Wendy, I'm not sure what you mean by "I suggest making individuals direct participants". Do you see them voting for the Chair and ALAC reps? If so, do you have any ideas on how to weigh the votes of individuals against those of ALS's? Regards, _________________________________________ Luc Faubert Conseiller en gouvernance TI et en gestion du changement / IT governance and change management consulting GFI Solutions +1 514 236 5129 www.GFISolutions.com www.LucFaubert.com www.isoc.qc.ca www.ccig.ca www.maillons.qc.ca
-----Original Message----- From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Wendy Seltzer Sent: 16 janvier 2007 17:05 To: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] NARALO documents
Bret Fausett wrote:
I support the involvement of individuals in ICANN's work, but ICANN has given us an At Large built on organizational membership. The history here is ICANN's long institutional distrust of identity and authentication when an individual is only known by an electronic mailing address. The problem is solvable, but at what cost in time, effort and money? Would love to see some discussion on this and some proposals to make it work.
I think that's ICANN's problem, not necessarily NARALO's. Why should individuals be put through the hoops of creating yet more intermediary organizations just to have a way to tell ICANN what their interests as Internet users are?
I suggest making individuals direct participants, as I believe EURALO is considering. Wait until authentication becomes a problem, rather than assuming it is. I think the bigger problem is low participation of real or imagined people, because the hurdles are too great for the scant payoff.
--Wendy
-- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org phone: 718.780.7961 // fax: 718.780.0934 // cell: 914.374.0613 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/
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