[At-Large] Language issues

[Vittorio Bertola]

Alan Greenberg ha scritto:
> But we also need people who can put a reasonable amount of time into 
> ICANN as well. Certainly many ICANN volunteers can consider their ICANN 
> work part of their paid jobs, but I know many who put a LOT of their own 
> time into it.

In the last six years, I've seen many people come and go from the ALAC 
and the At Large constituency. We had plenty of problems about lack of 
commitment in the initial years, but over time things got better through 
a combination of better selections by the Nomcom, increased staff 
support (which means better organization and more bugging) and the 
introduction of rules that allowed us to kick those people who didn't 
participate.

The bottom line, however, is that either an ALAC member is committed to 
serving on the ALAC, or he/she is not. In the former case, there might 
be valid reasons that prevent the member from participating in a call or 
  in a vote, but this is always a rather exceptional case, and you will 
see that person trying to address the problem by sending comments or 
votes in advance, and asking for reports about what happened. However, 
if someone misses several calls or several votes - perhaps most calls or 
most votes - then it's a clear lack of commitment.

There are several reasons why the commitment can go away, and not all of 
them deserve blame - for example, the person may have more important 
things to do, may have changed job, may have pressing personal issues. 
It's not necessarily like the person is willingly making fun of us all 
and of the institution. However, this does not change the bottom line.

So, no evaluations should be made on just one or two votes, but six to 
nine months is a sufficient scale; we introduced rules that allow the 
ALAC to get rid of people who cannot participate; there is really no 
excuse for not applying them.
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