The ICANN community (Re: [ga] Ballot question)

[Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, at 15:19 [=GMT+0200], Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> On 10:00 23/10/01, Jeff Williams said:
> >Alexander Svensson wrote:
> > > I'm not emotionally attached to the DNSO as such. We
> > > probably agree that ICANN decisions on domain names
> > > currently are not "Internet community consensus" but
> > > rather "some major stakeholders consensus".
> >
> >   Even this is a bit reaching a conclusion at best, Alex.
> 
> You may have noted that slight another wording change
> by Stuart Lynn and others: "the ICANN community".
> 
> An ICANN community consensus is when Stuart,
> Louis and Joe make taken a "BoD" decision. You may
> recall that there is "ICANN community consensus"
> even on non existing documents (Stockholm).

Since the term "the ICANN community" figures a lot in recent texts
issued by ICANN, it may be usefull if some definition of it was
launched 'officially'. Does the ICANN community include, e.g., the At
Large members? Has it any democratic connotation? What is the
difference with 'Net users'?

The burden of the definition is on those who introduce and use the
term, naturally. I could try some sarcasm, but will resist the
temptation. So far I thought it was clever rhetorics. I hope I am
wrong. 

Looking forward to an official reply.

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Marc@Schneiders.ORG

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