[At-Large] Evaluation of organisations and composition with respect to ALS status

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear Committee:

It may be useful to tell you that, due to the Ynternet investigation, plus
the application of others which have opened questions about how to judge the
suitability of certain types of applications, I'm compiling a draft note for
your consideration on how to interpret the criteria for determining the
suitability of applicant ALSes to join the community. Hopefully it can serve
to provide further objective criteria for analysis of applications,
especially in the post-RALO-formation world where the number of stakeholders
looking at new applications will considerably increase.

It would seem to be logical, with the volume of applications rising and at
the same time the number of people looking at applications also increasing
with the MoU provisions for a more engaged regional role in ALS applications
decisions, that we compile together some guidance for analysing ALS
applications, based upon the considerable experience of nearly 100
applications being received and the vast majority being handled increasingly
expeditiously easily.

Naturally the end result of how to interpret the criteria for ALS status
would be in the hands of the community, since it is the community that has
the actual decision as to who is to be considered a member - the decision
being made of course through the lens provided by the Bylaws of ICANN and
the board-accepted critera which rely upon the Bylaw provisions. What I hope
to help provide you with is the basis for greater certainty about what the
provisions mean, to facilitate an agreement amongst the community about how
to decide the merits of applications.

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Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart
Director, At-Large
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