[ALAC] [EURO-ALS] [LAC-ALS] [NA-ALS] Major Milestone Coming Up

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Danny Younger said the following  on 07/02/07 21:23:
> We have been pursuing this experiment for four long years
> during which time the DNS policy-related contributions
> offered by the ALS organizations has been almost nil. 
>   
Danny,

You are correct. On the metrics at least. 

Here's the view of an ALS:

What has been done by the ALAC and ICANN to involve the ALSes into the
debate ?  It has only been a week or so that we actually receive the
ALAC mailing list in our mailbox. And this is in read-only mode. As an
example, this reply will be moderated once it goes to the alac list.  Is
this the treatement that ALSes deserve ? 

My understanding is that much of the work of the ALAC is done through
teleconferences, which ALSes cannot attend. Another part of the work is
done face-to-face during ICANN meetings, where most ALSes cannot afford
to send a representativefor a week.

In short, ALAC and ICANN seem out of touch viewed from here.

There seems to be a willingess from ICANN to go forward with the ALAC
and RALOs. ICANN has assigned a budget for this. There are new mailing
lists, wikis and most importantly staff dedicated to bring this all
together. I still believe something useful can come of out this.

> I don't want a powerless ALAC model that offers no
> hope of representation on the ICANN Board.  I want our
> community to have the benefit of a Supporting
> Organization model that seats its members on the ICANN
> Board.
>   
I think this is what we all want to achieve in the end. And indeed, it
is not with sleeping ALses that we are going to reach that goal. How can
we wake them up ?

Best,

Patrick Vande Walle
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