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Dear Maureen,<br>
<br>
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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs">https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs</a><br>
This countervenes ALAC rules which specify that ALSes must be
geographical. See tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-AdjDoc4-2013-07<br>
<br>
"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."<br>
<br>
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".<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
The question of "geographical" was asked on the APRALO mailing list
as recently as 11 September 2019 (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/apac-discuss/2019-September/004952.html">https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/apac-discuss/2019-September/004952.html</a>
) but I do not see any response to this.<br>
<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/09/2019 01:58, ICANN At-Large
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The
regional advice from APRALO regarding the ALS Application
(307) Internet Society Rural Development Special
Interest Group has been received.</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
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following question has been posed to the ALAC:</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
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Does the ALAC wish to accredit the (307) Internet Society
Rural Development Special Interest Group? The
regional advice was to accept the application.</span><span
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note that this vote will close on Tuesday, 24 September 2019
23:59 UTC.</span><span
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