<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Point taken, Evan.<div class="">With the caveat that to inform the user community is a daunting task for which we do not have sufficient resources.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One starting point would be to involve the consumer protection organisations worldwide, but we had little success so far. I remember in the early days of ALAC when I contacted many European consumer protection organisations, getting the same reply from all: “We have far more important things to do”. At that time I thought they were shortsighted, but several years later I have to recognise that they were - and they still probably are - right.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Roberto</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13.09.2023, at 23:06, Evan Leibovitch via At-Large <<a href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org" class="">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Roberto Gaetano wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">I am just saying that At-Large is not the right place where to raise the issue asking for solutions.</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">We are fully agreed that this is not At-Large's task to fix.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">I *will*, however, advance that it is At-Large's task to <u class="">inform</u>. We have an important but sadly neglected role to play in public education.<br class=""></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">There are many issues related to domain names about which people may ask but for which answers are either absent, partial or inaccurate. The most obvious of these is explaining the difference between .co and .com -- that is, how is a ccTLD operationally different from a gTLD. The differences can be non-trivial to both domain consumers and end-users, and are complicated by the way some ccTLDs are marketed by gTLDs. Over the years I have not found an end-user perspective to this issue, only those which inform domain investors.<br class=""></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">"Why are there so many TLDs and why can't I access some of them?", today's topic, is clearly another worthy of some treatment. And maybe someone somewhere can explain the status of the .su TLD.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">We all know that ALAC sits very low on the list of ICANN community parts actually capable of affecting significant change. We're an expense to ICANN rather than a source of revenue, and we lack the economic clout of domain buyers and sellers or the political clout of the GAC.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">That's not going to change any time soon (how's progress on that second At-Large Board seat coming along?) but that's OK. There is still much that we can do to inform end-users (that is, those who wish to be informed) with answers to questions that nobody else seems to be answering, from a perspective unlike any other within ICANN. After all, if we're going to represent the interests of end-users, having them as informed as possible is helpful.<br class=""></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">- Evan</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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