Danny Younger said the following on 07/02/07 21:23:

We have been pursuing this experiment for four long years
during which time the DNS policy-related contributions
offered by the ALS organizations has been almost nil.

Danny,

You are correct. On the metrics at least.

Here's the view of an ALS:

What has been done by the ALAC and ICANN to involve the ALSes into the debate ? It has only been a week or so that we actually receive the ALAC mailing list in our mailbox. And this is in read-only mode. As an example, this reply will be moderated once it goes to the alac list. Is this the treatement that ALSes deserve ?

My understanding is that much of the work of the ALAC is done through teleconferences, which ALSes cannot attend. Another part of the work is done face-to-face during ICANN meetings, where most ALSes cannot afford to send a representativefor a week.

In short, ALAC and ICANN seem out of touch viewed from here.

There seems to be a willingess from ICANN to go forward with the ALAC and RALOs. ICANN has assigned a budget for this. There are new mailing lists, wikis and most importantly staff dedicated to bring this all together. I still believe something useful can come of out this.

I don't want a powerless ALAC model that offers no
hope of representation on the ICANN Board.  I want our
community to have the benefit of a Supporting
Organization model that seats its members on the ICANN
Board.

I think this is what we all want to achieve in the end. And indeed, it is not with sleeping ALses that we are going to reach that goal. How can we wake them up ?

Best,

Patrick Vande Walle