John and all my friends, ALS's do not have accredited groups from the documentation currently available. So, no INEGroup is not and cannot be thus accredited as Jacqueline seems to be indicating. However I am a member of the ALAC and also spokesman for INEGroup, and will likely remain so for the forseeable future. However INEGroup is registered with the federal registry, and the FEC and has been sense 1998. And our membership is growing! >:) All of our members whom elected me as spokesman are users as well as Domain Name registrants. Ergo as spokesman and as a ALAC member our voices, opinions are expressed through myself or independantly as they apply to only myself accordingly. John Levine wrote:
From the ALS listing on alac.icann.org, INEGroup is not an accredited ALS.
Of course not, since it doesn't exist in the reality-based world.
The ALAC rules exist and the Chair has indicated that it will be considered, so I look forward to the ALAC decision, and hopefully a more streamlined and productive list with fewer distractions.
I certainly hope so. We have literally decades of experience with email discussion lists, and one of the hard-won lessons is how easily lists can be wrecked by one or two disruptive people. After trying every imaginable alternative, it's always become clear that there's only one solution, which is to remove the disruptive parties.
It's much easier in this case because the parties in question have a multi-year history of doing exactly the same thing to one list after another. If you don't believe me, look at the archives at the At-Large Study Committee list in 2001-2002:
http://atlargestudy.org/forum_archive/index.shtml
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