Hi, On 20-Feb-15 17:58, Christopher Wilkinson wrote:
I rest my case: the ICANN Board is the Regulator; not a 'stakeholder'.
Just because some entity may or may not be a regulator under some definition for 'regulator' does not say anything about whether or not it is also a stakeholder grouping or comprised of stakeholders. I personally I think of the Board as staff since they are paid by ICANN. And I think that staff are stakeholders too. There are probably many other ways in which their stakeholder nature can be argued. From the most basic defintion, they too have a stake in the recommendations and decisions being made. If one has a stake in a decison, they are, by definition, a stakeholder. One of the most surprising aspects of multistakeholderism is the tendency some have to define others as not having a stake. avri