RE: [council] Registrant Representation in WHOIS Workshop

["Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>]

Marilyn:
It's true, individual registrants are bound to be a varied
group. But I think their interests in having some choice or control
over the release of their contact data would be fairly uniform,
and well-represented by the privacy advocacy groups mentioned.

However, there are other "flavors": small business, 
name speculators, registrants of IDNs and ccTLDs, etc. If I 
can come up with some specific names on these I will.

Yes, ideally the At Large AC would represent all of these flavors,
or at least have ties to and interactions among all of them 
incorporated into its processes, but ALAC is just getting
started. 

>>> "Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP" <mcade@att.com> 06/11/03 12:04PM >>>
Thanks, Milton
Your suggestions of speakers who actually represent registrants is of course
an important one. I will share your email with the full Program Committee.

Actually, I wondered if there is not an even more important point in your message, beyond suggesting 
specific possible speakers, which I greatly appreciate, which is that registrants are indeed very disparate, and that it is hard to capture their points of view via any particular organization, although some organizations may be in a better position
than others to seek out individual points of view.