[EURO-Discuss] Why no room for individuals in the RALO?

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wz-berlin.de
Wed Mar 28 13:58:53 EDT 2007


Hi, I can find only the singapore report from that committee. The URLs 
on the ICANN website don't work anymore:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs/macsing.html

This gives you a good view of the discussions regarding at large 
membership in the late 90s.
Wendy who was involved in the MAC might have the final report.

Two other studies were conducted by the ICANN commissioned ALSC [At 
Large Study Committee] in 2001: Final Report on ICANN At-Large Membership:
http://www.atlargestudy.org/final_report.shtml

and by NAIS [NGO and Academic ICANN Study] in 2001:
http://www.naisproject.org/report/final/

My sense is that the longer individuals have no equal rights in this 
process, the less likely it is that they will ever get them.

jeanette

Patrick Vande Walle wrote:
> Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
>> The MAC discussed at length all the questions you mention below. The
>> MAC came to the conclusion that individuals should and can have a
>> voice in ICANN and it made suggestions how this can be achieved.
> Dear Jeanette,
> 
> As I said, if any commitee, working groups or  other body has produced a
> report, it might be very helpful if you could forward a pointer to it.
> It would save us a lot of time to not have to make the same research again.
> 
> From what I read on
> http://www.icann.org/committees/membership/commentary-26may99.htm and
> other documents, these are more position statements than practical
> suggestions to address the issues that were already raised 8 years ago.
> I could now find a final report, though, but information is sometimes
> hard to find on the ICANN web site. 
>> And now we should start all over again with the question whether or
>> not this makes sense? 
> I am not questioning if we should accept individual users or not. The
> question is HOW we do it.
>> I find this discussion immensely frustrating.
> I agree. Going forward, I would suggest that those who have worked on
> the question in the past inform the newcomers here on the history: was
> has been done and what remains to be done, in their view.
> 
> Patrick



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