Re: [ICANN-EU] Horizontal organization

[Iliya Nickelt-Czycykowski <iczycykowski@aip.de>]

> The idea was much opposed, and consequently direct election was introduces.
> But the concept of an AtLarge Council in itself could not be bad.

Very true. The concept you discuss here reminds me of that, too. However,
the possible greater influence of the AtLarge members will be part of the
election study and the discussion thereafter. So carry it there. Please
also note that ICANN always requests comments on the big topics via their
website and does take them into account.

I guess that an AtLarge forum is a simple thing that the staff could
implement after the elections (the candidates will get that anyway for
their campaigns). Propose it to ICANN now. Directors could use this to ask
the members about their ideas and positions.  I wouldn't split it into
regional chapters, though. What for? The AtLarge directors are not
representing their region, they are representing all users. I don't like
this 'why the germans' discussion, that's pretty narrow-minded.

A few comments off-topic about 'raising media awareness': We had some
experience with this in the Task Force. Either you target the geeks and
experts with newsgroups, lists, etc. Or you want to reach the public (and
the majority of members) with major papers (we never really made it to TV
but that should not stop you). Then you will have to sacrifice details and
truth. 'Evil US institution takes over the internet. Protect your
country!' works best [you must decide for yourself wether I left out
details or truth here :-)]. If that sort of work is your pair of shoes you
will get pretty popular. Unfortunatly things are never quite the way they
seem.

That's it for this time, booting weekend right now


	--iliya (ICANN MITF)

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