Re: [ga] IPC on ALAC

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu.org>]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:59:33 -0700, you wrote:

>Your comparision is completely off base.  Most of the IPC members are
>not individual members, but rather are organizational members which
>collectively represents tens of thousands of members.

While I understand this objection, I also note that many of the people
who participate in icannatlarge.com, in the ALOC or in the other At
Large efforts are acting on behalf of organizations who collectively
represent thousands of members.

I was the one who actually suggested the idea of the minimum threshold
of 200 members for a Regional At Large Organization to become
accepted; it was intended as an instrument to force the promoters of
each RALO to actually do some outreach, rather than simply sit there
with a few friends and claim they represent the Region. But it was
never intended as a magic "democracy trial" figure, because if you put
it this way, strictly speaking, no ICANN constituency will ever be
representative unless we get to the point to have to keep ICANN
meetings inside stadiums :-)
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