Re: [ga] NC BS

["James Love" <james.love@cptech.org>]

Everyone who owns a gTLD domain must sign a non-negotiated contract, which
covers terms such as the UDRP and whois, and must bear the costs of
competition or lack of competiton, in terms of prices and service, and must
live with whatever abusive registration practices are permited by this "self
regulation" body.  I  am not concerned about people who don't have computers
having a voice, but it is important that Internet users are represented.  In
my mind, the whole ICANN structure should represent users, and the registrar
and registry bodies should be thought of as businesses that service the user
needs, not the other way around.  The way the DNSO actually works is the
give the registrar and registry interests a lot of votes, and freeze out
most of the user interests.   Jamie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Sheppard" <philip.sheppard@aim.be>
To: "GA List" <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:20 AM
Subject: [ga] NC BS


Jamie Love raises a key question about defining stakeholders.
And Jonathan Weinberg has provided a good insight into the divisive nature
of individual involvement.

Let me propose a few starting points.

1. "Stakeholders in ICANN policy development" means those directly impacted
by ICANN policies.
2. Stakeholders in the Internet per se are a different group.
3. The impact of ICANN policy on e.g. Verisign, is of a different order to
the impact of ICANN policy on my non-PC owning Aunt Agatha.

Conclusion:
- there need to be different levels of involvement in ICANN policy
development.

If you accept the above conclusion, lets review 1) by reference to the
existing DNSO constituencies:
gTLD registries, ccTLD registries, registrars, ISPs - ICANN policies impact
on their business contracts. They are stakeholders.
Business, Intellectual property interests, non-commercial organisation
users - ICANN policies impact on the confidence of themselves and their
customers/members to use the internet for e-commerce or non-commercial
purpose (UDRP, Who Is, domain name availability, security, stability). They
are stakeholders.

Individual registrants - like all consumers -  may be indirectly impacted by
ICANN policies. Is each individual a true stakeholder in the same sense ? I
do not know but their collective interests are clearly valid.  In the
non-ICANN world the voice of consumers in policy development is typically
heard via consumer organisations. Such organisations exist at national and
regional (eg EU) level. This is the format of involvement of registrants as
consumers that the NC envisages in recommendation 19.

The rest of the world including my Aunt Agatha who choose not to seek
involvement in one of these intermediary groups of stakeholders, should be
offered the opportunity of consultation.

Philip





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