What a farce. Whether or not the document is any good, I saw no consultation with ALAC that would support the claim that "The attached document is a unique collaboration of the joint users groups represented within ICANN today: The At-Large Advisory Committee The Commercial and Business Users Constituency The Intellectual Property Constituency The Internet Service and Connection Providers Constituency The Non-Commercial Users Constituency." --Wendy Danny Younger wrote:
Evan,
The ALAC has participated in a joint statement without any consultative engagement with its own membership; such behavior should not be countenanced -- the final Statement is posted here: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-improvements-report-2008/msg00012.html
regards, Danny
--- Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
For reasons that are unclear to me, there is a document being drafted on a proposed revision to the GNSO to allow for some sort of "public" representation that has come up with some very strange conclusions. Here is an early draft of the document:
http://www.ipconstituency.org/PDFs/Position%20to%20Board%20on%20GNSO%20Refor...
A more recent version of the draft has essentially gutted ALAC's role and calls for some sort of direct participation by ALSs. The truly amazing thing is that this is being advanced as having the support of ALAC itself!
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ispcp/msg00413.html
Compounding the problem is that the closing of public comments is this week -- and the fact that the document is still in flux!! How can "the public" adequately address a moving target in this manner?
Frankly, not only the document but the process that has produced it is flawed to the point of causing distress. I've now heard from Beau and Wendy (who have sopken up on the internal ALAC list -- why is it being debated there?) and Danny (in personal contact with me). I am asking one or more of you to help craft a NARALO position that we can submit this week. I will do my best to help but I will likely be incapacitated for most of the rest of this week because of surgery.
Both the document (at least in its current form) and the process that developed it IMO should not be submitted as something with widespread -- let alone universal -- public support. Can some folks here please get together to draft something upon which NARALO can get a consensus statement and submit before the deadline?
Thanks!
- Evan
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