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So, Evan, I would say you just did some great public education and
advocacy work and anyone reading this exchange probably now knows
much more about ICANN than they did before. They will have received
a very unvarnished view which was much more interesting than the
official line and are likely to remember more of it than would
otherwise have been the case. I like your suggestions below and I
thank you for the exchange.<br>
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We should get out of these weeds now, unless anyone else out there
wants to chime in.<br>
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Marita <br>
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said what I did deliberately. ALAC has a massive role to
play, and one in which it can wildly succeed, which is why
I haven't just given up and walked away. But that role
doesn't resemble anything like what it's doing now. ALAC
should be involved in public education and advocacy,
ensuring that end users everywhere know how this world of
domains affects them and what they can do about it. And it
desperately needs a research capacity, to survey the
public so that its feedback to ICANN can be based on a
broad sample of the global public interest and not the
best guesses of 15 well-meaning people (one-third of which
are NOT chosen by the At-Large community).<br>
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