[ALAC] Rules of Procedure - Draft for discussion at 26 March ALAC meeting

[Cheryl Langdon-Orr]

All good points from my POV and YES the power to give 'delegated authority'
is important  for ALAC  to have  ability to allocate as needs be over to
the ALT

*Cheryl Langdon-Orr ...  **(CLO)*
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On 26 March 2013 13:59, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Thanks Olivier. See below.
>
> At 25/03/2013 08:05 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> >Dear Alan,
> >
> >One suggestion, reading the following paragraph:
> >
> >"6.2 The ALT shall have no other explicit responsibilities and is not
> >empowered to make substantive decisions on the part of the ALAC unless
> >urgency or confidentiality precludes consulting the ALAC. In such a
> >case, the decision needs to be ratified with the ALAC as soon as
> practical."
> >
> >--> With reference to 6.2, shouldn't we also allow the ALAC to
> >explicitly give certain tasks to the ALT if it desires?
>
> Good point, and in fact, the ALAC recently did exactly that in
> requesting that the current ExCom take on the responsibility of
> selecting/forwarding names for the new Meeting Strategy Working Group.
>
> I would suggesting adding a new paragraph after 6.2 (to be numbered
> 6.3 and pushing the rest of 6.x down)
>
> Paragraph 6.2 notwithstanding, the ALAC may, from time to time,
> assign specific responsibilities or tasks to the ExCom.
>
>
>
> >A couple of corrections:
> >
> >3.3.4.5 RALO's --> RALO
>
> That looked like a good correction until I checked the source, the
> Bylaws. And what we have is verbatim what is there. Actually either
> version is rather poor grammar when you replace RALO with what it stands
> for:
>
> "... in each Regional At-Large Organisation's Region"
> "... in each Regional At-Large Organisation Region"
>
> It's sort of a circular reference. It should just be "... in each ICANN
> region"
>
> I suggest we leave the Bylaw words intact, bad grammar and all.
>
> >12.2.1 - the term "delegates" is not used anymore. Replace with "member" ?
>
> Good catch!  I thought we had eradicated all of those "delegate". I
> guess the abstention rules were sufficiently complex that I just
> cut/paste and didn't notice it. "deletages" should be replaced by
> "ALAC Members".
>
> Alan
>
>
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Olivier
> >
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