Re: [ga] ALAC Self-Review

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger ha scritto:
> I call to your attention the following assessment of
> the ALAC that has emerged from the WSIS process:
>
> "Recognizing that the ICANN At-Large Advisory
> Committee (ALAC) is an inadequate attempt to give
> representation to the relatively unorganized
> constituency of users, this should be remedied in the
> very near term."
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc3/contributions/sca/SouthCentre-23.doc

To be fair, that assessment comes from just one of the many comments 
that were submitted by individual groups during the process. Generally 
speaking, you may want to review the assessments in the WGIG Report and 
Background Report as a source of opinions that, at least, were agreed 
among a group of varied people representing many stakeholders.

> As the ALAC continues to be not much more than a very
> pale version of Non-Commercial Constituency, have you
> at all considered the possibility of merging with
> NCUC?  

Sure. This has been among the subjects of discussion of our (now usual) 
joint meeting with the NCUC, both in Cape Town and in Mar del Plata, as 
I remember. It seems to me that both constituencies consider more useful 
to the cause of non commercial and individual users of the Internet to 
continue cooperating in their different roles, so that we can act 
together on two fronts.

> I believe that the At-Large can find a better avenue
> for representation within the ICANN process through
> recourse to a General Assembly approach (similar to
> that which was available under the old DNSO).
>
> When can we expect your self-review to become public?

We haven't discussed the matter yet, but we plan to finalize the review 
by the Vancouver meeting, if possible. If you will be there, we may 
discuss this in person.

Regards,
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