[At-Large] Important requests for input -- where is ALAC?

[Evan Leibovitch]

I realize than many people are exhausted after Paris and that these
months are vacation time for many in the northern hemisphere. However, I
note two issues that are open for public comment, that are directly of
interest to the public, and about which I have not heard a peep out of a
single ALAC member:

1) The President's public consultations on Improving Institutional
Confidence

http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#iic-consultation
http://www.icann.org/en/jpa/iic/index.htm

Given everything we've gone through -- with the ALAC review, the
widespread cynicism, the difficulty in doing outreach, even the
challenges to our travel allocations -- isn't this EXACTLY where ALAC
should be speaking, where it is perhaps uniquely qualified to speak
towards institutional confidence (or rather, lack thereof)?

This relates to the JPA and we _know_ that ICANN staff are sensitive to
comments raised in this context. (Right Beau? ;-) ).


2) The Registrar Accreditation Agreement update

http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#dpc-raa-2008

What are the public implications of the review of this document? I'm not
sure what they are but I'm certain there are others here who do. Has
ALAC even studied the changes? How do we know how the update affects the
public?

Both of these are issues for which public comment deadlines approach at
the end of the month.

Isn't this -- the identification of publicly - oriented issues an the
development of publicly-centred comment -- the core function of ALAC?
There certainly has been no call to the RALOs for comment.

What's happening? It seems that the only ALAC mailing list traffic of
late has been people saying they can't meet. :-)

- Evan