EURALO has the provision for voting rights for individuals in the Bylaws. Vittorio could provide more details, he is the only European ALAC member now during the illness of Annette. However, if I understand correctly, the language of the Bylaws is still not nailed down. Cheers, Roberto
-----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Izumi AIZU Sent: 05 March 2007 17:04 To: Wendy Seltzer Cc: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [At-Large] Can individuals participate as equal members ofRALOs?
Wendy,
I have the similar question right after finalizing the MoU/OP for AP RALO. At this point, APRALO does not have any official way to accommodate individual participation in the election of officers or voting for RALO business. However, we had "observers" in our meeting in Bali and we agreed that all of our meetings will be "open" in principle. We at AP RALO also agreed to make as much decisions by consensus as possible which, in a way, could open more participation from those individuals.
I was thinking to make some "special ALS" per each region where any unaffiliated individual could join and participate in RALO's business as equal to one member of ALS (not single-handed rep, but collectively with other individuals).
best,
izumi
2007/3/5, Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com>:
A question: For each region that is constructing or has constructed a RALO, can unaffiliated individuals participate on an equal footing with ALS-affiliated individuals?
I'm concerned that the layering of structures not disenfranchise individuals even further than they already are, but rather attempt to provide them with more channels for direct input into ICANN.
Can people in other regions help me to answer the factual question whether this is happening? My understanding of LACRALO is that individuals can participate only partially, not serve as officers or vote on RALO business.
Thanks, --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/
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