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>> > ICANN's membership structure (http://members.icann.org) is open to
>> > **all** members of the Internet community and offers a broad and global
>> > channel for input and representation in Internet governance.
>>
>> It doesn't serve any useful purpose to repeat nostrums and empty
>> formulas, does it? ICANN is supposed to be open to all stakeholders,
>> but in fact it hasn't been open to any end-users, either of domain
>> names or of IP addresses. The former have been consistently and
>> categorically excluded from the DNSO, and the latter have no direct
>> representation in the ASO. That is the objective reality. Saying
>> that they are included doesn't make it so.
>
>That's a rather sweeping dismissal and ignores what I said in the
>earlier part of my mail about the open processes of policy formation
>and representation in at least one region. I'd be the last to try
>to force one region's practices on another region, but we can learn
>from each other, and it may be that something useful in this instance
>may be learned from the RIPE experience.
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>Regards.
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>Mike
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