Re: [ga] Roberto Gaetano on ALAC Reform

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very well said. Back to the beginning to do what they were supposed to do in
the first place is the simplest solution.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Roberto Gaetano on ALAC Reform


>
> I don't see why we need to build a third, or fourth, mechanism for the
> community of internet users to have their deserved and necessary role.
>
> We had such a mechanism, or at least a nascent form of it, in year 2000
> when we had nearly 200,000 people sign up to vote for regional
> director's seats.
>
> ICANN's "reform" destroyed that and replaced it with the ALAC, a body
> who's power and role is perhaps best expressed simply by articulating
> its name - "A Lack" - A lack of concrete linkage between the opinions of
> individual internet users and the decisions made by ICANN.
>
> There is no wonder here in North America why ICANN's ALAC has been
> ignored: People here comprehend its intentionally crippled structure, a
> structure intentionally designed to ensure that it remains forever
> powerless and weak, and that it never represents a threat to the
> entrenched authority of the IP, registry/registrar, and business
> components of ICANN.
>
> So to my mind ICANN has but one choice: fulfill the promise made during
> ICANN's formation in which the community of internet users would have a
> means to vote, as individuals, for a majority of the seats of ICANN's
> ultimate authority, its Board of Directors.
>
> Doing yet another study would merely add pages to an already thick
> compendium of studies and ICANN's broken promises.
>
> I applaud the optimism of you and Vittorio and others who have stuck
> with the ALAC idea.  But it an optimism that I do not share, and which
> it seems the majority of internet users in North America also do not
share.
>
> --karl--
>