[ALAC] ICANN meeting on Fridays

Tue Mar 27 00:24:17 UTC 2012

+1 @Tijani.

Rinalia

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:55 PM, <tijani.benjemaa at fmai.org> wrote:

> Olivier and all,
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> Even if it would be better for me to shorten the meeting by one day, I
> totally disagree on removing the Friday morning session for the following
> reasons:
>
> ·         The most important part of the Friday session is the board public
> meeting and not the SO/AC Chair reports.
>
> ·         I find the Board public meeting one of the most important events
> of the week: remember when the Board members voted the resolution on .xxx
> and the discussion that took place just before, or when they voted on the
> resolution 20 in Nairobi. Those were very important moments that the
> community lived directly. I think it’s one of the ICANN particularities to
> have a public Board meeting with decision made and discussion. We may have
> a
> boring and empty one as in San José, but it was an exception, and I hope it
> will be the last one.
>
> ·         The report of the Board committees is also an interesting thing,
> mainly because of the opportunity to react for the community.
>
> ·         Tell you the truth, I would like to see the ALAC Chair
> presentation given with more details on the main things (for example on the
> academy, LACRALO events and At-Large improvement for the San José meeting).
> I find this “exhibition” of the SO/AC activities interesting and
> informative.
>
> ·         Finally, and as you said Olivier, our ExCom meeting needs to be
> on
> Friday afternoon to be able to have the senior staff absolutely free for
> interaction with our concerns.
>
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> [mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] De la part de Olivier MJ
> Crepin-Leblond
> Envoyé : lundi 26 mars 2012 15:42
> À : ALAC Working List
> Objet : [ALAC] ICANN meeting on Fridays
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> Dear Folks,
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>
> 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.
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>
> 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.
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>
>
> 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.
>
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> 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,
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>
>
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
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> ALAC Chair
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