[ALAC] Important - For the 8 March ALAC Meeting on .health Objections - A view on key questions prior to ALAC vote

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 2013-03-08 2:04 PM, "Avri Doria" <avri at acm.org> wrote:
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> Hi Rinalia,
>
> In terms of At-Large's scope:  I think that the idea of ALAC representing
all of At-Large and by virtue of that all Internet users is wonderfully
aspirational.  To claim that ALAC deserves such a role already is a bit of
a stretch in my opinion.  I beleive that one day it might deserve such a
role, but it has a long way to go before it becomes representative of the
Global Internet User.

ICANN bylaw XI.4.a

"The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is the primary organizational home
within ICANN for individual Internet users. "

"Is"
Not "should be"
Not "may one day be"
Not "will be when [some body] says they deserve it"

We certainly have much to do to make us more responsive. We always aspire
to improve. But, for better or worse, what we are now *is* ICANN's voice of
the voiceless. And given the people we have and the tools at our disposal,
we do the best we can and no apology is owed.

Dare I say that if at large was truly more representative of the world at
large and had fewer domain-world insiders involved, it would probably be
far more militant and less tolerant of the shenanigans that ICANN calls
"business as usual". Including this cruel joke of a TLD expansion.

- Evan