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

[Wendy Seltzer]

Another good place for this discussion is to recommend additions/changes
to the Terms of Reference of the ALAC review. Perhaps better, since that
ultimately gets to the Board as outside review:
<http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-30mar07.htm>

--Wendy

Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:
> Hi Alice
> As we discussed briefly during the Lisboa meeting, several of the RALOs have
> determined that individual users do not participate on the same footing as
> the organized ALSes. We said then that the ALAC needed to look into possible
> alternate methods to allow individual users to participate  - one idea was a
> 6th RALO for individuals... 
> Should we start a working group to brainstorm ideas for better
> participation? If so - who'd be interested in looking at those options -
> Wendy, Alice?
> Jacqueline
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice [mailto:alice at apc.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:48 PM
> To: Wendy Seltzer
> Cc: alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [At-Large] ALS lists - why no public archive?
> 
> Agree, the current ALAC structure does not support individual Internet 
> users participation. Not sure the RALO's will either unless there is a 
> commitment to truly supporting/ensuring their engagement.
> 
> alice
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Wendy Seltzer wrote:
>> At 08:38 AM 4/9/2007, Adam Peake wrote:
>>   
>>> I am just trying to understand how the ALAC structure works.
>>>
>>> ALS have a pretty clear mandate to support
>>> "individual Internet users' informed participation in ICANN by
>>> distributing to individual constituents/members information on
>>> relevant ICANN activities and issues, offering Internet-based
>>> mechanisms that enable discussions of one or more of these activities
>>> and issues among individual constituents/members, and involving
>>> individual constituents/members in relevant ICANN policy development,
>>> discussions and decisions."
>>> and to be organised around individual participation, etc.
>>> <http://alac.icann.org/correspondence/structures-app.htm>
>>>
>>> Does the current ALAC structure achieve this?
>>>     
>> NO.
>>
>> --Wendy
>> (more later)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org
>> Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
>> Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
>> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
>> http://www.chillingeffects.org/  
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ALAC mailing list
>> ALAC at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>>
> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org
>> www.alac.icann.org
>> www.icannalac.org
>>
>>   
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> ALAC mailing list
> ALAC at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org
> 
> www.alac.icann.org
> www.icannalac.org
> 


-- 
Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org
phone: 718.780.7961 // fax: 718.780.0394 // cell: 914.374.0613
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
http://www.chillingeffects.org/