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[At-Large] Discussion on LSE recommendation #19



All,

given that I won't be present at the meeting with the NCUC, I'd like to 
provide briefly my opinions on the main subject, LSE recommendation #19, 
which, as explained in para 4.35 of the GNSO review, would create a 
"civil society" constituency in the GNSO, "including the current 
Non-Commercial Users Constituency, but also ordinary domain holders, and 
possibly individuals currently represented via the At Large Advisory 
Committee of ICANN".

(Please note that the recommendation itself does not say that the ALAC 
and the NCUC should merge, it just says that the new "CS" GNSO 
constituency should include individual users as well.)

Merging with the NCUC: I don't know. It could be useful to have a single 
"general public" constituency at ICANN, but in that case we'd have to 
ensure that we keep both levels of participation, the general/Board one 
(current ALAC) and the GNSO one (current NCUC). OTOH, by not merging we 
keep two separate voices for non-commercial interests in GNSO Task 
Forces. We now also allow groups to pick ALAC, NCUC or both according to 
what they are interested in, if they're eligible for both, so more 
choice for them; also, the types of groups involved in the two entities, 
though overlapping, are mostly different.

Individual membership: I think that NA should create a NARALO which is 
radically different from the others, based on individuals, so that we 
can see whether that works and compare. I remain with my view that 
direct individual participation fits well the US culture, but not the 
rest of the world. I certainly would not accept a change of membership 
type all of a sudden, nor one that was imposed from the outside to the 
existing ALSes/RALOs.

Naming: I don't like the term "civil society" in this context, it's 
really more registrants/customers/users.

Timing: this is definitely bad timing for a merge. I'd like to give a 
chance to the new RALOs for a couple of years before concluding that yet 
more changes in the ALAC structure are necessary. I'd also wait for the 
ALAC review to be concluded.

Ciao,
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vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu   <--------
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