[atlarge-discuss] Who are you really?

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

I fail to understand why an organization that purports to represent users is 
not setting up working groups to deal with user issues:

1.  Transfers
2.  Deletes
3.  Privacy
4.  Internationalized Domain Names
5.  Warehousing/Hoarding
6.  Self-dealing by registrars
7.  Bulk WHOIS Sales
8.  Artificial scarcity of TLDs in the namespace
9.  UDRP and other Dispute Resolution mechanisms

If you're not going to deal with these issues in a timely fashion, then in my 
view you will be even more worthless than the current Names Council... and 
why should ICANN want to deal with you if you have nothing of substance to 
contribute?  

Working groups to attend to housekeeping issues are fine, but let's not 
forget that the real user issues still need to be solved -- that means 
issue-based working groups (unless you want the Business Constituency and the 
Intellectual Property Folks to solve these problems for you while you dally 
at setting up shop).  Sadly, I don't sense any commitment of the part of most 
on this list to actually deal with user issues.  With rare exceptions most of 
you don't post to the GA list, nor seek appointment onto established Task 
Forces, nor otherwise display any interest in anything other than governance 
issues.  Even those of you that are members of other constituencies rarely if 
ever discuss actual user issues.  So, is this really a user organization, or 
is it just a paltry clone of the Non-Commercial Constituency masquerading as 
a body of users?

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