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13 days ago I submitted a post to the ALAC "public"
forum... it has not been published even though we are told "E-mail from the
general public concerning ALAC activities is encouraged"...
... no mail has been published on the ALAC public
forum for 135 days...
An analysis of the ALAC fora suggests they are
almost dead... which is little surprise when you create an organisation for
Individual Internet Users but do not allow Individual Internet Users themselves
to vote and determine the shape and representatives of "their"
organisation...
Forum: Domain Name Registration Issues: last post:
171 days
Forum: WHOIS: last post: 185 days ago
Forum: Spam: last post: 171 days ago
Forum: Internationalised Domain Names: last post:
no post ever submitted
Forum: New TLDs: last post: 163 days
ago
Forum: WIPO: last post: 135 days ago
Forum: Registry Service Changes: last post: 222
days ago
Forum: Verisign Redirections Policy: last post: 161
days ago
Forum: Miscellaneous Comments: last post: 236 days
ago
Forum: At Large Organising: last post: 185 days
ago
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I think this demonstrates pretty clearly the lack
of involvement of ordinary internet users, and the lack of credibility of
ALAC.
Unfortunately ICANN does not understand that
openness and democracy are the lifeblood of community, and that ICANN will only
truely become representative when it allows representation?
If Individual Internet Users are denied the right
to determine their own representatives, why should they take ALAC seriously?
Particularly when ICANN has already demonstrated its disdain for democratic
representation by expelling the democratically elected representatives of the At
Large from the ICANN Board.
ALAC was invented by ICANN, who hired Denise Michel
and co-opted Esther Dyson to get it started. They co-opted a handful of people,
to try to massage it into life.
These silent forums illustrate that you
cannot bring back to life something which was dead from the start.
Yrs,
Richard Henderson
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Henderson
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: New TLDs : Public access to Miriam Sapiro's
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