[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Fwd: Legal Status of ICANN RALO MOUs

[John L]

> It would be good to map out the gaps in accountability that are currently
> present...

It would be a whole lot quicker to do the opposite, to attempt to identify 
the accountablity that currently exists.  Relative to at large, it's hard 
to think of any.  As an interim ALAC member, I tried to represent the 
positions that I thought would be relevant to the Internet users who 
aren't in any of ICANN's organized consituencies, but I was just guessing.

The ALS/RALO scheme exists, but it only provides a trickle of 
accountability to the ALSes, and none to individual Internet users.  One 
of the deep flaws I realized this setup has is that most if not all of the 
ALSes really belong in the NCUC, and as Danny Younger has often reminded 
us, there's no route for all of the "none of the above" users.  Some RALOs 
have provision for unaffiliated users, but they tend to be treated as a 
sort-of-ALS which still marginalizes them.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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