On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:25:19 -0500, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
I was disgusted by the fact that NOT one of the "local community" bothered to attend the actual conference. Perhaps they would have understood, having done so, that ICANN is not IGF.
I agree with Evan. I will add that the local Internet community's concerns may not fit into ICANN's narrow mandate. When we tried to outreach to the local community for the ICANN meeting in Luxembourg, we found out that the individual users concern at the time was mainly the high price of broadband access, not the allocation of globally unique identifiers on the Internet. 3 years later, it still remains a challenge at the ALS level to get meaningful input from our membership on issues that are within the mandate of ICANN. So much for local Internet community involvement. I think it is crucial not to turn the ALAC, RALOs and At-large into a generic end user caucus on all Internet issues. We need to remain focused if we want to be relevant. Patrick