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Dear Evan,<br>
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please be so kind to find my comments inline below:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/12/2018 13:28, Evan Leibovitch
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hi Christian,
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<div dir="auto">Given my experiences and observations... While I
have totally stayed away from the last At-Large review, I did
one myself as a personal mental exercise. </div>
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<div dir="auto">The conclusion I came to is that the current
structure underneath ALAC is overly politicized, appeals to
superficial airs of importance, and is at its core designed to
be utterly impotent in regard to serving its bylaw mandate.</div>
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You make several allegations. Please clarify:<br>
- overtly politicized<br>
- appears to superficial airs of importance<br>
- designed to be utterly impotent in regard to service its bylaw
mandate<br>
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I would disagree with the first two of your allegations and when it
comes to the third point, I would say that you are missing the
actual target: it is not the ALAC that is impotent in regard to
service its bylaw mandate, it is the ICANN structure that puts the
ALAC in a weak position as an advisory role that the ICANN Board can
completely disregard and with no power whatsoever over policy
processes, except taking part in discussions as individuals and
coordinating the sending out of comments.<br>
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<div dir="auto">Were I to be engaged in a real exercise to
enable ALAC to serve its bylaw mandate, I would wish to
eliminate ALSs and move to fully individual membership in
RALOs. I would reduce travel and invest more in vitual meeting
technologies.</div>
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Have you read the At-Large review? I see from your point above that
you have not. I am sorry but you are just repeating the very words
of the At-Large review. And these were rejected by the community, an
alternative wording was proposed and this was accepted by the Board
and now going into implementation. <br>
Second, I am utterly flabbergasted to read the point you make about
reducing travel and investing more into virtual meeting
technologies. You are the first person to know how terrible and
expensive Internet connectivity is in many developing countries and
your point is basically to promote the voice of developed countries
at the expense of the rest of the world. <br>
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<div dir="auto"> I would also concentrate ALAC activity in ONLY
three areas:</div>
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<div dir="auto">- Creation and distribution of plain language
public education on the DNS and how it affects public use of
the internet (written independently of ICANN itself) </div>
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<div dir="auto">- surveys and R&D into public needs and
opinions about domain names and the DNS</div>
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<div dir="auto">- analysis of the result of such research, and
development of ICANN input based on that (both in original
policy initiatives and response to existing activity) <br>
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Again, exact wordings given in the At-Large review, basically
transforming the ALAC into a free, volunteer marketing agency for
ICANN. Evan, have your expectations of the multistakeholder system
in ICANN fallen so low that you are giving up bringing the input of
end users into the ICANN processes? This is the primary role of
At-Large! <br>
A reminder of the ICANN bylaws:<br>
<font color="#3333ff">(i) The At-Large <abbr title="Advisory
Committee">Advisory Committee</abbr> ("<strong>At-Large <abbr
title="Advisory Committee" class="">Advisory Committee</abbr></strong>"
or "<strong><abbr title="At-Large Advisory Committee">ALAC</abbr></strong>")
is the primary organizational home within <abbr title="Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</abbr> for
individual Internet users. The role of the <abbr title="At-Large
Advisory Committee">ALAC</abbr> shall be to consider and provide
advice on the activities of <abbr title="Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers" class="">ICANN</abbr>, insofar as
they relate to the interests of individual Internet users. This
includes policies created through <abbr title="Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</abbr>'s <abbr
title="Supporting Organizations">Supporting Organizations</abbr>,
as well as the many other issues for which community input and
advice is appropriate. The <abbr title="At-Large Advisory
Committee">ALAC</abbr>, which plays an important role in <abbr
title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</abbr>'s
accountability mechanisms, also coordinates some of <abbr
title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</abbr>'s
outreach to individual Internet users.</font><br>
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Now if you are looking at having a group that is there to correct
fake news about ICANN, end users and the multistakeholder model,
then why not join the At-Large Social Media working group?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Social+Media+Working+Group">https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Social+Media+Working+Group</a><br>
I see you are listed, but have not confirmed your membership.<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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