Danny I'm not sure what the purpose is of the roll call below actually is as that is a 'simple list of ALAC Members' and I understand that a main aim of the WG would be to illicit comment from the At-Large Community... Otherwise it would be a matter of gaining *ALAC member only views* in one of our regular meetings. It appears your measure is based upon traffic to the GNSO- Liaison list and the public one (where this message seems to have gone)... Since the call for the WG went out, and yes it is a tight time frame (which may or may not result in as much input as many of us might hope)... I'd like therefore to point out just few small things that do have I believe some relevance, to what I can only assume is implied criticism of the ALAC:- Alan Greenberg - is the ALAC GNSO liaison so it is literally 'his list' this work is being done on. Do you expect him to respond or reply to each point made by each party throughout the whole process in some form of metric measure? OR as I have assumed, and I suspect many of my fellow ALAC Members have as well, that as GNSO Liaison his role will be to take the lead on preparation of consensus outcomes from the WG process AND to take the lead on this activity on behalf of the ALAC as a whole? Alan, you may wish to clarify your expectations regarding this issue as well. Many ALAC Members will already BE subscribers to this list any way... I know I was but I did take the time to let ALAN know after the call to form the WG and use this list, that I was interested specifically in contributing to the outcomes of the WG process and what I had done THAT DAY to start outreach into my ALS regarding this important issue. Which includes having our ED bring to the WG a consensus view she is having developed by ISOC-AU, when that has happened THEN it will come into this space and the APRALO list... I will be taking the opportunity to input my personal comments into those processes, as this WG needs to develop a Macro view on behalf of At-Large, not be lead in any direction by a few wordy (as I often am) and outspoken people. And we should remember that we are in the EARLY stages of At-Large input processing, comment deadline is set in the time line for the 22nd of October, and in my experience people often work *to* a deadline. Also most ALS's and Internet users will take some considerable amount of the short time allocated, in this process just getting themselves informed and *then* they will (if they can) formulate a response... We must remember we in the ALAC, and the respondents to this WG so far, already have informed opinions and commentaries virtually 'ready to go' on this topic, and/or these issues are part of our core activity of interests. That is NOT the case for all in At-Large and the ALS's in particular. Further we should remember that in some of our ALS's and RALO's no comment does *not mean NO interest* rather it means No major disagreement with what has been said so far. And again we are a way off from final draft time (even in the proposed time course) so minor points and alterations will not come out until then. At this stage we can only hope that general consensus opinion is being built and cross checked. Also you should not expect a plethora of "me to- I say what they said" responses at least from the Asia Pacific Region, it is just not done that way in our region. However it is no doubt important to make timely reminders of the URGENT need for input into this fast tracked process. So to that end I have copied this response to your message to both my RALO and my ALS - where we can only trust the important first stage work is being done (since they had their attention called to it over the weekend) - and wait to see what is posted to the list by the 22nd of October. Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO) -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Danny Younger Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:37 AM To: jam@jacquelinemorris.com; 'Alan Greenberg' Cc: 'At-Large Worldwide' Subject: Re: [At-Large] GNSO workign group Jacqueline, Re: Have we had any interest in the wg? It’s a very short timeframe, so it should get started on working... Comments received from ALAC members thus far: Mohamed El Bashir -- none Hawa Diakite -- none Alice Wanjira-Munyua -- none Izumi Aizu -- none Cheryl Langdon-Orr -- none Siavash Shahshahani -- none Veronica Cretu -- none Sébastien Bachollet -- none Annette Muehlberg -- none Jacqueline Morris -- none Carlos Aquirre -- none José Ovidio Salgueiro -- none Robert Guerra -- none Beau Brendler -- none Alan Greenberg -- none Comments received from others: Danny Younger Wendy Seltzer Vittorio Bertola Jeff Williams ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org