Top Down and Bottom Up

-----Original Message-----
From: Roberto Gaetano <Roberto.Gaetano at etsi.fr>
To: 'open-process at star-nets.com' <open-process at star-nets.com>
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 10:04 AM
Subject: RE: membership of the new corporation


>Comments on:
>
>> http://www.euroispa.org/papers/new.corp.membership.html
>> 
>follow.
>
>Membership Groups
>I have some problems with the way the Membership Classes (or Groups) are
>defined.


If you look at the U.S. Congressional model, there is a Senate
and House. The Senate is derived "top-down" and the House
is grass-roots or "bottom-up". You might want to look at the
Root Name Server Cluster (RSC) owner/operators as similar
to the Senate. The TLD owner/operators could are similar to
the House. [As an aside, I think I reversed these last time, sorry.]

The RSCs have a lot of power but that is balanced by the
collective will of the TLDs. In both cases, almost anyone can
get involved in either group by providing real infrastructure.
In my opinion, it is best to design the various round table
structures so that they are independent of various companies
and organizations such as ISOC, CORE, ITU, etc.

I think that we are better off documenting the major RSCs
and the major TLDs. The RSCs can collectively come up
with a decision and so can the TLDs. Only major decisions
should require these two groups to collaborate and hammer
out a decision. Of course, some people will be part of both
groups. I suppose that is like saying that each Senator also
has a Representative by virtue of the fact that they are a
human and live somewhere.

In order to not get too focused on a U.S.-centric system,
other than for examples, it might be easier to use top-down
and botto-up to characterize the two camps that seem
to form in these debates and need a place to meet in
the "middle".


Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com
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