[At-Large] Who is At-Large, anyway?

[RJGlass | America@Large]

All-in-all, I think it's the end-users that At-Large is all about.  However,
at the current time it is very difficult to expect that 'the individual
user' could care less about ICANN or its policies.  Since most policy
decisions ultimately effect the registrant, it is sufficient to say that
they are currently the end-user of ICANN.

When talking to people, most people in the industry are still unaware of
ICANN, let alone the individual Internet user with an email address.  This
is where the 'educating' comes into play.

I'm not sure if there ever will be a time when the 'Internet user with an
email address' will ever have a concern about ICANN.  However, the
individual registrant is greatly effected by anything that ICANN does or
says.

Time will tell.

Randy Glass
A at L


On 7/26/07, John L <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>
> I have always found a major lack of agreement about who the at-large is
> supposed to be.
>
> One group believes it is the domain registrants who are not part of other
> constituencies, which more or less means individuals (like me) who
> register personal vanity domains.
>
> The other group believes that it's all the Internet users who are not
> parts of other consitutencies, all the people who have never registered a
> domain and never will, but use domains every day when they use the
> Internet.
>
> In a lot of areas, the interests of these two groups are the same, e.g.,
> we all would prefer that our registrars were competent and honest.  But in
> a lot of other areas, they aren't, with WHOIS being the most obvious
> place.
>
> Am I the only one who thinks that non-registrants count, or is ALAC a club
> for vanity registrants?
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
>



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