On Sat, Jun 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM Roberto Gaetano via At-Large <at-large@icann.org> wrote:
 
The question here is what is the vision that we have, as At-Large, about ICANN and our role in it. How do we imagine the future of the Internet, the role of ICANN in the “next” Internet, the needs and concerns of the end users?

Based on the PoVs in this thread that have drawn the most support, the vision seems clear:
  1. Fight the battles of registrants and others who have their own independent representation within ICANN -- perhaps one day some of their issues just might have trickle-down effects on an end-user base that, as you said, cares less and less about rented domains anyway;

  2. As a key tactical issue, have ICANN drop the price of domains to a pure cost-recovery regime, such that the volume of domains rented for speculation and malicious use can increase by orders of magnitude. This would also starve ICANN of the cash to fund things like, say, ALAC and greater anti-abuse enforcement. While this objective seems obviously against the interests of end-users, apparently that should be no obstacle to ALAC's advocacy of it since the destitute registrants are incapable of making this case for themselves;

  3. Just the discussion of issues is an objective in itself. (IE, the IGF but with travel funding.)
- Evan