[Chapter-delegates] [MemberPubPol] ISOC response to the NTIA's call for comment on the USDoC- ICANN MoU

[Alex Gakuru]

Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org> wrote:
   
  I would have liked to see ISOC speak in favour of a bigger role for end
users inside ICANN...
   
  ... Such moves would merely increase end-user costs and creates structures that will resist the deployment of improved, innovative and evolutionary technologies... 

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  Thanks Mathew for a good document.
   
  At the edges of this network sits ordinary end-users (1.2 billion of them and growing daily) in need of simple assurances such as freedom ("open"), stability (technical and after sales services), affordability-infrastructure, value-add to their lives (democracy, economic, also "societal" etc).
   
  On ICANN-users relationship, Wendy Seltzer in How to Listen to the Individual Internet User, says "..speak up so we can tell ICANN what it’s failing to hear."  www.circleid.com/posts/how_to_listen_to_individual_internet_user/
   
  I am happy my project "Focus on the individual –the individual Internet user and the individual who has not been able to connect. Focus your attention on issues that will affect their lives and the way they use the Internet. And most of all, focus on giving them more control and choice over this incredibly powerful, enabling technology.” is funded by ISOC-HQ proving our user focus.
   
  ISOC-HQ could reinforce this position by urging ICANN to prioritize strengthening the end-user's issues. Seemingly (even in the US), these simple folks largely depend on providers to "protect" them and their Reglators to step in to resolve red-hot issues.
   
  User issues should be represented somewhere high at ICANN governance structure. After all this great network is meant for Everyone not a just the technically endowed.
   
  Thanks.
   
  Alex

 		
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