[APAC-Discuss] APRALO Individual membership form for review, comments and approval- Deadline April 26 - 23 UTC

Jahangir Hossain jrjahangir at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 11:20:37 UTC 2017


I also support this initiative .



*Regards / Jahangir*


On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Satish Babu <sb at inapp.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Thanks to everyone who has responded. Here are a few clarifications:
>
> 1. Unaffiliated Individual Members (individual members who are not
> affiliated to existing APRALO ALSes) have been part of our RoPs from 2014.
> The concept was introduced largely as a mechanism for admitting interested
> individuals who either had no ALSes near them, or were unable for any
> reason to operate through existing ALSes. We had already started admitting
> UIMs from around 2015. Therefore, this form does not reflect any change in
> policy, only in procedure.
>
> As explained in the March APRALO monthly call, the main reason for
> introducing a new format is to gather additional information about the
> individuals who apply for joining us (APRALO's existing admission process
> is almost automatic once the applicant provides a self-declared affirmation
> of required criteria).
>
> 2. The RoPs state that all UIMs jointly select one representative (Section
> 27.5.2.6-8) to represent their positions within APRALO. We plan to create
> the procedure for this process before our GA, scheduled for Oct 2017 (of
> course, this may be subject to the outcome of the At-Large Review that is
> currently in its final stage).
>
> 3. On the matter of the application form, we had originally planned to do
> it as a web page (form), but as ICANN's web team is busy at this time, we
> couldn't get it done. In the meantime, we will be sending the form as a PDF
> file to individual membership applicants, which they can fill up and
> return. When we do the web version, we will move out the long list of
> topics as a pop-up window, without cluttering up the main form (Thanks to
> Silvia and other Staff for their help!).
>
> 4. We plan to incorporate any major suggestions from the community and
> operationalize the form from the APRALO Monthly call on 27 April.
>
>
>
> With kind regards,
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> satish
> (travelling, email responses may be delayed)
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all who worked on the application form for individual
>> memberships.
>> I didn't check NARALO's rules for individual members, but does the
>> description in the form captures all the rights of these individuals?
>> Are individual member have the same status or rights in RALOs as ALSes?
>> One of my concerns is the weakening of the ALS's on the national level.
>> Also the point was mentioned by Holly, of the possibility of having some
>> kind of entities (as in ISOC special interest groups across boarders within
>> the region)  that represents individual members.
>>
>> I believe the above points are critical on the long run, better to be
>> given more thoughts in advance before launching the acceptance of
>> applications from the individual members.
>>
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2017 05:39, "Alan Greenberg" <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
>>
>> The term originated with the North American RALO which has had individual
>> members who are *unaffiliated with any ALS*. In the NARALO rules, they
>> are referred to as "unaffiliated individuals", but once they join NARALO,
>> the term "unaffiliated member" has been used.
>>
>> You are correct that "unaffiliated member" is somewhat of a contradiction
>> in that members are implicitly "affiliated" with the group of which they
>> are a member. It has never been mentioned before, but perhaps it needs to
>> be rethought as we move to having such a category in all RALOs.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> At 17/04/2017 09:38 PM, farzaneh badii wrote:
>>
>> I am not interested anymore in becoming an Apralo member because I have
>> been affiliated and lead other parts of this community. But my question is
>> how
>> And why would you become an unaffiliated member?  I was first accepted as
>> the individual member of apralo. Then they said I become an observer cause
>> apralo didn't accept indivudal members and didn't have the rules in place .
>> now an unaffiliated member ...  Unafiliated member is an oxymoron however
>> you want to define it. Voting non voting member. ... The term just doesn't
>> sound right.
>>
>> On 17 Apr 2017 7:49 p.m., "Holly Raiche" < h.raiche at internode.on.net>
>> wrote:
>> Thanks for distributing this - and a reminder to us all that we need to
>> finalise this process.
>>
>> A couple of comments (and I am repeating myself here)
>>
>> First, I think we have captured the main comments people have made.  On
>> their interest in public interest/consumer issues, I†d slightly rephrase
>> to have just one sentence asking for their past experience/activites or
>> whatever in representing the public interest/interests of end users. -=
>> then end sentence.  New sentence to ask about past/current affiliations -
>> making it clear that we want a clear statement of their
>> interests/involvement in public interest/consumer issues.
>>
>> My other comment - that is a LONG list of topics.  Should we shorten it.
>>
>> Otherwise, I’m happy.
>>
>> I think, down the track, we can consider whether we follow other models
>> in having one ALS for all unaffiliated members - but that can wait until we
>> have sufficient numbers to worry about
>>
>> Holly
>> On 18 Apr 2017, at 8:26 am, Silvia Vivanco <silvia.vivanco at icann.org >
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear APRALO members,
>>
>> On behalf of APRALO’s Chair Satish Babu, please be so kind to review
>> the form to become an Unaffiliated APRALO member, posted on the following
>> wiki page and also attached  to this email for your convenience.
>>
>>
>> https://community.icann.org/display/APRALO/APRALO+Rules+of+P
>> rocedures+Review+-+Individual+membership
>>
>> Once approved, this form will be posted on the APRALO website, applicants
>> will need to download the form, fill it in and send it to At-Large staff by
>> email. The requests to become individual members of APRALO will continue to
>> be handled by staff as per the current APRALO rules.
>>
>> Please include your comments in the comment section of the wiki page if
>> possible or by email bynext Wednesday April 26 at 23 UTC.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Silvia
>>
>> Silvia Vivanco
>> Manager, At Large Regional Affairs
>> ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
>> www.icann.org
>>
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