[ALAC] Fwd: Re: ALAC/At-Large Improvements Implementation Project - Final Report for review by the SIC

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

FYI


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Sujet: 	Re: ALAC/At-Large Improvements Implementation Project - Final
Report for review by the SIC
Date : 	Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:16:51 -0400
De : 	Steve Crocker <steve at shinkuro.com>
Pour : 	Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
Copie à : 	Steve Crocker <steve at shinkuro.com>, ICANN AtLarge Staff
<staff at atlarge.icann.org>, Sébastien Bachollet
<sebastien at bachollet.com>, Ray Plzak <plzakr at gmail.com>, Fadi Chehadé
<fadi.chehade at icann.org>, Diane Schroeder <diane.schroeder at icann.org>



Olivier,

On behalf of the board, I am pleased to receive your message and I
congratulate you and everyone involved in preparing and delivering your
Final Report.  We await formal action by the Board Structural
Improvements Committee.

Steve

On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> Dear Steve,
>
> On behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and as instructed
> by an Action Item I was assigned during a recent ALAC Conference call,
> I have the honour to forward to you a copy of the Final Report on
> ALAC/At-Large Improvements Implementation Project for your perusal, as
> transmitted to the Board Structural Improvements Committee (SIC) in
> June 2012. I understand that the Board SIC will present this (has
> presented this?) to the Board for ratification.
>
> By this email, I need to pay tribute to the many volunteers who have
> worked directly on this project; as always, their work remains
> unquantified, although it is fair to estimate that this amounts to
> many thousands of person-hours. It is truly a testimony that a
> multi-stakeholder community is able to perform a self-review and bring
> it to conclusion thanks to the many talents and determination of our
> community. I trust that you will join me in agreeing that this is a
> milestone in the At-Large Community's history, but also in ICANN's and
> in the wider history of multi-stakeholder systems: a community of
> volunteers having no financial interest in the matter whatsoever, else
> than making sure the operational multi-stakeholder model of Internet
> Governance works better than it ever has before, for the public interest.
>
> The At-Large Community is now continuing the work that has been
> assigned to its many working groups to work towards a next generation
> ALAC 3.0+. Work is well under way to reviewing its own by-laws and
> procedures in its Rules of Procedure Working Group and sub-groups. The
> undertaking of this continuous improvements process is key to the ALAC
> keeping up with an Internet environment that is in constant change.
>
> Finally, I thank you and the Board for its recent messages of support
> of our At-Large community. These have been such a boost for our
> community. We have an increasing pool of motivated men and women from
> around the world joining the At-Large to make a difference. Please do
> not fail them by starving them of resources. The opportunity is there
> to stand together to affront challenges ahead of us. Don't let ICANN
> miss it.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
> ALAC Chair
>
> To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in
> order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in
> order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our
> personal life; we must first set our hearts right. (Confucius)
>