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Christopher, during the last At-Large Review, one of the recommendations
was that the ALAC Chair serve for 2-year periods instead of one. When the
ALAC Rules of Procedure (RoP) were re-written, we looked at several ways
of doing this. Simply saying that the term was two years was problematic,
because all ALAC Members are appointed for 2-year terms, and at any time,
half of them (and potentially a good Chair candidate) would only have one
more guaranteed year to serve (even though in many cases, the person
might be eligible for re-appointment). The solution chosen by the group
re-writing the RoP and ratified by the ALAC was the procedure outlined.
Specifically: <br><br>
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<dd>ALAC RoP 8.2 If the Chair is still a member of the ALAC in the year
following his or her selection, is willing to continue in that role and
subject to the eligibility rules in Paragraph 5, the Chair’s term is
deemed to be automatically renewed for a second year without any explicit
action of the ALAC.<br><br>
</dl>The full RoP can be found at
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-2013-04">
http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-2013-04</a>.<br><br>
Alan<br><br>
<br>
At 10/10/2015 11:39 AM, Christopher Wilkinson wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear Alan:<br><br>
Without wishing to disturb these otherwise calm waters, may I
enquire:<br><br>
-as I understand it, the ALAC Chair is eligible for a second term.<br>
That does not necessarily mean that the <i>'reconduction'</i> is
automatic, unless there are no other candidates.<br>
Normally, I would expect the staff also to call for nominations for the
Chair. <br><br>
-At Large is naturally aware that the current Chair is eligible and
willing to be elected for a second term<br><br>
-(I am not a candidate for any of the announced positions).<br><br>
However it is increasingly evident that ICANN needs a far more crisp,
informed and critical ALAC than we have experienced in recent years.<br>
There is a potential vacuum in the representation of civil society and
users' interests: It is likely that GAC will abstain from voting
participation in the 'Member'. Civil society participants in GNSO have
not reined in the contracted parties. Discussion in CCWG is moving
towards codifying how the SO and AC are accountable to the 'non-ICANN
community'. <br><br>
At Large should lead the way.<br><br>
Best regards<br><br>
Christopher<br><br>
<br>
On 10 Oct 2015, at 17:06, ICANN At-Large Staff
<<a href="mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org">staff@atlarge.icann.org</a>
> wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear All,<br>
<br>
Please see below the call for nominations for members of the 2016 ALAC
Leadership Team (ALT) sent on behalf of Alan Greenberg, Chair of the
ALAC.<br>
<br>
===========================================<br>
ALAC LEADERSHIP TEAM<br>
<br>
Now that it is confirmed that the ALAC Chair, Alan Greenberg, will
continue for another term, he has requested that a call for nominations
be issued for the other four members of the ALAC Leadership team (ALT)
from the four remaining regions:<br>
<br>
- Africa<br>
- Asia, Australasia and Pacific Islands<br>
- Europe<br>
- Latin America and Caribbean Islands<br>
<br>
The ALAC Rules of Procedure call for up to two Vice-Chairs, at the
discretion of the incoming ALAC Chair, and Alan has indicated that he
would prefer two Vice-Chairs as was the case during the past year.<br>
<br>
Nominations are now open for individuals to serve as the two Vice-Chairs
of the ALAC and the two non-titled ALT positions. Nominations may
be made by any current ALAC Member. Nominees need not be an ALAC Member
at the time of the nominations, but must have an expectation of being an
ALAC Member after the completion of the upcoming Dublin ICANN
Meeting.<br>
<br>
Requirements for ALT members can be found in Section 6 of the ALAC Rules
of Procedure
(<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-2013-04">
http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-2013-04</a>).<br>
<br>
Nominations will close on Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 23:59
UTC.<br>
<br>
Nominations need not be seconded, but it is an ALAC tradition that others
may second the nomination as a show of agreement with the
nomination.<br>
<br>
Nominations other than self-nominations must be accepted within seven
days after the close of nominations. Acceptance should be sent to the
alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org<<a href="mailto:alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org" eudora="autourl">
mailto:alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>>.<br>
<br>
Nominees without access to that list should send their acceptance to
staff@atlarge.icann.org<<a href="mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org" eudora="autourl">
mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org</a>>.<br>
<br>
Staff will forward all acceptances to
ALAC-Announce@atlarge-lists.icann.rog<<a href="mailto:ALAC-Announce@atlarge-lists.icann.rog" eudora="autourl">
mailto:ALAC-Announce@atlarge-lists.icann.rog</a>>.<br>
<br>
Following the close of the nominations period and the acceptance or
rejection of all nominations, candidates from regions where the position
is not contested will be declared to have won by acclamation.<br>
<br>
If there are multiple candidates from any region, the candidates, in
conjunction with the ALAC, will be given the opportunity to resolve the
situation. Failing that, an secret vote of the ALAC will decide the
winner.<br>
<br>
If the resultant ALT includes two members nominated to be Vice-Chairs,
those two will serve in those positions. If there are less than two or
more than two nominated as Vice-Chairs, the ALAC Chair will decide who
will occupy the Vice-Chair positions.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie
Peregrine and Terri Agnew<br>
ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC<br>
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