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Latin America blasts domain name group
October 9, 1998
Web posted at 2:40 PM EDT
by
Juan Carlos Perez
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (IDG) -- A group representing about one million Internet users in Latin America is angry that the region could lack representation on the board of the new organization that will manage Internet domain names.
The Latin America and Caribbean Networks Forum (Foro de Redes de America Latina y el Caribe), commonly known as Enred, decided Wednesday to send a letter outlining its complaints to Jon Postel, head of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the group drafting a set of bylaws for the new organization.
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In a proposal last week, Postel nominated four people from the U.S., three from Europe and two from the Asia/Pacific/Australia region to form the interim board of the new organization, called ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). The nominations were submitted along with the fifth draft of the proposed ICANN bylaws, which Postel sent to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce on Oct. 2. Another set of bylaws was also submitted.
"The board should have a more diverse representation. In the current proposal, there is no representation from Latin America or Africa. The board should have at least one member from each region," said Oscar Robles-Garay, director of InterNIC in Mexico and head of the Latin America & Caribbean Top Level Domain Association (LACTLD), which is endorsing Enred's letter.
The letter, which should be going out today, also requests that the bylaws prevent a region from having more than three members on the board, instead of the four-member limit proposed, said Robles-Garay, who works in the networking and telecommunications department of the Technological and Higher Learning Institute of Monterrey (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), in Monterrey, Mexico.
Enred's letter also requests that the bylaws specify that members will have to pay to be part of ICANN and that ICANN stakeholders will be the owners of the group, thus preventing the organization from having to depend on specific governments for its survival, Robles-Garay added.
The approximately 200 members of Enred are individuals involved with a variety of regional Internet backbone networks in the public, private and education sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean. Some of the networks represented are Argentina's Interuniversity Network, Chile's National Network of Universities, Colombia's National Science Council and Mexico's National Technological Network. Enred was founded in 1996.
The LACTLD was formed in August 1998 and is made up of the InterNIC directors of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela, Robles-Garay said.
Juan Carlos Perez writes for the IDG News Service, Latin America Bureau.