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

Thu Apr 17 17:59:47 EDT 2008

Nick and all,

  Thank you for this reference of "Westlake consulting", but who
the heck is "Westlake Consulting" and how are they affiliated
with ICANN?  What Email address should someone forward these
concerns? And what is the URL for "Westlake Consulting"?
Is the url http://www.westlakeinc.com/ ?  If so the only 
Email contact point listed on their web site seems to
be info at westlakeinc.com .  Is this correct?  If so, why is
a "General delivery" email address the contact point? Do they
not have a live person with a individual Email address by which
such concerns can be sent to?  If not, why not?  Don't you think
that they ought to close up their open DNS server so as to not expose
visitors of those whom may wish to communicate with them to spam,
phishing attempts, and data theft? or misuse?

See: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=westlakeinc.com&token=2590cfd4c2225e0100f1c78c31300019

  Sorry for all these questions, but I think they are 
reasonable ones, don't you?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart at icann.org>
>Sent: Apr 17, 2008 11:15 AM
>To: Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu>, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>
>Cc: "alac-internal at atlarge-lists.icann.org" <alac-internal at atlarge-lists.icann.org>, At-Large Worldwide <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>Subject: Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] [Fwd: Re: Draft agenda and planning for EURALO¹s 1st General  Assembly in Paris]
>
>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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