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

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck and all my friends,

  Perhaps you haven't been paying close enough attention or
have been otherwise distracted.  Our organization are all
Registrants and come from over 100+ countires.  We are
also very well self funded, BTW.

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"Gomes, Chuck" wrote:

> I have always felt that registrant representation would be good but I
> have yet to see anyone come up with an effective way to make it happen
> that results in broad representation of the registrant community.  I
> know I don't have to tell people on this list that the registrant
> population is hugely diverse and comes from all parts of the world.
>
> As we get closer to GNSO improvements that will likely give increased
> representation to individuals via the non-commercial stakeholder group,
> this would be an excellent time for people to develop and propose a
> workable way to create a registrant constituency that truly does
> represent a broad base of non-commercial, individual gTLD registrants
> around world.
>
> Chuck Gomes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Dominik Filipp
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 10:33 AM
> To: Peter Dengate Thrush; Danny Younger
> Cc: twomey@xxxxxxxxx; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; At-Large Worldwide
> Subject: RE: [ga] Re: Proposal: Establishing a Registrant Advisory
> Committee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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