[atlarge-discuss] At Large Coalition

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

Tonight I continue to engage in the aspirations of this organisation, but
I've started to set in motion the preparations and planning for a separate
organisation, aimed at the broader at large community worldwide. I believe
it is necessary to create a coalition/alliance of sympathetic groups and
individuals OUTSIDE of ICANN's pretence of a coalition (although I am
personally interested in opening this front INSIDE the namespace/roots
presently controlled by the rogues at ICANN).

I tried to develop this front inside Icannatlarge.org but there was
insufficient panel support. My agenda hasn't changed, so I'm obliged to
develop it separately.

That does not mean that I no longer support this organisation - far from
it - but I believe it is too focussed on Icann's "mock atlarge/ALAC" and I'm
much more interested in developing allegiances in the world far beyond
Icann's sad little empire. I don't intend to look for a public mandate for
this project at first. I intend to set an agenda, co-operate with
like-minded people in its development, and if it attracts people, it
attracts people. To avoid procrastination, hijacking, and hostile takeover,
I intend to define clear targets and processes, and devolve democratic power
only in stages, linked to the achievement of specific participant/membership
numbers. The bigger we grow, the more democracy we will lay claim to.

I'm interested in creating a simple structure for diverse groups to express
views under the org's umbrella. I'm interested in content from the earliest
stage. I'm interested in quality content, not the introspection that seems
to take over on a list like this.

I want a website where people can find information, an ordered list of
topics, a navigable structure of partipating allies, and where 'content' and
'topic' dominate the agenda.

I want a 'biased' website which promotes the cause of ordinary internet
users all over the world because it's their internet, not Icann's. I want an
organisation and a website which is fundamentally concerned with diversity
and coalition. I want an initiative that does not get blown off course.

And if that sounds totalitarian, then it is only totalitarian in the resolve
to 'insist' on a populist agenda, insist on a web-presence driven by that
agenda, and insist on the handing over of all decision-making to the
Internet Public itself as landmark numbers are achieved.

But first, the establishment of an independent at large alliance.

The time for niceties has passed. I'm moving on (but not leaving the
family!). That's the point : we can each belong to several "At Large"
organisations, because At Large really means the vast diverse collection of
the people everywhere. But at heart, there is ONE At Large. It's not Icann's
circumscribed invention. It's called the Human Race.

Those of us interested in IcannatLarge.org are part of a broader family. My
own shift of emphasis from this point does not denote 'leaving the family'.

The abysmal self-interest of ICANN and its supporters cannot contain or
circumscribe the dawning realisation of ordinary people that the whole human
race can now increasingly by-pass governments and talk and share together.
This power of communication is an unstoppable movement. ICANN's influence
will unravel if it does not accede to the emergent voice of the people of
the world. Only outright war and suppression could possibly prevent this new
mass communication, and I doubt whether even that would stop things for
long.

I had hoped to use Marc's www.atlarge.org but I have found another perhaps
more effective name instead. I'll release more details and I hope people who
have a heart for this project will come alongside and do what Icann/USG
really don't want at all : create a public face for an At Large Alliance
which runs to its own shared and individual agendas.

Richard H



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