[Advisors] TLD governance (was Re: CIRA elections -- no my turn this time)

[Marita Moll]

So, Evan, I would say you just did some great public education and 
advocacy work and anyone reading this exchange probably now knows much 
more about ICANN than they did before.  They will have received a very 
unvarnished view which was much more interesting than the official line 
and are likely to remember more of it than would otherwise have been the 
case. I like your suggestions below and I thank you for the exchange.

We should get out of these weeds now, unless anyone else out there wants 
to chime in.

Marita

> I said what I did deliberately. ALAC has a massive role to play, and 
> one in which it can wildly succeed, which is why I haven't just given 
> up and walked away. But that role doesn't resemble anything like what 
> it's doing now. ALAC should be involved in public education and 
> advocacy, ensuring that end users everywhere know how this world of 
> domains affects them and what they can do about it. And it desperately 
> needs a research capacity, to survey the public so that its feedback 
> to ICANN can be based on a broad sample of the global public interest 
> and not the best guesses of 15 well-meaning people (one-third of which 
> are NOT chosen by the At-Large community).
>
>

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