Re: [ga] Who speaks for the ALAC?

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

It's simple :

ALAC needs to demand (as a pre-condition of operating on behalf of the User
Constituency) that the regular election of At Large representatives to the
ICANN Board is restored.

It needs to repeat this and repeat this.

This needs to be the message of ALAC.

Either ALAC is ICANN's poodle, or it voices and represents what the At Large
community is actually saying.

Karl's comments are both on target and sad.

Instead of Elected Board members.... the sham called ...ALAC

ALAC is just an instrument of the ICANN Board

If ALAC represented users, it would know what to say...

Again and again, without compromise... representation on the Board, chosen
by the people being represented

This is the true message to the Board

yrs

Richard Henderson


----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
To: Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>; <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Who speaks for the ALAC?


> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>
> > >At present ALAC is not defending Users. It is acquiescing.
>
> I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is acquescing.  That would be to
> attribute to the ALAC a degree of backbone and action on behalf of the
> internet user communit that I do not believe the ALAC posesses.
>
> I perceive the ALAC as being nothing more than a powerless blob created
> explicitly to do nothing more than cover, but not fill, an embarrassing
> gap on ICANN's organizational chart - that gap being the fact that a body
> who's purpose is to benefit the public has locked its doors against the
> public.
>
> > I don't think that the ALAC is "acquiescing" to anything
>
> I do not agree.  The ALAC's statement that it will accept limitations that
> are imposed on no other element of ICANN is, in a word, acquiescence.
>
> The ALAC has the ability to say "no".  The ALAC has the power to stand up
> and say that it will do no act that will further disempower the internet
> public.
>
> > We try to do our best to keep up ... ... (and still have a job, a life
> > and so on)
>
> I've burned about 40 to 60 hours a week on ICANN for several years now I
> do not easily accept the excuse that says, in essence, "we will help the
> public, but only in our spare time".
>
> > .... But we are not afraid to speak when we think it's necessary.
>
> The ALAC needs to learn to say "this shall not pass" and refuse to
> continue to help ICANN bury the public interest under a tombstone that
> says, "Here lies the public voice in internet governance, never really
> born, aborted by ICANN, without a wimper of objection from the ALAC, under
> a think smothering bureaucratic blanket of RALOs, Structures, Liasons, and
> Committees"
>
> --karl--
>
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