Well, in that case I can see absolutely no reason not to let such groups in. If they are interested in taking part and want to work with us, why not? I thought that we are here to encourage participation, not to impose imaginary barriers to it. D Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-6531 Fax: (867) 979-8870 dthompson@gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: nashtonhart@gmail.com [mailto:nashtonhart@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:25 PM To: John L Cc: Thompson, Darlene; NA Discuss Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Action Items Point of correction: The statement below is incorrect. The draft proposal submitted to ALAC to deal with this problem, attached hereto again, has been reviewed by the ICANN GC and there is no such barrier in the Bylaws or otherwise. The ALAC does of course have a no-orgs-of-orgs policy, for the reasons which Vittorio previously stated, and is free to change that policy if it chooses. On 17/04/07, John L <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
The other thing is that the no orgs-of-orgs language is in the ICANN bylaws. I entirely agree that it is arbitrary, and there are good
reasons
that they might want to change it. The bylaws are not written in stone, and we (the ALAC) have gotten the board to change language that didn't work in the past. But rather than doing that, does anyone really think that it is a good idea simply to ignore bylaws that we don't like?
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