Re: [ga] ALAC Direct Representation

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you and yes that is the goal we should all be after in my opinion.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] ALAC Direct Representation


> Danny Younger wrote:
> > An ALAC "draft" on direct representation for the ALAC
> > within the GNSO has been posted:
> > 
> > http://icannwiki.org/ALAC_Direct_Representation
> 
> Are they trying to become writers for Comedy Central?  The document 
> (does it have enough content to warrant the name "document"?) starts 
> with a small bang - that the ALAC is so emasculated that it can't draw 
> any interest - and ends with a noise that would have to be pumped-up 
> with hyperbole-genes just to be a vacuous wimper.
> 
> The answer is to scrap the ALAC 100%, every nut, every bolt, and every 
> ICANN staffer, consultant, and "attorney" (licensed or not) that has 
> ever touched it.
> 
> And what to replace the ALAC?  Why simply that which we were promised in 
> the first place - elections for a majority of seats on the ICANN board 
> of Directors.
> 
> (Given that all of the "stakeholders" are also individual internet 
> users, they too could get a vote in this system, thus there is a good 
> argument to give the public the vote for 100% of the ICANN board seats.)
> 
> --karl--
> 
> 
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