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

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

To say it is the organizational home 
is NOT to say it therefore represents.

Yes, when the Internet users come to ICANN, the At-Large is their home.

Build it and they will come.

But any more meaning one takes from that is aspirational.

avri



On 8 Mar 2013, at 14:56, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> On 2013-03-08 2:04 PM, "Avri Doria" <avri at acm.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>