[alac] Discussions on the current model

["Sebas Ricciardi" <sricciardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Wendy,

Thanks so much for your message.

You said " We have tried, over several years, to work within the directives
of the ALAC charter, and yet we in North America still find lack of interest
from broad segments of the public in joining ALSs -- and interest from
individual members of the public for whom ALSs as described do not serve an
effective role." I don't agree at all with this idea. I believe there is a
number of organizations out there (US and CANADA) that still don't know
about ICANN or ALAC. We had a proof of that today, when we heard Robert
Guerra's impressions about the interest of Canadian organizations in joining
the process. 

There are also a number of points I would like to make in the framework of
this discussion:

1) We can improve our outreach efforts by planning them in a different and
better manner.
2) If US organizations are not happy with ALAC because they still want At
Large directors, they will eventually join once they realize that elections
wont happen again.
3) The model is being succesful in other regions 
4) We certified a good number of organizations, despite the criticism and
lack of confidence.
5) We made some major improvements in the last year, and I am sure there are
more to come.

I think it will be constructive, since you've raised this issue, if you
could provide us some practical examples of the difficulties you're
experiencing. Besides Danny Younger, Richard Henderson and Karl Auerbach,
how many organizations have turned you down? Why?

And just to finish, I remember my first experience with ALAC at Rio. In our
first meeting someone raised his voice to tell us that we were doomed from
the beginning and that no organization would be interested in joining ALAC
efforts. Well, today we have 22 organizations representing more than 20,000
users proving this person was wrong. And I am not counting those
organizations who did apply and - for different reasons - we did not
certify.

We may want to look for improvements opportunitties in the model, that would
be great, and I will be happy to participate in that discussion.

I will send you some comments of the impact we have on the ICANN process
later on.

Best regards,

Sebastian



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