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

Wed Sep 18 02:27:14 UTC 2019

Dear Olivier,

Thanks for raising this point. During the due diligence process, we had
discussed precisely this point in the APRALO list, and had asked Staff to
re-verify the geographical aspect.

The responses we received from the applicant through Staff were as follows:

a. The applicant is registered as a not-for-profit in India

b. All office bearers of the organization are based in Asia-Pacific, as are
apparently majority of the members.

c. We considered the following section from ICANN's bylaws:

(B) who are citizens or residents of countries within the Geographic Region
of the RALO* will predominate in the  operation *of each At-Large Structure
within the RALO, while not necessarily excluding additional participation,
compatible with the interests of the individual Internet users within the
region, by others.

d. On this basis, we have proceeded to recommend admission  of this
applicant to ALAC.
Of course, we have not independently verified the information they have
provided, but have taken it on trust.

I also note that we have put on hold an application for membership from
another ISOC SIG, because they could not confirm if they had met the above
criterion.

I hope this helps.

With kind regards,

satish

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:44 AM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
wrote:

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