[ncdnhc-discuss] clarification (sort of) on ICANNatlarge.com and other ICANN "at-large" things

[James Love]

Alexander Svensson wrote:
> You are (mis)portraying ICANNatlarge.com and the ALOC as two
> competing entities. In fact, ICANNatlarge.com is represented
> /on/ the ALOC. But I'm not trying to defend what the ALOC does
> or doesn't do: The point is that I believe it would be a bad
> idea if user organizations started to fight against each other
> to become the Single Authoritative Voice of the Users. I
> believe we need an interface between a multitude of user 
> organizations and ICANN. And someone has to reach out to
> user organizations worldwide (which is what Denise Michel is
> doing). Of course, that interface must be composed of and 
> elected by user organizations in the end.

    I guess this is something that people will disagree about.  I don't 
think it is unimportant that the Denise/Esther effort has hijacked the term 
"at-large" and turned it on its head to bless a decidedly undemocratic 
effort.     Maybe some others feel differently.   By the way, how does the 
Esther/Denise effort get its own legitimacy?  And has the at-large 
organizing committee have any proceedures, ways of electing leaders or any 
real role other than to make ICANN look like it has a real voice for users?

   Jamie

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