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Your question presumes we are all left out of decision making processes.
I do not agree.<br><br>
ICANN holds many public consultations where anyone may provide input and
be considered. Some people have claimed there are too many such
consultations. In addition to any individual or organization's ability to
submit comments, the ALAC often does on behalf of the At-Large
Community.<br><br>
The ALAC is empowered to provide advice on any subject at any time. And
when an issue arises that the ALAC feels deserves such treatment we do
so. And in many and probably most cases, there is an opportunity for our
entire community to participate in the development of the
advice.<br><br>
In other decisions, there is an established policy that guides how that
decision is made. The RSEP process is one such example. The
multistakeholder (MS) community was the source of that policy, and once
adopted (and until it is changed by a MS process), it is followed. That
policy allows for community input in some cases, and in others it was
decided (by the community) that input on individual application of the
policy was not needed. The RSEP policy could be altered if there was a
general perception that it is broken or was no longer
appropriate.<br><br>
As another example of this, the 2010 round of New gTLD Applications was
governed by an immense set of policies and procedures as described in the
Applicant Guide Book. An applicant, by making an application agreed to
abide by the rules, and ICANN, in accepting the fee, also agreed to such
rules. Among them was that once a complex set of criteria was met, ICANN
would sign a Registry Agreement with the applicant. There was a lot of
public involvement at many stages, but the actual signing of a contract
did not (according to the rules establish with the overall community) did
not require public input.<br><br>
Some decisions are controlled by contracts and in those cases, whatever
is in the contract dictates how things happen.<br><br>
The release of two character strings at the 2nd level in new gTLDs was
the subject of significant public comment, but was also subject to the
agreement of the country or territory that has that string as a
ccTLD-type string.<br><br>
It is within the realm of possibility that ICANN could adopt a policy by
which every single contract and contract amendment. I am pretty sure
there would not be a lot of support for such a proposition, and there
would be a high cost of implementing it. But it could happen if there
were a general will to make it so.<br><br>
Alan<br><br>
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At 12/05/2016 12:09 AM, Thomas Lowenhaupt wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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?<br><br>
Tom<br><br>
On 5/11/2016 11:14 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:<br>
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On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Alan Greenberg
<<a href="mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca">alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca</a>
> wrote:<br>
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<dd>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
j<br><br>
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