A. Gehring

I support the Individual Domain Name Owners constituency, as it represents the most inclusive set of stakeholders proposed for service to ICANN through the DNSO. I concur with the IDNO position and preference to afford representation to stakeholders themselves as opposed to affording representation to only entities claiming to serve stakeholders indirectly as valued customers.

I was educated to be an Agricultural Engineer. Albeit, I have spent much of my life in sales. I have during the 90's gained some modest experience with neural psychology, and presently understand the development of the human mind a little better than I do the Internet. At present, I manage an Oregon vineyard and help make the wine.

I came to Cyber Space, in the last year of Jon Postel's life, as a result of my decision to buy my daughter the Internet for Christmas. By the following summer I had finished building her computer and had us both on-line. The act of taking this hands on approach in order to fulfil my promise, has set my life course on a new direction.

To learn more about the internet, I began my research in the soil (where the roots grow): Domain Policy List served as my introduction. To my surprise, I found the soils quite disturbed.

I have a long 'thought horizon': It is my belief that decisions made today, as we form the ICANN, it's Supporting Organizations, and their Constituencies, will profoundly effect us for a long time to come. It is essential, in my view, that individuals be represented, substantively, in this new governing body, from the very beginning.

We have now seven constituencies in the DNSO, and yet none do center their foundations upon the individual. For it's promise to represent the most inclusive set of stakeholders, the Individuals; I support the Individual Domain Name Owners constituency, as proposed for service to the ICANN through the DNSO.

I concur with the IDNO position and preference to afford representation to stakeholders themselves as opposed to affording representation only for entities claiming to serve stakeholders indirectly as valued customers.