Vittorio, thanks for your thoughtful comments. I have been trying to participate in ALAC as much as possible, yet the last two months I know my level of prticipation was lower than average. I got a new project to launch, among others, have to travel a lot (mostly domestically), had to deal with rather seriouos online defamation, etc etc, and even I was aware of certain events, I could not particiapte, and I also missed other events, such as one vote, as I was not paying sufficient attention. I missed to read on email and that is it. And, I am ready to be evaluated based on the rules we collectively agreed. izumi 2008/9/28 Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu>:
Alan Greenberg ha scritto:
But we also need people who can put a reasonable amount of time into ICANN as well. Certainly many ICANN volunteers can consider their ICANN work part of their paid jobs, but I know many who put a LOT of their own time into it.
In the last six years, I've seen many people come and go from the ALAC and the At Large constituency. We had plenty of problems about lack of commitment in the initial years, but over time things got better through a combination of better selections by the Nomcom, increased staff support (which means better organization and more bugging) and the introduction of rules that allowed us to kick those people who didn't participate.
The bottom line, however, is that either an ALAC member is committed to serving on the ALAC, or he/she is not. In the former case, there might be valid reasons that prevent the member from participating in a call or in a vote, but this is always a rather exceptional case, and you will see that person trying to address the problem by sending comments or votes in advance, and asking for reports about what happened. However, if someone misses several calls or several votes - perhaps most calls or most votes - then it's a clear lack of commitment.
There are several reasons why the commitment can go away, and not all of them deserve blame - for example, the person may have more important things to do, may have changed job, may have pressing personal issues. It's not necessarily like the person is willingly making fun of us all and of the institution. However, this does not change the bottom line.
So, no evaluations should be made on just one or two votes, but six to nine months is a sufficient scale; we introduced rules that allow the ALAC to get rid of people who cannot participate; there is really no excuse for not applying them. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------
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