On 10 January 2015 at 09:07, Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc@gmail.com> wrote:
It is worth noting that the quartet of "Civil Society, Private Sector, Technical Community including academics, Governments" doesn't map exactly to the multistakeholder groups in ICANN.
That's because those distinctions are less important to ICANN than the more domain-industry-friendly silos of 1) Domain producers (half of the GNSO) 2) Domain consumers (the other half of the GNSO) 3) Everyone else -- the technical, governmental and non-domain-buyer user communities (advisory councils) It's ICANN with the idiosyncratic segmentation, not the rest of the world. Granted, the above broad groupings also have plenty of their own internal diversities and there is some cross-pollination (as exists in the quartet). But ICANN's silos have has suited the power brokers well. - Evan