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Re: [atlarge-discuss] ALAC At-Large Structures
At 03:21 p.m. 16/06/2003, you wrote:
Dear Panel Chairman Joop:
Please will you tell the membership which members of the Panel will be
representing us at the ICANN Conference in Montreal.
I know only of Sotiris Sotiropoulos going. There may be others who will
decide at the last moment.
This organization, or any that cares to admit members (or even one member, I
guess) from outside of the geographical boundaries arbitrarily set by ALAC,
cannot meet the rules as proposed. This organization, small and struggling
as it may be, already has over a thousand members and probably has members
in every one of the ALAC regions. By the proposed rules, we would have to
split into 5 separate groups before ALAC would even consider recognizing us
a an @Large organization.
Yes. ALAC will go out of its way to hamstring any emerging global
organization at birth.
I note here that Sotiris has offered to present my concerns about this
obvious shortcoming of the RALO system at the ALAC meetings, but who will
respond on our behalf to the apparent determination by ALAC to dictate which
@Large groups it will recognize and which it will simply dismiss as
unacceptable by standards that ALAC itself determines?
I am not sure if we need to respond to ICANN on this point. Perhaps not
responding and continue organizing is the best response.
Furthermore, since
there appears to already be a vote scheduled for June 26th, at which time
the proposals will be ratified
ratified by whom? The Board squatters?
unless changed due to the receipt of
convincing email input over the next 10 days, or a convincing argument at
the public forum one day before the vote.
The short convincing argument is: if ICANN is global, the organization of
its membership must be equally global.
The question is, who are we trying to convince?
If a Panel member (or members) is/are to represent our position on these 5
proposals, what is that position? Has the Panel discussed the issue?
No. We are trying to organize ourselves, not ICANN.
Letting Sotiris read a prepared statement (still to be written) or point to
the website where such statements can be found is probably the most we can do.
I'll bring the subject of the "ALAC's at large structures" up in the Panel.
-joop-
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