For sure. Also, there is specific wording in the document that was worked on ad infinitem in San Juan that bars entry for any ALS that is controled by a for-profit group/company. D ________________________________ From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org on behalf of John L Sent: Sun 7/1/2007 9:05 PM To: Michael Maranda Cc: NA Discuss Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Draft: GNSO Reform proposal
The At Large is intended to be a generalized representational category that applies to everyone and anyone, regardless of affiliation. At Large representation now includes, and should include, both commercial and noncommercial users and the technical community as well.
That doesn't agree with my understanding of At Large. I believe that At Large is everyone who isn't represented by other consituencies. This has often been interpreted as meaning individual domain registrants, but I think that's wrong too. The real (and woefully underrepresented) At Large is all the people in the world who have never registered a domain and never will, but who use domains every day as the use the Internet. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com <http://www.johnlevine.com/> , ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly. _______________________________________________ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss_atlarge-lists.ica... --- Draft MoU with ICANN: http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_MOU Draft Operating Principles: http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_OP Draft Code of Conduct: http://www.icannwiki.org/NARALO_Code_of_Conduct