Rosemary: > -----Original Message----- > > 1.2 Mission > The intended purpose of the Consumers Constituency is to serve as the > conduit for consumer interests as they relate to the Internet and > defined within the scope of ICANN. The major areas of consumer interest > are fraud, spam, phishing, identity theft, and privacy [defined within > the ICANN scope as registration abuse, safety, and stability]; WHOIS; > the Registrar Accreditation Agreement and the behavior of registrars, > registries, resellers, domainers and other entities [defined within > ICANN's scope as "compliance"]; and new gTLDs. The focus of the > Consumers Constituency will be to ensure that consumers' safety, > security, stability, usability, access, and other appropriate concerns > regarding the DNS are adequately represented within ICANN policy > development. [Milton L Mueller] What you have here is a set of issue-concerns. There is no need for a separate organizational silo called a "constituency" to pursue these concerns. Indeed, because the GNSO is currently divided into Commercial and Noncommercial SGs, and these issue-concerns span both commercial and noncommercial stakeholders, the idea of a constituency is actually a counterproductive way to pursue those concerns. Please explain to me what you can do as a constituency that you can't do as an organized/mobilized group of people that spans ALAC, NCSG and CSG.