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.
 
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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, ex-Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.

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