<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 June 2014 17:51, Ian Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>John, the focus is very much on the narrow “internet community” rather than
the broader community of internet users. I think that should change.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>In fact the next message to arrive in my mail after Ian's was an ICANN News Alert - Universal Acceptance of TLDs Draft Roadmap which gives as its Purpose (Brief): <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">To solicit community comment on draft roadmap for the Universal Acceptance Initiative. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">There are a couple of loose terms in this: "universal" and "community". During the ICANN session at NETmundial I asked who ICANN meant when it uses the term "community". I'm still not sure of the answer. Roosevelt (ROK) in an earlier message in this string wrote "ICANN is about end users". So now I would like to know - all end users or just some of them?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I share Ian's concern about the committee of 27 that he mentions below. Following NETmundial I expected this committee to be inclusive in nature, but in fact it is exclusive in its composition since it indicates very precisely where delegates should come from.</span></div>
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<div>As an example I could mention the currently being formed committee of 27
(!) to look at IANA transition, which cant even find one dedicated space for
civil society among its members. Although I certainly wouldnt recommend
expanding the committee beyond 27 because it is already too large to be
efficient, I do think the most likely outcome is going to be a quagmire
extending its deliberations way beyond 2015.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">It feels very uncomfortable to play dungeons and dragons with language. There are progressively fewer of the words we currently use in these discussions that we can rely on not to commit us to something we didn't intend when we use them. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Do others share this concern? </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="jcurran@istaff.org" href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org" target="_blank">John Curran</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 20, 2014 7:23 AM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [bestbits] Re: [governance] Your key ICANN issues as a
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Jun 19, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Ian Peter <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>ICANN collects Internet taxes from domain name owners. It is a non profit
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<div>I would like to see ICANN devote a percentage of its considerable income
to addressing social issues associated with the Internet, eg digital divide.
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<div>Ian - </div>
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<div> To the extent that ICANN is recovering costs associated with
the registry </div>
<div> policy development or registry administration, I am not sure
it's appropriate</div>
<div> to characterize them them as "Internet taxes". </div>
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<div> The use of such proceeds to facilitate global participation in
the policy </div>
<div> development process, or accountability and transparency
review, or </div>
<div> similar registry-related capacity-building makes perfect
sense, but that</div>
<div> is probably more focused than the type of activities you are
suggesting?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>Disclaimer: my views alone.</div>
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