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[council] ToR comment

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  • Subject: [council] ToR comment
  • From: Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:24:27 +0200
  • Sender: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,

On reading it through something struck me on 4.1, and 4.2. In addition to analyzing the constituencies for openness and transparency, I think they could also be reviewed for inclusiveness and representativeness. In my talks around ICANN i have heard comments and criticisms on these isssues.

For example, questions I have heard include:

- are there a significant number of SMEs and commercial interests from the economic south?

- does the IPR constituency include the perspectives of academic IPR specialists and those who subscribe to the ideals of the creative commons?

- has there been sufficient outreach to NGOs operating in the LDC world in the NCUC?

- what percentage of the worlds ISPs are represented? are all regions of the world represented?

The representativeness and inclusiveness of the constituencies seems to have been called out in the 2004 review and should probably be an explicit goal in the 2006 review. Thus I recommend adding the words inclusive and representative to 4.1 an 4.2

a.





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