[governance] RALOs without halos

[Danny Younger]

Vittorio,

For an incredibly long time I have been asking your
Committee to open up a mailing/discussion list so that
everyone in the At-Large may participate in joint
talks with your Committee.  This request has been
repeatedly denied.

The request was formally put to you and to the ALAC
once again within the last two weeks.  Your Committee
still hasn't acted on the request.

If you truly believe that a "united group that can
exploit fully its immense potential", then you have
nothing to fear from open discussion between the
parties.

... and as allies don't act to formalize arrangements
to permanently deny representation to their peers, I'm
sure that you will postpone your RALO-building
exercises accordingly while talks are in progress.

Danny

--- Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org> wrote:

> Il giorno lun, 23/01/2006 alle 12.56 -0800, Bret
> Fausett ha scritto:
> > from the power of its ideas and input. This model,
> a shell of the 
> > original At Large concept, is what the ICANN Board
> decided in Ghana, 
> > rejecting the proposals of its own blue-ribbon
> Bildt Committee and
> > the independent NAIS.
> 
> Actually, just for the sake of history preservation,
> in Ghana (March
> 2002) ICANN decided to eliminate any kind of At
> Large participation. It
> was only in Bucharest (June 2002) that a group of
> good-willing people
> (traveling on their own money...) met the Evolution
> and Reform Committee
> and convinced them to reinstate the At Large under
> the form of the ALAC.
> Then an "assistance group" was formed to work out
> how to implement it,
> and by the end of 2002 the concept of the RALOs was
> developed. Actually,
> if I remember well, the original proposal that was
> initially put forward
> in the group did not have the regional subdivision,
> but some members
> (Latin Americans in particular) proposed the change
> to a regional model
> in one of the conference calls. So, at the end of
> the year, ICANN
> approved the ALAC/RALO model and in January 2003 the
> initial interim
> members of the ALAC were chosen by the Board.
> 
> Initially, it was very hard for us to work: we had
> almost no budget and
> support, and ICANN flew us to Rio (March 2003) with
> the agreement that
> that would be the only ICANN meeting the Committee
> would attend in the
> year. It took us the entire year just to obtain the
> budget to attend the
> meetings and actually do our job, and also, to let
> the other
> constituencies to actually know who we were and what
> we were doing (I
> remember that in Rio some of our requests to meet
> other constituencies
> were turned down or met with almost empty rooms...).
> 
> I think that the work of the Committee has been
> valuable both in quality
> and in quantity. Sure, if you compare the ALAC with
> the utopian
> expectation that thousands of people would be
> willing to attend ICANN
> meetings and discuss DNS-related matters, you'll be
> disappointed; but if
> you compare the ALAC with the other ICANN
> constituencies and committees,
> then you'll discover that we're one of the most
> active.
> 
> Eventually, I share your final consideration: if all
> these energies
> that, year after year, are being spent in name
> calling at every occasion
> and in dwelling again and again over battles that
> were fought and lost
> four or six years ago, were rather spent in
> collaborating to build an
> even stronger and more numerous At Large
> constituency, then the At Large
> would be even more important; and it would then be
> able to credibly
> claim Board seats or other ways to have a strongest
> influence on the
> actual decisions.
> 
> I am sure that those who oppose the At Large idea
> altogether - mostly to
> preserve their power over ICANN - are extremely
> happy to see a divided
> constituency where most efforts are spent in endless
> structural
> quarrels, rather than a united group that can
> exploit fully its immense
> potential.
> -- 
> vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a]
> bertola.eu.org]<-----
> http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...
> 
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