Ross Rader wrote:
All I'm saying is that I think it would serve our purposes to take a broader, less cynical view of the role that the community has in setting ICANN's agenda and mandate.
I hear you. It's just that At-Large is still teething. We can barely wrap our collective heads around the narrow issues such as domain tasting, new gTLDs and IDNs. (*you* say "fast flux" quickly ten times...) Until not very long ago procedure dominated policy as At-Large's collective time-suck. Much of the top layer of At-Large is still distressingly elitist, but things are improving. Slowly. Things are starting to gel, but we're still some distance from what I would consider the maturity necessary to be consistently taken seriously as the "voice of the public" by the rest of ICANN. In other words, I'd like see ALAC achieve its existing mandate before even considering to take on more. And I don't even think I can see that far ahead... - Evan