[NA-Discuss] ALAC Review Draft is published

[Alan Greenberg]

At 17/06/2008 12:32 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>Bret Fausett wrote:
> > I very much  like the fact that one ALAC representative from each 
> region comes from the NomComm,
>
>Please elaborate. I see NomComm as a way to repress -- or at least
>inhibit the growth of -- a distinct character for ALAC. It has seemed to
>me that the appointees exist to ensure that ALAC does not stray too far
>from ICANN culture. What is rationalized as a benign injection of
>"wisdom" is, IMO a euphamism for "conventional wisdom", retarding
>advocacy and points of view beyond the status quo.

I find this a rather curious comment. Many (perhaps most) of the 
NomCom appointees to the ALAC and GNSO that I am familiar with have 
little or no background with ICANN before their appointment. It is 
certainly the situation in my case.

Also, ALAC currently names almost 1/3 of the NomCom. If these people 
are helping to appoint such poor contributors to the At-Large cause, 
then we are either naming people who don't espouse our views, or who 
are particularly poor in persuading their colleagues regarding what is needed.

Alan