Re: [ga] icannatlarge.com (not at-large.org) STATUS: NOMINATIONS AND SECONDS

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:55:32 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>But, what's icannatlarge.com all about, though? Is it recognized by
>anyone, especially given that there seems to be more than one competing
>"at large"?

icannatlarge.com is an independent bottom-up effort that currently has
886 members from 77 countries. Practically, we aim to build an org
that should supply for the lack of an At Large Membership and act,
inside and/or outside ICANN (and of course, whether it should be
inside, outside or both is at the centre of the debate), to grant to
the public some real weight in the technical administration of the
Internet.

We have accepted to participate in ICANN's ALOC, where we have some
representatives, but of course we are an independent thing. I don't
really think that there is any "competing" effort to build a global At
Large Membership, as the other ALOC participants are organizations
which already existed and are not specifically targeted on ICANN
(though, as I said, some in our org would really like to extend its
action beyond ICANN), and are focused on specific geographical areas
(eg ISOC Chapters). And we still have to understand whether the
ALOC/ALAC thing will provide some worthwhile channel of interaction
with ICANN, even if very limited in actual power.

>Given limited time, I'm a pragmatist and wouldn't want to waste energy
>on matters that are purely academic (unlike WLS, WHOIS, competition and
>other stuff, for instance, where input does seem to be having an
>impact).

Of course the ultimate purpose of all this is to build something that
would be able to provide significant input into the policy making
process. 
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