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Re: Re: Civil Society reps, ICANN Board bridge differences at Seoul meeting
by Milton Mueller
Thanks for your comment, Wolf. Keep in mind that "commercial" does not equal "bad." It just means more engagement with, and greater stakes in, the business aspects of the Internet. The concept of the "individual Internet user" which is the At Large's raison d'etre, includes both commercial and noncommercial uses. Thus, At Large should span equally the commercial and noncommercial aspects of the Internet and insofar as its participants intersect with the GNSO they should be involved in both the CSG and the NCSG. To be more specific, if you look at the At Large Structures, at least half of them are Internet Society chapters. While ISOC is organized as a nonprofit, most of its supporting members are Internet corporations, and at the local chapter level, membership contains a mix of consultants, lawyers and technical people who would probably not qualify as individual members of the new NCSG but would qualify as members of the Business Users Constituency. We shouldn't get too hung up on categories, but we do need to remember that the GNSO is designed to balance commercial and noncommercial perspectives, and contracting party and noncontracting party perspectives. It is clearly a mistake, therefore, to see the At Large community as intersecting exclusively with the Noncommercial Stakeholders Group in the GNSO; in fact it intersects with both sides of the Noncontracting Party House.
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