The status of ALSes (was Ramping up for the election - General Procedures)
Dear Colleagues, To follow-up my earlier note in which I published what I could discover from the published public records of three ALSes I'm sharing a more complete attempt at discovery. I examine the application made, which of course is historic, and attempt to locate the current membership, the means for its members to direct the ALS, through the published governance and decision-making processes, and engage in informed participation in ICANN. I suggest that where there are errors in the method, or in the information discovered, that the interested ALS, or others, provide correction. The current set of ALSes is published at: https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+ALSes In presentation order: America@Large In its 25 May 2004 application it named a number of individuals in leadership positions, an anticipated chapter organization without current members. The legal form of the organization is stated as a non-profit corporation. The website http://AmericaAtLarge.org redirects to http://www.linkedin.com/groups/America-Large-America-Large-4163664 The members and governance process do not appear on the public portion of this website. What information there is appears to confirm that there may be as many as 12 persons in this linked in group, two of whom joined March 4th and 11, the others joining prior to 17 January, 2012, and six (6) instances of communication in the past 12 months, all of which appear to be third-party originating texts, few of which refer to ICANN directly, with no recorded response from the other eleven (11) LinkedIn Group members. Association for Community Networking (AFCN) In its 19 January 2007 application it named a number of individuals in leadership positions, in an advisory council, and a voting membership of almost 150, and excerpts from its corporate by-laws. The website afcn.org is a drupal lacking any content, hence the members and governance process do not appear on the public portion of this website. It is entirely possible that this is a transient condition. Canadian Association for Open Source (CLUE) See the prior note. Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (CAUCE North America) The members do appear on the public portion of this website. A board of directors and three supporting members are identified, as is the governance process. There are, through a twitter feed, informative references to ICANN. I was unable in scan of the past twelve (12) months of tweets and retweets of third-party tweets, to find one referencing ALAC or NARALO. Full disclosure: I have personally met with several persons associated with CAUSE including current and past members of the board of directors, through a variety of venues, ICANN being one. Communautique The members and governance process appear on the public website. While no ICANN, ALAC or NARALO references are evident, there are references to the internet and society. Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities (FBSC) The members do not appear on the public portion of this website, nor does a governance process. There are, through news posts, informative references to ICANN, though none to ALAC or NARALO. Greater Toronto Area Linux User Group (GTALug) The members and governance process appear on the public website. This group actually holds meetings, has an accessible mailing list archive, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. ISOC Colorado The members and governance process do not appear on the public website, a membership may be inferred from a linked in group. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. ISOC NY The directors and bylaws appear on the public website, membership does not. The archive of the general discussion mailing list, to which members are subscribed upon payment of membership fee, is not publicly accessible. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. Full disclosure: I have personally met with several persons associated with this organization. ISOC PR The by-laws, directors and annual reports appear on the public website. The members do not appear on the public portion of this website. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. ISOC Quebec Proces Verbal listing directors present and absent, and the acts of the governance process are present on the public website. The members do not appear on the public portion of this website. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. KnujOn See the prior note. N-CAP The directors are present on the public website. The by-laws and members do not appear on the public portion of this website. A reference is made to ICANN and the secretariat of the NARALO, together with the statement " As an ALS, N-CAP is under an obligation to keep its member community informed on various ICANN issues." No other information on ICANN issues is present on the public site and the "News Items" link leads to a blank page. Pacific Community Networks Association The public website is "new". The members and governance process do not appear on the public website. There is very little content at present (fewer than 20 joomla nodes). people who. The application for "At-Large Structure" (ALS) Designation contains a negative response to Question 7, "Is the organization constituted so that participation by individual Internet users who are citizens or residents of countries with the Geographic Region in which your organization is based will predominate in your organization's operation?" The directors, by-laws and records of governance process do not appear on the public website. The listed members are WNUSP, an IGF "Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability", in which "people who" is listed as a member, an ITU "Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability", in which "people who" is listed as a member, and Ratify Now, in which "people who" is listed as a member. Privaterra The WHOIS data is obscured, the NS records are to DomainDirect (registrant TuCows), and the published A record is to 72.14.207.121, a Google address. No service is offered on port 80. There is no publicly