Ross and all, As now persona's non grata, all of our members, users and registrants all, have neither a voice or a vote of their choosing and under the suggested/perposed "registrants advisory board" will not either. This is not representative and therefore inconsistent with the MOU and ICANN's mission accordingly. A voice and not a vote is inadequate for users and registrants whom are also users themselves. What is good for users and registrants should be good for both, win-win. Registries and registrars may not always benefit with user-non-registrants or user-registrants demands, which are after all the demands of the broad marketplace. But users whom are employed by registries and registrars will benefit equally with other users and some of these users may also be registrants as well... What is missing, or should I say has been removed, is the GA which when official, was inclusive of all classes of users and open and transparent to all whom wished to participate. Such is a representation of and too accountability, which ICANN and particularly the GNSO lacks significantly and has for some time. The ALS'es approach is a failure, and of course was from it's inception as it seeks to divide rather than unite by it's very nature of structure. -----Original Message-----
From: Ross Rader <ross@tucows.com> Sent: Apr 23, 2008 8:34 AM To: Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> Cc: At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] GNSO reform and ALAC
Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Ross Rader wrote:
I think the paper is correct in pointing out that contracted parties do need some sort of grouping, but it forgets that registrants (of all types) are a highly important component of this. Personally, I would like to see a registrants' advisory board made up of those subsets of all constituencies (business, noncomm, at-large) that has an interest in protecting registrant's rights. Since these groups are already part of official constituencies I see this as an advsory board that would work with those constituency groups to help forumlate registrant-friendly policy.
For the same reasons, I don't see identification of registrants as a new separate constituency to be a good idea.
I believe the current registrant constituencies should be dissolved and picked up under the new "registrant"/"user" split. As it currently stands, the commercial user community in the form of the BC/ISPC/IPC wields way too much power in the GNSO structure. There is also a smaller, but important, over-allotment to the registry and registrar constituencies. Both of these over-allotments (I believe) more rightly belong in the hands of the individual registrants and individual users - neither of which have any real representative voice in the GNSO process right now. Taking some "voice" away from the existing constituencies and re-apportioning it to a mostly new set of constituencies is, in my opinion, the only real way to create a proper and lasting balance in the structure.
From what you are describing, the registrant advisory board sounds remarkably similar to the contracted registrant constituency that I am proposing. But what is missing from this is the other half of the equation - the users, which also need a seat at the table.
/ross
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