The dialogue was swift and sharp: there was no dialogue:

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� Richard Sexton: Spokesman for TLDA (Top Level Domain Association).
Representing prospective operators of new top level domains. What constituency are we supposed to go to?
� Esther Dyson: troubling question.
� Michael Roberts: boundaries aren't precise, we would like help and feedback about how they fit together.
� Esther Dyson: would prefer to see constituencies go broader in order to help interests fit in. You should be in the constituency in which you have the stongest interest.
� Richard Sexton: that would be the gTLD constituency.
� Esther: you aren't one yet.
� Michael Roberts and Esther Dyson: tell us what you want.
� Richard Sexton: want to fit in somewhere!

Network Solutions nominated me to the "names council". They had been allowed two seats on the names council. When they found out it was me that was their second choice they quickly ammended the bylaws so NSI only had one seat.

When "open, transparent and inclusive" organizations have secret meeting to chaged bylaws overnight to exclude people it's time to get out of the game.

I rapidly lost interest in what they called the "open and transparent" process. We had a dozen to two dozen working top level domain regstries, some of which had been working for 5 years already and we were being snubbed completely. If somebody had told me then they's spend a billion dollars and ten years and nothing had changed I wouldn't have believed you.