Hello Seun, to respond to your questions/comments:

1. What is wrong with the current ALS structure that the "ISOC chapter like" setup as a replacement would address? If this is with regards to individual membership, isn't some RALOs already doing that? What can we learn from their experience and how can we improve on it sounds like a way forward to me.

- A lot of time and energy is used in At-Large to "certifying" organisations as At-large Structures, whether organisations are end user focused, are organisations legitimate, how much members it has, what are the bylaws of the organisation - it takes months, sometimes years for an organisation to become accredited as an At-Large Structure with the ultimate end result being one or two persons in an organisation having the volunteer time, energy, passion to be involved in At-Large whilst serving their organisation. That's because many organisations' (including ISOC chapters) reason for being is not singularly focused on the narrow remit of ICANN issues.
Many organisations are also facing the challenges of the Internet and Social Media, persons able to find technical knowledge online and network directly with like minded individuals without joining "formal" organisations.
- The marketing of ICANN At-Large as a result is also confusing as it foremost focuses on organisations joining rather than individuals, the latter often joining in an ad-hoc manner.
- The motivation for ALSes to market to individuals in their country to join At-Large is not there as organisations would seek to have persons join and assist their organisation first than be involved ICANN At-Large.
- For countries with zero At-Large presence, individuals that may have an interest in Internet end user issues have an obstacle of forming a group first to then participate in At-Large.
- This is cumbersome and confusing with no obvious benefit. Its why groups in ICANN like NCUC which are easier to join (and market) appear to be more successful.

- The replacement idea of online At-Large Chapters would unite users, individuals, organisation members as a Special Interest Group, the Interest being to focus on ICANN activites as it relates to the interests of Internet end users.
- The marketing becomes much simpler - have an interest, join the online At-Large Chapter in your country. Building relationships with other stakeholders (eg ccNSO) in country would also become easier.

2. I don't know about many ISOC chapters but based on the few I am familiar with, I doubt ISOC chapter is as successful as such, especially in the area of sourcing diverse input into a global process. Don't get me wrong, I am an ISOC member and this is not to play down on the ORG but to recognise that even as they strive to improve there will always be participation challenge which isn't anyone's fault (when it gets to certain level)

- Indeed, the challenges of managing the bureaucracy of a organisation can drain the few volunteers in organisation that strive to fulfill the work of the organisation. Often those passionate few persons working in the organisation are the ones called on to get involved in At-Large.

3. I can assure you that the level of success that ISOC chapters may have achieved is among many things also because of the support/resources/funding that ISOC global provided to her chapters. Is ICANN ORG and community willing and ready for such commitment. Should we go into this and get blamed later?

- We are getting blamed yesterday and today. :-)
- The resources are primarily online ones - eg mailing list, online conference room, wiki accounts, online voting, essentially the online support offered to RALOs today. It is NOT about registering an organisation in country, paying rent fees, paying taxes as ISOC requires. The only significant dollar amount that could be needed would be for public outreach activites of the At-Large Chapter and that could be covered by the type of funding of local outreach activites  project implemented for FY17.

4. Currently the only significant things we do for ALSes is an opportunity to have one global meeting at every ATLAS event and in if some RALOs are lucky they get to bring their ALS reps to one ICANN event in their region. Based on this, we already have significant noise that ICANN already spend too much on AtLarge, you can't imagine what we will get if it were chapters because maintaining a chapter isn't cheap (especially if it's to effective)

- Again, its not as expensive. Its the same support offered to RALOs, but done at the country/territory level.

5. It's easier to sell ISOC chapter to a country/Netizen than to sell an AtLarge chapter, so I see a significant marketing challenge there.

- Indeed, ISOC chapters compete with local organisations for mindshare. And persons in an At-Large chapter can be involved in whatever organisations they want to be in, be it ISOC or otherwise.
- Think of the At-Large Chapter as a online Special Interest Group per country.


6. ISOC chapters isn't just a virtual setup and getting an ISOC chapter up and running indeed requires legal documentation locally. If we think it will be easy to get someone interested in not just leading a team but going through that process then we should go interview some countries/localities who are still trying to get their ISOC chapter up and running (bear in mind that ISOC is more marketable).

- Again, its not about registering companies in countries, the At-Large chapters are virtual, just like RALOs are today.

7. The current ALS is somewhat based on freewill hence ICANN/AtLarge has no serious obligation to ensure the ALS remain alive as the organisation runs independently. However once we put AtLarge on that path of chapters, we would have signed up for more upbringing responsibilities which would result to more administrative responsibilities (was ITEMS mentioning there is too much internal processes in current structure, wait for what is to come if we go chapter route).

- But the metrics and tracking of involvement of the persons in an At-Large Chapter becomes much, much more easier to ICANN to audit. The processes and rules for each online At-Large Chapter will be consistent. At-Large becomes more accountable and transparent.