[NA-Discuss] Ramping up for the election - General Procedures

[Eduardo Diaz]

Alan:

Very good suggestion. We should bring up this item in the next NARALO
conference call (if not before).

-ed


On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>wrote:

> At 01/06/2013 01:20 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
> >On 5/31/13 7:49 PM, Alan Greenberg wrote:
> > > Regarding the selection of the unaffiliated rep, the procedures also
> > > cover that, and as one of the final acts as this year's rep, I will
> > > oversee the process.
> > >
> > > As a reminder to anyone who is interested, to be an unaffiliated
> > > member of NARALO, one must submit a Statement of Interest indicating
> > > that he/she meet the following criteria:
> > >
> > > - be subscribed to the NA-Discuss list;
> > > - be a permanent resident of one of the countries/territories in the
> > > North American region as defined by ICANN;
> > > - not be a member of a certified ALS.
> > >
> > > Such an unaffiliated membership continues until or unless one of the
> > > criteria is fails to be satisfied (ie leaves the list, ceases to be a
> > > resident of NA, or is a member of an organization that is or becomes
> > > a NARALO ALS).
> > >
> > > I note that membership in ISOC Canada, which has just become an ALS,
> > > is an example of a reason for losing unaffiliated status.
> >
> >Thank you Alan. This is Rule 17.
> >
> >ISOC Chapters come and go. A former co-worker at CORE has been
> >starting a chapter in Norway, where a chapter existed, became
> >moribund, and finally was dissolved. At Large Structure certifications
> >come and go also.
> >
> >The 2007 MoU establishing NARALO contains this decertification
> >responsibility:
> >
> >5. "Agreed Responsiblities of the NARALO"
> >...
> >f) "Providing advice to the ICANN At Large Advisory Committee about
> >the certification and, if necessary, decertification of different ALSs
> >and the use of outreach and communication tool across the region."
> >
> >EURALO has a draft decertification procedure document. LACRALO and
> >AFRALO have published substantive criteria. The NARALO criteria is
> >tied only to "voting", and so capable of being met by a single person
> >representing him or her self as an organization.
> >
> >For instance, the Canadian Association for Open Source appears
> >quiessent, Peter Salus stopped blogging there in 2006, Bill Traynor in
> >2007, Evan Liebovitch in 2008, with only Russell McOrmond continuing
> >to January, 2012. No "recent posts" reflected in its log for the past
> >twelve months, three only in the past twenty four months, six only,
> >and all by the same person, for the past 36 months.
> >
> >I've no idea how this particular structure continues to meet the ALAC
> >certification criteria.
> >
> >Another peculiarity is Knujon, which appears to be two persons, Garth
> >and Robert Bruen, principals of a Massachusetts LLC and a Vermont
> >S-Corp, respectively, with a freemium business model (free reports
> >with a premium enhanced reports) and the interesting claim of
> >"possibly 10,000" of what are described as "unaffiliated or
> >unregistered members", along with "1000" of what are described as
> >"Registered clients".
> >
> >I've no idea how this particular structure ever could have met the
> >ALAC certification criteria. BC membership, reasonably, but ALS
> >requires due diligence by ICANN Staff which "could include, without
> >limitation, ... requiring the applicant to demonstrate the identity of
> >their individual constituents."
> >
> >This isn't to say the Bruen brothers businesses don't do good things,
> >but it is odd to construe the enablement, participation and membership
> >criteria (1, 2 and 4 of the minimum criteria for an At-Large
> >Structure) as something that could possibly be met by two legal
> >persons, whether siblings or private benefit corporations.
> >
> >This just happened to also catch my eye -- the latest statistics for
> >the web405 website (recall the enablement, participation and
> >membership criteria) is from November, 2007.
> >
> >I have a preference for eligible candidates, and for eligible electors.
> >
> >Eric Brunner-Williams
> >Eugene, Oregon
>
> I will not comment on the specific cases, but I have said many times
> in many fora that we need to make sure that our (ie ICANN`s) ALSs are
> indeed viable according to our rules of participation.
>
> Moreover, it is probably timely to review those rules and make sure
> they satisfy today`s needs, or modify them accordingly.
>
> Alan
>
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