Re: [ga] request for details about ALAC members

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not true: GAC has more power than the ALAC.

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Kristy McKee wrote:

> The quote below is from 
> http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/whois-sc/msg00012.html
> 
> "(Note the At-Large Advisory Committee has the same status of the 
> Government Advisory Committee in the new ICANN structure and may report its 
> findings and recommendations directly to the ICANN Board, and in addition 
> may appoint non-voting liaisons to the GNSO Council. The role of Advisory 
> Committees is described in 
> <http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#Xl>Article XI of the new bylaws - 
> and part 4 of section 2 describes the structure of ALAC in more detail) "
> 
> Just in case you were wondering, there is enough information available to 
> convince even the most hopeful person that ICANN's ALAC truly has no 
> interest in working for the purpose of enhancing the Internet for netizens; 
> but rather the special interest groups they represent.
> 
> Please note, ICANN used the special status of the ALAC to get them into 
> position.  The people in the ALAC have been making a living off of ICANN 
> related activities for too long.  Netizens have a right to know who pays 
> these folks for their time; but more than that, Netizens deserve to be 
> included in this decision making process.
> 
> Vittorio,
> 
> I would like to see a list of the ALAC members that details each person's 
> Internet experience and a list of persons and companies they have received 
> money and/or other types of donations from since 1996.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> ~k
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