[ALSC-Forum] ICANN Announcement - At-Large List Names Sought; ALSC Forum Operation Extended

[Denise Michel ALSC]

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29apr02.htm

ICANN Announcement
29 April 2002
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At-Large List Names Sought; ALSC Forum Operation Extended

ICANN would like to thank everyone for the useful dialogue concerning the
ALSC forum. While the ALSC forum list per se needs to be discontinued
because the ALSC has finished its work, ICANN wants to ensure that the
list's closure is done in a manner that encourages informed participation by
the full range of Internet users.

ICANN's Board has indicated its desire to stimulate self-organizing,
bottom-up groups of varying kinds of individuals and organizations to
participate in the ICANN process. The Board's Accra resolution also points
to a desire to see a multiplicity of self-forming groups.

To help support these efforts, any list manager who believes his or her list
has bearing on At-Large matters is invited to add the list name (and other
relevant information) to a compilation of "At-Large" lists. This can be done
by posting the information on the ALSC forum (at
http://www.atlargestudy.org/forum.shtml) or by sending an e-mail to
dmichel@atlargestudy.org by 20 May 2002. The submissions will be compiled
and posted on the ALSC forum, which will remain open until 31 May to
encourage broad distribution and use of the lists. This is an extension of
the ALSC forum closure date posted by former ALSC Executive Director, Denise
Michel, in her 16 April post on the forum. We hope the additional time and
notices will encourage participants to "opt in" to any of the compilation's
At-Large related lists in which they are interested.

For privacy reasons, it is not possible to transfer the current ALSC list to
be used for purposes different than that for which it was developed, namely
the work of the ALSC. Neither does an "opt out" option satisfy these
concerns. By pointing people to the various lists that exist, we can support
the self-organization of user groups, without violating expectations of user
privacy.

ICANN urges Internet users to participate in the forum(s) of their choosing.

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Posted by Denise Michel