Danny Younger wrote:
You may also want to ask yourselves whether a failure to communicate with the public has led to unnecessary lawsuits that have served to drain ICANN financial resources.
The first thing that is striking, to me, is that you address ALAC as "you", not as "we". Anyway, to the matter of the post, my answer is "No". And the reason is that Tim Cole has written to the plaintiff explaining the position of ICANN, as reported in the document you quote (see: http://www.icann.org/legal/moore-v-icann/moore-v-icann-dismissal.pdf, pages 6-7), to which he has chosen to sue ICANN anyway. However, your question opens a greater issue: "What is the role of ALAC?" Personally, I doubt that ALAC has to turn into a consumer protection agency, and dedicate the scarce resources to anything else than policy making. Maybe an effort can be made to inform consumer protection agencies (some of which are also ALSes) of facts related to the domain names market, but not to try to do their job. Thoughts? Cheers, Roberto