[APAC-Discuss] [ALAC-Internal] New ALS Application received

[Evan Leibovitch]

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On 10 January 2015 at 20:32, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> Holly said "This application will carry with it a lot of politics!"
>
> I may be naive, but I certainly hope not.
>
> In one of my past lives, I ran workshops training people from developing
> countries on how to build, run manage and use the Internet in their
> countries (including quite a few who hold or have held prominent roles in
> At-Large and ICANN). We often had students (and occasionally staff) from
> countries that had active, sometimes armed, disputes with each other. In
> the best possible spirit of the Internet, they worked and lived
> cooperatively with each other, and at times took great pains to explicitly
> point out that their countries may be fighting, but they were not. I'm sure
> that at some level, there might have been suppressed tensions, but they did
> not (to my knowledge) ever get to the level where they affected what we
> were trying to accomplish.
>
> I would like to think that At-Large can do as well.
>
> Alan
>

​- Evan​