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

[Jeff Williams]

Jefsey and all stakeholders or interested parties,

  I and a growing number of our members also found this announcement
well, rather a joke, although a bad one as well.  But it did retain a certain
humor factor for me personally.

  I think that the sincerity of the ICANN staff or BoD announcements
of this nature, as we all have seen in the past repeatedly, are now more
of an insult to our collective and individual intelligence more than being
informative or of any intrinsic value.

  Yes Jefsey, Esther has wasted here money, but it is her money
to waste.  My own personal feelings on Esthers efforts, although
to a degree laudable are more of a distraction or frustration rather
than having any real impact on value to stakeholders.  The ALSC
failed to accurately reflect the stakeholders/users position and presented
their own Final Report that was like the UDRP, decidedly NOT consensus
based...


Jefsey Morfin wrote:

> I see that you have a certain sense of humour.
> I appreciate your lack of response to my last mail to you.
> I thank Thomas to execute the salvation plan.
> I only regret that Esther has wasted her money while we could have done
> great things with it.
> jfc
>
> On 16:55 30/04/02, Denise Michel ALSC said:
> >http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29apr02.htm
> >ICANN Announcement
> >29 April 2002
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >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.
> >
> >------------------------------------------------
> >Posted by Denise Michel
> >
> >
> >
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Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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