[ga] A note to Vittorio

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Vittorio,
 
I would like to have the opportunity to reply to the comments posted on your blog:
 
"we even received an application by danny younger, the former general assembly chair who is now calling for the disbandment of the entire committee...
internet people such as danny are ready to complain loud if you don't provide them with a real-time irc interface to your meetings and a skype connection to dial up and participate, and any process taking more than two months to conclude and not being punctuated with shouting matches and harsh public statements is easily considered to be shallow and pointless - if not a bad-faith fig leaf exercise (online people love plots)...  
internet people like myself have started to understand that just by shouting, flaming on mailing lists, starting up mass email campaigns and getting a thousand people sign up on a random website you rarely get anywhere."  http://hackun.bertola.eu.org/
 
First of all, please note that I asked for your resignations because in my view your collective performance over the course of the last two years has not served the needs or expectations of the at-large community -- I did not ask for the committee to be disbanded; rather, I asked all of you to step aside (resign) so that others might replace you.
 
Secondly, I requested transparency.  I have not demanded irc or skype, only that minutes be posted and/or mp3 recordings provided (as has long been the practice within the GNSO).
 
Third, I take issue with the disparagement of the icannatlarge effort that did indeed rapidly gain over one thousand members (most of whom you already knew through their prior General Asembly affiliation).  
 
You, Vittorio, were the chief architect of the At Large Organizing Committee (ALOC) submission to the Board.  By your own deliberate design you denied established international organizations such as icannatlarge the right to be fully integrated into the ICANN process -- you were only prepared to accept yet-to-be-built regional groups (RALOS) as part of your ALAC construct -- neither individuals, nor international bodies fit neatly into the boxes you had drawn.  
 
You who once served as chair of icannatlarge turned your back on your fellow at-large members.  There is no kind way of saying this -- you betrayed them to pursue your own initative which had no community support and which thus far has failed miserably.
 
At least icannatlarge obtained a thousand members within a matter of months... what do you have to show for your efforts after more than two years?  
 
I would recommend that you take some time and consider the remarks made to you by Wolfgang Kleinwachter -- it is time for you as chair of the ALAC to recommend bylaws revisions to the Board.  
 
You have my best wishes,
 
Danny Younger
 

		
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