<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On 10 January 2015 at 09:07, Greg Shatan </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It is worth noting that the quartet of "<span style="font-size:13px">Civil Society, Private Sector, Technical Community including academics, Governments</span>" doesn't map exactly to the multistakeholder groups in ICANN. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">That's because those distinctions are less important to ICANN than the more domain-industry-friendly silos of</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">1) Domain producers (half of the GNSO)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">2) Domain consumers (the other half of the GNSO)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">3) Everyone else -- the technical, governmental and non-domain-buyer user communities (advisory councils)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">It's ICANN with the idiosyncratic segmentation, not the rest of the world.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Granted, the above broad groupings also have plenty of their own internal diversities and there is some cross-pollination (as exists in the quartet). But ICANN's silos have has suited the power brokers well.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">- Evan</div><br></div></div>
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