February 25, 1999
Mr. Michael Roberts, Interim President
and CEO
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
339 La Cuesta Drive
Portola Valley, CA 94028
USA
FAX.: +1 650 854 81 34
e-mail:
comment-so@icann.org
Dear Mr. Roberts,
On behalf of the Information
Technology Association of South Africa (ITA), please convey to the
Board of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) our support
for the Barcelona-Monterrey-Washington application to be recognized as
the
Domain Name
Supporting Organization (DNSO) and its continuing process of
unification with
other stakeholder groups.
The ITA represents
the interests of the leading vendors of IT products and services in South Africa
and includes in its membership international and local suppliers committed to
the promotion of a free and fair market environment, operating to the highest
ethical standards.
The application submitted to ICANN on
5 February 1999 by the
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American
Intellectual Property
Law Association (AIPLA), Electronic Commerce Europe (ECE), European ISP Association (EuroISPA),
Information Technology
Association of America (ITAA), International Council of
Registrars (CORE), International
Trademark Association (INTA), Internet
Society (ISOC), Policy Oversight
Committee (POC), and the World
Information Technology and Services
Alliance (WITSA) lays out a credible
and effective organizational
structure for ICANN's Domain Name
Supporting Organization, which meets
the requirements of Article 1,
Section 3 (b) of ICANN's
Bylaws.
We believe that the breadth of
stakeholders represented by the organizations endorsing this application and its unification
process represent a
broad consensus among a critical mass of Internet
Stakeholders. In our
opinion it should form the basis of how to create a
viable, open, and transparent DNSO
that will supply the ICANN Board with well-developed, timely and well-reasoned policy
recommendations reflecting the consensus and interests of all of the
various stakeholders
from around the world.
Please accept this letter as our
expression of support for both the Barcelona-Monterrey-Washington application and the process of
further refining the
application to present the ICANN board with the most
inclusive and
representative application possible in advance of the
ICANN meeting in
Singapore on 2-4 March 1999.
Yours sincerely,
Adrian Schofield
President
Information Technology
Association of SA
Mobile: +27-82-501 3900
e-mail: ita@ita.org.za