accessible director, by-laws or member data at present. San Francisco Bay ISOC The directors, by-laws and records of governance process appear on the public website. The members do not, though are inferred from ISOC membership and Chapter selection. Full disclosure: I have personally met with several persons associated with this organization. Telecommunities Canada The directors and records of governance process appear on the public website. The members do not. No reference to ICANN, ALAC or NARALO more recent than 2009 appears on the public website. Note overlap of officers with N-CAP, supra. Alberta Community Network Association The directors and members do not appear on the public website. The governance process is an employees manual. One deep link (in marketing) refers to a date after 2005. The Intellectual Property & Technology Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association The domain in the application for ALS status, hiip.org is currently assocaited with the HIIP Program at the Mt. Vernon Hospital, NY. No publicly accessible director, by-laws or member data is present. Web405 See the prior note. Youth Helping Youth Inc dba Emerging Futures Network No A record is published for the domain emergingfutures.net. No publicly accessible director, by-laws or member data is present. That's all the ALSs listed in their presentation order. I've spent less time from the mid-point to the end on the type 1 and type 3 cases of a tirage -- those that are obviously "alive" and those that are obviously "dead". Responsibility for errors and omissions are mine. Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon
in regards to N-CAP., our web address is www.nu.e-association.ca. I am a little surprised about Eric's statement that "together with the statement "As an ALS, N-CAP is under an obligation to keep its member community informed on various ICANN issues." No other information on ICANN issues is present on the public site and the "News Items" link leads to a blank page." As a matter of fact there are several useful links posted that point to ICANN issues and "primers" to make people aware of the basics of ICANN issues. I have no idea why Eric would misrepresent us in such a light. Anybody who checks our website can see this. He is, however, correct in stating that "News Items" leads to a blank page as this is still under construction. As for the overlap between Telecommunities Canada and N-CAP, we only share one officer/director in common and that is myself - a fact that I have made transparently clear on numerous occasions and is not disallowed under the NARALO by-laws. Eric's comments state, "Note overlap of officers with N-CAP, supra." The use of the word "officers" means that there are more than one with is blatantly untrue. NARALO is presently in the process of decertifying ACNA but is performing due diligence on this so to not decertify unjustly. This has been discussed on our monthly telephone conferences but I do realize that Eric has absented himself from the list until this election so he may not realize this. So, having found such inconsistencies that I know about in the information below, I shudder to think what others there may be. D Darlene A. Thompson CAP Administrator N-CAP/Department of Education P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 dthompson@gov.nu.ca ________________________________________ From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] on behalf of Eric Brunner-Williams [ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 4:28 PM To: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: [NA-Discuss] The status of ALSes (was Ramping up for the election - General Procedures) Dear Colleagues, To follow-up my earlier note in which I published what I could discover from the published public records of three ALSes I'm sharing a more complete attempt at discovery. I examine the application made, which of course is historic, and attempt to locate the current membership, the means for its members to direct the ALS, through the published governance and decision-making processes, and engage in informed participation in ICANN. I suggest that where there are errors in the method, or in the information discovered, that the interested ALS, or others, provide correction. The current set of ALSes is published at: https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+ALSes In presentation order: America@Large In its 25 May 2004 application it named a number of individuals in leadership positions, an anticipated chapter organization without current members. The legal form of the organization is stated as a non-profit corporation. The website http://AmericaAtLarge.org redirects to http://www.linkedin.com/groups/America-Large-America-Large-4163664 The members and governance process do not appear on the public portion of this website. What information there is appears to confirm that there may be as many as 12 persons in this linked in group, two of whom joined March 4th and 11, the others joining prior to 17 January, 2012, and six (6) instances of communication in the past 12 months, all of which appear to be third-party originating texts, few of which refer to ICANN directly, with no recorded response from the other eleven (11) LinkedIn Group members. Association for Community Networking (AFCN) In its 19 January 2007 application it named a number of individuals in leadership positions, in an advisory council, and a voting membership of almost 150, and excerpts from its corporate by-laws. The website afcn.org is a drupal lacking any content, hence the members and governance process do not appear on the public portion of this website. It is entirely possible that this is a transient condition. Canadian Association for Open Source (CLUE) See the prior note. Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (CAUCE North America) The members do appear on the public portion of this website. A board of directors and three supporting members are identified, as is the governance process. There are, through a twitter feed, informative references to ICANN. I was unable in scan of the past twelve (12) months of tweets and retweets of third-party tweets, to find one referencing ALAC or NARALO. Full disclosure: I have personally met with several persons associated with CAUSE including current and past members of the board of directors, through a variety of venues, ICANN being one. Communautique The members and governance process appear on the public website. While no ICANN, ALAC or NARALO references are evident, there are references to the internet and society. Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities (FBSC) The members do not appear on the public portion of this website, nor does a governance process. There are, through news posts, informative references to ICANN, though none to ALAC or NARALO. Greater Toronto Area Linux User Group (GTALug) The members and governance process appear on the public website. This group actually holds meetings, has an accessible mailing list archive, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. ISOC Colorado The members and governance process do not appear on the public website, a membership may be inferred from a linked in group. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. ISOC NY The directors and bylaws appear on the public website, membership does not. The archive of the general discussion mailing list, to which members are subscribed upon payment of membership fee, is not publicly accessible. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. Full disclosure: I have personally met with several persons associated with this organization. ISOC PR The by-laws, directors and annual reports appear on the public website. The members do not appear on the public portion of this website. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. ISOC Quebec Proces Verbal listing directors present and absent, and the acts of the governance process are present on the public website. The members do not appear on the public portion of this website. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. KnujOn See the prior note. N-CAP The directors are present on the public website. The by-laws and members do not appear on the public portion of this website. A reference is made to ICANN and the secretariat of the NARALO, together with the statement " As an ALS, N-CAP is under an obligation to keep its member community informed on various ICANN issues." No other information on ICANN issues is present on the public site and the "News Items" link leads to a blank page. Pacific Community Networks Association The public website is "new". The members and governance process do not appear on the public website. There is very little content at present (fewer than 20 joomla nodes). people who. The application for "At-Large Structure" (ALS) Designation contains a negative response to Question 7, "Is the organization constituted so that participation by individual Internet users who are citizens or residents of countries with the Geographic Region in which your organization is based will predominate in your organization's operation?" The directors, by-laws and records of governance process do not appear on the public website. The listed members are WNUSP, an IGF "Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability", in which "people who" is listed as a member, an ITU "Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability", in which "people who" is listed as a member, and Ratify Now, in which "people who" is listed as a member. Privaterra The WHOIS data is obscured, the NS records are to DomainDirect (registrant TuCows), and the published A record is to 72.14.207.121, a Google address. No service is offered on port 80. There is no publicly accessible director, by-laws or member data at present. San Francisco Bay ISOC The directors, by-laws and records of governance process appear on the public website. The members do not, though are inferred from ISOC membership and Chapter selection. Full disclosure: I have personally met with several persons associated with this organization. Telecommunities Canada The directors and records of governance process appear on the public website. The members do not. No reference to ICANN, ALAC or NARALO more recent than 2009 appears on the public website. Note overlap of officers with N-CAP, supra. Alberta Community Network Association The directors and members do not appear on the public website. The governance process is an employees manual. One deep link (in marketing) refers to a date after 2005. The Intellectual Property & Technology Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association The domain in the application for ALS status, hiip.org is currently assocaited with the HIIP Program at the Mt. Vernon Hospital, NY. No publicly accessible director, by-laws or member data is present. Web405 See the prior note. Youth Helping Youth Inc dba Emerging Futures Network No A record is published for the domain emergingfutures.net. No publicly accessible director, by-laws or member data is present. That's all the ALSs listed in their presentation order. I've spent less time from the mid-point to the end on the type 1 and type 3 cases of a tirage -- those that are obviously "alive" and those that are obviously "dead". Responsibility for errors and omissions are mine. Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org ------
On 6/3/13 2:08 PM, Thompson, Darlene wrote:
in regards to N-CAP., our web address is www.nu.e-association.ca
That is the URL I referenced. I noticed and summarized the ICANN link on the same sidebar as the "News Items" link, which resolves as the URL http://www.nu.e-association.ca/cim/305C1_3T322.dhtm. The text is descriptive of ICANN and N-CAP, as an ALS but does not conveying information on policy issues before ICANN, ALAC, or NARALO. Of the subsequent topics the SSAC Advisory on Fast Flux Hosting (to which I contributed in the earlier GNSO FFH WG) appeared in March 2008 and the APWG report appeard in May 2008. I was perhaps too generous in the summary, as failing to publish references to basic policy papers for the past five years is far short of the plain sense of providing members with the means to undertake informed participation in ICANN.
NARALO is presently in the process of decertifying ACNA ...
