[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Results of the Voting for ALAC NominatingCommittee 2008 Appointments

[Ross Rader]

Danny Younger wrote:

> Did these candidates provide Statements of Interest
> that revealed their employment history?  

Danny - further to the background I sent you last night offline, I'd 
also add that my statement of interests has been a matter of the public 
record for as long as I can remember. In early 2006, I formalized them 
at the follow URL:

http://www.byte.org/blog/_WebPages/StatementofInterestsforRossRader.html

My telephone numbers are also listed on that page for anyone that has 
questions.

I will be updating that page after the AGM to reflect the fact that I 
will no longer be an official representative of the registrar 
constituency in any way. My term of appointment to the GNSO Council by 
the registrar constituency will have come to a close and all of my 
elected task force work will also have completed.

As I mentioned offline to you, in discussing this new found time with 
Robert a month or so ago, I had mentioned to him that I would like to 
rekindle my participation in the ALAC (I'm pretty sure that last time I 
participated in a meeting was at the ICANN meeting in Rome) and to start 
seriously looking at how we can bring some real meaning to the GA 
structure. I was very flattered when he let me know that he had put my 
name forward for this position and truly believe that I can bring a lot 
to the nominating committee table on behalf of the user community.

I had mentioned to Robert yesterday that I would like to get the ball 
rolling early in terms of soliciting feedback and input on the 
expectations and recommendations of the membership in advance of the 
formal nominating committee process getting started. If you have any 
suggestions on how I might best approach this, I'd really appreciate the 
guidance. I see a great opportunity this year to move ICANN further away 
from the institutional bias of many of the insiders and instead start to 
form expectations of ICANN as a steward of a public resource (and not 
purely that of a coordinator of technical resources and security 
concerns). I don't see a long term future for ICANN unless it assumes a 
role as a public steward and all that this would entail.

Anyways, I hope this further clarifies my intentions. If there are other 
questions that I can answer, please let me know.

regards,


-ross