You're going to take this the wrong way because I work for ICANN but this come from my perspective as general manager of public participation and is genuine. The thing that stands out in your post is the use of percentages. "The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC)... increased its membership by 65% in 10 months preceding the Sydney meeting (and has since increased it by 100%)..." What do the percentages actually mean in real numbers? The fact that 65 percent is a round number worries me - it means you could be talking as few people as 33, up from 20. And a 100 percent increase could therefore be just 40 people. As I understand it, one of the biggest arguments against following the path that the NCUC outlined was that there was so few people involved. And that meant that a huge amount of power within the GNSO would be held by a very few people. And I think you'll find that if it was you on the other side of that argument that you would be arguing strongly about a lack of representativeness. It's the same with ALAC to my mind. Until an ALAC representative can stand up and point to the fact that they speak for 100,000 Internet users who have all expressed their view - until that number of people are represented in real terms - well, then it's just some an individual that has spent alot of time in the organization. What commercial interests represent are resources - big resources. What governments represent are million of people through the traditional power structures. What the NCUC and ALAC need to represent before they will given full equal weighting in real terms as well as organizationally is a very large number of canvassed Internet users. Now if you want my help in getting those people in, just ask - that's my job after all. But I've never been asked by anyone in ICANN the community organization to help them go get more people. I'd be happy to do so. That's not the mindset at the moment though. The mindset, unfortunately, is to spend much more time and effort railing against perceived slights rather than getting on with the job of correcting the power interplay through force of numbers. Sorry for the criticism. I'd be more than happy to help the NCUC get more people on board if that is genuinely what you want. Kieren McCarthy General manager of public participation, ICANN