Jacqueline, Of course, "The logical thing is to work towards a structure"; unfortunately, no one is working. They are blithely ignoring the need to have board-level voting representation -- they are doing nothing. Even the Nominating Committee reviewers recognized the need to have at-large directors seated with their recommendation: "The ALAC appoints two policy board Directors using whatever mechanism it considers to be appropriate." So the question remains, what have you and the "pretend at-large" done to lobby and argue for the representation that is your right? What do you intend to do? Or are you comfortable with forever not having a voting seat at the table? Have you consigned yourself to permanent second-class status? --- On Fri, 6/6/08, Jacqueline Morris <jam@jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:
From: Jacqueline Morris <jam@jacquelinemorris.com> Subject: Re: [At-Large] ALAC and AtLarge and france at large To: dannyyounger@yahoo.com Cc: "At-Large Worldwide" <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Date: Friday, June 6, 2008, 10:49 AM Hey Danny I am not ashamed at all. We have successfully managed to get ICANN issues in the air in Trinidad and Tobago and in a large part of the Caribbean that wasn't involved at all, thanks to this current structure. I think you meant to refer to the earlier "part-global" elections, as many many Internet users were left out. We went over this a lot a year ago. Those elections were not at all representative, IMO. So I think your structure was not good as I think it is intrinsically unfair to developing countries, and you think the current one is not good. Makes no sense fighting for a structure that doesn't exist, got scrapped and doesn't have support from at least half of the involved users. The logical thing is to work towards a structure that works for us both, and stop trying to beat a very very dead cow back to life. Jacqueline
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> wrote:
It's pathetic, and an insult to every At-Large member that voted in the earlier global elections. You should all be ashamed.