AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
ALAC Liaisons and Representatives
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
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Rule(s)
- 22.1 The ALAC discussion lists and its other online collaborative spaces serve two purposes.
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- They are where we discuss ICANN-related policy issues and attend to
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- administrative tasks related to the management of ALAC.22.2 Content that is acceptable in our online collaborative spaces is defined as:
- 22.3 Discussion on ICANN-related policy issues,
- 22.4 Discussion of ALAC administrative matters,
- 22.5 Announcements of conferences, events, or activities related to ICANN matters.
- 22.6 Inappropriate postings include:
- 22.7 Unsolicited bulk e-mail,
- 22.8 Discussion of subjects unrelated to ICANN policy, meetings, activities, or
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- technical concerns,
- 22.9 Unprofessional commentary, regardless of the general subject,
- 22.10 Postings libellous being used to abuse, harass, stalk, or threaten others,
- 22.11 Postings that are, knowingly false, ad-hominem, or misrepresents another person,
- 22.12 Postings that violate an obligation of confidentiality,
- 22.13 Postings that violate the privacy of others,
- 22.14 Announcements of conferences, events, or activities that are not related to
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- ICANN matters.
- 22.15 The ALAC Chair is empowered to suspend or restrict a person's posting rights
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- when the content that person has posted is inappropriate and represents a pattern of abuse.
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- The Chair defines and determines inappropriate content on a case-by-case basis.
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- Our definitions are not limited to this list. If the Chair suspends posting rights or deletes
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- a comment or link, they will say so and explain why. When determining the duration
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- of the suspension, the Chair is required to take into account the overall nature of
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- the postings by an individual and whether particular postings are an aberration or typical.
- 22.16 Occasionally, a participant may engage in what amounts to a "denial-of-service"
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- attack to disrupt the consensus-driven process. Typically, these attacks are made
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- by repeatedly posting messages that are off-topic, inflammatory, or otherwise counterproductive, and the Chair may choose to revoke the participant's posting rights.
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- In contrast, good faith disagreement is a healthy part of the consensus-driven process.
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- For example, if the group is unable to reach consensus, this is an acceptable,
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- albeit unfortunate, outcome; however, if that group fails to achieve consensus because it
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- is being continuously disrupted, then the disruption constitutes an abuse of
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- the consensus-driven process. Interactions of this type are fundamentally different from
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- "the lone voice of dissent" in which a participant expresses a view that is discussed
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- but does not achieve consensus. In other words, individual bad faith should not
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- trump community goodwill.