Re: [ga] Who should endorse the ALAC committee members?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

First of all, Vittorio's remarks were a collection of misinformation as
all
of us here know full well that the ALAC was and remains a instrument
of the ICANN BoD, not a structure for gaining individual stakeholder
involvement. That had at one time been well underway when the old
DNSO was a part of the ICANN structure, until Stuart Lynn decided
to disband the DNSO in favor of a much more indirect representation
of individual stakeholders/users.  Hence moving backwards cannot
reasonably be viewed or seen as a honest effort to be more inclusive,
but rather less.  Vittorio know this full well, yet again has trouble
in being honest about it.

Richard Henderson wrote:

>    Just listening to the Public Forum at the Vancouver meeting and
> Vittorio has just spoken. He explained that ALAc was created to
> "promote the involvement of Internet Users". I respectfully believe
> that ALAC has failed in that objective.
>
> Then he went on to say that the original committee members who had
> been endorsed and selected by the ICANN Board would "need to go back
> to the Board to seek re-endorsement".
>
> My question is: shouldn't it be Individual Users who choose and
> endorse their representatives, not the ICANN Board?
>
> Doesn't this sum up the 'top down' rather than 'bottom up' nature of
> the ALAC initiative?
>
> Yrs,
>
> Richard Henderson
>
>

Regards,

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