Evan, Perhaps you and others can expand upon this: Proposed NARALO Statement -- v.1 The North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) disassociates itself from the document submitted to the ICANN Board Governance Committee entitled "Joint users proposal GNSO structural change". It is the view of the NARALO that as we were neither participants in the formulation of this document nor afforded the opportunity to comment upon this submission, it would be inappropriate for us to signal any support for the specific formulations contained therein. The North American community, in the wake of the RegisterFly debacle, has respected the call put forth by ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey to "make the changes needed to protect registrants" by actively participating in efforts intended to provide this impacted community with a voice. Accordingly, we take umbrage with a proposal that fails to offer any specific representative opportunity to the broad community of registrants that are impacted by ICANN's policies. We further see major problems with a recommendation that fails to acknowledge the vital role of non-registrant users. We ask the Board Governace Committee to respect the principle of representation set out in ICANN's MOU that called for technical management structures to reflect the global and functional diversity of Internet users and their needs. --- Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
Danny Younger wrote:
The ALAC has participated in a joint statement without any consultative engagement with its own membership; such behavior should not be countenanced -- the final Statement is posted here:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-improvements-report-2008/msg00012.html
I am not immune to the irony in complaining about the ALAC's disenfranchisement in the GNSO document, while simultaneously complaining about the ALAC disenfranchisement of its own community. It sometimes makes one wonder if ALAC is worth defending -- but doing so is better than standing by silently while a system is proposed that invites gaming while further slowing the At-Large maturation process..
Danny, can you -- maybe together with Wendy, Brett and Beau -- draft a brief statement that expresses our disgust, both with the document and the process that produced it? I would very much want to get NARALO consensus on it and submit it before the public comment deadline.
- Evan
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