[ALAC] ICANN meeting on Fridays

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Dear Folks,

there is currently some discussion amongst the Board and SO/ACs, about
the Friday session at ICANN meetings.
The sessions starts at 8:00 with Board Committee Report, then continuing
with SO/AC Chair Reports and then the ICANN Board Meeting.
Traditionally, this has been poorly attended and rather boring to sit
through.

There is discussion whether this could be replaced with written reports
to be filed on the ICANN Web Site, thus shortening the ICANN week by one
day. Any note of thanks would take place in the Thursday afternoon
Public Forum & Wrap up.

The response I have provided so far, is that whilst I am not against
having our ALAC report published instead of spoken -- for those of you
who have attended, I have kept my spoken report to less than 3 minutes
but for some, the reporting is really tedious and long --, I am
concerned that this would shorten an already packed week. In particular,
the ALAC Executive Committee meets on Friday afternoon and this is the
time when we have access to the CEO, COO, CFO etc. This is the time when
we can really interchange with Senior ICANN staff. I am therefore
concerned that ICANN not having a morning session on Fridays would mean
our afternoon session would be scrapped too.

Also, in San José, we also used the Friday morning for LACRALO capacity
building, so this day was needed.

I'd be interested in your point of view, so that I can relay it to the
Board members who have asked me my point of view.

Kind regards,

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
ALAC Chair