[lac-discuss-en] FW: At-Large ALAC & GNSO Involvement in Activities

[apisan at unam.mx]

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 Subject: FW: At-Large ALAC & GNSO Involvement in Activities 
 From: apisan at unam.mx

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 Alan Greenberg this message is important and quizzes for LACRALO also strong resonances, especially with the imminent election has just announced that Sylvia. Ojalsea your interest. 


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 From: at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] on behalf of Alan Greenberg [alan.greenberg @ mcgill.ca] 
 Posted on: Friday, February 8, 2013 10:05 
 To: At-Large Worldwide 
 Subject: [At-Large] ALAC & At-Large GNSO Involvement in Activities 


 This is a long message, but please take the time to read it. 


 This is my seventh year as the ALAC Liaison to the GNSO. It has 
 Always been a challenge, and has at times been exciting, frustrating, 
 productive, discouraging and Often satisfying. And I have far Learnt 
 more on So Many Levels than I could even start to recount here. 


 I take some pride at having two PDPs Initiated on Behalf of the ALAC, 
 and seen them through to create new ICANN policy. One domain 
 tasting, was so successful at killing a distasteful practice That 
 MOST people no longer even remember what it was.The other on 
 registrant rights post-expiration That was successful in the 
 resultant policy registrants Gives some rights to renew gTLD 
 Where They accidentally expired domains Previously had no rights at 
 all, but the results Were not quite at the level we had hoped That 
 for, to some Extent due to the limited Involvement of At-Large 
 Throughout The Process. 


 I, Along with her busy schedule When Cheryl has allowed, have been 
 Regular participants in quite a number of GNSO Activities, Both 
 policy and administrative. Others Such as Evan and Carlton have made 
 Their voices heard as well, and more recently We have seen a few 
 others start to participate. 


 This note is by a number of PRompted issues. 


 First, hopefully it will come as no surprise That I Do Not Intend to 
 hold the role of ALAC Liaison to the GNSO for Life. IT IS THEREFORE 
 increasingly important to have more people knowledgeable about the 
 GNSO and active in its Activities, so That When a new Liaison is 
 required, the ALAC will have good options for my replacement.


 Second, for several years, the GNSO spent far more time than Perhaps 
 it Should Have on its re-organization and reformulation of all of its 
 Procedures and Methodologies. Were These changes mandated by the 
 Board and the GNSO had little choice but to carry out the re-org, but 
 That has now been completed Largely. What was a slow trickle of 
 When the policy work focus was on administration is now becoming a 
 flood. There are currently several active PDPs and more coming down 
 the pipe (I am Participating in three of them, and I am a vice-chair 
 of one). In Addition, the GNSO is under pressure to Increasing 
 Develop policy through other means, and neither the community nor the 
 Comfortable with Board policy development is taking years. The net 
 That effect is the work going on at any time is growing, and there is 
 pressure to get the work done faster. If At-Large is to be Able to 
 Influence These Efforts, it MUST get involved from the very start. 
 And it will take a lot more than one or two people. Issuing comments 
 and advice at the end of the process is simply not going to allow us 
 to properly Influence policy outcomes.


 Lastly, the overall character of many discussions in ICANN is 
 changing. When I started, the "public interest" was a phrase That 
 Showed up in an obscure way in the ICANN Bylaws and was rarely 
 mentioned. Users who did not register domain names Were Generally not 
 Considered to be a factor in decisions. With Increased ALAC 
 visibility and the Affirmation of Commitment, That has changed. A 
 lot! As the one part of ICANN to Have the interest of the billions of 
 Internet users as its core mission, ALAC and At-Large have an 
 ICANN opportunity to help drive in a direction indeed That Serves the 
 public interest. But we can only do that if we are Actively and 
 intensely Involved in Activities outside of our little corner of 
 ICANN. We need to be out there, and helping to Participating 
 Formulate the Policies That We Believe Will benefit the public 
 interest and Internet users. And we need to Have the credibility so 
 That When We do engage, people listen. 


 I will soon put together a list of Ongoing Activities as well as GNSO 
 Those That may be starting soon. Ongoing Activities For a few, it is 
 probably too late for new people to get involved.For others, getting 
 Involved now will be an interesting learning experience. And as new 
 projects start up, there will be lots of new opportunities. 


 I am prepared to work with anyone who has a true interest in becoming 
 active in GNSO policy activities. Some of These topics are complex 
 and will take work to understand and Eventually to contribute. Others 
 will be far easier. But in all cases, helping to Formulate GOOD 
 Both policy will be satisfying and productive. 


 Alan 






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