Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
To remind everyone of the current situation, we have an ALS applicant (Telecommunities Canada) who is waiting on a decision on their application, which is more overdue every day, and that decision is waiting on ALAC concluding review of the proposal, subject to amendments of course, on how to evaluate applications for At-Large especially in certain circumstances. The decision also affects another application, Communica.ch, which is of long standing based upon the very same issues.
I respectfully submit that we should vote now on pending applications, before addressing substantive revisions to our admission criteria. If staff would provide their advice on whether or not the application meets the criteria ALAC has previously set out -- whether the organization is run by and for the benefit of individual Internet users -- we are prepared to vote. I appreciate your suggestions about changing policy, but until ALAC changes the policy, we should abide by the one we have (which I think sensible). I move that we call a vote on TC immediately.
These larger questions you reference are important, but if you do not deal with the question at hand pretty quickly, then the likelihood of another Ombudsman investigation of ALS applications is a real possibility.
Fine. --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org phone: 718.780.7961 // fax: 718.780.0394 // cell: 914.374.0613 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/