[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] "We can't be bothered to vote; so just send us the travel vouchers for Cairo"

[Danny Younger]

Jacqueline,

We have all seen Staff's ALAC Member Participation Report and the recently released Liaison Participation Report.  This is not a single instance of non-participation, this is part of an ongoing trend that is getting worse by the day.  Most ALAC members are not discussing policy initiatives on-line, many are not attending teleconferences as required, nor casting votes as required.  Lately, the ALAC can't even get an attendance quorum at its monthly meetings.  

ALAC members themselves agreed to certain rules governing participation -- those rules basically said that if the member doesn't participate at a certain minimal level, the Chair will ask that member to resign.  The ALAC is now well below those minimum participation levels and resignations are clearly warranted.

If the ALAC won't even abide by its own rules set by its own members, then how can you expect anyone to take the ALAC seriously?  



--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Jacqueline A. Morris <jam at jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:

> From: Jacqueline A. Morris <jam at jacquelinemorris.com>
> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] [At-Large] "We can't be bothered to vote; so just send us the travel vouchers for Cairo"
> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> Cc: "NA Discuss" <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 9:45 AM
> Hi Danny
> Similar participation rate for the Vote on ratification of
> the Statement 
> on GNSO Restructuring - 8 votes.
> Are ppl travelling or otherwise offline? I would look for
> reasons before 
> assuming that they "decided to ignore" or
> didn't care to vote... Maybe 
> we should ask why before assigning negative reasons?
> Jacqueline