[NA-Discuss] [At-Large] ALAC Review / Comment Periods

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Vittorio and all,

  Thank you for actually stating the crux of the central problem
with ICANN.  Too much process, too far removed from users,
and resulting in bad superseded policy nonconsensual decisions
of impracticality.  When this is addressed in removing levels
of process and users of whatever sort have the practical right
to self determination within and from without the ICANN structure,
than and only than will more reasoned practical policy be determined
and effected.

  As the ICANN process you nicely outline in brief below, stands
now governments, and special interests groups have far too much
say so in determining policy decisions, many of which have clearly
shown to no work or serve the user community well and were forewarned
of such.

Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Nick Ashton-Hart ha scritto:
> > I thought I would make a point here which might be helpful with
> > respect to the timing of making statements about the draft ALAC
> > Review report.
>
> I would like to add that there are two different parts in this work.
>
> The first one is the external reviewer compiling their review and making
> some recommendations for future developments.
>
> The second one is the Board - first through its dedicated committee,
> then through the Board Governance Committee and finally through the
> Board itself - discussing the report with the ICANN community and
> understanding whether the recommendations are really sound, and whether
> and how they should be implemented, or whether something entirely
> different should be done.
>
> I see it unlikely that the ALAC Review WG could eventually recommend
> something completely different from the conclusions of the review, but
> this is certainly not impossible.
>
> The ALAC Review WG has organized two different events in Paris, which
> more or less correspond to the two parts above; the first one is aimed
> at supplying Westlake with final comments on their text so that they can
> remove the "draft" label from their report, while the second one is the
> beginning of the subsequent WG discussion process:
>
> http://par.icann.org/en/23jun08/workshop/at-large-review
>
> http://par.icann.org/en/25jun08/workshop/bgc-at-large-review
>
> We hope to see participation in both events, but their scope is
> fundamentally different and I hope that appropriate comments will be
> made for each of the sessions.
>
> Personally, I do not have final comments yet, but my first impression is
> that, even if the recommendations are reasonable, there was not much
> effort in exploring radical changes to ICANN's basic architecture;
> however, possibly that lies outside of the mandate of an external
> reviewer of a single structure on the ICANN map, while it's more of a
> discussion for the Board itself; so it might become a more prominent
> theme in the second phase of the process.
>
> Ciao,
> --
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