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

[James Van Leeuwen]

This was an extraordinarily helpful discussion... thank you.

I wish I had access to this quality and candor of discussion all the time, it would be much easier to recognize where time and effort are best invested. 

I am very interested in a discussion on the ‘massive role’ that ALAC isn’t playing.

If ALAC cannot or will not take on this role, what kind of agency could?

Are there any viable candidates, or would the agency need to be built from scratch?

JvL





> On Oct 11, 2018, at 4:45 PM, Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> We should get out of these weeds now, unless anyone else out there wants to chime in.
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> Marita  
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>> 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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