Excellent point Garth !!! The people is more than a simple registrant, live now in a society of knowledge, have relations in this environment, made a new economy there, and in a near future ( with a good job), could they (including not connected people, because in some moment could be connected) will fall in account that ICANN is a government of this on-line world. So, we must work for the people (everybody, as you said), regardeless the conection status. I liked so much your participation, because gave a another vision of that. Carlos Dionisio Aguirre abogado - Sarmiento 71 - 4to. 18 Cordoba - Argentina - *54-351-424-2123 / 423-5423 www.sitioderecho.com.ar www.densi.com.ar > From: garth.graham@telus.net> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:06:24 -0700> To: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Who is At-Large, anyway?> > On 26-Jul-07, at 7:38 AM, John L wrote:> > The other group believes that it's all the Internet users who are not> > parts of other constituencies, all the people who have never > > registered a> > domain and never will, but use domains every day when they use the> > Internet.> > On 26-Jul-07, at 8:19 AM, RJGlass | America@Large wrote:> > I'm not sure if there ever will be a time when the 'Internet user > > with an email address' will ever have a concern about ICANN. > > However, the individual registrant is greatly effected by anything > > that ICANN does or says.> > > It never occurred to me that there was any other definition than > individual Internet users (ordinary people getting on with daily life > online), regardless of their "registration" status. ICANN is a > manifestation of an essential institution in a knowledge society. > Internet users should not be defined by their relationship to ICANN > but rather by the open nature of the society they inhabit.> > In the long term, those users (or, to put it another way, everybody) > will become more conscious of ICANN-like mechanisms because:> > 1). If we [win?] (we could lose!), the citizens of a knowledge > society will become more generally aware that Internet Governance > means governance of online relationships by the Internet (and, in > particular, Internet Protocol) more than it means governance of the > Internet.> > 2). Achieving that growing awareness will depend, in large part, on > resolution of the fundamental issue of autonomy in the ownership of > the online expression of the self. We need to advocate for an > evolution of IP that encodes "user-centric digital > identity" (although that's such an awful expression). Although they > are entwined, the right and ability to define who I am is a much > broader question that the "registration" that defines where I live.> > Garth Graham> Telecommunities Canada> > _______________________________________________> ALAC mailing list> ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org> > At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org> ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org _________________________________________________________________ Exprésate - diseña tu página de inicio de Live.com como más te guste. http://www.live.com/getstarted