[NA-Discuss] Connecting.nyc Inc.- ALS Application 171

Evan Leibovitch evan at telly.org
Wed Oct 31 21:26:09 UTC 2012


Hi Joly.

It was a delight to welcome Tom to my home -- figuratively and literally. I
look forward to the participation of connecting.nyc. While Tom and I differ
on the value of city TLDs, his approach to community involvement in
Internet growth is to be applauded and encouraged.

While there's nothing wrong with being a member of multiple ALSs, I'm
pretty sure it would not be kosher to attempt to represent more than one at
once within NARALO. If it is, it shouldn't be. So I would expect that ISOC
NY would designate someone else for that role should connecting.NYC be
accepted and should Tom be its representative. I personally don't think
this requires that Tom step down from his Board position, just that of
NARALO represenative.

Having said all that, I would suggest that the talent pool within ISOC-NY
is fairly deep and there are a number of others who could step in to
represent them.

- Evan



On 31 October 2012 16:54, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> As most will be familiar Connecting.NYC founder Tom Lowenhaupt has long
> campaigned for the .nyc TLD, and other city TLDs, to be used for community
> rather than commercial purposes.
>
> He has regularly held public meetings in the city to promote this idea.
>
> He has,since 2010, been a board member of ISOC-NY - an existing ALS - .and
> did travel to Toronto on our behalf. Whether this creates a conflict I
> leave up to others to ascertain, but I am sure he would be prepared to step
> down from his ISOC-NY post if required.
>
> joly
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> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:35 PM, ICANN At-Large Staff <
> staff at atlarge.icann.org> wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > This is to inform you that we received an ALS application from
> > Connecting.nyc Inc. It is based in New York, USA. and would be a member
> of
> > NARALO  if accepted.
> >
> > Please find the application form attached. We will provide the due
> > diligence
> > for this application in due course.
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> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
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> >
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> >
> > Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Gisella Gruber-White, Matt Ashtiani,
> > Nathalie
> > Peregrine
> >
> > ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC
> >
> > E-mail:  <mailto:staff at atlarge.icann.org> staff at atlarge.icann.org
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