Please confirm that decertification may be conducted by the NARALO, without reference to ALAC or Staff, in whom the responsibility appear to lie in the MoU creating a North American Regional At-Large Organization. A link to the controlling document of record if you please. Thank you for your response, Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon
Thanks, Eric, for the heads up. The Intellectual Property Section of the HSBA website went abandoned some time ago for lack of interest/effort but the section still exists. Its only web-presence appears to be found at http://www.hsba.org/sections.aspx, which should validate its existence and provides contact information for its current chair. My recollection is that it boasts of more than 100 members. Attached are the original section bylaws. Seth The only publicly available current information on the section is found -----Original Message----- From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 10:29 AM To: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: [NA-Discuss] The status of ALSes (was Ramping up for the election - General Procedures) Dear Colleagues, To follow-up my earlier note in which I published what I could discover from the published public records of three ALSes I'm sharing a more complete attempt at discovery. I examine the application made, which of course is historic, and attempt to locate the current membership, the means for its members to direct the ALS, through the published governance and decision-making processes, and engage in informed participation in ICANN. I suggest that where there are errors in the method, or in the information discovered, that the interested ALS, or others, provide correction. The current set of ALSes is published at: https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+ALSes In presentation order: America@Large In its 25 May 2004 application it named a number of individuals in leadership positions, an anticipated chapter organization without current members. The legal form of the organization is stated as a non-profit corporation. The website http://AmericaAtLarge.org redirects to http://www.linkedin.com/groups/America-Large-America-Large-4163664 The members and governance process do not appear on the public portion of this website. What information there is appears to confirm that there may be as many as 12 persons in this linked in group, two of whom joined March 4th and 11, the others joining prior to 17 January, 2012, and six (6) instances of communication in the past 12 months, all of which appear to be third-party originating texts, few of which refer to ICANN directly, with no recorded response from the other eleven (11) LinkedIn Group members. Association for Community Networking (AFCN) In its 19 January 2007 application it named a number of individuals in leadership positions, in an advisory council, and a voting membership of almost 150, and excerpts from its corporate by-laws. The website afcn.org is a drupal lacking any content, hence the members and governance process do not appear on the public portion of this website. It is entirely possible that this is a transient condition. Canadian Association for Open Source (CLUE) See the prior note. Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (CAUCE North America) The members do appear on the public portion of this website. A board of directors and three supporting members are identified, as is the governance process. There are, through a twitter feed, informative references to ICANN. I was unable in scan of the past twelve (12) months of tweets and retweets of third-party tweets, to find one referencing ALAC or NARALO. Full disclosure: I have personally met with several persons associated with CAUSE including current and past members of the board of directors, through a variety of venues, ICANN being one. Communautique The members and governance process appear on the public website. While no ICANN, ALAC or NARALO references are evident, there are references to the internet and society. Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities (FBSC) The members do not appear on the public portion of this website, nor does a governance process. There are, through news posts, informative references to ICANN, though none to ALAC or NARALO. Greater Toronto Area Linux User Group (GTALug) The members and governance process appear on the public website. This group actually holds meetings, has an accessible mailing list archive, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. ISOC Colorado The members and governance process do not appear on the public website, a membership may be inferred from a linked in group. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. ISOC NY The directors and bylaws appear on the public website, membership does not. The archive of the general discussion mailing list, to which members are subscribed upon payment of membership fee, is not publicly accessible. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. Full disclosure: I have personally met with several persons associated with this organization. ISOC PR The by-laws, directors and annual reports appear on the public website. The members do not appear on the public portion of this website. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. ISOC Quebec Proces Verbal listing directors present and absent, and the acts of the governance process are present on the public website. The members do not appear on the public portion of this website. This group actually holds meetings, and has content relevant to ICANN, ALAC and NARALO specific policy issues. KnujOn See the prior note. N-CAP The directors are present on the public website. The by-laws and members do not appear on the public portion of this website. A reference is made to ICANN and the secretariat of the NARALO, together with the statement " As an ALS, N-CAP is under an obligation to keep its member community informed on various ICANN issues." No other information on ICANN issues is present on the public site and the "News Items" link leads to a blank page. Pacific Community Networks Association The public website is "new". The members and governance process do not appear on the public website. There is very little content at present (fewer than 20 joomla nodes). people who. The application for "At-Large Structure" (ALS) Designation contains a negative response to Question 7, "Is the organization constituted so that participation by individual Internet users who are citizens or residents of countries with the Geographic Region in which your organization is based will predominate in your organization's operation?" The directors, by-laws and records of governance process do not appear on the public website. The listed members are WNUSP, an IGF "Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability", in which "people who" is listed as a member, an ITU "Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability", in which "people who" is listed as a member, and Ratify Now, in which "people who" is listed as a member. Privaterra The WHOIS data is obscured, the NS records are to DomainDirect (registrant TuCows), and the published A record is to 72.14.207.121, a Google address. No service is offered on port 80. There is no publicly accessible director, by-laws or member data at present. San Francisco Bay ISOC The directors, by-laws and records of governance process appear on the public website. The members do not, though are inferred from ISOC membership and Chapter selection. Full disclosure: I have personally met with several persons associated with this organization. Telecommunities Canada The directors and records of governance process appear on the public website. The members do not. No reference to ICANN, ALAC or NARALO more recent than 2009 appears on the public website. Note overlap of officers with N-CAP, supra. Alberta Community Network Association The directors and members do not appear on the public website. The governance process is an employees manual. One deep link (in marketing) refers to a date after 2005. The Intellectual Property & Technology Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association The domain in the application for ALS status, hiip.org is currently assocaited with the HIIP Program at the Mt. Vernon Hospital, NY. No publicly accessible director, by-laws or member data is present. Web405 See the prior note. Youth Helping Youth Inc dba Emerging Futures Network No A record is published for the domain emergingfutures.net. No publicly accessible director, by-laws or member data is present. That's all the ALSs listed in their presentation order. I've spent less time from the mid-point to the end on the type 1 and type 3 cases of a tirage -- those that are obviously "alive" and those that are obviously "dead". Responsibility for errors and omissions are mine. Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org ------ ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3343 / Virus Database: 3184/6380 - Release Date: 06/03/13
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