I think the fundamental issue is ensuring that self-interest does not capture or reduce the efficacy of the public interest. The group model ensures that most contracted party affiliated individuals will, should they advocate for any interest, private or public, engage through the local group. Hypothetically, this could result in a "Reston" group in which the interests of two registry operators was determinant, and similar results where other contracted parties have enough individual employees and their dependents to influence policy advocacy. However, in the scope and structure of the NARALO such capture of the process would be damped, if not drowned out, by the vastly larger number of groups with no material interest in contracted party self interest. So, at the general membership level, diversity and vitality are the defenses to public interest capture or reduction of efficacy. Should either the diversity or vitality of the NARALO be significantly reduced, these defenses against private interest capture may also be reduced. For the elected officers of the NARALO, in particular the Unaffiliated Member Representative, an office I currently hold, some eligibility criteria is reasonable, e.g., continuous availability and engagement, and not being an employee or shareholder of a contracted party seems prudent and non-excessive. Eric On 5/7/11 11:25 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
On 7 May 2011 08:47, Thompson, Darlene<DThompson1@gov.nu.ca> wrote:
I totally agree with Beau on this matter. The individual members can "police" themselves and if changes need to be made in the future, we can address them then.
+1
I agree that the individual members' _representative_ should not be a contracted party or otherwise have a business interest in ICANN or domain selling (and I recall that Eric has to wait until he left CORE to be eligible), but that the members themselves should not have such a requirement.
Frankly, I was very impressed with how NARALO handled the trolling attempts.
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