It would be good to have similar research done on the AC communities who aren't paid to produce the outputs that are pushed by the various GNSO constituencies each guarding their own group's interests. You can't compare the work that is done by volunteers in the ALAC and the GAC who don't come to the ICANN table with the technical knowledge and expertise of the SO community, so that AC end-user interests are dismissed as insignificant. It is forgotten that ACs cannot be effective in the work of communication to the public at-large when the language of the information they have to work with is targetted at the wider SO technical community and may be incomprehensible to the AC lay-person. How often do the ALAC and the GAC have to make that point? 

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 6:38 AM Evan Leibovitch via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:31 AM David Mackey via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:
 
It may be noted that ALAC is only referenced once in the article content, and then only as a definition. Even the definition of ALAC has a spelling error ... "Ad-Large Advisory Committee".

Incorrect.

Under section 4 we have:

"an absence of awareness of ICANN among the public at large leaves the regime with a narrow base of legitimacy. True, the world’s 4.7 billion regular internet users (as of 2020) obtain notional representation in the ICANN multistakeholder framework through the At-Large Constituency. However, participants in At-Large are self-selected and have few systematic communications with the wider public."

Plus, the 2017 At-Large Review is cited in the bibliography.
So, the authors are aware of ALAC and At-Large but dismiss its significance in ICANN's governance.
Sounds accurate to me.

As I have said repeatedly... concentrating all efforts on user-focused public education and selective advocacy based on research of public needs is ALAC's best (and I would argue only) path to legitimacy.

- Evan



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