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I agree on interest diversity. Third
world view needs representation. I'm from West Virginia,
kind of third world if you've ever been there. NGOs,
education, Libertarians, genius geeks, and hookers. Hookers
are always being discriminated against.
I
have friends who run sex worker activism NGOs (including one
that is sex worker run by charter). Next time I see them I'll
ask if they want to join NCUC. I think they'd be perfectly
welcome here, and would fit in, but I'm not sure how much of a
policy priority ICANN issues might be for them (but hey, .xxx,
IFFOR, legal restrictions on advertising in some
jurisdictions, etc - maybe they do have enough to justify
their participation, I don't know).
But - I agree with the premise about a
broad range of ideas. But I'm not sure that the source of
broad range means gender/sexual preferences/ or the
frequencies of light reflected off the surface of the skin.
Especially since we communicate by email, I have no idea
what color anyone is, nor do I care. If we go back 75,000
years we all come from Africa and humans are less
genetically diverse than my 3 cats.
The
actual ICANN requirements (and requirements within this group)
are for geographic diversity. I represented the Asia/Pacific
on our EC for a while, and as it happens I'm a white guy - but
I do actually live in Australia, which is in that region, and
so satisfy the requirements. Norbert has replaced me. He is
also a white guy. He lives in Cambodia. Our residency does
actually change our perspective, and inform our
participation.
I think
my definitions of diversity are more relevant than the
traditional one in this context.
I
do not. I think both your definitions of diversity and the
traditional ones, however you define them, are equally
irrelevant, neither more relevant than the other.
What
are more relevant than either are the rules that actually
apply within the ICANN world, the most significant of which is
geographic diversity.
Cheers
David