[governance] Drop ALAC altogether??

[Vittorio Bertola]

Ian Peter ha scritto:
> Sorry to raise yet another heresy,
> 
> But why have ALAC at all when we have Non Commercial Users Constituency and
> a Business Users Constituency? Don’t they cover all users who would get
> involved in ALAC?
> 
> I understand the historical reasons for ALAC, but if we are analyzing
> structure (rather than power bases we wish to maintain) why have an ALAC and
> a NCUC? 

In addition to what Jacqueline already said, the viewpoint/interest of 
the average Internet user and the viewpoint/interest of the academic and 
NGO groups that make up the NCUC (and a good share of the ALSes as well) 
do not always coincide. In issues such as Whois, for example, we had in 
the At Large several people from consumer organizations and technical 
groups pushing for positions that are completely opposite to those of 
the NCUC and of the civil rights organizations, e.g. advocating full 
disclosure and authentication of whoever is behind a website, including 
individuals.

A different question might be why do academic and civil rights groups 
have to be split, part in the NCUC and part in the ALAC (and some 
perhaps in both). That might make more sense.
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