Re: [ALSC-Forum] Reminder - At-Large mailing lists requested by 20 May

[Jeff Williams]

Danny and all stakeholders of interested parties,

  This to me reads/sounds very close to being the correct evaluation
of the ICANN BOD and staff's attitude towards the At-Large
or any At-Large effort.  Kind of like a bastard step child...
Of course this attitude reflects badly upon the DOC/NTIA
as well...  I can only wonder why DOC/NTIA puts up with
it...

DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> Denise,
>
> Will you be responsible for closing the ALSC list on May 31, or will this be
> an action on the part of ICANN staff?  Is there any reason why a permanent
> ICANN At-Large Forum can't be opened in the ICANN website?  They open forums
> for everything else from registrar data escrow to A Unique, Authoritative
> Root for the DNS.  Why not a forum for At-Large organizing activities?
>
> One gets the impression that ICANN only seeks to treat the At-large as a
> "mechanism" and not as a "structure" worthy of support.  I guess that
> "mechanisms" don't need to receive the benefit of an ICANN-sponsored
> discussion list.  We are essentially being told, "Take your conversations
> elsewhere -- we don't want you", but we'll be nice enough to let you know
> where else you can go during the course of the next three weeks before you're
> evicted.
>
> Great job of "nurturing"...

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