[NA-Discuss] ALAC Review Draft is published

[Alan Greenberg]

At 18/06/2008 11:01 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>Alan Greenberg wrote:
>>
>>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.
>>
>The criteria -- formal or informal -- used to seek and choose 
>candidates helps enforce a certain kind of philosophical orthodoxy. 
>ICANN experience is not necessarily a component of that.
>
>When was the last time that the NomComm appointed someone for ALAC 
>who had _zero_ experience in Internet governance? This 
>characteristic is shared by the overwhelming majority of the 
>public-at-large which ALAC is supposed to represent. It fits me and 
>quite a few other people here. If ICANN wants to educate and hear 
>from the otherwise-disinterested public, then it must be aware of 
>the perspective of such "IG virgins". And yet a lack of such 
>experience would almost certainly be a cause for disqualification 
>for NomComm consideration.

Then as along as there are NomCom folks on the ALAC, the ALAC needs 
to tell the people we put on the NomCom exactly what we are looking 
for. If regions cannot agree, each region should give their nominee 
the regional criteria.

To the best of my knowledge, this has either not been done at all, or 
been done very informally.

Alan