At 20/03/2008 07:09 AM, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
Not until after our next meeting to discuss the current drafting of the work we have done... 1st draft was completed on 17th and several edits have been discussed since but we will finalised in the teleconference, which is to be held March 21 1300 UTC...
And I note that that other constituencies have requested an extension of time for Comment / Response until April 25th
I would tend to oppose such an extension, as I think the proposed GNSO improvements will benefit at-large and want to see them implemented rapidly.
--Wendy
Wendy, could you share your logic with us? Although I support some of the changes recommended in the report (and am leery of some as well), I do not see how At-Large really benefits other than in a utopian vision of "if the GNSO and therefore the overall Internet functions better, all users will benefit". It is true that there has been a lot of talk about At-Large or individual users being part of the Non-commercial Stakeholders Group. But that is all it is - talk. The BGC report makes it very clear that the 4th Stakeholder Group is for non-commercial REGISTRANTS. Admittedly, individual user registrants are part of the At-Large community, and indeed an important part. But At-Large also includes the uncountable number of users who are not registrants. And in the proposed model, they are excluded from participating in the work of the GNSO. Even at the working group level, the words in the report can be interpreted as excluding non-registrants in that the report talks about working groups being composed of a wide range of "stakeholders", a terms that is otherwise used in the report to categorize registrants. Alan