Re: [ga] RE: GA irrelevant

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/25/2010 09:19 PM, Avri Doria wrote:

> Non commercial registrants don't need a miracle.  The Noncommercial
> Stakeholder Group (NCSG) already allows for individual noncommercial
> registrants to apply for membership.
It's easy to box those legal fictions known as "corporations" and 
"associations" and "partnerships" into commercial (or not) boxes - 
that's because their formation and legal existence is premised on their 
engagement in economic activities.
But human registrants don't fit nicely into the "commercial" and 
"non-commercial" buckets.  We people simultaneously bathe in the stream 
of commerce and the stream of non-commercial life.
It's rather Procrustean to cut and stretch us in order to fit us onto 
ICANN's "non-commercial" iron bed.
For example, my "cavebear.com" is used by me for both commercial and 
non-commercial purposes.  I am just as much at home in ICANN's 
commercial groups as in the non-commercial ones.
And one's activities may change their color over time - for instance 
things like Google started out as non-commercial experiments by 
individual people.
(By-the-way, I agree with Roberto that the burden of moving forward is 
on the aspirants to form the new group.  I was just suggesting that 
ICANN's board give a nod of encouragement.)
        --karl--