I am with Evan in every single word here. Regards Andres Piazza Lacralo chair Sent from BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:29:59 To: At-Large Worldwide<at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] DOODLE: At-Large Community Call / At-Large Director Appointment Process Karl Auerbach wrote:
When I say "community of internet users" I do not mean things like ALS or RALO.
Well, I do. What other reason is there for the existence of the RALO/ALS infrastructure. except to nurture a community of Internet users that has enough sufficient interest to know about ICANN? So let me get this straight. You're saying that ICANN went to the whole effort to create this multi-level structure, to provide bi-directional information flow between itself and the public, that has taken multiple years to mature -- only to bypass all of it when picking a "public board rep"?
Membership in some ICANN approved organization ought not to be a pre-condition to the ability to run-for, vote for, or occupy a seat on the ICANN board of directors or any other ICANN body.
Sorry, can't agree. I'm with you that the candidates do not have to come from the ALS/RALO/ALAC community. But I have no problems in using this existing elaborate network for selecting the individual, as opposed to creating some brand new system to determine eligible voters. The last thing that "ICANN AT-Large" needs is more infrastructure. - Evan _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann... At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org