Re: [ICANN-EU] Organizing the ICANN Membership: Intermediate Institutions

[Alexander Svensson <svensson@icannchannel.de>]

Dear Hans,
thanks for your efforts to bring the lists attention
back to At Large intermediate institutions and for your 
helpful differentiation between an At Large Forum (which
icann-europe is, although a notice to all European
Icann members would definitely be nice) and an At Large 
Assembly:

> However, the process for creating such a body is itself difficult.  What
> representation mechanisms should be used?  How many members should there
> be?  

This is were we got stuck last time. :)
The problem of representation in such a European
At Large Assembly would not be too different from 
that of representation within Icann itself:

 -- choosing well-informed and committed people
 -- avoiding capture by subgroups and
 -- representing European diversity
    BUT
 -- not having access to the ICANN voter registry
 -- probably not having the necessary ressources for 
    a voter registration drive similar to Icann's

You have paralleled the At Large Assembly to the Councils
of the Supporting Organizations. If we pursued this, the 
road ahead would be set out: The members of the At Large 
Forum vote for the members of the At Large Assembly. Thus 
it would be quite similar to the DNSO General Assembly -- 
with all its advantages and disadvantages.

I don't think we should (or could) decide all this in one and
a half months. What we can do in any case is broadening
the base of icann-europe, i.e. spreading the news that
icann-europe exists: Remember that media attention will
return to Icann on or before October 1st and then again
on October 10th, so we might be able to seize that occasion.

We should at the very least have the list charter ready 
until then, maybe even some kind of statement to the public?
I haven't heard any opposition to Thomas' draft at 
ftp://fitug.fitug.de/pub/icann-drafts/draft-roessler-icann-europe-charter-20000911.txt
yet -- could it be that we have reached consensus already? :)

Best regards,
/// Alexander

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