<div dir="auto"><div>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 </div><div dir="auto">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&#39;t accept indivudal members and didn&#39;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&#39;t sound right.  <br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 Apr 2017 7:49 p.m., &quot;Holly Raiche&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:h.raiche@internode.on.net">h.raiche@internode.on.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thanks for distributing this - and a reminder to us all that we need to finalise this process.<div><br></div><div>A couple of comments (and I am repeating myself here)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>My other comment - that is a LONG list of topics.  Should we shorten it.</div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise, I’m happy.</div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>Holly<br><div><div class="quoted-text"><div>On 18 Apr 2017, at 8:26 am, Silvia Vivanco &lt;<a href="mailto:silvia.vivanco@icann.org" target="_blank">silvia.vivanco@icann.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="m_-3742760023203078411Apple-interchange-newline"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="m_-3742760023203078411WordSection1"><div class="quoted-text"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Dear APRALO members,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">On behalf of APRALO’s Chair Satish Babu, please be so kind to review the form to become<span class="m_-3742760023203078411Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>an Unaffiliated APRALO member</b>, posted on the following wiki page and also attached  to this email for your convenience.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/APRALO/APRALO+Rules+of+Procedures+Review+-+Individual+membership" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/<wbr>display/APRALO/APRALO+Rules+<wbr>of+Procedures+Review+-+<wbr>Individual+membership</a><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">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<span class="m_-3742760023203078411Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>current APRALO rules.<u></u><u></u></b></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Please include your comments in the comment section of the wiki page if possible or by email by<b>next Wednesday April 26 at 23 UTC</b>.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="quoted-text"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Thank you!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Silvia<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Silvia Vivanco<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Manager, At Large Regional Affairs<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.icann.org/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.icann.org</span></a></span><span><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-PE"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div></div><span>&lt;APRALO Form - Signable FINAL April 2017.pdf&gt;</span>_____________________<wbr>__________________________<br>APAC-Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:APAC-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">APAC-Discuss@atlarge-lists.<wbr>icann.org</a><br><a href="https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/apac-discuss" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://atlarge-lists.icann.<wbr>org/mailman/listinfo/apac-<wbr>discuss</a><br><br>Homepage for the region:<span class="m_-3742760023203078411Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.apralo.org/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://www.apralo.org</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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