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

Carlton Samuels carlton.samuels at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 21:59:13 UTC 2019


It's an interesting conundrum, this ISOC Global business. And one where -
where else but LAC I ask? - we have engaged in this identity question.
Because this is about identity.

Our brethren once tried to start an ISOC Caribbean chapter; drawing
membership from multiple political jurisdictions. Sintra spent months
working on it. Result? Abandoned, one reason being ISOC Up So never warmed
to the idea.

That idea of a global member was settled  So too, that of global members
who are also members of a geographically-prescribed chapter, too.

The idea of a chapter across multiple geographies and borders, with global
members + regional + national members was too much of a mashup and harder
to digest, a bridge too far.

Some of us has long accepted that it is simply preposterous that the good
folks classed as end users in the Cayman Islands, 45 mins from KIN by air
and where they were once governed from KIN, cannot form an ALS in LACRALO.
Dave Archbold (of the ccNSO and a Brit) and I would lament this condition.
So I was chuffed and personally very proud of the LACRALO/Bixlab decision
One small step, progress on the larger idea...

In this region we still struggle to come to terms with the meaning of
"domiciled" in context of representation. And even if end users need be
enumerated if you are called to "represent" their interests. It is the
basis of the struggle per individual membership.

I have watched the arguments - and some were intellectually dishonest! -
eventually shift to embrace ideas that are "fluid" in respect of identity
in service of end user representation.

Like the idea that once could "live" in the UK and represent. Or, you could
live in Panama or Madrid or North America and still be the representative
of your ALS in another country.

Yes, identity is for some of us less of a social construct and more of a
"branded at birth" concept.

So, for example, we struggle to accept that one could be an end user
representative even with a day job in the public service.

Or, that one could volunteer in the public service, be a licensed
professional for work and volunteer with a NGO.

Or own a small business, be member of that small business organization,
form and volunteer with an NGO and represent end users.

Seen it all.

Progress on these ideas is slow and vexatious. But as per Carlos Raul, we
can go somewhere else with other mindsets, rules etc. Thats what we are
called to do in service of a more perfect end user representation.

The objective is and remains a more perfect representation for that 4B or
so end users. So I cannot embrace immutabilty of the representation model.
Let's explore! Think, explore, tinker and mashup all of these
representation models. Whaddya know, something good may yet emerge.

Carlton.

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On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, 2:17 pm Carlos Raul Gutierrez, <carlosraul at gutierrez.se>
wrote:

> I'm not suggesting to remove anything. There are enough ideas to
> change/un-change/BEND  rules already (or at least this is my pre-warming
> impression from the last few days).
>
> I'm just suggesting a reasonable Interpretation: that well and above of
> "NATIONAL"-ALS's we can go somewhere else, with other mindsets, rules,
> established frameworks, etc. ICANN is large.
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> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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>
> El 2019-09-19 13:11, Alan Greenberg escribió:
>
> Are you suggesting remove the concept of ALSes and have only individual
> members?
>
> Alan
>
> At 19/09/2019 12:00 PM, Eduardo Diaz wrote:
>
> Another possibility is to keep the RALOs, so the concept of regional views
> is maintained, but make each of its participants individual members and
> remove the concept of unaffiliated.
>
> -ed
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:11 PM Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca
> > wrote:
> This is not a result of just our "rules", but is also a core principle
> from the ICANN Bylaws. I quote:
>
> The criteria and standards for the certification of At-Large Structures
> shall be established in such a way that participation by individual
> Internet users 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. I see two ways of "fixing"
> this. Both would require a Bylaw change (certainly possible).
>
> 1. Abolish RALOs and have all ALSes and unaffiliated members be one
> amorphous mass. This removes the need to identify an ALS with a specific
> RALO, since there are none.
>
> 2. Develop the concept of an ALS which crosses RALOs and thus does not
> belong to any of them.
>
> If indeed we have a potential ALS that will really help At-Large, we don't
> want to lose them, but I have an aversion for doing things in violation of
> our own rules and the ICANN Bylaws.
>
> Alan
>
>
> At 17/09/2019 11:53 PM, Maureen Hilyard wrote: Hi Olivier
>
> Maybe the rules need changing. Just because a group has members  from all
> over the world, why should we stop them from becoming members of At-Large.
>
> The group currently had a leadership team whose members are all resident
> in the APRALO region. They are one of the few applications that I have seen
> that actually mentioned the DNS. As an ISOC chapter focusing on rural
> development, it probably has a majority of members from APRALO if all of
> its leadership team is from the same region.
>
> Since our current rules only note the primary and secondary members of an
> ALS regardless of who is most active in our work in At-Large, when it comes
> to who the other members are, no-one really bothers to ask. I would hazard
> a guess that if we were to do an analysis  (and were to be so picky) we
> would have several groups that have global  members.
>
> If we get active participants out of this ALS we should count ourselves
> lucky. That is the whole point of our ALS recruitment process.  And as part
> of our Review we are finding that many of our processes need updating to
> keep up with the changing needs of the environments we are having to deal
> with.
>
> EURALO itself has been faced with an anomaly which does not fit the rules,
> but we have found LACRALO to be very obliging to cater for it. And as we
> revise our ALS Criteria and Expectations we will have to include a new
> "rule" that allows for  ALSes to participate in an event on a neighbouring
> country that "does not belong to the region in which they are situated".
> BIKLAB is now a precedent which will allow this to happen more within our
> system as long as there is agreement between the regions concerned.
>
> APRALO has many small island countries in the Pacific that have been
> unable to participate in ICANN activities in their own right under our
> current rules because they are territories of big power countries (mainly
> in EURALO) who are given no support from their home region and would have
> no idea what EURALO was. Pacific countries are an anomaly because as all
> the 22 countries and territories of the Pacific are members of the Pacific
> Forum, they are therefore members of PICISOC, so in fact are members of an
> ALS already -- so we have international participants in our membership,
> even though they live in the Pacific.
>
> Maureen
>
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, 3:14 PM 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.
>
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