Re: [ICANN-EU] European At Large Council

[Alexander Svensson <svensson@icannchannel.de>]

Dear Vittorio, Thomas,
thanks for the constructive sum up and the interesting
thoughts -- I think we should pursue this!

I respond here only to a small part of Vittorio's list.

Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> wrote:
> On 2000-08-29 17:09:19 +0200, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>> 1) Should it be a closed group, or an open one?

I agree with Thomas that such an At Large Council would 
have to stick to the standards it is expecting from ICANN,
i.e. transparent, bottom-up, regionally diverse.
We should however take into account the experiences
from other lists (e.g. Thomas' as a list-owner, Roberto 
and Marc from the ICANN lists): An unstructured list 
will IMHO neither be helpful for the At Large members 
nor for the At Large director. 

> Thinking about an open mailing list, the following approach may help
> - it has certain implementation problems, though:
>
> - Create two lists with a common submission address: One is open for
>   all, one is moderated.
>
> - Appoint some respected, trusted, and independent individuals as
>   moderators.

This is a bit similar to the DNSO-GA with Harald 
Alvestrand as respected and trusted list monitor
for "GA with rules". 
Cf. http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc03/msg01146.html

>   Moderation could be done similar to what happens on bugtraq-l (see
>   http://www.securityfocus.com/) all day: Certain threads are killed
>   after becoming pointless, and sometimes, postings containing
>   common arguments are summarized by the moderators.

I'm not sure whether we can use bugtraq-l as a model;
it is quite easy to distinguish appropriate content
when it comes to computer security vulnerabilities, but
very hard to when it comes to techno-political issues
(I already hear the chants of 'censorship!'). But we
can e.g. try out posts-per-day limits.

[Thomas:]
> I still have problems with considering the @large member-nomination
> candidates to be automatically "the members' wish".  Consider, for
> instance, the fact that the only eastern European (except the former
> Eastern part of Germany, where Lutz comes from) person in the game
> is a Nomcom candidate.  
Well, Dmitri Bourkov has a lot of votes (322 now, nr. 4).
But I agree with Thomas -- this 'pre-election' is about
finding a suitable candidate for a Director. I would not
like a parliament consisting only of people who tried to
become Prime Minister...

Best regards,
/// Alexander

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