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

[Lucy Lynch]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Wendy Seltzer wrote:

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

Actually, an internet "user" can be a thing (think sensor nets) and
may very well be at the far edge (last hop) of the network. You may want 
to think in terms of connection and communication at the edge rather than 
just "individual person based" use.

- Lucy

> --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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