RE: [ga] 8. Registrants representation
Danny, While I applaud the initiative of starting a long awaited constituency for registrants, I have to object on some of your remarks. It is not the Board who "forces" to create separate constituencies. Since the very beginning of the GNSO Review, as a matter of fact with the initial LSE report some 4 years ago, the idea of having separate groups for commercial and non commercial stakeholder has been introduced. We had several public comment periods, and several entities working at the GNSO review: the BGC, the GNSO Review WG, the SIC, the GNSO Implementation Group, and I am probably even missing one or two. In all this time there has been virtually no objection to this separation: quite the contrary, it has been supported strongly, in particular by the non-commercial stakeholders. The fact of having to separate registrants between commercial and non-commercial is a simple logical consequence of that choice, supported over the years, not a trick invented by the ugly and nasty Board. This said, maybe I am missing something, or have an incorrect picture of the reality, but when I am hearing "commercial individual registrants" my mind goes to who has as profession to register names. Like, but not limited to, domainers. And I wonder whether these people have interests that are similar to the individuals who register a name for the family web site. I would suggest an alternative. The charter of a future individual non-commercial registrant constituency, or interest group, could be crafted in a way to include, for instance, individual professionals like lawyers or engineers. To be honest, I don't see much difference (and I don't see even a simple way to make the difference without monitoring the web sites) between a site that has the family pictures and a site that advertises an individual professional activity in terms of the problems that both have versus UDRP, registry and registrar policy, etc. Even more, a name can be acquired for a purpose, but the purpose might change or be extended in time. What do we do if a family site shows, together with the pictures of the latest holiday trip, also the pictures of some objects that will be part of the next Sunday's garage sale? I am sure that the NCSG will accept an individual registrant constituency that includes these kind of use of the name. We have to be reasonable. After all, when we identify organizations as "non-commercial" we do not mean that on their web sites every commercial activity is banned, but that the organization itself does not have commercial profit as the purpose. Just throwing in some ideas. Cheers, Roberto > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Danny Younger > Sent: Monday, 28 September 2009 21:32 > To: GA; Joop Teernstra > Subject: Re: [ga] 8. Registrants representation > > > Joop, > > Re: We could revive a hack-proof online signup procedure... > > In view of the fact that we have an uncaring board that is forcing us > to necessarily create two registrant constituencies (one for the > commercial house and one for the non-commercial house) instead of a > single registrant constituency for our community, could I trouble you > to set up two separate signup procedures, or a single sign-up that > differentiates between commercial and non-commercial? > > In the meantime, I'll get working on (1) a website design that will > simultaneously serve both the commercial and non-commercial > considerations;(2) Charter language, and (3) Petition language. > > best regards, > Danny > > > > > > > <<attachment: winmail.dat>>
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