I agreed with Carlos then and still do it now José Ovidio Salgueiro A. salgueiro.jo@gmail.com -----Mensaje original----- De: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] En nombre de carlos aguirre Enviado el: martes, 14 de julio de 2009 11:34 a.m. Para: Evan Leibovitch; At-Large Staff CC: 'ALAC-excom@atlarge-lists.icann.org'; lista publica de ALAC Asunto: Re: [ALAC] Draft Agenda for ALAC ExCom meeting of 15th July Dear Evan: A lot of time before the events happened, I said this . The "de facto" Ex Comm is much more dangerous than the inactivity. Ex Comm have to work only when the situations need a fast solution, not in other moments. ALAC is a body; Not two differents things, where we have a select group of illuminated, and other which see the train pass only. When I said my possition against the creation of Ex Comm, I was talking about that. And unfortunatly I had reason. Carlos Dionisio Aguirre abogado - Sarmiento 71 - 4to. 18 Cordoba - Argentina - *54-351-424-2123 / 423-5423 www.derechoytecnologia.com.ar http://ar.ageiadensi.org
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:34:46 -0400 From: evan@telly.org To: staff@atlarge.icann.org CC: alac-excom@atlarge-lists.icann.org; alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [ALAC] Draft Agenda for ALAC ExCom meeting of 15th July
https://st.icann.org/alac-excomm/index.cgi?15_july_2009
Once upon a time the rationale given for the existence of the Executive Committee was that occasionally ALAC was required to move faster than was, and that a small group of five could handle issues of critical timeliness more easily than the whole group of 15.
Fair enough.
In December mailing list discussions it was revealed that the ExecComm was going to take on certain additional administrative functions that could (and should) have just as easily been delegated to a conventional working group.
Under any situation of normalcy, there would be an ALAC administrative working group, open to all interested people just like all other working groups are right now. Just like topic-driven WGs draft policy recommendations (to be approved by At-Large), so too would a admin WG draft propose changes to matters of internal operation. It would have an ALAC liaision who would raise its issues to the whole group.
Instead we have a self-selected group, that (unlike any other WG or subcommittee) shuts out non-ALAC members.
Such a closed culture leads to undesirable outcomes, such as the wording of the agenda item regarding two draft documents regarding ALAC job descriptions and the method to select the ALAC Board Liaison: / "Decision Required: Whether or not these items shall be proposed to the full ALAC (as amended if required)"/
Such wording infers that the option exists to NOT bring these issues to ALAC. I can only dream about whether or when the opportunity to debate such issues will trickle down to the RALOs and ALSs.
The non-emergency operation of the Executive Committee continues to serve as prima facie evidence of deep ALAC dysfunction, a continued effort to shut out non-ALAC participation in important matters while so much of ALAC is not pulling its weight. I propose that the non-emergency functions of the ExecComm be immediately revoked and charged to a conventional ALAC Administrative Working Group (that would be chaired by the ALAC Secretary, and involve participation by RALO secretariats and anyone else from At-Large who is interested).
- Evan
PS: I also ask that links to the existing ALAC Working Groups be listed at http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/ Right now they're almost impossible to find by a casual user (http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/issues is badly organized, non-intuitively named, and not pointed to from the main ALAC web page). Come to think of it, the who At-Large corner of the ICANN website needs an overhaul, but that's a different issue.
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