Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
As this process only started at 1340 UTC 30th of November
No, this process started in December 2002. ALAC has had far more time than it needed to put in place a concise yet flexible set of communications channels, which is critical considering its intended objectives. As the product of this five years of skilled minds, hard work and lots of money spent we have a hodgepodge of attempts to alternately diversify and consolidate. Let's see, at just a cursory glance of websites, we presently have http://www.icann.org/committees/alac/ http://icannalac.org (which still shows a NEWSFLASH! dated Dec 2006) http://alac.icann.org/ https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi http://icannwiki.org/ALAC (And that's not even counting the fact that when an ad-hoc At-Large group started work on the Summit we needed to create a Google Group because early request for communications channels were either refused or unavailable.) Will the real ICANN website please stand up? What is most astounding is that ALAC (or, rather, the At-Large infrastructure) is supposed to be simplifying the public's path to understand ICANN. Isn't it reasonable to have expected that, after five years of prep, this mess would have been solved by now? I can only hope that the new initiatives will strive to clean up the above mess with some level of permanence. - Evan