If I understand well, you're telling us that Wendy Seltzer, John Levine and Alan Greenberg, the North American ALAC reps have decided that a NARALO formation meeting is not a good idea?
Yes, that is what we said. An in-person meeting would be counterproductive and not a good use of ICANN's money.
Given that their mandate includes -- at least for Wendy and John who have the NA interim seats -- "assist[ing] in the formation and qualification of At-Large Structures and Regional At-Large Organizations (RALOs)"
As I have said several times, a successful RALO has to operate on-line. If we can't form it on-line, we're not going to be able to run it on-line. If we want a RALO, We will continue to work on-line. There are already several failed ICANN at-large organizations that planned to have a complex structure and physical meetings. There is no point in making another one. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.