[ga] RE: IPC on ALAC

[Steve Metalitz <metalitz@iipa.com>]

This comment overlooks the fact that most IPC members are organizations
which in turn consist of (cumulatively) thousands of individual and
institutional intellectual property owners and users.  In any event, thre is
no reason to assume that the metric for representativeness would be the same
for at-large structures, which exist (under the ALACAG report) to reflect
the perspectives of "individual Internet users," as it is for constituencies
representing other perspectives.   

Steve Metalitz

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From: DannyYounger@cs.com [mailto:DannyYounger@cs.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:35 PM
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Cc: metalitz@iipa.com; jo-uk@rcn.com; apisan@servidor.unam.mx
Subject: IPC on ALAC


Steve Metalitz, in providing the "IPC Response to ALAC Assistance Group 
Report", makes the following comment in one of the footnotes:  

"The report seems to suggest that a regional at-large structure with as few 
as 200 individual members could be accredited to exercise responsibilities 
including direct appointment of a member of the Nominating Committee.  This 
number appears far too low to justify a claim of representativeness of the 
range of "individual Internet users" from any region, and certainly from 
regions in which there are tens or hundreds of millions of such Internet 
users."
http://forum.icann.org/reform-comments/alacag/pdf00000.pdf

As of March 2002, the IPC had only 66 members.  Certainly this is far too
low 
a number, even by their own standards, to justify a claim of 
representativeness for intellectual property holders worldwide.
Accordingly, 
as they have noted indirectly that their own membership roster is 
insufficient in size to exercise the responsibility of providing an 
appointment to the Nominating Committee (being well below the 200+ they
posit 
as a requirement for At-Large organizations), I ask the ERC to eliminate the

IPC as an entity that participates in the NonCom process.
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