Adam: For each region, you'd need to look at those regions' websites - see the left-hand-side navigation bar at www.alac.icann.org. The ALAC wiki is just for working and agendas and the like; it isn't meant to be an information source for general info on the regions; the regions have their own sites for that, and there any ALS may edit, include announcements, whatever they wish. The ALS mailing lists could easily be made available to non-members - the reason that they are not is only to reduce the spam received by the participants of the list from bots crawling the archives if they were public. Worth mentioning: ALAC publishes the results of every ALS vote, generally including the way each member of the ALAC voted on each application, they have public access to their agendas, take suggestions from the public about what to discuss, full recordings of their meetings are available, and they are in the process of setting their agenda in part based upon contributions from the public as to what they should be working on - all publicly accessible. The regions operate in just as open a fashion, using their regional homepages' wikis. If the ALSes wish to do so, they can post as much or as little information about themselves and what they are working on as they wish. It is worth mentioning that each ALS operates on volunteers' working for them pretty much, so they can only spend so much of their time, I would imagine, updating websites other than their own. It would be hard to imagine how much more accessible the community's operations could be. It is planned to have a full-time member of the ICANN staff working exclusively to support the RALOs, and at that point I will wager you'll start finding lots more information available about what the regions are up to, and the individual members are doing. (Now ABSOLUTELY, REALLY turning off the computer to go prepare for the parental units' arrival. Made the mistake at looking at my inbox briefly and couldn't resist replying!) On 08/04/07, Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

Perhaps I'm missing something, but looking around the ALAC site information about ALS is pretty lacking. Particularly, why aren't the ALS mailing lists archives visible to non-members?

If ALS exist to support "individual Internet users' informed participation in ICANN..." etc etc, how can they do this if the ALS lists are closed, if we can't see how policy is made, with what degree of support, who was involved. What are the ALS doing?

Not suggesting ALS lists should be open to non ALS members, but if their recommendations, and "bottom up" policy represented by ALAC in ICANN is to be taken seriously, then there should be transparency.

Thanks,

Adam

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