Re: [atlarge-discuss] No icannatlarge.com reps on ERC task force

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:58:28 -0400, you wrote:

>What does concern me is that Candidates Piniero and Bertola have publicly disassociated themselves with icannatlarge.com by accepting their seats on the Committee as representatives of other organizations. 

Ok, first of all, let's make some facts clear.

First, I am the coordinator of the ICANN working group of the Italian
Chapter of ISOC since well before this group was founded. In fact, our
Chapter believes in user representation in ICANN; this is why we've
been supporting icannatlarge.com since the beginning (for example,
most of the few icannatlarge.com members from Italy come from our
Chapter), and this is why we've been volunteering all along the At
Large process (for example, ISOC Italy and I were the main organizers
of the outreach effort that led 1670 Italians to register for the
first At Large elections in year 2000). We also volunteered to
participate in the ALOC, as many other ISOC Chapters.

So, when icannatlarge.com had to choose its representatives, there
already were two other panel members (Sotiris and Satyajit) who wanted
to do it. As I knew that I would anyway have had to represent my
Chapter, it seemed better to me not to be the icannatlarge.com
representative too, so that we could in the end have one more
icannatlarge.com member in the ALOC.

Second, a call was issued in the ALOC for members of this task force.
It was issued with the usual hurried timeline (Friday afternoon for
Monday morning). Anyway, the people in the task force, plus Hans
Klein, answered by the deadline. Then, on Monday morning Denise Michel
announced the composition of the task force, and ten minutes later
Sotiris replied to her message asking to be included too. As I already
said, I can't see no reason why Sotiris should not be included, anyway
it seems that Denise has not accepted his reply due to its lateness.
As for Satyajit, he hasn't volunteered for such group at all - in
fact, as far as I recall, he never posted any message to the ALOC
list. If both of us had answered by the deadline, I guess (I can only
guess, given Hans's case) that they would have been included both.

I am not happy at all at the way this task force has been formed. It
raises serious doubts on the actual freedom of such task force.
However, now I want to ask a question to you (and anyone else). Is it
better a task force that has some icannatlarge.com members, even if
with other affiliations, or is it better if none of our members takes
part to the task force? Do you really think that I, Gabriel Pineiro,
Hans Klein, Peter Shane, Izumi Aizu, are making a mistake in
participating in this? Or we'd better leave the task of drafting the
public's voice in the Blueprint process only to the other ALOC
participants? (This is not a rhetorical question: I've been asking it
to myself repeatedly.)
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