Improvements to ALAC

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Proposed improvements for ALAC:

1. Insist on individual membership only, and make it a principle that all posts 
are filled by selection on the basis of one member - one vote. Then, and only 
then, will ALAC begin to gain some credibility in actually representing the 
interests of *individual* internet users.

2. Preface all notices to the ICANN Board or the public with this statement: 
"We condemn the expulsion of the elected representatives of the At Large from 
the ICANN Board and insist that individual internet users (by far the biggest 
constituency, numbering hundreds of millions) should have a significant 
representation on the ICANN Board. ALAC, in so far as it acts as an interface 
with the rest of ICANN, does not accept the marginalising of the At Large and 
the locking out of its representatives from their legitimate place in the 
Boardroom."

3. ICANN to negotiate with all Registries to introduce an invitation at the 
time of domain name registration to join the At Large as an individual member, 
so as to build up a substantial number of participants with a clear interest in 
the effective operation of the DNS; and at the same time to seek ways of 
inviting non-registrants, through a variety of interfaces.

Richard Henderson