Bret and all, I know our members will never agree to proportional representation model nor representatives appointed instead of elected to represent their interests and/or issues/concerns. Such a model is by design non-representative and undemocratic. So I myself agree with some of your concerns here Bret. The history of ICANN and so far the ALAC/ALS'es "Appointments" of representatives has been obismal and shown to be less than effectively representing actual user stated issues and concerns. -----Original Message-----

From: Bret Fausett <bfausett@internet.law.pro> Sent: Jun 16, 2008 10:05 AM To: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] ALAC Review Draft is published

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* Create two new ALAC positions, appointed by the Nominating Committee, both from Asia, to reflect that region's increased proportion of global Internet users

I understand the thinking here, but I can see some downside to "proportional representation," either by absolute population or population of Internet users.

First, are you going to take away a representative from Africa under the same theory?

Second, even within a region, the ALAC representatives aren't distributed in accord with the population. If you have proportional representation across the five regions, don't you then have to do it within the regions? If the point of increasing the AP ALAC members is to reflect the population, doesn't same principle dictate that of the five proposed Asia-Pacific representatives, China always have at least three and India at least one? I see no real way of making this work in a manner that reflects the population. Five ALAC representatives from English-speaking Australia and New Zealand wouldn't really address the problems the Review Committee is trying to solve.

Finally, has there been a complaint that some needs are being unmet by the current representatives? What are those complaints? If there are none, perhaps we're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

This is a subject I'd be interesting in hearing more about.

Bret

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