[ALAC] ICANN meeting on Fridays

[Fouad Bajwa]

ICANN Board Members are paid? Is this true?

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Olivier,
>
> I am against the idea of merely providing written reports and shortening it
> so. I will explain why. Board members are paid to do the work and should
> not be seen to be shirking nor trying to cut a day, on the other hand the
> ALAC are all committed volunteers who do work without receipt of payment.
>
> The Thursday Board meeting is merely "show" or keeping up with appearances
> for an open and transparent environment. Secondly, even from Thursday
> meeting dynamics, there is no exclusive ALAC time of interface with the
> Board.
>
> The convergence of Board members face to face with all stakeholders is
> something which we should optimise and maximise in terms of Board meetings
> or ALAC reports to Board meetings. The real behind the scenes Board
> meetings happens on Friday. Rather than asking why it is poorly attended,
> one would think that it should really happen on Saturday or Sunday when
> everyone is still there. Either way, ALAC Excom should at least be present
> in the Board Meetings when ALAC chair presents the Report.
>
> Whilst, the ALAC Chair may be submitting monthly written reports to the
> Board, it is not the same dynamics as being in the room together. The
> Board, in my view should exercise leadership and be creative in how it
> rearranges its program to ensure that attendance is strengthened rather
> than wiping it out altogether.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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