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Joint GNSO-ALAC WG on New GNSO Improvements

Joint GNSO-ALAC WG on New GNSO Improvements

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Last updated: Sept 08, 2010Version comment

GNSO-ALAC-Report-UserInvolvement-Revised.pdf

About This Workspace

This WIKI was created to house documents and discussion surrounding the Role of Internet Users within ICANN/GNSO.

Meetings and Conference Calls:

6 March 2009 Board Meeting, Mexico City

Feb 11th 2009 Meeting

>> Letter to Peter Dengate Thrush from Alan Greenberg accompanying the final revision:

>> Dear Peter,

>> Attached is a slightly revised version of the report I submitted on 20 February 2008. The substantive part of the report is unchanged. The changes are solely to the WG membership and footnotes on page 2:
>>> – Clarifying that the one WG participant who had not had the opportunity to indicate support for the report by 20 February 2008 has now done so.
>>> – Noting that one WG participant on behalf of the ALAC has now filed an Intent to form a Non-commercial constituency and so can be added to that category of WG member as well.

>> Regards, Alan Greenberg

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Cheryl & Heidi: I cleaned up the space a bit, uploaded a few docs, and removed the Dynamic Content area at the bottom. I could not figure out what it was doing or how to edit it. I think that it just tracks changes to the workspace, but "What's New" and "Weblogs" in the top level menu seem to provide the same or similar information.

contributed by ken.bour@verizon.net on 2009-02-13 15:48:45 GMT

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Questions posed with respect to the Six Buckets List:

>>> Milton L Mueller <mueller@SYR.EDU> 3/4/2009 11:37 am >>>

A few nights ago I saw the movie "The Bucket List" with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. It's a better list than this one.

When are we going to learn that attempts to sort people into detailed "buckets"? This can only work at the most general level and the more detailed the categories get the worse they work.

This list doesn't even work in Cheryl Preston's own case: she is an Educator, a Consumer, an Information Consumer and her University is a Noncommercial Organization. And she wants to run the Family and Children Constituency, too! And guess what, all those categories apply to me, too. So does this mean I get 5 votes - or does it mean that I have to force myself to decide, in a completely arbitrary way, whether I speak as an educator, consumer, parent, or information user? What nonsense.

--MM

>>> Milton L Mueller <mueller@SYR.EDU> 3/6/2009 5:11 am >>>

As I indicated in my earlier comment, the concept of arbitrary buckets into which people are divided is a fundamentally bankrupt concept and simply should be abandoned.
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Response:

These are the choices that each individual involved in Domain Name Policy through ICANN has always made. Indeed, any one person may be a consumer, a parent, conduct a small home business using a domain name, teach at a university, volunteer with an Internet Safety Foundation, and have a Ph.D specializing in online security technology. Such a person must already choose among involvement in At-Large, GNSO, RSACC, or SSAC. If she chooses GNSO, such person must then choose between the business users and the non-commercial users stakeholder groups. These choices are inherent in a stakeholder model.

In addition, under the NCUC proposed charter, an individual with these many hats may only participate in three groupings within the NCSG, no matter how many of the groupings interest her. Choices must be made. Perhaps more importantly, a mere mortal may only have sufficient energy, time, or resources to commit to one ICANN participation opportunity. Several individuals have historically chosen to trade participation between At-Large and NCUC.

Dividing stakeholders into functional units is necessary to efficient processes. Choosing where to focus this year or next need not be arbitrary, and is entirely consistent with the ICANN model.

Given that choices must be made, let's move forward to talking about how best to provide meaningful input to more people.

contributed by prestonc@lawgate.byu.edu on 2009-03-13 22:51:54 GMT