[NA-Discuss] FW: NARALO GA: Agenda and Organizational Details

[Evan Leibovitch]

Danny Younger wrote:
> Perhaps the NARALO could discuss withdrawing from the ALAC and re-forming as a GNSO constituency.  Such a move would allow us to bring user concerns and policy solutions directly to the table.
>   

Danny, without you personally at the Summit -- though heaven knows I've 
practically begged you to go -- IMO it will be nearly pointless to 
discuss this at the GA without its main (and possibly only) proponent 
not present. Will you present this by teleconference, or are you 
expecting someone else to champion this position.

 From my own POV: I am not yet willing to give up on the RALO process 
and am heartened by the direction that the BGC has taken the ALAC review 
so far. I would certainly myself be interested in seeing whether we can 
provide a presence at the GNSO without having to disintegrate what has 
taken some pain to build. I have started to see some progress, but 
frankly I feel (maybe overly arrogantly) that NARALO has had a very 
positive effect on the ALAC and I want to see that continue.

We have advanced and championed policy to ALAC.
We have been the first and only region to empower individual users.
We have been the first and only region to act on issues of 
representative performance.
And we showed the rest of ALAC just how fast an ALS can be approved if 
the information and initiative exists.

So maybe one could argue that ALAC needs NARALO more than NARALO needs 
ALAC. I personally believe that the global character of ALAC, and its 
potential long-term role, is too important to cast aside at this time 
simply because our history and geography has allowed us to move faster.

- Evan