What I am missing in this conversation - and I have difficulties in crafting myself - a a bullet point list on what was missing in ALAC’s paper and (more importantly) what was wrong.
I am saying this without any polemic attempt - I have participated to the drafting with a couple of ideas, and I am very much interested in what should have been different.
About the overarching questions on whether ALAC is representative, on how to consider the copy-paste of comments, and all other similar issues, I have to confess that they might well be extremely important topics, but at this point in time for me not worth spending time in repeating what I have basically argued over the years.
On the other hand, I am very much interested in learning if something in the ALAC paper was not felt to be aligned with the feelings of the user community. The follow up question will be how to fix it, but I refuse to discuss how to fix something that we have not defined yet.
Cheers,
Roberto


On 06.05.2020, at 18:51, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:

Hi Fouad,

On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 12:04, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa@gmail.com> wrote:
Intriguing. Why the sudden awakening?

For me it's never been sudden. The catalyst right now is the recent rejection of ISOC's attempt to convert PIR from nonprofit to for-profit and then sell it off. There has been a substantial contrast between the substantial public opposition to the sake and ALAC's advice on the matter.  Since ALAC's single bylaw mandate is to advise the Board on what end-users need/want, the gap between ALAC and the public mood is unfortunate and (to some including me) needs to be addressed.

- Evan


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