Glenn McKnight wrote:

A Human Rights complaint has been lodged by a Conservative candidate Jack Carr from New Brunswick, Canada that high speed is a basic human right.

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http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/451420

To everyone on the list I'd like to introduce Glenn, the NARALO rep of our newest ALS, the Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities based in Oshawa, Ontario. And to Glenn: First of all, as Chair of the North American Region let me welcome you to our little group. I am certain that you will find things here... interesting. :-) Without intending to diminish issues related to Internet access, freedom of expression, net neutrality or other related matters ... they are generally beyond the scope of ICANN which is mainly occupied with domain name and IP address related issues. Keeping focus on that on which we *do* have a say, such as * creation of new top-level domains and supervision of existing ones * treatment of domain registrants * securing and internationalizing of the DNS * balancing the requiremnents of access and privacy related to domain ownership ...is work enough. There are efforts by people here to have a better relationship between ICANN At-Large and other Internet governance bodies, so this is not a cut-and-dried matter. However, for the most part discussion on this list is limited to those issues which are directly under ICANN's mandate. I'm more than happy do help clarify that mandate offline if you'd like. And again, welcome! - Evan