[NA-Discuss] Inclusion of Individual Internet Users within the City-TLD Multistakeholder Governance Environment

[Thomas Lowenhaupt]

The point I'm trying to make is: If we've all accepted the 
multistakeholder model, how is it that the local ALSes and individual 
Internet users (residents and organizations as well) are left out of the 
decision making process?

Tom


On 5/11/2016 11:14 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
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> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Alan Greenberg 
> <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca <mailto:alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>> wrote:
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>     there is nothing in the current policies that could compel .nyc,
>     as a delegated TLD, to adopt such a policy other than voluntarily. 
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> ​Thanks for your thoughtful and detailed response, Alan.
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> Tom, it does seem that your efforts might be better directed at 
> stirring things up at a local​ level, but I think there has to be 
> perceptible pain to get any movement.The tradeoffs between privacy, 
> WHOIS and the nexus requirement might be a source of such pain. 
> Currently, since proxy addresses are forbidden under the nexus policy, 
> no private citizen in NYC can register a .nyc domain with revealing 
> their personal address via WHOIS. The allocation and oversight of 
> neighborhood reserved names, as per your recent meetup, is another.
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> j
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