Dear Darlene: In short, those firms who responded to the RFP for the ALAC review were looked at by the relevant subcommittee of the Board, who then make a choice. I can get you more details if you like though? On 24/04/2008 16:11, "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson@GOV.NU.CA> wrote: Nick, Further, I would like to know how Westlake was chosen. It seemed like a rather un-transparent process. I happen to know that at least one qualified Canadian firm put in for that contract but were not even contacted. D Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey A. Williams Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:00 PM To: Nick Ashton-Hart; Jeanette Hofmann; info@us-cert.gov; jeffrey@icann.org; twomey@icann.org; ssac@icann.org; steve@shinkuro.com Cc: spam@uce.gov; At-Large Worldwide; aheineman@ntia.doc.gov; alac-internal@atlarge-lists.icann.org; stacy.burnette@icann.org Subject: Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] [Fwd: Re: Draft agenda and planning for EURALO's 1st General Assembly in Paris] Nick and all, Thank you for this reference of "Westlake consulting", but who the heck is "Westlake Consulting" and how are they affiliated with ICANN? What Email address should someone forward these concerns? And what is the URL for "Westlake Consulting"? Is the url http://www.westlakeinc.com/ ? If so the only Email contact point listed on their web site seems to be info@westlakeinc.com . Is this correct? If so, why is a "General delivery" email address the contact point? Do they not have a live person with a individual Email address by which such concerns can be sent to? If not, why not? Don't you think that they ought to close up their open DNS server so as to not expose visitors of those whom may wish to communicate with them to spam, phishing attempts, and data theft? or misuse? See: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=westlakeinc.com=2590cfd4c2... <http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=westlakeinc.com&token=2590cfd4c2225e0100f1c78c31300019><http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=westlakeinc.com&token=2590cfd4c2225e0100f1c78c31300019> Sorry for all these questions, but I think they are reasonable ones, don't you? -----Original Message-----
From: Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart@icann.org> Sent: Apr 17, 2008 11:15 AM To: Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette@wzb.eu>, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> Cc: "alac-internal@atlarge-lists.icann.org" <alac-internal@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] [Fwd: Re: Draft agenda and planning for EURALO's 1st General Assembly in Paris]
May I also take this opportunity to suggest that any views on this subject would be of great interest to the at-large reviewers at Westlake consulting. I hope that you will all take the opportunity to send them your thoughts on these subjects; I know that many of you have strong views about this and it would be a shame if the reviewers didn't have a complete picture of the perspectives.
On 17/04/2008 19:51, "Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@wzb.eu> wrote:
Hi, thank you for the explanation. What still amazes me though is that the At Large Membership doesn't provide "a home" for individual Internet users. No doubt, they are affected by ICANN's policies but they have no direct means to articulate their interests and concerns, unless they join an ALS, of course. Now doubt also, individual users form a large group out there on the net. Do you all regard this as a blind spot of ICANN structures and processes? Do you think things will stay like this or do you expect them to change some time in the future? Thanks, jeanette
Evan Leibovitch wrote:
What needs clarification across the RALOs is whether or not board members have to be ALS members in order to qualify for travel support to participate in RALO meetings. This is why forward the subsequent exchange we had with Nick about this issue.
To clarify:,
Within NARALO we solved this by allowing individual members, and enabling a pseudo-ALS for for them. That is, for the purposes of formal representation in the GA, the individual members of NARALO collectively have the status of one ALS and as such may select representatives for voting (or potentially travel). They can also stand for election for the Chair or Secretariat or ALAC rep.
We explicitly rejected the notion that an individual member must have the exact same status as a representative of a membership organization that has gone through the ALAC due diligence process. The intent, if I recall, was that active individual participants should be encouraged to get involved with like-minded larger groups that would then become ALSs. This would in turn increase participation beyond the individuals, which is a prime goal of the RALO/ALS process.
This approach did not please _everyone_, but we believed it struck a reasonable balance between ICANN goals and the awareness that not everyone who was interested in At-Large was part of an ALS. So far I believe this balance has worked well.
- Evan
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