[ALAC] List consolidation proposal

[Wendy Seltzer]

First off, thanks very much to Nick for finally helping us to get ALAC 
communications under our control and for tracking down ALS contacts to 
add to lists.  Now, though, we have an embarrassment of riches -- so 
many lists that it's hard to know where to send and hard for the 
recipients to continue the discussion because they're fragmented among 
many one-way lists.

I propose the following for the lists @atlarge-lists.icann.org:

alac -- public archive, open membership, list for general ALAC business. 
Open for posting to any interested party (including the memberships of 
*-Discuss and *-ALS).

alac-internal -- ALAC members only, no public archive, LIMITED use 
(e.g., what time's the conference call)

regional lists -- at the option of regions' ALSs and individuals, for 
discussion of region-specific business.  Publicly archived; open or 
closed at regions' option. For NA, I propose consolidation down to 
NA-Discuss, open membership.


Finally, on the wikis, I propose using ICANNwiki exclusively, rather 
than the closed, publicly invisible Socialtext site.

As the ALAC is supposed to represent the interests of the individual 
Internet users, we should be holding more conversations with them!

Thanks,
--Wendy

-- 
Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
http://www.chillingeffects.org/