Evan Leibovitch wrote:
2009/12/8 Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
By-the-way, I certainly do not believe that any choice has been made that ALSs are regional voting centers; that tends to suggest too much that the election is among ALAC members rather than the community of internet users.
You are welcome to your beliefs but I don't think they match the current reality. A decisive majority within At-Large(*) has expressed a preference for the 20-vote option in which most -- but not all -- the voters are ALAC members.
According the the whole purpose of At-Large, we are charged with doing our best to support and advance the interests of the "community of Internet users", so your point is moot. And I personally have little interest in (yet again) re-debating the suitability of At-Large for this task.
- Evan
(*) - Actually, every region except NARALO has expressed this preference. Within NARALO, a preponderance of participants also prefer this option; however there are enough individuals opposed that I am reluctant to call the majority view a consensus. Just the same, even of you count NARALO as split, then 4.5 out of 5 regions have expressed a clear preference for the 20 vote option (option 3 in the list at https://st.icann.org/working-groups/index.cgi?At-Large%20Draft%20Procedure%2... )
It's probably no coincidence that the alternate viewpoint comes from NARALO, the only Regional At-Large Organization to allow individual members. Some of those individuals, and perhaps others who've worked with us, believe strongly that the electorate should be broader than the ALAC or RALO and ALS leaders. ALAC may need to serve as a coordinating body, but it does not effectively represent individuals. I find it hard to imagine that the other regions' unanimity comes from a discussion involving many Internet end-users. --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center at University of Colorado Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/