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At-Large Community Website

ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is responsible for considering and providing advice on the activities of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), as they relate to the interests of individual Internet users (the "At-Large" community). ICANN, as a private sector, non-profit corporation with technical management responsibilities for the Internet's domain name and address system, relies on the ALAC and the broader At-Large community to involve and represent in ICANN a broad set of individual Internet user interests.

Background

On 31 October 2002, the ICANN Board adopted New Bylaws that establish the ALAC and authorized its supporting At-Large organizations. (Article XI, Section 2(4) of the New Bylaws.) The New Bylaws, which are the result of ICANN's 2002 reform process, went into effect on 15 December 2002. They called for the ALAC to eventually consist of ten members selected by Regional At-Large Organizations, supplemented by five members selected by ICANN's Nominating Committee. To allow the ALAC to begin functioning immediately, the Transition Article of the Interim Bylaws provides for the Board to appoint ten members (two from each of ICANN's five regions) to an Interim ALAC.

On June 29, 2007, the last Interim ALAC member was replaced by elected representatives and the Interim ALAC therefore became the full ALAC.

Underpinning the ALAC is a network of self-organizing, self- supporting At-Large Structures throughout the world involving individual Internet users at the local or issue level. The At-Large Structures (either existing organizations or newly formed for this purpose) have self-organised into five Regional At-Large Organizations (one in each ICANN region – Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean, and North America). The Regional At- Large Organizations are managing outreach and public involvement and are the main forum and coordination point in each region for public input to ICANN.

Members of the ALAC

Africa

• Mohamed El Bashir⁴ (Sudan)
• Hawa Diakite⁴ (Mali)
• Fatimata Seye Sylla²(Senegal)

Asia/Australia and the Pacific Islands

• Nguyen Thu Hue² (Vietnam)
• Cheryl Langdon-Orr⁵ (Australia)
• Dr. V. C.Vivekanandan¹⁰

Europe

• Sébastien Bachollet⁶ (France)
• Patrick Vande Walle⁶ (Belgium)
• Adam Peake⁸(United Kingdom)

Latin America and the Caribbean Islands

• Carlos Aquirre³
• José Ovidio Salgueiro³
• Vanda Scartezini²

North America

• Beau Brendler⁹ (United States)
• Alan Greenberg⁸
• Gareth Shearman (Canada) ¹¹

Former Members of the ALAC

Responsibilities of the ALAC

In addition to serving the advisory role provided by the ICANN Bylaws, the ALAC assists in the formation and qualification of At- Large Structures and Regional At-Large Organizations (RALOs). The At- Large Structures and RALOs must meet requirements such as openness, participatory opportunities, transparency, accountability, and diversity in their structure and procedures.

The ALAC also appoints non-voting liaisons to the Generic Names Supporting Organization, which will be responsible for developing and recommending to the ICANN Board policies relating to generic top- level domains, the ICANN Board, and several other organs of ICANN. It also selects five delegates to ICANN's Nominating Committee, which selects eight of the 15 voting members of the ICANN Board and also selects individuals to serve in other key positions.

Other activities undertaken by the ALAC and its supporting organizations include:

• Proposing criteria and an accreditation process for self-forming At- Large Structures;
• Approving applications for "At-Large Structure" designation;
• Assisting with outreach strategies on At-Large and relevant ICANN issues in each geographic region;
• Publicizing and analyzing ICANN's proposed policies and decisions and their (potential) regional impact and (potential) effect on individuals in the region;
• Providing advice to various policy-making organizations within ICANN on issues, proposals, and activities that are relevant to individual Internet users and fall within ICANN's purview; and
• Offering Internet-based mechanisms and processes that enable discussions among members of At-Large structures and with those involved in ICANN decision-making so interested individuals can share their views on pending ICANN issues.

Information on ALAC and At-Large

Please check this page for periodic updates. For additional information on the ALAC or At-Large activities, contact staff@atlarge.icann.org.

ALAC Discussions

The ALAC conducts most of its business on a public mailing list. You may view the archives from 2002-2005, from 2005 to 2008, and 2008 at the present; optionally you may now follow the mailing list through the forum on the At-Large community website.

Links

• At-Large Advisory Committee official ICANN page
• African RALO
• Asia/Australia/Pacific RALO
• European RALO
• Latin America/Caribbean RALO
• North American RALO
• ICANN
• ICANN Announcement on Interim ALAC

²Members appointed by the ICANN Nominating Committee; terms are staggered.

³Jose Ovidio Salgueiro elected by the LACRALO, December 2006, with a term ending at the end of the ICANN AGM in 2009. Carlos Aguirre elected by LACRALO, December 2006, with a term ending at the end of the ICANN AGM in 2008, and re-elected in October 2008 for a term ending at the conclusion of the ICANN AGM in 2010.

⁴Members elected by the AFRALO, March 2007, for staggered terms.

⁵Members elected by the APRALO, March 2007, for staggered terms.

⁶ Members elected by the EURALO, September 2008, for terms as follows: For Patrick Vande Walle, from September 2008 to the end of the ICANN AGM in 2009; for Sebastien Bachollet, from the end of the 2008 ICANN AGM through the end of the 2010 ICANN AGM.

⁷Member re-elected by the NARALO, June 2007, for a term from June 2007 to the end of the 2009 ICANN AGM.

⁸ Members appointed by the ICANN Nominating Committee with terms from the end of the ICANN 2008 annual general meeting to the end of the 2010 AGM.

⁹Member re-elected by the NARALO, September 2008, for a term from the ICANN 2008 annual general meeting to the end of the 2010 AGM.

¹⁰Member elected by the APRALO, October 2008, with a term from the end of the ICANN Annual General Meeting in 2008 through the AGM in 2010.

¹¹Member elected by the NARALO, February 2009, to complete the term of departing member Robert Guerra ending at the end of the 2009 ICANN AGM.