[ALAC] ALAC Representative on the .NGO Community Advisory Council

[Alan Greenberg]

To Evan and all those who supported his thought,

I checked with Roberto, and his response was very clear. PIR has no 
problem with the person coming from an ISOC Chapter, as long as they 
are active in the field with NGOs.

Their main concern is that the Advisory Council provide then with 
real-world knowledge of the field they are trying to serve, and are 
sufficiently interested to actually participate actively.

Although I clearly understand the connection between PIR:ISOC:ISOC 
Chapters, I am curious as to exactly what you see as the potential conflict?

An ALS that is an ISOC Chapter that receives some funding from ISOC 
may want ISOC to have more money and thus PIR to be more successful 
and thus .NGO to be more successful. But that seems to all reinforce 
what they are looking for, and not be a conflict. And of course, this 
is just one person on a larger Council.

Alan

At 12/01/2017 11:06 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

>Hi Alan,
>
>I think this would be a great idea with one proviso. I would suggest 
>that as a guideline to choosing such a rep, we do not (or at least 
>strongly discourage) appointment of reps from ALSs that are ISOC 
>chapters. There appears a clear conflict of interest here since PIR 
>is the primary source of revenue to ISOC (which in turn provides 
>funding to Chapters).
>
>- Evan
>
>On 12 January 2017 at 22:58, Judith Hellerstein 
><<mailto:judith at jhellerstein.com>judith at jhellerstein.com> wrote:
>HI Alan,
>
>Great Idea
>
>Judith
>
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>On 1/12/2017 10:24 PM, Alan Greenberg wrote:
>I was approached by Roberto Gaetano (former ALAC Member, former ALAC 
>Liaison to the ICANN Board, former BCEC Chair, former Vice-Chair of 
>the ICANN Board) who is the Chair of the Board of the Public 
>Interest Registry (PIR), the operator of .ORG and now .NGO/.ONG as 
>well Chinese, Hindi and Russian equivalents of .ORG.as several. As 
>you likely know, PIR is a not-for profit organization created by the 
>Internet Society.
>
>PIR has a Community Advisory Council for the .NGO/ONG TLD (see 
><http://pir.org/products/ngo-ong-domain/>http://pir.org/products/ngo-ong-domain/) 
>and asked if the ALAC was interested in having a representative on 
>that Council. After having discussed this with a number of At-Large 
>colleagues, I hope no one will object to my agreeing to do this.
>
>Following discussion with Roberto on exactly what is required, I 
>will be sending out a call for volunteers.
>
>We have been asked to identify a small number of candidates that we 
>believe would do a good job. The PIR Nominating Committee will 
>select one person to serve on the Advisory Council.
>
>Alan
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