Re: [council] ICANN Board resolution from meeting of 11 Dec 08

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Please pardon me for asking a question here, I don't wish to inflame  
the subject, but if a group of Independent Professional Registrants  
who use their domain names to make their living but who are not  
interested in domain names as a business per se (as is the case with  
your 3 examples), wish to participate collectively in the GNSO, would  
they be able to do so within the current BC structures and the future  
non contracted parties CSG.
I have asked this question before and been told that these  
professional registrants would not be interested.  And I am sure they  
would not be interested to the level and scope as your current  
individual members, but is there a place for such people to express  
collective registrant concerns in the same way that non commercial  
registrants want to collectively express their concerns.
And also, I wonder if the Board believes there is such a population of  
individual commercial registrants (e.g. doctors, artists, engineers,  
musicians and architects) that is not currently represented that  
should be represented and are they seen as part of this exercise.
thanks

a.

On 19 Dec 2008, at 15:42, Philip Sheppard wrote:

> Chuck, you approach this from the perspective of an academic ...  
> thoroughness.
> I and others and I hope the Board from the perspective of priority.
>
> Today commercial users are well represented in the GNSO.
> Non-commercial are not so well represented.
> That is the priority.
>
> Today, commercial individuals have a place to go.
> Other individuals do not.
> That is the priority.
>
>
> Philip