Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
The MAC discussed at length all the questions you mention below. The MAC came to the conclusion that individuals should and can have a voice in ICANN and it made suggestions how this can be achieved. Dear Jeanette,
As I said, if any commitee, working groups or other body has produced a report, it might be very helpful if you could forward a pointer to it. It would save us a lot of time to not have to make the same research again.
From what I read on http://www.icann.org/committees/membership/commentary-26may99.htm and other documents, these are more position statements than practical suggestions to address the issues that were already raised 8 years ago. I could now find a final report, though, but information is sometimes hard to find on the ICANN web site. And now we should start all over again with the question whether or not this makes sense? I am not questioning if we should accept individual users or not. The question is HOW we do it. I find this discussion immensely frustrating. I agree. Going forward, I would suggest that those who have worked on the question in the past inform the newcomers here on the history: was has been done and what remains to be done, in their view.
Patrick