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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:08:17 -0400 To: jam@jacquelinemorris.com, alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org From: Jean Armour Polly <mom@netmom.com>
Hi- someone also brought up the possibility of a 6th RALO that should be created for Non-geographic identities (NO-RALO). This would encompass ALS's with membership that ignores borders; organizations with members from many regions. Maybe this could be combined with the one for individuals. ALAC's charter would have to be changed to create a 6th entity. But the Board has agreed with by-laws changed for ALAC before.
At 2:28 PM +0300 4/11/07, alice recently said:
Yes I do recall having this discussion and think it is worthwhile exploring other ways to engage individual users. Willing to be part of a working group for this. best alice
Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:
Hi Alice As we discussed briefly during the Lisboa meeting, several of the RALOs have determined that individual users do not participate on the same footing as the organized ALSes. We said then that the ALAC needed to look into possible alternate methods to allow individual users to participate - one idea was a 6th RALO for individuals... Should we start a working group to brainstorm ideas for better participation? If so - who'd be interested in looking at those options - Wendy, Alice? Jacqueline
-----Original Message----- From: alice [mailto:alice@apc.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:48 PM To: Wendy Seltzer Cc: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [At-Large] ALS lists - why no public archive?
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)
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