[FYI] (Fwd) FC: ICANN press release on "at-large" membership resolut

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See also:
http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-14mar02.htm
http://www.cavebear.com/tmp/resolutions1.pdf
http://www.cavebear.com/tmp/resolutions2.pdf

Politech archive on ICANN:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=icann

-Declan

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:17:39 -0500
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farber@cis.upenn.edu,
         Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, <DGillmor@sjmercury.com>,
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From: Esther Dyson <edyson@edventure.com>
Subject: Fwd: ALSC press release
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hard-fought.... FYI from Esther


>"GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY!"
>
>ICANN BOARD APPROVES INDIVIDUAL INTERNET USER PARTICIPATION, CALLS
>FOR ORGANIZATION OF AT-LARGE MEMEBERSHIP
>
>March 14, Accra, Ghana -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
>and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors approved a resolution during
>its meeting today that called for the creation of an At-Large
>mechanism for "meaningful, informed participation by Internet users,"
>as recommended by the At-Large Study Committee (ALSC).  Taking a
>critical step towards structuring participation and representation of
>individuals from throughout the diverse global Internet user
>communities ("At-Large constituency") within ICANN, the Board called
>upon the ICANN community to create an At-Large membership based on
>"bottom-up, self-organized, local Internet community" groups.
>
>"The ALSC is pleased the Board committed to a strong role for
>individual Internet users in ICANN and acknowledged the merits of our
>report," said Carl Bildt, ALSC Chair. "We worked to find a solution
>that ensures Internet users have a sustained role in the technical
>coordination of the Internet, and are gratified the Board has now
>recognized the Internet community's bottom-up organizing activities."
>
>In the resolution, the Board stated that it "wishes to move forward
>with energy and enthusiasm to build a meaningful structure for
>informed participation by the full range of Internet users, and seeks
>avenues to achieve these objectives that are bottom-up,
>self-organized, and self-sustaining."
>
>ICANN is in the process of considering wholesale restructuring, and
>the resolution instructs the Board Committee on Restructuring to
>ensure that their ongoing efforts at crafting a blueprint for ICANN
>reform include "workable mechanisms and procedures that enable
>meaningful opportunities for participation by the full range of
>Internet users," and "an appropriate role for those interests in
>ICANN's coordinating and management structures."
>
>In its annual meeting in November, 2001, the Board formally accepted
>the ALSC's final report as a basis for discussion and received in
>Accra the Committee's "Implementation Report," which provided details
>on the processes needed to implement the ALSC's final report. The
>final report proposes a regionally based global framework for all
>interested individuals' structured participation in ICANN, focuses
>At-Large membership (an electorate) on an identifiable and vested
>community, provides a reasonable, initial mechanism for registration
>and self-funding, and grants At-Large members a proportionate
>responsibility for selecting ICANN's Board.  While the Board, today,
>made clear that there would be no direct elections to fill At-Large
>Board seats at this time, it left open the possibility of future
>At-Large elections.
>
>"We are still moving forward from where we were, although we have not
>yet reached our goal of regularly elected At-Large directors," said
>Esther Dyson, an ALSC member and former chairman of ICANN. "Now the
>At-Large Membership has the challenge ­ and responsibility ­ of
>meeting the Board's call for informed, active participation… which we
>hope will lead to issue-oriented, transparent elections."
>
>The ALSC's reports are available on the Internet (at
>www.atlargestudy.org) and the Board's resolution is available at
>www.icann.org. . ABOUT THE ALSC The ALSC is an independent Committee
>created by ICANN earlier this year to provide recommendations to
>ICANN's Board on how to structure the diverse global Internet
>community's participation within ICANN. The ALSC is conducting an
>aggressive outreach, discussion, research, and consensus-building
>campaign that will culminate with the submission of a final report to
>the Board in November. In addition to Carl Bildt, the ALSC includes
>Charles Costello, Pierre Dandjinou, Esther Dyson, Olivier Iteanu,
>Ching-Yi Liu, Thomas Niles, Oscar Robles, and Pindar Wong.
>Biographies of these individuals, and Information on the ALSC, can be
>found at www.atlargestudy.org.
>
>ABOUT ICANN
>ICANN is a technical coordination body for the Internet. Created in
>October 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet's business,
>technical, academic, and user communities, ICANN is assuming
>responsibility for a set of technical functions previously performed
>under U.S. government contract by IANA and other groups.
>Specifically, ICANN coordinates the assignment of identifiers that
>must be globally unique for the Internet to function: Internet domain
>names, IP address numbers, and protocol parameter and port numbers.
>In addition, ICANN coordinates the stable operation of the Internet's
>root server system. As a non-profit, private-sector corporation,
>ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the
>Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation
> of global Internet communities; and to developing policy through
>private-sector, bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes the
>participation of any interested Internet user, business, or
>organization.
>
>CONTACT
>Denise Michel
>+1 310 823 9358
>dmichel@atlargestudy.org


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