On 3/29/07, Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com> wrote:

Funny, since I've never heard ICANN listening to
what any of those voices are saying.
ALS-RALO-ALAC- - - - - ICANN hardly seems like "direct input" to me.

--Wendy

>Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:12:48 -0700
>Subject: [alerts] ICANN News Alert -- Thousands
>of Voices Get Direct Say At ICANN
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>Thousands of Voices Get Direct Say At ICANN
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>29 March 2007
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>Internet users from three of ICANN's five global
>regions will now have direct input to the
>organization thanks to the creation of three
>Regional At-Large Organisations (RALOs).
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>Memorandums of Understanding creating RALOs for
>Africa and Europe were signed today by ICANN and
>member groups of the RALOs in a special ceremony
>at ICANN's 28th Public Meeting in Lisbon. The
>third RALO Asia-Australia-Pacific was
>announced and will be formally signed at the
>30th Public Meeting to be held later this year.
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>"This is a fantastic day for Internet users in
>Africa, in Europe, and in the
>Asia-Australia-Pacific region. The creation of
>RALOs gives average Internet users the chance to
>influence decisions that shape the security and
>stability of the Internet," said Dr Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN.
>
>The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) of ICANN
>represents Internet users in ICANN.
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>"ICANN deals with issues that are technical but
>hugely important to Internet users. At-Large is
>the place to be if you want to participate and
>RALOs provide direct input to us," said
>Jacqueline Morris, ALAC Chair from Trinidad and Tobago.
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>The first RALO, the Latin America - Caribbean
>Regional At-Large Organization was created at
>the 27th ICANN public meeting held in São Paulo
>in December 2006. Today's announcement means
>four of ICANN's five global regions have RALOs.
>
>The people who RALOs represent are incredibly
>diverse. For example, groups from Africa taking
>part in today include a network of journalists
>based in Tanzania reporting on Internet issues
>(JUSTA-AFRICA), and Internet Society chapters
>from countries as diverse as Mali, Benin, South
>Africa, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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>European user groups participating include
>Internet Society chapters throughout Eastern and
>Western Europe, a network of science and
>Information and Communications Technology
>professionals in Germany, and academic professionals.
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>More information on the creation of RALOs is
>available at
><http://alac.icann.org/applications/>http://alac.icann.org/applications/
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>About ICANN:
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>ICANN is an internationally organized, public
>benefit non-profit responsible for coordinating
>Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation,
>protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD)
>and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name
>system management, and root server system
>management functions. For more information
>please visit: <http://www.icann.org/ >www.icann.org.
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>Media Contacts:
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>Jason Keenan
>Media Adviser
>ICANN (USA)
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>International: Andrew Robertson
>Edelman (London)
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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
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