Re: [atlarge-discuss] Re: ALAC

[Alexander Svensson <alexander@svensson.de>]

Hello Izumi,

At 25.07.2002 20:39, Izumi AIZU wrote:
>Perhaps one of the important tasks for ALAC is to visit this issue
>of election and make recommendations for workable and pragmatic
>solution in not hasty way. I believe that some members of the board at least
>did agree with the value and need for election in general, but they did not
>accept the specific proposal made by the ALSC and the AtLarge advocates
>in Accra that were not sufficient against capture and cost issues for them.
>
>Revising this immediately at ALAC may cause some concern for those
>who do not like the idea of election anyway, but it is still worth
>to consider it as one of the (better) way of public participation.
>
>ALAC's task should not be only election issues, and we need to
>state that clearly, but election should be one of the main areas,
>I would suggest.

While I agree, I would just be careful to point out that the ALAC
must not fall into the "At Large trap": If the At Large only
discusses the issue of At Large, the whole thing becomes pointless
and circular, and it will be used against At Large. It might be very
useful to have a working group of the ALAC work on pragmatic solutions
e.g. for elections, but I would like to see the At Large work much 
more on substantive issues like Whois, domain deletions, dispute 
resolution etc. than in the past.

(Unfortunately, in my view there are many people discussing At Large 
issues who have never once said anything about substantive domain
name issues. Nobody is forced to have an opinion on the Wait List
Service, Internationalized DNS or Uniform Deletion Policies, but
frankly, it makes you wonder when people /only/ participate in
meta-discussions and are not interested in the issues themselves. 
(And I'm obviously not referring to Izumi here, just to make that clear!))

Best regards,
/// Alexander


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