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Dear Evan,<br>
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thanks for your response to my prior email. I think that we are
aligned in wishing that the ALAC represents the interests of
Internet Users and not solely Registrants. So I'd like to point out
a few things below:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/06/2019 15:16, Evan Leibovitch
wrote:<br>
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Jun 2019 at 05:05, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <<a
href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" moz-do-not-send="true">ocl@gih.com</a>>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I agree with you that the price of
domain names for end users to register is too high.<br>
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class="gmail_default">That statement, in a nutshell,
explains one of the most fundamental things wrong with ALAC.</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"
class="gmail_default">Confusing end-users with registrants
happens far too often within ALAC for our own good. Their
interests are not identical and really never have been. And it
is the source of genuine conflicts of interest that happen
within ALAC, not bogus ISOC conspiracy theories.<br>
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There is no confusion in the sentence I wrote: until the moment when
an Internet User has registered a domain, they are an Internet User.
Once they have registered the domain, they become a Registrant, but
also remain an Internet User.<br>
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class="gmail_default">ICANN has always operated on the BS
premise, propagated by the domain-selling industry, that
every person and entity on earth is a potential registrant
who simply hasn't yet been convinced to buy one. Besides
being simply wrong, this approach has infiltrated ALAC
culture to the point where we're defending the interests of
registrants rather than end-users. And in price caps we
have an absolutely classic example.</div>
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That is incorrect. The fact that the ALAC primarily defends the
interests of end users that are not registrants, is a major point of
disagreement that the ALAC has with NCUC who defends the interests
of Registrants. I heard it again this week that one of the rules for
joining NCSG is to have registered a domain name. It is a tick box
that is included in the NCSG individual application form (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://members.ncsg.is/individual_application">https://members.ncsg.is/individual_application</a> ) and in the NCSG
organisation application (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://members.ncsg.is/organization_application">https://members.ncsg.is/organization_application</a> ) <br>
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Reading the ALAC Statement relating to price caps, I have to repeat
it again: the Statement concludes that "So, we are essentially
grappling with competing considerations and uncertainties. After
balancing the same, we do not find support for a particular position
regarding the removal of price caps."<br>
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How does this equate to "the ALAC is defending the interests of
registrants rather than end users"?<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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