Danny and all, Danny, I think you are a little bit to critical of the ALS's here in your remarks below. The ALS's did respond to ICANN's addressing of the domain name tasting issue, all be the ALS's response was "Milktoast" or overly conciliatory in nature. However it does seem to me, and from what I am reading, to others as well, that the ALS's don't seem to be all that interested in the current issues already defined that do effect users, nor do the ALS's staff seem to be willing to have other user recognized and reported issues heard, let alone discussed and perhaps addressed. Rather there seems to be a undercurrent of nuaunced directive to the ALS staff as to what the should concentrate on coming from perhaps the GNSO council and the ICANN staff and Bod. I hope however I am mistaken here. -----Original Message-----
From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> Sent: Apr 14, 2008 7:31 AM To: "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson@GOV.NU.CA>, "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam@jacquelinemorris.com>, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org>, Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart@icann.org> Cc: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] [At-Large] ALAC Draft Accountability Framework andConflicts of Interest Policy
Re: "How can we punish or even expect anything at all out of ALSs that haven't been educated?"
When these organizations signed up they agreed to (1) distribute information on ICANN activities and issues, (2) enable discussions among their members on the issues; and (3) involve their members in relevant ICANN policy development, discussions and decisions.
The ICANN website currently contains information on: a. accountability and transparency b. idn fast-track discussions c. mid-term review considerations d. the 2007 Annual report e. root-server agreements f. new gtlds g. independent reviews h. compliance initiatives i. whois issues j. the registrar accreditation agreement k. nominating committee activities l. iPV6
There are also links to the GNSO Improvements discussion, the ICANN travel policy considerations, the translation program, and to a host of other subjects.
So I guess what you're saying is we first need to teach ALSs how to read. Apparently, they are only capable of reading an ALS application form, but nothing else.
Funny, how registrants that encounter a problem manage to read everything under the sun about an issue and know where to send their complaints and concerns, yet ALSs remain clueless.
Odd that registrants in droves managed to find their way to the ICANN blog and to the public participation sites when the Registerfly mess unfolded, yet ALSs were absolutely silent.
The problem isn't that ALSs aren't being properly educated; the problem is that ALSs are not the at-large. The real At-Large cares, reacts and responds; they don't.
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