To Milton, Robin, and all in Paris,
Thank you for making today's meeting so easy to participate it.  Milton did a terrific job of leading the discussion today with people in the conference room, and others (like me) coming in online. The hour and a half I was on the call was a good and substantive discussion.  In the end, I wound up supporting the proposition below.
 
I hope the rest of the meeting went as well, and I look forward to reading the notes.  All the best in the Names Council meeting and other meetings coming up.
 
Kathy
 
 
<dear all: A proposition to be discussed at our meeting today.>

 

In preparation for the GNSO reforms, which we anticipate will open up both the commercial and noncommercial stakeholder groups to individuals, NCUC wishes to extend an invitation to interested individual registrants to formally register with and participate in NCUC on a provisional basis.

 

In line with our previously stated position on GNSO reform, we believe that individuals who register domain names and take an interest in domains for personal use, and/or are mostly concerned with the public interest aspects of domain name policy, should be admitted into the Noncommercial Users stakeholder group. Examples of such individual users would be a person with a personal domain for an email account, a domain name holder with a family web site or blog, or individual academics or members of noncommercial organizations who find it too difficult or lack the standing to get their organization to formally join on an organizational basis

 

(Individuals who register domain names for business purposes – e.g., investors in the domain name market, small businesses, and consultants – and are mainly concerned with the way domain name policy affects their business activity should be represented through the Commercial Users stakeholder group.)

 

Until the GNSO reforms are completed, we propose to add noncommercial individuals as provisional, nonvoting members. This period can also serve as an experiment to see how the representation of individuals can best be formally structured.

 

We anticipate asking interested individuals to sign a commitment that:

  1. They are not currently members of any other GNSO constituency
  2. Their interest in domain name policy relates to their individual use and public interest aspects

 

We will be announcing a signup process soon.

 

 

 



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