<div dir="ltr">Exactly!!!!!!!<div><br></div><div>If you ask where the public interest resides, Waze should bring you to the corner where GAC and BC meet. This is the right place to look for it.<div><br></div><div>The question we should be talking about is, who is the referee when we have troubles in that corner? To the Board initially. Then the Board should decide, but the decision should take into account the public interest FIRST. To whom may go the GAC or the BC to look for redress, if they don't like what the Board told them? The track record of the recourse to the Board is limited to very narrow procedural issues and mainly focused on mistakes by staff and or Board. Moreover it has not been tested et with bigger new gTLDs issues.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4">Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez</font></b><div><font size="4">ISOC Costa Rica Chapter<br></font><div><font color="#000099">skype carlos.raulg</font></div><div><font color="#000099">+506 8335 2487</font></div><div>________<br></div><div><div>Apartado 1571-1000</div><div><b>COSTA RICA</b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-12-22 15:54 GMT-06:00 Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">><br>
> But *within* the legitimate ICANN jurisdiction, there are broad<br>
> constituencies that need representation. ALAC is one voice for them,<br>
> and I consider our NC/NP's to be another. We are as close to a "public<br>
> interest" as one gets in a multi-stakeholder model, and I want us to stand up<br>
> proudly for that representation in the abstract, even if it makes total<br>
> sense to define specific issues narrowly on their own merits.<br>
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</span>Yep, I agree. But that's also what makes the P.I. rhetoric so seductive and potentially dangerous.<br>
I think we need to advocate public interest-oriented goals, as we understand them, but we need to bear in mind that other constituencies can also claim that mantle. Indeed, if you pay careful attention to ICANN's past 5-8 years you find that the term is most commonly used by the BC and most frequently invoked by GAC, Steve DelBianco and Marilyn Cade, usually to justify policies that we don't support.<br>
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