[ALAC] [ALAC-Announce] VOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: ALS Application (307) Internet Society Rural Development Special Interest Group

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

Dear Maureen,

I am very surprised to see this having reached the ALAC with a
recommendation from APRALO that this should be accepted. This should
have been picked up at Due Diligence: Internet Society Special Interest
Groups are global as per the explanation on
https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs
This countervenes ALAC rules which specify that ALSes must be
geographical. See tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-AdjDoc4-2013-07

"2. Be organised so that participation by individual Internet users who
are citizens or residents of countries within the Geographic Region in
which the ALS is based will predominate in the ALS' operation. The ALS
may permit additional participation by others that is compatible with
the interests of the individual Internet users within the region."

The key words are "be organised" - and as much as I support the work of
the Internet Society Rurel Special Interest Group, rural areas are not
limited to Asia. Unless there is a commitment that this SIG will
restrict the majority of its membership to come from the Asia region.
The explicit response of the SIG in due diligence was "this is a global
SIG".

I also have a concern that it would be possible to create one SIG after
another in ISOC and the meaning of ALS no longer applies as you are
effectively creating votes.

The question of "geographical" was asked on the APRALO mailing list as
recently as 11 September 2019 (
https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/apac-discuss/2019-September/004952.html
) but I do not see any response to this.

Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 18/09/2019 01:58, ICANN At-Large Staff wrote:
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> Dear All,
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> The regional advice from APRALO regarding the ALS Application (307)
> Internet Society Rural Development Special Interest Group has been
> received.
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> The following question has been posed to the ALAC:
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> *****
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> Question: Does the ALAC wish to accredit the (307) Internet Society
> Rural Development Special Interest Group? The regional advice was to
> accept the application.
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> *****
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> Please note that this vote will close on Tuesday, 24 September 2019
> 23:59 UTC.
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