Recently, the policy positions held by the Registry Stakeholders Group (RySG), and the Registrar Stakeholders Group (RrSg), have been advocated in the At Large Advisory Group's North American Regional mailing list. These views are not without merit, within some specific frameworks or analytic contexts, e.g., the expression of ICANN Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush that domainers are a public, and therefore their interests are a public interest [1]. However, these views are effectively advocated elsewhere, and their advocacy in the NARALO list, with the purpose of including these views in the NARALO/ALAC position statement on the GAC Scorecard complicates the presentation of a view not otherwise advocated. Note also that the RySG allows an affiliate membership, which one or more parties anticipating registry operations as contracted parties is known to hold, and that absent a VI restriction, any party intending registry operations, whether as a party to a registry agreement, or as a service provider to others party to a registry agreement, may acquire an interest in an ICANN Accredited Registrar, both at very, very modest costs. Eric [1] Made at the Nairobi meeting in response to an intervention by the author that "public interest" was a subject which had been addressed by such well-known and articulate advocates as Bertrand de la Chapelle and Jeff Neuman, Esq., without agreement as to the basic meaning.