I wouldn't be surprised > if they demanded ICANN give something up in exchange for agreeing to this > new restriction. It'll probably take a while. > > ICANN can respectfully request ccTLD folks do the same, but whether or not > the ccTLDs listen is a separate matter. If the ccTLD folks feel they gain > benefit from having naked TLDs, they'll tell ICANN to take a hike. > > Not sure what will happen with the IDN ccTLDs since they appear to be sort > of a combination of ccTLDs and contracted parties. > > You probably know all this, but things in the ICANN world probably don't > work the way most folks think. > > Regards, > -drc > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -
