Re: [ALSC-Forum] Comments on Study: Must groups oppose individuals - Thoughts about the ICANN at-large membership

[sergio.baccaglini]

Diane Cabell wrote:

> Who represents the outsiders trying to get in...such as the people who
> cannot become domain name owners because of restrictions (expense,
language,
> payment technology) in registration policy?
> What about the impact of IP address policy on user access?
> How can users input on protocols that may be introduced (impacting on
> privacy or proprietary rights, for example)?
> What about the fact that the users of the Internet pay for more of its
costs
> as consumers (of website content, e-commerce, ISP access) than do domain
> name owners who presently only support the costs of ICANN?

> ICANN's charter is not limited to domain names.  Why should user
> representation be limited in such a way?

I totally agree. I obviously find similarities in your statement with
Lessig's book ( ISBN 0-465-03913-8 "code and other laws"). We have to
finally understand that also matters related to the "architecture" can have,
and do have, deep impact in our lives on the net. Somehow the DNS can be a
beginning . Right now, internet users do not count much, even if it has to
said that the Karl @large and Andy Mueller have done a great job during the
meeting.

(Thanks Diane for pointing this).

S b)