Thompson, Darlene wrote:
2. Well said and I'm not sure how we could do better outreach but we certainly need to.
My thoughts are that -- if this issue has enough support -- Beau and/or Robert would propose a formal motion to ALAC to rescind any existing "silence is consent" policy, and change it to one that requires ALAC be up-front with the level of public interest/input in any position it is submitting. Generally, IMO silence should be treated as an abstention, not affirmation, as it is in just about every other form of decision-making mechanism I can think of.
4. I agree that ALAC cannot become the complaints department for everything but, using the Registerfly example, maybe when things like this come up it denotes a policy area that hasn't been addressed. As somebody posted this last week, maybe we need to be a little more pro-active rather than re-active with this stuff. "How" is not clear to me as we all have other jobs and lives but if this is what we've signed on for...
Jobs? Lives? Really? ;-)
5. Evan, we need some kind of mechanism for alerting the ALSs with up-coming deadlines. Maybe it means one of us monitoring the page that you flagged. I'm hoping to be able to spend some time over Christmas on ICANN stuff and maybe I can get some kind of schedule set up with a reminder system. I'll probably be just doing this using Outlook which is NOT the best way so if anybody can suggest something, it would be good!
How about using the At-Large Google Calendar that is already in place? It can send alerts in many ways, and this is IMO a totally appropriate use. Right now there are two calendars available ... one started by me (originally to post the San Juan schedule), another created by Nick. I suggest that Nick's calendar be the default one for At-Large, and should perhaps include such relevant deadlines. Whether my original calendar should be re-purposed for North American use or simply deleted is yet to be determined. - Evan