[NA-Discuss] Who Are Internet Users?

[John L]

> This is another issue that seems to make ICANN conversations difficult: 
> Who is an internet user?  9 times out of 10 an "internet user" is used 
> to cloak the agenda of groups that may, in fact, be a tiny sliver of 
> internet users as a whole.

Over the years, the main issue I've seen is whether the ALAC represents 
all individual Internet users, or just the ones who've registered domains. 
It's always been obvious to me tkat the first definition is the one who 
makes sense, but the latter was often implicitly accepted in some of the 
discussions I've been in.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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