[At-Large] ALS lists - why no public archive?

[Vittorio Bertola]

Adam Peake ha scritto:
> I might be misunderstanding what they actually do -- I was guessing 
> their function was to bring together discussion from the individual 
> ALS (like Web405) so ideas are taken from the individual level to the 
> ALAC.

At least in Europe (but for what I've seen is the same everywhere), 
we're having all discussions on the -discuss lists, which are also open 
to individuals and everyone interested. We've just used the -als list 
once recently, when one ALS representative complained that messages sent 
through the -discuss list weren't "official" and would get lost in the 
discussion anyway.

In any case, I see no reason why those archives shouldn't be open (even 
if, sometimes, there might be the need to discuss individuals for 
appointments in a candid way, and that's why, I guess, Nick made it 
private) - but I hope we're not getting into a week of discussions for 
the archive of a quasi-dead announcement list :-)

> I should explain why I think this important.  On another ALAC list 
> (alac at icann.org, can't find the archive or I'd link to the posts) 

http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org/

> So I can see a time when ALAC might select Directors, and might be 
> able to move from providing non-voting liaisons to other supporting 
> organizations to taking on a voting role. This possibility has been 
> mentioned by Vint and others --tentatively, with caveats--, but it 
> seems to be there as a possibility.  But I think we can be sure this 
> won't happen unless it is clear to all that the ALS are really 
> functioning to bring the views of Internet users.

Sure, just like the Business Constituency (which already appoints 
Directors) is really functioning to bring the views of the average 
business of the world that uses the Internet. (No offense implied to the 
BC - just wondering why the At Large always gets higher bars for 
legitimacy than anyone else.)

Ciao,

P.S. By the way - could you please pass me the link to the archive of 
the BC mailing lists? And what about those of the GAC? Did you also 
check whether each GAC member (let's say, their Ministry) has a properly 
functioning website, and whether it features anything about ICANN on its 
front page? I think you'd be surprised :-)
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