[atlarge-discuss] Re: [ga] ALAC-Club appoints NomCom reps, Chairs and liaisons

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Vittorio and all former DNSO GA members or other interested parties,

  Hardly and "Atlarge" effort this ALAC, if they are "Appointing"
Reps, chairs, and liaisons, eh Vittorio?!  Hardly representative...  :(

  I would say this looks more like "Club-Like" activity rather than good
governance.

Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Comments are welcome.
> =====
>
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19feb03.htm
>
> At-Large Advisory Committee Announces Delegates to ICANN's Nominating
> Committee, Appointments to ALAC Posts
>
> Marina del Rey, California, USA (19 February 2003) – ICANN's Interim
> At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) today announced that it selected
> five volunteers from five different regions of the world to serve as
> members of the Nominating Committee, the new committee that will
> select a majority of ICANN's new Board of Directors as well as
> individuals to serve in other key positions. The ALAC also announced
> the appointment of its members to internal and liaison positions,
> including Vittorio Bertola as ALAC Chair.
>
> The At-Large delegates to the Nominating Committee are:
>
> Christian Ahlert (Germany and United Kingdom – citizenship and
> residence, respectively)
> Pavan Duggal (India)
> Bret Fausett (USA)
> Didier Kasole (Democratic Republic of Congo)
> Gabriel Piñeiro (Argentina)
> Information on the delegates is included below.
>
> Volunteers were widely solicited by the ALAC, which selected these
> five delegates from among a total of 66 diverse, accomplished
> volunteers from 30 countries. The ALAC believes this group of
> delegates reflects the global interests of the At-Large community and
> meets the detailed criteria set forth in ICANN's bylaws, and applauds
> their willingness to serve the Internet community.
>
> The Nominating Committee's members, including 12 voting delegates in
> addition to the 5 appointed by the ALAC, will serve one-year terms.
> The Committee, which is chaired by Linda Wilson, ICANN Board member
> and former president of Radcliffe College, will have the immediate
> task of selecting select 8 members of the ICANN Board, 5 members of
> the ALAC, and 3 members of the GNSO Council.
>
> The ALAC also announced that members Clement Dzidonu and Erick Iriarte
> Ahon will serve as ALAC Vice Chairs, and that the ALAC has requested
> the following members serve in liaison positions: Thomas Roessler as a
> liaison to the GNSO Council/WHOIS Task Force; Wendy Seltzer as a
> liaison to the TLD Evaluation Team (TEAC); and Hong Xue as a liaison
> to the GNSO Council's Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
> (UDRP) Task Force. The ALAC is awaiting confirmation of the acceptance
> of these liaisons, which are expected to bring an individual Internet
> user perspective to the various policy and decision making groups, and
> keep the ALAC and At-Large community apprised of relevant activities
> and their potential effect on individual Internet users.
>
> The ALAC is responsible for considering and providing advice on the
> activities of ICANN as they relate to the interests of individual
> Internet users (the "At-Large" community). ICANN, as a private sector,
> non-profit corporation with technical management responsibilities for
> the Internet's domain name and address system, will rely on the ALAC
> and its supporting infrastructure to involve and represent in ICANN a
> broad set of individual user interests.
>
> Please contact <alac-comments@icann.org> with questions relating to
> this announcement.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Biographies of At-Large delegates to the Nominating Committee:
>
> Christian Ahlert, a Dr. in political science, specializes in
> comparative media law and policy, internet regulation and the
> inter-relationship of globalization, technology and politics. He is a
> longstanding observer of the ICANN process, and was a founding member
> of the "NGO and Academic ICANN Study" (NAIS). Ahlert is currently
> working at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at
> University of Oxford. Most recently he convened the international
> conference "Politics of Code" (http://www.codepolitics.info)
>
> Pavan Duggal is a practicing Advocate in the Supreme Court of India at
> New Delhi, specializing in Cyberlaw & E-Commerce law, and has done
> pioneering work in the field of Convergence Law. He is the Founder and
> President of Cyberlaw Asia (www.cyberlawindia.com) and has been
> associated with UNESCO on Ethical, Legal, and Societal Challenges of
> Cyberspace in Asia and the Pacific. Duggal was a member of the former
> ICANN Membership Advisory Committee and a member of the former ICANN
> Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF).
>
> Bret Fausett is a partner with the law firm of Hancock, Rothert &
> Bunshoft, LLP (http://www.hrblaw.com), resident in the firm's Los
> Angeles office, with a practice focused on Internet and technology
> law. He writes the "Legal Code" column each month for CMP's New
> Architect magazine (http://www.newarchitectmag.com/press), and he
> maintains a weblog with running news and commentary on the activities
> of ICANN (http://www.icann.blog.us).
>
> Didier Kasole is an ICT Consultant and Chief Technology Officer of
> Roffe Hitech Internet Service Provider (http://www.jobantech.cd) in
> the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mr. Kasole also chairs the
> Democratic Republic of Congo Internet Society Chapter, and is a
> founding member of the Internet Service Provider Association
> Democratic Republic of Congo. He also is an active member of the
> African Network Operator Group (http://www.afnog.org), and is an
> Instructor at Afnog workshops. Previously, Mr. Kasole maintained the
> Aftld (African Top Level Domains) mailing list, and he has been in the
> forefront of the development of the Internet in Congo Universities. He
> has a Master of Science Physics from the University of Kinshasa, and
> is fluent in French, English, Swahili, and Lingala.
>
> Gabriel Piñeiro is a Computer Law Specialist in Argentina
> (gpineiro@derecho.org.ar). He has been active in At-Large organizing,
> and was a founding member of the At-Large Organizing Committee
> (http://www.at-large.org). Pineiro also is a representative with the
> Non Commerical Users Constituency of the GNSO. He is the
> Coordinator/Webmaster for the LatinoamerICANN Project
> (http://latinoamericann.derecho.org.ar) and also has participated in
> other Internet-related projects such as the Group of
> Internacionalizarion of Cyberspace (GIC). Pineiro has served as the
> alter Webmaster of the Alfa-REDI Community NGO, and as an Advisor of
> the Computing Department of the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos
> Pellegrini (Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires).
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