[EURO-Discuss] alac review

Dominik Filipp dominik.filipp at dsoft.sk
Wed Jun 25 08:14:49 EDT 2008


Patrick,

That is fine we can agree on many points here.
My remarks are below

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Vande Walle [mailto:patrick at vande-walle.eu] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:06 AM
To: Dominik Filipp
Cc: Discussion for At-Large Europe
Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] alac review


> As for the user representation in ICANN,
> I am of course not satisfied with the current
> situation. However, "civil society" type of
> arguments are not going to convince the other
> parties involved. We need another approach.

Definitely.


> I think it would be much more convincing to point
> out that domain name registrants, many of whom are
> natural persons or small businesses, are not
> properly represented, yet contribute to a large
> part of the ICANN budget through registrar and
> gTLD registry fees. This amounts to USD 40 million
> per year.

This has already been pointed out many times in the past. This fact is
constantly being ignored by BoD.


> At the very least, we should expect that
> representation on the board is proportional to
> the contribution to the budget...

Definitely.


> ...but this has been
> confiscated by the intermediaries: registries and
> registrars. I note that NomCom appointed members
> to the board are selected on their personal capacity,
> not as representatives of the "paying majority".

That is why the At-Large reform should be about.


Patrick



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