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

[Evan Leibovitch]

Danny Younger wrote:
> What's more important?  Having a very small influence over board composition, or bringing user concerns directly to the GNSO Council and working with our peers to develop proper policies?
>   
In theory, we are supposed to have influence within the Board itself. 
After playing a role in NomComm appointments(*), ALAC should, through 
its direct Board rep, be able to express the public interest in just 
about every topic it encounters. The board rep should be involved in 
promoting openness and accountability, and ALAC should be very loud and 
public if the At-Large rep is ignored or patronized.

Having said that, the ALAC board rep needs far more support than 
currently exists. But that's an issue of maturity, not of an impossible 
structure.

In any case, given the track record of NCUC's ability to advance its own 
agenda, I'm not sure that NARALO's getting involved in GNSO promises any 
more concrete results than we're getting from the status quo.

- Evan