[At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] [Fwd: Re: Draft agenda and planning for EURALO¹s 1st General Assembly in Paris]

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

May I also take this opportunity to suggest that any views on this subject would be of great interest to the at-large reviewers at Westlake consulting. I hope that you will all take the opportunity to send them your thoughts on these subjects; I know that many of you have strong views about this and it would be a shame if the reviewers didn't have a complete picture of the perspectives.


On 17/04/2008 19:51, "Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette at wzb.eu> wrote:

Hi, thank you for the explanation. What still amazes me though is that
the At Large Membership doesn't provide "a home" for individual Internet
users. No doubt, they are affected by ICANN's policies but they have no
direct means to articulate their interests and concerns, unless they
join an ALS, of course. Now doubt also, individual users form a large
group out there on the net.
Do you all regard this as a blind spot of ICANN structures and
processes? Do you think things will stay like this or do you expect them
to change some time in the future?
Thanks, jeanette

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>> What needs clarification across the RALOs is whether or not board  members have to be ALS members in order to qualify for travel support to  participate in RALO meetings. This is why forward the subsequent  exchange we had with Nick about this issue.
>>
> To clarify:,
>
> Within NARALO we solved this by allowing individual members, and
> enabling a pseudo-ALS for for them. That is, for the purposes of formal
> representation in the GA, the individual members of NARALO collectively
> have the status of one ALS and as such may select representatives for
> voting (or potentially travel). They can also stand for election for the
> Chair or Secretariat or ALAC rep.
>
> We explicitly rejected the notion that an individual member must have
> the exact same status as a representative of a membership organization
> that has gone through the ALAC due diligence process. The intent, if I
> recall, was that active individual participants should be encouraged to
> get involved with like-minded larger groups that would then become ALSs.
> This would in turn increase participation beyond the individuals, which
> is a prime goal of the RALO/ALS process.
>
> This approach did not please _everyone_, but we believed it struck a
> reasonable balance between ICANN goals and the awareness that not
> everyone who was interested in At-Large was part of an ALS. So far I
> believe this balance has worked well.
>
> - Evan
>

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