Re: [ALSC-Forum] Re: Inconsistency with ALSC recommendations

[Jeff Williams]

Esther and all stakeholders or interested parties,

  This is good to hear Esther.  >;)  However the is a problem with
this view or position in respect to true representation and the
inconsistency of the ALSC recommendations.  They are as follows:

1.) Representation by geographical region is not possible under the
     current registration method used for the At-Large as the "Location"
      of stakeholders is sometimes/many times not a fixed physical address.

2.) That the recommendations restrict the total number of stakeholders
     that can be registered is 50k.

3.) That the ALSC recommendations restrict membership to ONLY
     domain name holders/owners and does not define to what level
     those domain name holders can be.

4.) That the ALSC recommendations seem to be suggesting replacing the
      "At-Large" with a new entity to be called the ALSO (At-Large
       Supporting Organization) and thereby either negating the DNSO
       and especially the DNSO GA/NC and/or completely eliminating
       the DNSO all together...

  It would seem therefore Esther, that the predominance thus far of the
comments made and the straw poll thus far conducted here on this forum
would be in stark disagreement with the ALSC recommendations which
I thought were to be based on input taken on this forum.   ??????
Hence I, and it seems quite a number of others on this forum and
many more not on this forum are concluding that the ALSC is or
did not wish to seriously consider their desire and/or input in
accordance with the MoU.  I personally find this not surprising,
but in abeyance with the ICANN's contractual obligations to
DOC/NTIA and the Internet stakeholders.

Esther Dyson wrote:

> No, that's not correct; sorry for being unclear.   I'm looking for the *AL
> voters* to be able to express their own interests in geographical
> diversity, by region. Because the non-AL board members are not elected
> regionally, I would keep the diversity requirements for them....
>
> Esther
>
> At 07:21 PM 10/24/2001, Joanna Lane wrote:
> >on 10/24/01 4:59 PM, Esther Dyson at edyson@edventure.com wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > My personal opinion is that someone should be allowed to run within
> > > whatever region she believes she has a chance of being elected. If an Asian
> > > citizen  resident in Europe (or in Asia, for that matter!) can convince
> > > Europeans (for example) that he can represent them properly, more power to
> > > him!
> >
> >In other words, it is your personal recommendation that ICANN drop all
> >requirements for geographical diversity at Board candidate level, in which
> >case, the entire ICANN Board can be made up of American citizens (or Asian
> >for that matter!).
> >
> >Can another member of the ALSC comment on that?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Joanna
>
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