To put some other thoughts, Danny, do you mean/want ALAC as 15-member
global committee should correspond to each consumer/user complaints?
Or, with the recent setup of RALO, should NARALO, in case of North America,
respond to? Or, say, is it better any of ALS first deal with them?
[or none of above?] We have Consumer organization in US as one ALS.
NARALO "can" become such channel. But I doubt tthe global ALAC
to become the first channel.
And, I also have thought that each case should be handled not by ALAC, but
rather by either ICANN or registrar-registry in charge. At least former interim
ALAC did not have that kind of capacity, and there did not seem to exist
such expectation.
Maybe I am completly wrong, but I cannot help express these.
izumi
2007/12/6, Roberto Gaetano <roberto@icann.org
>:Danny Younger wrote:
>
> You may also want to ask yourselves whether a failure to
> communicate with the public has led to unnecessary lawsuits
> that have served to drain ICANN financial resources.
The first thing that is striking, to me, is that you address ALAC as "you",
not as "we".
Anyway, to the matter of the post, my answer is "No". And the reason is that
Tim Cole has written to the plaintiff explaining the position of ICANN, as
reported in the document you quote (see:
http://www.icann.org/legal/moore-v-icann/moore-v-icann-dismissal.pdf, pages
6-7), to which he has chosen to sue ICANN anyway.
However, your question opens a greater issue: "What is the role of ALAC?"
Personally, I doubt that ALAC has to turn into a consumer protection agency,
and dedicate the scarce resources to anything else than policy making. Maybe
an effort can be made to inform consumer protection agencies (some of which
are also ALSes) of facts related to the domain names market, but not to try
to do their job.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Roberto
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