[icann-europe] ALSC discussion paper - should we respond?

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

Folks,

Iīd strongly recommend that you have a look at the ALSCī's 
recently-posted discussion paper #1. I find this document quite 
promising:  In particular, the ALSC does not engage in rhetorics on how 
bottom-up and consensus-driven ICANN IS - instead, they talk about what 
it SHOULD BE (that is, in what direction it should be changed).

But anyway, the discussion paper asks various questions which - I think 
- should not only be discussed on the ALSC's forum list, but also here. 
  In particular, they ask what board representation of users should look 
like, how user representatives on the board should be elected (direct, 
indirect, if direct: who can elect?).  They also want to know how 
interest groups and candidates in elections could do active outreach to 
the public, and how they can and should communicate to the public.  I 
think that this latter set of questions is the one we should focus on, 
since this list still has many of last year's pre-election candidates as 
its members.

I'd like to ask those of us who have gathered first-hand experience with 
their campaigns last year to tell us what they did, how they did it, and 
possibly how they failed to actually  reach a larger public. What were 
your experiences? What, do you think, should be done different in future 
elections with respect to outreach and campaigning (let's leave the 
registration problems aside for the moment)?

I'm volunteering to summarize all this and prepare a short paper for 
submission to the ALSC.  I think that a realistic time frame for this 
should be about a week.  So I'd hope that I can post a first draft of 
the summary on, say, Thursday, and (hopefully) a final version at some 
point next week-end. (Of course, I'm assuming that there IS something to 
summarize. ;-)

Have a nice week-end!
-- 
Thomas Roessler (mobile) <roessler@does-not-exist.org>

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