Re: [atlarge-discuss] Re: A Possible ICANN Plan...030317ii

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

At 09:15 20/03/03, Jeff Williams wrote:
> > As to my interest in meeting with your members... if the At-Large is to
> > thrive, we in the At-Large should get to know one another, wouldn't you
> > agree?
>
> Currently there really is not "Official" At-Large, yet some efforts such
> as ICANNATLARGE.ORG are attempting to become one
Dear Danny and Jeff,
we should for a moment carry a small lexical effort and agree once for all 
on the following definition:

@large [eng. "at large", fr. "au large"]: at large individual members of 
the internet governance. @large act in private capacity, whatever their 
other non-commercia/professional structural links, they may also freely 
exercise though the participation of their structure in one or several 
governance constituencies or support organization.


I would personnally add as a comment:

@large form a very diversified community. Several organizations propose to 
aggregate them. Until now they all mostly failed because each of them wants 
to be unique.


And propose a solution:

Most probably their organization will only take-off through the provision 
of complimentary services by volontary associations funded by their 
Membership or/and ad-hoc self-sustaining commercial propositions. They 
should permit @large to commonly share or have access to specialized 
parties, common directory, polling and voting solutions, local gatherings 
and focus groups. Such propositions shoud concert through an (unformal) 
alliance similar to the ccTLD alliance, where no one can take a lead but 
everyone can benefit from common services, experience, representation, 
image and etiquette.

jfc





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