[NA-Discuss] GNSO reform and ALAC

[Wendy Seltzer]

What a farce.

Whether or not the document is any good, I saw no consultation with ALAC
that would support the claim that "The attached document is a unique
collaboration of the joint users groups
represented within
ICANN today:
The At-Large Advisory Committee
The Commercial and Business Users Constituency
The Intellectual Property Constituency
The Internet Service and Connection Providers Constituency
The Non-Commercial Users Constituency."

--Wendy

Danny Younger wrote:
> Evan,
> 
> The ALAC has participated in a joint statement without
> any consultative engagement with its own membership; 
> such behavior should not be countenanced -- the final
> Statement is posted here:
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-improvements-report-2008/msg00012.html
> 
> regards,
> Danny
> 
> 
> --- Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> For reasons that are unclear to me, there is a
>> document being drafted on
>> a proposed revision to the GNSO to allow for some
>> sort of "public"
>> representation that has come up with some very
>> strange conclusions. Here
>> is an early draft of the document:
>>
> http://www.ipconstituency.org/PDFs/Position%20to%20Board%20on%20GNSO%20Reform.pdf
>> A more recent version of the draft has essentially
>> gutted ALAC's role
>> and calls for some sort of direct participation by
>> ALSs. The truly
>> amazing thing is that this is being advanced as
>> having the support of
>> ALAC itself! 
>>
> http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ispcp/msg00413.html
>> Compounding the problem is that the closing of
>> public comments is this
>> week -- and the fact that the document is still in
>> flux!! How can "the
>> public" adequately address a moving target in this
>> manner?
>>
>> Frankly, not only the document but the process that
>> has produced it is
>> flawed to the point of causing distress. I've now
>> heard from Beau and
>> Wendy (who have sopken up on the internal ALAC list
>> -- why is it being
>> debated there?) and Danny (in personal contact with
>> me). I am asking one
>> or more of you to help craft a NARALO position that
>> we can submit this
>> week. I will do my best to help but I will likely be
>> incapacitated for
>> most of the rest of this week because of surgery.
>>
>> Both the document (at least in its current form) and
>> the process that
>> developed it IMO should not be submitted as
>> something with widespread --
>> let alone universal -- public support. Can some
>> folks here please get
>> together to draft something upon which NARALO can
>> get a consensus
>> statement and submit before the deadline?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Evan
>>
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Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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