Agree, the current ALAC structure does not support individual Internet users participation. Not sure the RALO's will either unless there is a commitment to truly supporting/ensuring their engagement. alice Wendy Seltzer wrote:
At 08:38 AM 4/9/2007, Adam Peake wrote:
I am just trying to understand how the ALAC structure works.
ALS have a pretty clear mandate to support "individual Internet users' informed participation in ICANN by distributing to individual constituents/members information on relevant ICANN activities and issues, offering Internet-based mechanisms that enable discussions of one or more of these activities and issues among individual constituents/members, and involving individual constituents/members in relevant ICANN policy development, discussions and decisions." and to be organised around individual participation, etc. <http://alac.icann.org/correspondence/structures-app.htm>
Does the current ALAC structure achieve this?
NO.
--Wendy (more later)
-- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/
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