On 12 October 2012 07:40, William Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Merge the proposed group with the ISP stakeholders and call the > newly-rechartered result the "infrastructure constituency" -- which is what > I thought it should have been in the first place. > > > I have to wonder how well the telecenters' interests and positions on > gTLDs (TBD) would fit with those of the ISPs, particularly since some of > the latter are not insubstantial players with varying degrees of market > power. > My rationale is that these groups would (one would think) care more about ICANN delivery issues (IPv6, IPv4 scarcity, IDNs, DNS security, scaling issues) than with who-gets-what-TLD. Every stakeholder group (except maybe the IPC) has a mix of big and small players and regional diversity, the ISPC should not be immune from the benefit of such broadening. - Evan