Re: [ICANN-EU] European At Large Council

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>]

Vittorio,

You wrote:
>
>On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 22:53:28 CEST, you wrote:
>
> >>	- How do we avoid the group being taken over, flooded, or accused
> >>	  not to be representative?
> >It will not have as a target to be representative, and will therefore not 
>be
> >able to "speak on behalf of the Membership".
>
>But then, it will be possibly useless. If it's not representative, why
>should its voice be kept into account by ICANN or by the Director? It would
>be the same if each of us wrote down a statement and got some signatures on
>it by other At Large members.


You are preaching to the converted.
In the opening statement of my message, that you read too much in a hurry 
;>), I wrote that "I personally think that eventually we will end up with an 
elected (therefore closed) group, because I don't think that this free form 
structure (basically, this mailing list) can address issues like polling the 
membership on specific issues, coordinating the membership of different 
regions, and so on. But it is OK, we need to start from somewhere anyhow.".

In other words, if there's no consensus for the time being for a stable 
(closed, representative) group, with the task of coordinating the activities 
and to foster consensus, at least let's have this list going.

The argument that we cannot arbitrarily choose a certain number of "top 
voted" people is valid (even if it is still better than nothing, IMHO). The 
only chance to have a legitimate Council, or Coordination Committe, or 
Advisory Body, or whatever, is to elect one.
But then, we don't even have the list of the electors.

The only way I see is to talk the candidates into pushing for this to happen 
if they are elected.

Any ideas?

Regards
Roberto


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