On 2013-03-08 2:04 PM, "Avri Doria" <avri@acm.org> wrote:
Hi Rinalia,
In terms of At-Large's scope: I think that the idea of ALAC representing
all of At-Large and by virtue of that all Internet users is wonderfully aspirational. To claim that ALAC deserves such a role already is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. I beleive that one day it might deserve such a role, but it has a long way to go before it becomes representative of the Global Internet User. ICANN bylaw XI.4.a "The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is the primary organizational home within ICANN for individual Internet users. " "Is" Not "should be" Not "may one day be" Not "will be when [some body] says they deserve it" We certainly have much to do to make us more responsive. We always aspire to improve. But, for better or worse, what we are now *is* ICANN's voice of the voiceless. And given the people we have and the tools at our disposal, we do the best we can and no apology is owed. Dare I say that if at large was truly more representative of the world at large and had fewer domain-world insiders involved, it would probably be far more militant and less tolerant of the shenanigans that ICANN calls "business as usual". Including this cruel joke of a TLD expansion. - Evan