[ALAC] RoP Adjunct Document 04 - At-Large Structure Framework

[Alan Greenberg]

At 14/05/2013 12:07 AM, Rinalia Abdul Rahim wrote:
>Dear Alan,
>
>Excellent, as usual.

Thanks Rinalia.


>A suggestion and questions:
>
>1. I would suggest that you separate the "de-certification" process 
>under its own header.  I believe this will make it more apparent 
>that we have a process in place for this scenario.

I will check if such a change will trigger a need to go past the Board again.


>2. Is the de-certification process sufficient to address the 
>voluntary dissolution of ALSes?
>
>I ask this question because there is an emerging case where an ALS 
>is voluntarily seeking to dissolve itself and correspondingly 
>de-list and de-accredit itself - not for "bad" reasons that imply 
>misconduct, but rather because the founder/s or members no longer 
>wish to sustain the entity.  Can you indicate whether you think that 
>under the current framework this situation can be addressed under 
>de-certification?  If yes, I think an addition is needed to deal 
>with voluntary cases of ALS dissolution.  At the moment, the 
>de-certification intent  seems to be focused on what I believe to be 
>a "punitive" reaction to some type of misconduct (just my subjective 
>reading of it based on the example provided).

We are actually in the midst of such a case. In my judgement (what 
may or may not be worth anything), if someone representing an ALS 
asks for decertification, then we can comply with the need to "warn 
them" by simply replying that we wil lbe going forward with the 
decertification.

I am sure that if we put the time into it, there are other changes 
that we feel would be prudent in addition to addressing the case you 
mention, but all THIS document is doing is taking out current 
Board-approved rules and "inserting" them into the RoP (a situation 
that the ICANN Bylaws called for which we never did. Should we want 
to change them in the future, we have that option.

But since these are the rules we are currently operating under, I see 
no reason to require that they be changed before we can proceed with 
the rest of the RoP. At best, since it will include  full-blown 
discussion and ultimately Board approval, we are talking many months 
if not more.


>3. How do we ensure that the due diligence process really does 
>involve triangulation of sources?
>
>There is the real possibility that due diligence draws only from the 
>same source/s of information provided by applicants, which weakens 
>the basis of decision-making.  I understand the complexity and 
>challenges of real word gathering of information, but I wonder if 
>there is a way that we can encourage serious efforts at 
>triangulation despite the challenges of cost, time, finding credible 
>alternate sources of information, etc.

As above. I think that when (and I say when not if) we go through a 
process of verifying that all of our ALSs are in fact real and 
functioning, we will learn a bunch about how might improve the 
original certification process.

Alan


>Best regards,
>
>Rinalia
>
>On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Alan Greenberg 
><<mailto:alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
>I submit the attached document for approval of the ALAC.
>
>This document is one that is required for the new ALAC Rules of 
>Procedure to be put into effect.
>
>The document is largely drawn from 
><http://www.atlarge.icann.org/correspondence/structures-app.htm>http://www.atlarge.icann.org/correspondence/structures-app.htm, 
>the current source of ALS processes. The only changes are:
>
>1. Document the dates of the ICNN Boaard resolutions on which the 
>rules/process is based.
>
>2. Change the tense of the 2nd paragraph to reflect ongoing 
>operation instead of future plans (for example, replacing "The 
>At-Large Structures are in the process of organising..." with 
>"At-Large Structures are organised...".
>
>3. Slight re-wording of the last paragraph to remove the personal 
>form ("You may...").
>
>4. Correcting a number of typos and missing punctuation.
>
>Alan
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