[NCSG-Discuss] ICANN is bottom-up, except for when it is top-down. Fwd: Memorandum on the Trademark Clearinghouse ³Strawman Solution²

[Edward Morris]

Hello Evan.

Thank you for your perspective.


While the ALAC certainly has its structural flaws, it does attempt to at
> least offer a perspective of those who intend to never buy or sell a
> domain, yet are heavily impacted by the decisions made inside the compact.
> And yet neither end users nor governments have a full seat at the table.
> The NCUC claims to speak for end users, but you can't join if you don't own
> a domain -- and the vast VAST majority of people out there don't own a
> domain.
>
> Not all believes that everyone on earth ought to own a domain. As such, a
> large segment of the population will be forever shut out of representation
> of policy making, at least via the GNSO.
>


Your statement and premise are factually incorrect.

You do not need to own a domain name to join the Noncommercial Users
Constituency. We have three equal categories of individual memberships, two
of which have no requirement of domain membership. Per the NCUC Charter:

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*MEMBERSHIP*

ii) An Individual Internet user who is primarily concerned with the
public-interest aspects of domain name policy, and is not represented in
ICANN through membership in another Supporting Organization or GNSO
Stakeholder Group;
iii) An Individual who is employed by or a member of a large noncommercial
organization (universities, colleges, large NGOs) and it is too complicated
or the Individual lacks the standing to get his/her organization to join on
an organizational basis.
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What differentiates the NCUC / NCSG from ALAC and every other part of the
ICANN world is the first word of our names: Noncommercial. We are the only
purely noncommercial entities in ICANN and our views reflect that. I'd
suggest ALAC's views reflect the fact it is not dedicated to advocacy for
noncommercial interests and has a substantial commercial component in it's
membership. We don't claim to speak for all "end users" as you claim. We
represent the two billion noncommercial users of the internet. Commercial
end users have other places to go, including ALAC.



>  ICANN staff under Fadi's watch -- with all of its flaws -- is now seen by
> a significant number, as part of a system of checks and balances against
> what the domain buyer/seller compact wants to inflict outside the ICANN
> bubble. Given the clear threat to the MSM as seen in WCIT and elsewhere,
> arguably some form of this was inevitable.
>


So we have dictatorship of the proletariat? The only way to save the bottom
up MSM is through top down control?

 In that case, why bother?



Ed
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