[governance] RE: [NA-Discuss] ALAC and NCUC

[Wendy Seltzer]

Everyone who uses the Internet is an "individual Internet user."  Why
should we try to give the term more content than that?

--Wendy

Michael Gurstein wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> I don't mean to be a pest about this but has there been any "official"
> interpretation on what precisely is meant by the term "individual
> Internet user" as below...
> 
> There was no response to my two cases from yesterday -- one, that of
> (more or less anonymous) cybercafe frequenting I-users and the other,
> folks clustered in various groupings "using" the Internet via
> telecentres (or community networks as per Michael Maranda's
> interventions).  
> 
> On the principle that silence is consent, if my argument is valid then
> could I suggest that the notion of "individual internet user" in fact is
> more or less without content as it could either mean anyone, since
> anyone could be an anonymous cybercafe or cell phone Internet surfer (or
> no one in particular--who would know or could make any judgements in
> this regard);  or it should necessarily include some sorts of collective
> groupings i.e. families, communities etc. (individuals as collectives
> hmmm...-and then who speaks for them and how are the "interests" of
> these collectives to be represented, as collectives or as collections of
> individuals etc.etc.).
> 
> In a global environment where on the one hand Internet "use" is becoming
> more or less pervasive and on the other where the notion of who or what
> constitutes "the individual" is highly culturally (and even politically)
> determined, could I humbly suggest that some other mode of delineating
> participation in this aspect of Internet governance be formulated.
> 
> MG
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> [mailto:na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Jacob
> Malthouse
> Sent: April 19, 2007 6:36 AM
> To: NA Discuss
> Subject: [NA-Discuss] ALAC and NCUC
> 
> 
> From: http://alac.icann.org/
> ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is responsible for  
> considering and providing advice on the activities of the Internet  
> Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), as they relate to  
> the interests of individual Internet users (the "At-Large"  
> community). ICANN, as a private sector, non-profit corporation with  
> technical management responsibilities for the Internet's domain name  
> and address system, will rely on the ALAC and its supporting  
> infrastructure (At-Large groups all over the world) to involve and  
> represent in ICANN a broad set of individual user interests.
> 
> From: http://www.ncdnhc.org/
> The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) is the home for civil  
> society organizations in ICANN's Generic Names Supporting  
> Organization (GNSO). With real voting power in ICANN, it develops and  
> supports Internet policies that favor noncommercial communication and  
> activity on the Internet, and it participates in the selection of  
> ICANN Board members.
> 
> 
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