Danny: I think your comments are after the fact. Randy's organization went through the at-large application process , which includes a due diligence review and discussion and approval by the at-large committee. it was approved, and as such is a certified at-large structure. if you want to comment on the appropriateness or not of an accredited ALS, then please - don't just pick on one, but review and comment the entire list of other certified structures. The list of ALS applications is available here - http:// alac.icann.org/applications/ Personally, Randy's views and those of his organization have been, and no doubt will continue to be useful and constructive. Yes it's from a slightly different perspective, but welcome none the less. I look forward to their ongoing participation in the na-ralo and larger at-large community. regards, Robert --- Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.ca> Managing Director, Privaterra Tel +1 416 893 0377 On 26-Jul-07, at 1:26 PM, Danny Younger wrote:
Randy,
You are an individual functioning as an ISP in Hawaii. You are also a domain name reseller for GoDaddy and Register.com, and you also manage a portfolio of over 900 monetized parking pages.
So, I understand where you are coming from... just like MarkMonitor that offers domain services for a niche community (the intellectual property folk), you are offering domain services that are marketed for the "domainers and Internet users in America".
The "at-large" has become your marketing vehicle, and apparently the most important thing that you took out of the San Juan experience was your complimentary membership with the .mobi folks.
I can accept all that as the basis for a view that promotes special-interest segments ahead of the unrepresented public interest segment.
What I can't accept is the notion that your organization properly belongs in the NARALO as an at-large organization. From what I have seen over the course of the last few years, you have no active membership. You have no articles posted by anyone other than yourself. You have no publicly archived discussion forums. You have no posted organizational minutes.
Summing it up, you're an individual with a financial interest in domain name activities that put up a website hoping to become an organization...
...I can understand that course of action; there are some long-time participants in the GNSO GA that have acted in similar fashion.
Frankly, there also have been many ALSs that are in the process for other than purely honorable reasons -- just look at all those European ALSs that signed up primarily to get their hands on travel funding for the earlier Athens IGF session; since they signed up they've contributed almost nothing to the At-Large process...
...but at least you contribute. I'm prepared to accept your contributions as an individual since the NARALO allows for individuals, but I'm having a hard time accepting the notion that AmericaAtLarge speaks for the broader at-large community.
regards, Danny
--- "RJGlass | America@Large" <jipshida@gmail.com> wrote:
Sure,
by 'constituency organizations,' I mean the Nomcom should be appointed by and made up of individuals found somewhere within the NARALO, ALAC, SSAC, RSSAC, TLG, ASO, GNSO, CCNSO, etc.
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