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

[Alan Levin]

Hi,

On 07 Feb 2007, at 11:05 PM, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:
> 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.

>  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'm very encouraged by all the new efforts of ICANN. There is no  
doubt that by having more ALS's we have a greater potential. Whilst  
we have yet to see the outcomes - and we know that some ALS's will be  
more active than others - the momentum has picked up. We have lists  
(and many websites), we have a RALO and others close to  
establishment. I am the first to admit that I was not in favor of  
this model, but it is OUR opportunity to show that AL is a force. And  
we now need to work with what we have, if ICANN is pumping resources  
into this, we need to show them results. It's up to us to make sure  
that there are comments and inputs into the policy discussions. Not  
an easy job (I mean it's easy for us to comment, it's not so easy for  
us to ensure the ALS constituencies do).

May the force be with you!

Warm regards,

Alan



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