RE: [ga] Re: Proposal: Establishing a Registrant Advisory Committee

["Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>]

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From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Peter Dengate Thrush
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:46 AM
To: Danny Younger
Cc: twomey@xxxxxxxxx; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; At-Large Worldwide
Subject: [ga] Re: Proposal: Establishing a Registrant Advisory Committee

. . .

>> While ICANN has numerous advisory committees and supporting 
>> organizations whose responsibilities include putting forth the
general 
>> registrant interest as a part of their duties, the sad reality has 
>> been that immediate registrant concerns rarely find a dedicated 
>> organizational advocate to spearhead policy development activities.
>>
>> What is needed is an Advisory Body whose "sole focus"
>> is upon the needs of the general registrant community whose funds 
>> support and drive the ICANN process.
>>

> This may be a useful development.
> I should need to see it carefully distinguished, with advantages
> and disadvantages laid out and contested between the current user
> groups (Business and Non Commercial constituencies of GNSO), and
> the At Large I appreciate that registrants are not, as a group,
> necessarily a subset of "user", or of At Large, as it includes
> the domaineers who are registrants for trading and profit -
> is it their interests in particular that you feel are not being
> served by the current structure?

In fact, we need more than just a Registrant Advisory Committee. We need
a fully-fledged Registrant Constituency with all the voting power. Why?
For simple and logical reason. The Registrants stay on top of the
financial chain generating income for ICANN. Without the need for domain
names there would be no need for either Registries or Registrars or
ISPs. Thus Registrants, though indirectly, is the very first gear wheel
in the income machinery.
The Registrant Constituency should have been the very first constituency
established within the ICANN structures when ICANN was formed. And the
most influential as it indeed deserves. Without such representation
ICANN can barely hold its claim as being an advocate of all internet
users or stakeholders.

. . .


Regards

Dominik Filipp


> You can make this happen, and ICANN will benefit from such a 
> contribution.
>
> best regards,
> Danny Younger
>
>
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Peter Dengate Thrush
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