Ditto this Thanks John - you do write well! But I would add - encourage and enable individuals from the region to participate at the meeting AS WELL AS in all ICANN activities (that are interesting and relevant to them) Jacqueline John Levine wrote:
4a. The role of the At-Large Advisory Committee ("ALAC") shall be to consider and provide advice on the activities of ICANN, insofar as they relate to the interests of individual Internet users.
- Individual internet users in Egypt are active online (see refs below).
Individual Internet users do all sorts of stuff. By this logic, we should be lobbying in favor of clean drinking water and sanitary sewers, too. There are all sorts of things that are virtuous and important, but outside ICANN's scope.
ICANN's remit is really quite narrow: DNS, IP allocation, and minor IANA registry management. It makes sense to do what we can to encourage and enable individuals from north Africa and west Asia to participate at the meeting, but beyond that, we're off in the weeds.
R's, John
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