Re: [ga] At-Large membership: definition

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Duh. Have to agree there since there is already an IP overload as it is.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: [ga] At-Large membership: definition


> Vittorio,
> 
> I refer you to the Membership Advisory Committee
> Commentary on the Principles of the At-large
> Membership:
> 
> 1. At-large membership should primarily represent
> those individuals and organizations that are not
> represented by the Supporting Organizations (SOs).  
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs/macberlin.html
> 
> In view of this definition (arrived at by consensus
> through the ICANN process), can you explain to me on
> what basis the ALAC certified the Intellectual
> Property & Technology (IPT) Section of the Hawaii
> State Bar Association as an at-large structure?
> 
> Intellectual property lawyers are already represented
> within the GNSO.  They have a constituency called the
> Intellectual Property Constituency.  Why didn't you
> refer these applicants to their proper home within
> ICANN instead of bastardizing the concept of At-Large
> membership even further?
> 
> Are all of you on the ALAC totally clueless?  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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