Draft ALAC comment on ICANN Strategic Plan
A draft for ALAC comment on ICANN Strategic PlanFeb 281Members of ALAC1. On process and style of the consultationFirst of all, we appreciate the ICANN staff in taking the lead to review importantaspects of ICANN’s functions at this stage with all members of ICANN community.However, we were a little surprised to see the Strategic Plan, when published inNovember, describe the process as if some consultation with ICANN community wasalready made and the draft version was already finalized as of Dec 31, 2003. In fact,none of the ALAC members have been consulted before the release of the Plan forpublic comment, not to mention ALAC itself. We do not want to just complain, but we would like to join the comments made at theAmsterdam Consultation meeting hosted by the GNSO, and suggest paying far moreattention to the process for coming consultation. Unlike many ICANN constituencieswhose business is selling domain names or selling or operating related services astheir daytoday business, individual users, or AtLarge in ICANN, cannot justify d ensework and attention for the kind of work required to review the Strategic Plan in such ashort timeframe. We do not want to mention this as an excuse, but we like to remindthese points for further consideration.Moreover, like many of ICANN’s key documents, the Strategic Plan is published onlyin English and no effort is seen to translate into other major languages, making itdifficult for non ...