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[governance] RALOs without halos



Danny:
I admire your willingness to spend so much time and energy telling people that 
the ALAC emporer has no clothes. However, they have been parading about naked 
now for several years, and anyone who pays attention at ICANN meetings can see 
it. 

The RALO structure created in ICANN's 2002 "reforms" is a joke. It asks people 
to invest huge amounts of time and energy to build organizations that have no 
power. It is predicated on the notion that hundreds of thousands of domain name 
registrants, to whom a domain name represents a $20/year investment, are going 
the spend the equivalent of $10,000-$100,000 a year on organizing, traveling 
and jawboning -- in order to elect people to Councils who elect people to 
another Council who participate in the process of selecting a minority of 
ICANN's Board members.

The only way to represent users is to give them a vote.

The real issue is not ISOC's alleged dominance of the European RALO. It is the 
failure (or refusal) of Vittorio and other privileged interim ALAC members to 
recognize the failure of the organizational model for At-Large representation 
after ICANN's 2002 reforms. The European RALO is a last ditch attempt to 
maintain the fiction that this model can work. I agree with you, Danny, that it 
is bad to maintain that pretense. But don't put all the blame on ISOC. Anyone 
who does not call for major structural reforms in ALAC is guilty at this point.

Perhaps ISOC chapters are complicit in this pretense, perhaps they are suckers. 
ISOC chapters are pretty diverse. I'm not sure it matters. The worst thing that 
can happen is that ICANN's Board will be given an excuse to continue pretending 
that there is a place for the public in its structures, and Vittorio and 
Roberto and the other "interim" ALackeys will get another two or three years of 
free flights and hotels at ICANN meetings. In other words, not much will change 
from the way things are now.

>>> Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx> 1/21/2006 6:31:45 PM >>>
Veni,

One of the four principles put forth in the White
Paper was "representation".  

This guiding document also stated:  "The new
corporation's charter should provide a mechanism
whereby its governing body will evolve to reflect
changes in the constituency of Internet stakeholders.
The new corporation could, for example, establish an
open process for the presentation of petitions to
expand board representation."

Instead of expanding board representation, you and
your fellow Board members have reduced board
representation by eliminating an entire category of
stakeholders from the Board -- the at-large community.
 My interest is in repairing the damage that you and
your associates on the Board have caused, and
restoring representation to the Internet's end-user
community.

As this list is devoted to governance issues, perhaps
you might share with us your own views on board-level
representation for the At-Large.  

Danny

--- Veni Markovski <veni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Vittorio,
> please, do not get upset by such postings. They aim
> at that, and nothing else.
> You're trying to do something good - please, keep on
> trying, and 
> don't give up!
> 
> Now, after we have heard what are your "interests"
> according to 
> Danny, perhaps we can hear what are also Danny's
> interestes, so that 
> the game is fair.
> 
> 
> Veni
> 
> At 10:30 21-01-06  -0800, Danny Younger wrote:
> >Vittorio,
> >
> >Frankly, your interest is in continuing to promote
> a
> >construct that replaces a host of At-Large
> directors
> >with a single non-elected liaison to the ICANN
> Board.
> >Your agenda, and those of many of your associates
> on
> >the ALAC, calls for taking advantage of
> >ICANN-sponsored travel perks while refusing to have
> >your Committee discuss critical at-large matters
> (such
> >as representation) with the balance of the at-large
> 
> 


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