[ncdnhc-discuss] clarification (sort of) on ICANNatlarge.com and other ICANN "at-large" things

[James Love]

I think local or regional (or language based) user groups do make sense, of 
course, because some issues and some lobbying are local, or at least are not 
done most efficinetly at the global level.

Jamie



todd glassey wrote:
> Personally from all the noise on this list I am beginning to think that a
> smaller US-Only Domain Owner/Operator's Association is in order. Its intent
> would be to protect the rights and capabilities of US Domain Owners as a
> whole. It would present to IDNO/ICANN and to the US Congress as
> representative of the voting American Citizens that own operate or
> administer domains and their interests.
> 
> Anyone else have any commentary on that?
> 
> Todd
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Love" <james.love at cptech.org>
> To: "Alexander Svensson" <svensson at icannchannel.de>
> Cc: "NCDNHC Discussion" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] clarification (sort of) on ICANNatlarge.com
> and other ICANN "at-large" things
> 
> 
> 
>>Alexander Svensson wrote:
>>
>>>You are (mis)portraying ICANNatlarge.com and the ALOC as two
>>>competing entities. In fact, ICANNatlarge.com is represented
>>>/on/ the ALOC. But I'm not trying to defend what the ALOC does
>>>or doesn't do: The point is that I believe it would be a bad
>>>idea if user organizations started to fight against each other
>>>to become the Single Authoritative Voice of the Users. I
>>>believe we need an interface between a multitude of user
>>>organizations and ICANN. And someone has to reach out to
>>>user organizations worldwide (which is what Denise Michel is
>>>doing). Of course, that interface must be composed of and
>>>elected by user organizations in the end.
>>
>>    I guess this is something that people will disagree about.  I don't
>>think it is unimportant that the Denise/Esther effort has hijacked the
> 
> term
> 
>>"at-large" and turned it on its head to bless a decidedly undemocratic
>>effort.     Maybe some others feel differently.   By the way, how does the
>>Esther/Denise effort get its own legitimacy?  And has the at-large
>>organizing committee have any proceedures, ways of electing leaders or any
>>real role other than to make ICANN look like it has a real voice for
> 
> users?
> 
>>   Jamie
>>
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