[ga] ICANN Staff's at-large website

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Without any fanfare, ICANN Staff has launched alac.icann.org as the website 
for the At-Large Community.  Apparently, this must have been approved by the 
toadies on the At-Large Advisory Committee (and what else could you possibly 
expect from those all-too-eager to lick the boots of the ICANN Board and 
Staff?), but there seems to be no record of such a decision on the ALAC 
discussion list.

As a variant on the defunct members.icann.org website, we are now graciously 
provided with a "background" on the ALAC which conveniently fails to mention 
that the ALAC only exists because ICANN, after lying to the At-Large 
community for years, has finally eliminated all public representation on its 
board (along with crushing dissent in the General Assembly by eliminating its 
democratic structures).  

In the event that we should want to write to the ALAC, we are provided with a 
convenient mailing address that routes the mail to the ICANN staff so that 
they can decide whether the correspondence warrants being forwarded to the 
Committee's discussion list.

Most amusing is the comment on the website that "ICANN... will rely on the 
ALAC and its supporting infrastructure to involve and << represent >> in 
ICANN a broad set of individual user interests.  

Will the members of the ALAC ever demonstrate any backbone and put up their 
own website independent of ICANN Staff control?  Don't count on it.  Sham 
institutions populated by Board-appointed "representives" are now the 
hallmark of the ICANN process.  




--
This message was passed to you via the ga@dnso.org list.
Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe
("unsubscribe ga" in the body of the message).
Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html