[governance] Call for Action: Your comments can Support

[Milton L Mueller]

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>So what you are saying is that no person who works at an ISP is
>eligible for membership at all? As we both know, that constituency is
>not very active.

There is an ISP constituency in the commercial users stakeholder group. 
Insofar as ISPs are registrars and suppliers of domain name services they would also be eligible for the registrar constituency. 
It's clear where they belong in the GNSO and it is not a Noncommercial Stakeholders Group. 

>ISP staff are the most active in the RIR communities that make up the
>ASO, so I would suggest that ISPs "live" in ICANN in the ASO more than
>the ISP constituency.

True. 

>I am fully aware of this. I just don't see why this excludes staff of
>an RIR, since they don't make policy, the community of the RIR does
>that.

Anyone who has dealt with ICANN staff would have trouble believing your assertion that there is some homogeneous "community" that makes address policy and is miraculously uninfluenced by professional staff. That being said, this is something we could revisit in the case of RIRs. 
E.g., an RIR staff member might have an interest in domain name policy qua family member, public interest advocate, etc. This would only become a problem if RIRs made an organized move to capture some part of ICANN, which seems both unlikely and not something we have seen ayn indication of in the past. ccNSO, on the other hand, directly overlaps with GNSO in policy authority many times. Overall, it's a minor issue. There are what, a total of 50-60 RIR staff worldwide? Our basic objective is simply to protect a NCSG against domination, undue influence or capture by segments of the policy making communnity who are not really noncommercial stakeholders. 

 

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