Westlake Consulting Recommendation #12: That the ALAC should explore ways to differentiate between organizations that genuinely represent individual Internet users, and are therefore ALS candidates, as opposed to those which may be a better fit with the the NCUC.
When I was on the ALAC, we attempted to turn down an ALS applicant which clearly belonged in the NCUC, being an organization of organizations with no individual members. For our troubles we got into a long fight with the ICANN Ombudsman, who acted in ways I can only characterize as seriously corrupt and incompetent*, and forced us to accept the ALS. We got no support at all from anyone in ICANN, even for our complaints about his abuse of process. So we basically decided to approve them all since there was only pain in doing anything else. I entirely agree that the current setup doesn't properly distinguish between actual grassroots groups that belong in the ALAC and other NGOs that belong in the NCUC, but we'd be nuts to reopen that wound unless there was a good reason to think we wouldn't end up as Frank's punching bag again. R's, John * - selective leaks of allegedly confidential correspondence, threats against us, refusal to correct significant factual errors in his report, you get the idea