[CPWG] ALAC Advice

[Evan Leibovitch]

The bylaw mandate is clear and unambiguous; ALAC is to represent the
interests of end-users to the Board.

All else -- PDPs, CCWGs and all the other alphabet soup -- is and must be
secondary. Its participation in the rest of these groups may be useful but
cannot undermine the primary task of informing the Board. In these cases
ALAC sets its own frames of references, its own definitions, and its own
assumptions; it is not, and must not, be biased by of the pressures of
other constituencies.

The contracted parties give ICANN its money, but the world at large (who
will never buy a domain) gives ICANN its legitimacy.
Let's please not forget this.

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
@evanleibovitch / @el56


On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 06:19, Roberto Gaetano via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
wrote:

> Dear all,
> At today's session on "End User Participation in ICANN PDPs and their Role
> within the ICANN ecosystem” we had different opinions on how to deal with
> the situation in which At-Large does not reach a consensus position.
> From the discussion on the chat it emerged that there are different views.
> I also believe that this impacts also on the role of ALAC as Advisory
> Committee. I wonder whether we need to separate the participation on the
> PDP from the advice (to the Board).
> Maybe we should have in a future CPWG session a discussion on this topic.
> Cheers,
> Roberto
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