Vittorio Bertola schrieb:
Alan Greenberg ha scritto:
With no attempt to re-word the document here, I propose that the criteria be altered to include the following:
1. If an organization is composed partly or solely of other organizations, either it can be an ALS, or one or more of its component organizations can be an ALS, but not both.
2. Although an ALS need not have any specific legal organization, but it cannot exist for primarily for-profit reasons.
3. The proposed Criteria 1 be altered to make it clear that an ALS has a responsibility to disseminate information on behalf of ICANN and its RALO, and to solicit feedback from its individual user participants.
4. If any of the criteria which qualify an ALS for certification changes, the ALS is obliged to bring this to the attention of its RALO which must in turn involve ICANN At-Large support and/or the ALAC.
Comments from ALAC members and from interested individuals PRIOR TO THE SAN JUAN MEETING would be very helpful, both on Nick's original document as well as my thoughts here.
I am generally in line with what you think. I am thinking at whether there could not be one main principle - an entity lies in the At Large if it acts on behalf and for the good of a grouping of individual users of the Internet - and then add the additional criteria for a number of specific cases like the above.
On legal forms, I am wondering whether we could not rule out altogether all for-profit forms of association: correct me if I'm wrong, but for-profit legal forms and not-for-profit legal forms are clearly distinguishable under almost every legal system.
I agree. And as businesses and governments have their own constituencies/committee, I think a clarification not-for-profit and non-governmental would be helpful. Annette
About the change in meeting the criteria, perhaps there could be a regular procedure (e.g. every two years) through which staff asks ALSes to submit by email a declaration that they still meet the criteria; it might be better than having to rely on their willingness to inform us.