[atlarge-discuss] Internet for Users

[Jan Siren <sirenj@earthlink.net>]

Joanna Lane wrote:

>
> James,
> Objection. These are not good questions. They promote a fundamental
> misunderstanding about whois the At Large. At Large exists to promote the
> interests of *users* on the demand side, as opposed to those on the supply
> side. Naturally, some of those users will be Individual Domain Name
> Registrants, whose interests are the focus of some candidates, Joop for
> example, but to imply that domain name issues are the only concerns of this
> organization, and to omit reference to the general public user anywhere in
> your questions completely misses the fundamental principles at the heart of
> the At Large. Put simply, the At Large exists to lobby for the user interest
> that ICANN ignores. It exists for the benefit of the public, not domain name
> registrants, individual, corporate or otherwise.
> Joanna

Joanna, your views are more like my own than those of any candidate whose
views I know.

Joop mentioned "legislation against alt roots," "what is spam," "arbitrary
seizure," "inadvertent deletes," "bullying cease and desist letters,"
"hijacking," "fee increases, etc." as if these issues are solely of concern
to domain name owners.  But all of these do affect the way *users* use the
Internet, and accordingly, *users* should be able to assert themselves about
them through their own at-large constituency.

I would like to know from the candidates the role the *users* are to play
in the at-large constituency.


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