<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Well, then there is <a href="http://icannwiki.com/NCUC">highly available content</a> out there to the contrary that needs to be fixed (which also indicates that at one time that was indeed the case).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 January 2015 at 05:20, Edward Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emorris@milk.toast.net" target="_blank">emorris@milk.toast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Actually, Evan, the Noncommercial Users Constituency does represent ALL users within the GNSO. Ownership of a domain name is NOT a prerequisite for NCUC membership. Per the NCUC Bylaws, section 111(h)(11) NCUC membership is open to:<br>
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ii) An Individual Internet user who is primarily concerned with the public-interest aspects of domain name policy, and is not represented in ICANN through membership in another Supporting Organization or GNSO Stakeholder Group;<br>
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Domain name ownership, again, is not required, contrary to your assertion. Hope this clarifies things a bit.<br>
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From: Evan Leibovitch <evan<br>
> Consider the NCUC, which by its very name is intended to represent<br>
> "users"<br>
> within the GNSO. Ownership of at least one domain name is a<br>
> pre-requisite<br>
> of NCUC membership. So what constituency (that is, a full voting GNSO<br>
> component, as opposed to a non-voting advisory body) represents<br>
> non-domain-owning Internet "users".<br>
><br>
><br>
> > However you could also consider public in this context to be all the<br>
> > people of the world. Even people that don't directly use the<br>
> Internet as<br>
> > a communication mechanism are probably affected by it in some way.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Indeed. But what say have they traditionally had within ICANN?<br>
><br>
> Of course, there is the ALAC, which has a Bylaw mandate to speak for<br>
> end<br>
> users. But, the gap between speaking and being listened to has been,<br>
> while<br>
> slowly closing, still rather wide.<br>
><br>
> I don't have to go far into the world to see a perception of ICANN as a<br>
> compact between domain sellers and domain buyers that considers only<br>
> their<br>
> interests, with general indifference to consequences beyond those two<br>
> groups. There has never, in the time I have been involved as a<br>
> volunteer<br>
> here, been any core conversation about the ethics of enabling<br>
> dictionary<br>
> words to be commoditized in a manner that goes well outside the bounds<br>
> of<br>
> trademark treaty. Other non-debated core values have not only led to<br>
> the<br>
> maximization of duplicate and defensive domains, but now seem to depend<br>
> upon them for some participants' business models; these fundamental<br>
> choices<br>
> clearly did not consider -- and certainly did not engage -- the broader<br>
> world.<br>
><br>
><br>
> > Its primary feedback mechanism for determining the global public<br>
> interest<br>
> > is the "ICANN community" described above.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> That's the theory.<br>
><br>
><br>
> The ongoing (and recently escalating) friction between the ICANN<br>
> board and<br>
> its two "global public interest" Advisory Boards indicates that this<br>
> mechanism is not as effective as it should be.<br>
<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch</div><div style="text-align:left">Toronto Canada</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Em: evan at telly dot org</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Sk: evanleibovitch</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Tw: el56</div></div></blockquote></div>
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