[governance] Innovation

[Karl Auerbach]

Kieren McCarthy wrote:

> It is impossible for me to reply to this post without taking issue with huge
> chunks of what's in it. 
> 
> Just as a quick example. These two sentences, stated as facts: "The ALAC's
> failure is obvious. Internet users have shunned it in droves."
> 
> This simply isn't true. But what's more problematic is that it has very
> little to do with the issue of voting. 

You were a writer, a good one, I've seen you confront bad ideas.

I claim (and firmly believe) that the ALAC is a failure.  Disprove me. 
Show how masses of people are running to it and that its processes 
actually form a force that can hold ICANN accountable for its actions. 
Show how it is a better vehicle for the formation of ideas and a seed 
for the formation of consensus than any group of people who might happen 
to gather in a non-ALAC, such as this one.

I claim (and firmly believe) that people are shunning the ALAC in 
droves.  Disprove me.  Show how, even after years of existence, ICANN 
staff support, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of life support 
that, the number of people who are actually involved in the ALAC would 
fill more than the smallest of small rooms - as compared to the nearly 
200,000 people who tried to sign up for ICANN's year 2000 elections.

You claim that the ALAC has "little to do with voting".  If so, then how 
does one answer the fact that ICANN created the ALAC explicitly as a 
means to end the election of directors?

On the other hand, ICANN holds the ALAC out as a reason why members of 
the internet community should be satisfied and not ask for voting.

Thus, to my mind, the conclusion is quite the opposite, that, in fact, 
the ALAC has everything to do with voting, or rather, to be more 
precise, it has everything to do with non-voting.

		--karl--
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