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

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Danny and all,

  Danny, I think you are a little bit to critical of the
ALS's here in your remarks below.  The ALS's did respond to
ICANN's addressing of the domain name tasting issue, all be
the ALS's response was "Milktoast" or overly conciliatory
in nature.  

  However it does seem to me, and from what I am reading, to others
as well, that the ALS's don't seem to be all that interested in
the current issues already defined that do effect users, nor
do the ALS's staff seem to be willing to have other user recognized
and reported issues heard, let alone discussed and perhaps addressed.
Rather there seems to be a undercurrent of nuaunced directive to the
ALS staff as to what the should concentrate on coming from perhaps
the GNSO council and the ICANN staff and Bod.  I hope however I
am mistaken here.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Apr 14, 2008 7:31 AM
>To: "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson at GOV.NU.CA>, "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam at jacquelinemorris.com>, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>, Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart at icann.org>
>Cc: NA Discuss <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>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.
>
>
>
>
>      Regards,

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