This is why we need more commitments and dedication to participate.

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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:31 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
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> 1++ to Milton
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: NCSG-Discuss im Auftrag von Milton L Mueller
> Gesendet: Do 10.07.2014 17:48
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> Betreff: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] [council] FW: Letter from Cherine Chalaby
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > Part of the problem is that over 15 years we have not managed to get more
> > NFP's involved and consequently not enough hands on deck.
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> Addressing both Sam and Klaus: people in ICANN keep making the same
> mistake, again and again. The mistake is to assume that domain name policy
> is at the center of the universe and that if NGOs devoted to water rights,
> child welfare, religion, peace, housing, boat clubs, etc., etc., don't drop
> everything and devote most of their limited resources to ICANN then there
> is something wrong with the noncommercial stakeholder group within ICANN.
> It's an obvious fallacy to me.
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> The simple fact is that domain name policy is a small and specialized (yet
> important) area of global policy, and most people in the nonprofit world,
> not to mention the for-profit world, are not that interested in it, and do
> not know enough about it to make a participatory contribution (unless they
> devote a year or so to coming up to speed). And it's not cost free. For
> most organizations, it makes no sense for them to invest the time and money
> to learn about it and participate in it because it is not central to their
> concerns. This is just a fact everyone needs to recognize and accept.
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> Before you can have "hands on deck" you have to have sailors who "know the
> ropes" i.e. understand what the policy issues are, how they relate to
> ICANN's functions, what our position on those issues would be, what the
> consequences of various policy choices would me - not to mention how GNSO
> processes work.
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> Indeed, it is often the case that the people who speak most loudly about
> adding participants rarely offer substantive contributions to actual domain
> name policy. I hear talk about increasing participation a lot, but not much
> about, say, the No-IP domain takedowns, the finer points of the EWG report,
> the merits or demerits of two-letter domains, the revision of the
> inter-registrar transfer policy, deeper thinking and creative proposals for
> ICANN accountability, etc.
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> > been done by a few with very little, it's a miracle, but we should
> expect and
> > put into place what my old teachers wrote beneath many of my exam
> > papers: "could and should do better!".
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> Always true. A truism. I suggest that "doing better" primarily means
> cultivating and locating expertise about DNS-related policy issues among
> that small segment of civil society groups who see themselves as being
> directly affected by those policy issues.
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> MM
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