[NA-Discuss] [At-Large] ALAC Draft Accountability Framework andConflicts of Interest Policy

[Thompson, Darlene]

Well, OF COURSE the registrant community (in the US, anyways) responded
to the RegisterFly debacle - it hurt their interests personally.  If
something affects me personally, I read up on it and respond, as well.
If it doesn't I might not.

ALSs are generally non-profit organizations run by people putting in
hugely long numbers of hours dealing with their work.  They don't sit
behind a desk and have huge amounts of time to go finding stuff and
working on stuff that doesn't affect them (or their jobs) directly.  You
must have tons more time at work to read this stuff than the entire ALS
community put together.  We all have jobs that actually take up huge
portions of our time/life.

When the Canadian ALSs signed up, we were told that easier to digest
information would be soon coming out.  As Nick has reported there have
been various impediments to this but that it should "soon" be coming.
Once this is available, then I would suggest that the NARALO do, maybe,
a weekly informational e-mailing on one subject to all ALSs - both for
their info and for their web sites.

In stating, "The problem isn't that ALSs aren't being properly educated;
the problem is that ALSs are not the at-large.  The real At-Large cares,
reacts and responds; they don't."  That is really wrong.  The At-Large
does care - about those issues that affect them.  Comparing them to a
registrant that has just had the plug pulled on their web site is
completely misleading.

So, what issues do ALSs care about?  WELL - that's the information we
need to get out to them.  What is happening that they should care about?
What response is needed?  Put out information such as that, and we will
get more input.

Constant negativity sure won't help, though.

D

Darlene A. Thompson
Community Access Program Administrator
Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP
P.O. Box 1000, Station 910
Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0
Phone:  (867) 975-5631
Fax:  (867) 975-5610
E-mail:  dthompson at gov.nu.ca
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:32 AM
To: Thompson, Darlene; Jacqueline A. Morris; Evan Leibovitch; Nick
Ashton-Hart
Cc: NA Discuss
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] [At-Large] ALAC Draft Accountability Framework
andConflicts of Interest Policy

Re:  "How can we punish or even expect anything at all
out of ALSs that haven't been educated?"

When these organizations signed up they agreed to 
(1) distribute information on ICANN activities and
issues, 
(2) enable discussions among their members on the
issues; and
(3) involve their members in relevant ICANN policy
development, discussions and decisions.

The ICANN website currently contains information on:
a.  accountability and transparency
b.  idn fast-track discussions
c.  mid-term review considerations
d.  the 2007 Annual report
e.  root-server agreements
f.  new gtlds
g.  independent reviews
h.  compliance initiatives
i.  whois issues
j.  the registrar accreditation agreement
k.  nominating committee activities
l.  iPV6

There are also links to the GNSO Improvements
discussion, the ICANN travel policy considerations,
the translation program, and to a host of other
subjects.

So I guess what you're saying is we first need to
teach ALSs how to read.  Apparently, they are only
capable of reading an ALS application form, but
nothing else.  

Funny, how registrants that encounter a problem manage
to read everything under the sun about an issue and
know where to send their complaints and concerns, yet
ALSs remain clueless.  

Odd that registrants in droves managed to find their
way to the ICANN blog and to the public participation
sites when the Registerfly mess unfolded, yet ALSs
were absolutely silent.  

The problem isn't that ALSs aren't being properly
educated; the problem is that ALSs are not the
at-large.  The real At-Large cares, reacts and
responds; they don't.




 
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