Brendler, Beau ha scritto:
Randy brings up an important point here -- I think ICANN and the At-Large community need to find ways to help consumers figure out why they should know what ICANN is, and what it does (and what it doesn't do, or can't do, for that matter). This is going to be critical to ALS outreach, especially if the community is seeking participation from consumer groups, as it did with us (we got involved via an invitation from Consumers International). Consumer groups have limited time and resources and are not going to pay much attention if the concerns of the At-Large boil down to the rights and concerns of registrants.
Until now the At Large has been more concerned with registrants, but this is IMHO because of two reasons: 1) the lack of a proper "registrant constituency" in the GNSO or elsewhere at ICANN, and 2) the lack of awareness and participation by other types of groups that are nearer to the "pure user" of the Internet. As both things are changing, I would expect the At Large to move more towards the end user side. In any case, I think that our role is to consider all different viewpoints and be sure that we report all of them, and that whatever we propose is reasonable to all the subgroups that participate through us, including the non-technical, non-registrant user of the Internet. (A note to John - I would not use the term "vanity registrant" for the kind of individual registrants that we currently also represent; often individuals use domain names for their professional activities, their home or small office businesses, their associations, hobby groups, non-profit campaigns or whatever. It's not just a matter of vanity, nor than it is for any other kind of business or non-profit.) -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------