[ALAC] ICANN meeting on Fridays

Charles Mok mok at hknet.com
Tue Mar 27 07:37:08 UTC 2012


Agree.


On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Rinalia Abdul Rahim <
rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 @Tijani.
>
> Rinalia
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:55 PM, <tijani.benjemaa at fmai.org> wrote:
>
> > Olivier and all,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Tijani BEN JEMAA
> >
> > Executive Director
> >
> > Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations
> >
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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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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