Roberto Gaetano wrote:
Wendy:
I'd say "Internet Users, including those who are not registrants of domain names, depend on the domain name system to locate and stably identify Internet resources. Those users should be included in the "Non-Contracting Parties" group."
This is something that the GNSO Review WG has discussed. Personally, I don't see anything against this, in principle, but I would be carful in how we present it for implementation. We have the status quo, we have one step forward (the inclusion of individual registrants in the non-contractual stakeholder group), and two steps forward (the inclusion of all individuals in a stakeholder group to be defined). If to go two steps forward meand that for the time being, until we find the perfect solution, we stay with the status quo, I don't think we are providing a good service to the internet community.
Thanks. I never meant to suggest a preference for the status quo over the inclusion of all relevant Internet users. I think at-large should ask for the representation it would like to see and deems reasonable from this process (not necessarily their pie-in-the-sky dreams, but not the make-do minimum either). So I think including all Internet users is better than including only some, and including registrants is better than including none. --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/