<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Thomas Lowenhaupt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toml@communisphere.com" target="_blank">toml@communisphere.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>The point I'm trying to make is: If we've all accepted the
multistakeholder model, how is it that the local ALSes and
individual Internet users (residents and organizations as well)
are left out of the decision making process?</p>
<p>Tom</p><div></div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">But are we? ALS's and individuals can join RALOs, who inturn can influence the ALAC, who advise the ICANN board.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Or do you mean locally? Well, we elect our representatives on the NYC City Council, who are subject to their constituents, at least in theory.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">There was an advisory board for .nyc. It hardly met, and the meetings it had were closed. You were on it. It could've done something to break its chains if the will was there, surely.</div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">j</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie <span title="Call with Google Voice"><span id="gc-number-63" class="gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span></span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div></div></div>
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