[NA-Discuss] ALAC Review Draft is published

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Bret and all,

  I know our members will never agree to proportional representation
model nor representatives appointed instead of elected to represent
their interests and/or issues/concerns.  Such a model is by design
non-representative and undemocratic.  So I myself agree with
some of your concerns here Bret.

  The history of ICANN and so far the ALAC/ALS'es "Appointments"
of representatives has been obismal and shown to be less than 
effectively representing actual user stated issues and concerns.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bret Fausett <bfausett at internet.law.pro>
>Sent: Jun 16, 2008 10:05 AM
>To: NA Discuss <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] ALAC Review Draft is published
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>>    * Create two new ALAC positions, appointed by the Nominating
>>      Committee, both from Asia, to reflect that region's increased
>>      proportion of global Internet users
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>I understand the thinking here, but I can see some downside to  
>"proportional representation," either by absolute population or  
>population of Internet users.
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>First, are you going to take away a representative from Africa under  
>the same theory?
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>Second, even within a region, the ALAC representatives aren't  
>distributed in accord with the population. If you have proportional  
>representation across the five regions, don't you then have to do it  
>within the regions? If the point of increasing the AP ALAC members is  
>to reflect the population, doesn't same principle dictate that of the  
>five proposed Asia-Pacific representatives, China always have at least  
>three and India at least one? I see no real way of making this work in  
>a manner that reflects the population. Five ALAC representatives from  
>English-speaking Australia and New Zealand wouldn't really address the  
>problems the Review Committee is trying to solve.
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>Finally, has there been a complaint that some needs are being unmet by  
>the current representatives? What are those complaints? If there are  
>none, perhaps we're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
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>This is a subject I'd be interesting in hearing more about.
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>        Bret
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