[ICANN-EU] pressure group

[Sabine Reul <reul@dd.bib.de>]

Dear all,

At first, I'm glad to get mails from such sweet internet geeks. Thanxxx.

Vittorio Bertola schrieb:

> >> One thing is to go to ICANN and say "Hi, we are a self-nominated
> >> group of At Large members, here is our proposal", and another is
> >> to say "Hi, we are a provenly representative subset of the At
> >> Large community, here is our proposal". Ignoring us in the second
> >> case would be more difficult, I think.

> >On the other hand, some candidates putting together a pressure group
> >which claims to have found the holy grail of wisdom, and starts
> >excluding the @large public at the earliest moment possible, may in
> >effect turn out not to be credible at all.

We need all power to save the internet free for all different
utilization. This discussion group should not break apart after the
election. We can use all our expertise for this pressure group. 
Everybody are welcome to bring in his power and experiences, not the
first 15 candidates.

> However, I think
> that it is important to establish an unofficial European At Large Council
> right now, because then it will be much more difficult not to have an
> official one. There are people who would like to see the whole At Large
> thing fail, and we will be much weaker if we are not organized, and if we
> cannot show an effective way to manage our bottom-up consensus process.
> 
> Ok - I must say that you convinced me about the opportunity to keep this
as
> open as possible. Let's say that we will have an open forum for general
> discussion, a moderated announcements list, and open forums for specific
> issues, such as a proposal to be submitted to ICANN about the At Large
> membership structure. But I still see the need for a defined group to take
> the role of "spinning wheel" of all this stuff, coordinate it (i.e. open
new
> forums, release documents, and so on) and make it run, and to constitute a
> recognizable object that says "Hey, it was not the process of electing a
guy
> and leaving him there alone until his mandate expires and you can wipe us
> away from the Board - there's a whole active community here."
> 
This Council should work together with Councils Africa, Australia, etc.
or include interested people from there.

Best regards


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