Re: [At-Large] Say Whut!

On 17-12-18 08:36, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

ALAC is not civil society and doesn't try to be. Indeed I had at times been involved in instances in which ALAC's sense of the public interest -- based on its communities' feedback -- coincided more with the positions of governments (ie, the GAC) than with ICANN's own civil society presence (ie, the NCUC).

I think a good current example is the EPDP (on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data) that has been characterized as a battle between the "Surveillance Caucus" (IPC, BC, GAC, SSAC and ALAC) and the "Privacy Caucus" (RySG, RrSG, ISPCP and NCSG), both sides claiming to represent the interests of users/consumers. Julf