Re: [ga] ICANN Staff's at-large website

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

Excellent summary - says it all

Richard H

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From: <DannyYounger@cs.com>
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 6:20 PM
Subject: [ga] ICANN Staff's at-large website


> 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.
>
>
>
>
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