Please help me to understand why you are creating a RALO that excludes individuals who haven't found a congenial ALS. It looks to me as though this structure just further disenfranchises the individuals from ICANN processes. Why should the individual Internet user support this structure? When I asked earlier, I had thought the European group was including individual participants. Why the rush? --Wendy At 08:21 AM 3/28/2007, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:

Dear European Colleagues:

For those who are not physically present tomorrow, but would like to be one of the signers of the MoU, a procedure has been created for you.

PLEASE SEND IN AS BELOW NOT LATER THAN 1700 THURSDAY 29TH MARCH 2007

PLEASE NOTE: There will be a way, as provided by the MoU, to be determined by the EURALO, for ALSes to consent to be bound by the MoU at a later date.

Simply send to me, copied to the list, the following form of words, with the name of your organisation in place of the brackets, and as required directly below the sentence:

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I hereby consent for [INSERT ORGANISATION FULL NAME] to be bound by the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the Signing Organisations in the European Region as if I were personally signing the document.

Name Organisational Title Date

---- Note that I have attached the signature text of the MoU in the current version. Signatory information will change as the day goes on and I receive additional signatories' information.

-- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/