I agree with Evan - in fact this topic (in general) came up at one of the Toronto meetings and the meeting participants agreed with the position that Evan has outlined. Gareth On 2012-10-31, at 2:26 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Hi Joly.
It was a delight to welcome Tom to my home -- figuratively and literally. I look forward to the participation of connecting.nyc. While Tom and I differ on the value of city TLDs, his approach to community involvement in Internet growth is to be applauded and encouraged.
While there's nothing wrong with being a member of multiple ALSs, I'm pretty sure it would not be kosher to attempt to represent more than one at once within NARALO. If it is, it shouldn't be. So I would expect that ISOC NY would designate someone else for that role should connecting.NYC be accepted and should Tom be its representative. I personally don't think this requires that Tom step down from his Board position, just that of NARALO represenative.
Having said all that, I would suggest that the talent pool within ISOC-NY is fairly deep and there are a number of others who could step in to represent them.
- Evan
On 31 October 2012 16:54, Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
As most will be familiar Connecting.NYC founder Tom Lowenhaupt has long campaigned for the .nyc TLD, and other city TLDs, to be used for community rather than commercial purposes.
He has regularly held public meetings in the city to promote this idea.
He has,since 2010, been a board member of ISOC-NY - an existing ALS - .and did travel to Toronto on our behalf. Whether this creates a conflict I leave up to others to ascertain, but I am sure he would be prepared to step down from his ISOC-NY post if required.
joly
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:35 PM, ICANN At-Large Staff < staff@atlarge.icann.org> wrote:
Dear All,
This is to inform you that we received an ALS application from Connecting.nyc Inc. It is based in New York, USA. and would be a member of NARALO if accepted.
Please find the application form attached. We will provide the due diligence for this application in due course.
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