Might a narrowing of the idea of the end-user down to those who play an active role in the evolution of end use towards social ends help with framing ALAC’s real role?
I'm sorry, but this is a terrible idea. Back when I was on the ALAC over a decade ago, it wasn't clear whether ALAC represented individual vanity registrants (of whom we certainly have a lot on the ALAC) or actual end users. We finally realized that we represent end-users, the billions of people who actually use the Internet but will never register a domain. I would be strongly opposed to anything that back-tracked from that. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly