Re: [alac] Selecting Our Successors

[Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>]

hongxue@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > experience shows, that if you establish an organisation with its own 
> > charter/by-laws, it is hard to change it even if the model prooves not 
> > to work. There is something like a certain organisational tenaciousness 
> > - and of cause the fact, that there are people elected on this bases for 
> > two years contributes to a certain persistance.
> > People who want to get involved with internet consumer issues in ICANN 
> > do not want to put their energy in changing the rules of an organisation 
> > first, before they can start to work.
> >    
>
> Fully agree! That's exactly the reason that I insisted on carefully 
> scrutinizing
> the draft of APRALO chapters. As a result, the majority voting proposal was
> dropped off and replaced by "consensus" model at Vancouver Meeting. Of course,
> once consensus is reached, any action (including voting) can be taken
> thereafter.
>
> Hong 
>
>  
The building up of a RALO is a big chance to do outreach and get other 
people and organizations involved in the work on internet consumer 
issues within  ICANN.

We should define a time until when this organisation is going to be 
structured and build.

Now, as we do have a proposal for the organisational structure of a 
RALO, it should be publicly discussed within a reasonable period of time.

For this purpose we should actively invite those organisations and 
individuals who might be interested in this work to take part in that 
discussion of structure, aims and priciples of the RALO. They need a 
clear deadline until when decisions have to be taken and for setting 
this deadline, the fact has to be taken into account, that organisations 
which are democratically structured, need a certain time for their 
intern decision making process.

There are many organisations and individual which have not been adressed 
to join the At-Large and could take part in the process now.

We would give away a big chance of getting involved more folks in our 
work, if we first fix structures which cannot be changed for several 
years (and may only be attractive for the few already involved, but not 
for the participation of new comers) and than start outreach work.

Annette