Just to clarify one point: There is no barrier to ALSes (or actually anyone else) joining the main ALAC list - and speaking personally I hope very much that many will choose to do so. A big part of my desire to move the main ALAC mailing list over to our server was so that the whole community could subscribe to it, and thereby begin to have a real conversation between the committee and their constituents, and I'm very glad to say that this seems to have really taken off. On 07/02/07, Patrick Vande Walle <patrick@isoc.lu> wrote:
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
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