It has been my, perhaps naive, idea that At-Large represents Internet users as a whole in ICANN matters as a whole, including interests that are beyond the GNSO. Thus there is not a conflict of an ALS such as ISOC-NY participating more directly in the GNSO via the NCUC, but also interacting more widely via At-Large. That broad tent of individual users I would consider includes even contracted parties included as well as registrants and end-users. At-large's role is to look out for everybody and particularly those that are under-represented in the GNSO, which some might argue, registrants currently are. If that's the case we should be looking to redress that, while keeping in mind it is always At-Large's responsibility to speak up for end-users. j On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
So I ask: Is At-Large charged with the task of represent the interest of registrants, the tiny proportion of the public at large that owns domains? Is that to be found in the "User House" of GNSO? Is the registrant lost in the gap between registrar and end-user? If so, how can this be fixed?
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