Agreed. We acutally have less than 25 unaffiliated individuals: some are non-existant and some are not qualified to become an unaffiliated rep due to not being from the region or being affiliated with a registry/registrar. Some of our ALSs have members in the thousands if not millions. Participate or not as is your choice. D Darlene A. Thompson CAP Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Sation 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca ________________________________ From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org on behalf of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Thu 8/12/2010 7:25 PM To: Antony Van Couvering Cc: ICANN At-Large Staff; NA Discuss Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Call to Register as Unaffiliated NARALO Member On 12 August 2010 19:13, Antony Van Couvering <avc@avc.vc> wrote: That the combined weight of all unaffiliated members equals the vote of one
ALS, which may have only a few members, is a sad mirror of the larger ICANN structure, which gives extraordinary weight to small constituency groups (e.g., to name only one, the ISP constituency) at the relative expense of interested unaffiliated ICANN participants. If I'm not mistaken, this is something that ALAC and NARALO specifically have had issues with. How curious then to see the NARALO rules perpetuate that same kind of inequality.
Right now there are fewer than 30 people eligible as unaffiliated members. That is far smaller than the membership of almost every ALS in this region. You're perfectly welcome to choose those things in life that upset you, but IMO this is just petty. - Evan PS: Why is being chummy an insult? Would you prefer a hostile environment? Not I. ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss_atlarge-lists.ica... Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org <http://www.naralo.org/> ------