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<p>Satish,</p>
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<p>Please consider as an alternative the pros/cons of NPOC, an NGO-dedicated constituency, close to the source of policy development (GNSO)</p>
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<p>cheers</p>
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<p id="reply-intro">El 2019-09-17 20:27, Satish Babu via ALAC escribió:</p>
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<div>Dear Olivier,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>The responses we received from the applicant through Staff were as follows:</div>
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<div>a. The applicant is registered as a not-for-profit in India</div>
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<div>b. All office bearers of the organization are based in Asia-Pacific, as are apparently majority of the members.</div>
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<div>c. We considered the following section from ICANN's bylaws:</div>
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<div><span style="color: #0000ff;">(B) who are citizens or residents of countries within the Geographic Region of the RALO<strong> will predominate in the operation </strong>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.</span></div>
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<div>d. On this basis, we have proceeded to recommend admission of this applicant to ALAC. <br />
<div>Of course, we have not independently verified the information they have provided, but have taken it on trust.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I hope this helps.</div>
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<div>With kind regards,</div>
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<div class="v1gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:44 AM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" rel="noreferrer">ocl@gih.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>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="v1gmail-m_-8643094707785705071gmail-m_730374364329838346moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.internetsociety.org/sigs</a><br />This countervenes ALAC rules which specify that ALSes must be geographical. See <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-AdjDoc4-2013-07" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-AdjDoc4-2013-07</a><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="v1gmail-m_-8643094707785705071gmail-m_730374364329838346moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/apac-discuss/2019-September/004952.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">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 />
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<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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 style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212121;"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">The following question has been posed to the ALAC:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212121;"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Question: 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 style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212121;"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Please note that this vote will close on Tuesday, 24 September 2019 23:59 UTC.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212121;"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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