With regards to involving individual users, what about the IEEE ? I just checked their website: www.ieee.org The members are individuals (engineering professionals), and would appear to qualify as "users" of the Internet? Tony Harris----- Original Message ----- From: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Stéphane Van Gelder" <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>; <avri@xxxxxxx>; "GNSO Council" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:37 PM Subject: RE: [council] Motion on Individual Users in the GNSO.
I recommend that we not make a huge issue out of this and simply identify some individual users to work with the ALAC. First of all, we do not have time because, even with the Board extension, we have to provide any recommendations by 20 February. Secondly, the key is really to try and develop some sound recommendations about how to involve individual users in the GNSO without being duplicative with the ALAC. If there are individuals from anywhere in the GNSO that are available and willing to contribute constructively to the work that the ALAC is doing in response to the Board's request, volunteer, but do it quickly because the work is already ongoing and will be over before we know it.Chuck-----Original Message----- From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stéphane Van Gelder Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 4:08 AM To: avri@xxxxxxx; GNSO Council Subject: Re: [council] Motion on Individual Users in the GNSO. Two good questions. If we are seeking ind. user representatives, it would be nice to know that's what they actually are and that they do truly represent the constituency they are claiming to represent. On the other hand, it is true that we could probably all qualify as ind. users. So the risk here is that the ind. user group becomes a kind of "catch-all". Stéphane Van Gelder Le 06/02/09 06:04, « Avri Doria » <avri@xxxxxxx> a écrit : > > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 09:37 +0500, Zahid Jamil wrote: >> >> Would there be a need to justify that persons involved need to >> represent an individual users perspective rather than overly >> conflicting with other interests? >> > > How does one do this? > > In some sense aren't we all individual users? So would it not be up > to each volunteer to indicate whether they felt they could represent > the viewpoint of an individual user in this particular effort? > > a. >