[ALAC] [ALAC-Announce] CONSENSUS CALL: Re: Proposed letter re: Brazil summit

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Go for it Olivier! I support it.


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>wrote:

> Dear Evan,
>
> thank you for your kind email.
> Seeing support voiced from some ALAC members and seeing this letter as
> being constructive in supporting the Internet's multi-stakeholder model,
> I am conducting a CONSENSUS CALL on sending this letter to the ICANN
> Chief Executive Officer, as described on the page:
> https://community.icann.org/x/kQifAg
>
> If I do not hear opinions AGAINST sending this correspondence out, I'll
> email Fadi Chehadé the contents of this correspondence within 24 hours.
> The correspondence will then go through the usual ALAC Statement
> ratification process and we should be able to have a Statement by the
> end of next week.
>
> Why a consensus call?
> Because, as Evan rightly said, it is important that the ICANN CEO
> receives this message of support from our community *prior* to arriving
> at the Internet Governance Forum which takes place next week in Bali.
> Formal ratification of this Statement would delay it until it is too
> late. We could have sent it as an un-ratified Statement but since it was
> not given a formal, wider distribution than the ALAC list itself, the
> above plan is wiser.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> On 11/10/2013 18:36, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I wish to propose that the letter below be approved by the ALAC at its
> next
> > meeting.
> > I have put a version of this letter on the ALAC Confluence wiki
> > site<
> https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/Proposed+letter+re%3A+Brazil+Summit
> >
> > .
> >
> > (Carbon copies to Steve Crocker and Dilma Rousseff, as well as public
> > distribution)
> > ---------------------
> >
> >
> > Fadi Chehade,
> > CEO, ICANN
> >
> >
> > Dear Fadi.
> >
> > The ALAC welcomes the announcement by you and Brazilian President Dilma
> > Rousseff of a major summit of government, civil society, academia to take
> > place next year in Rio de Janeiro.  We congratulate your acting on the
> > recommendations offered in the 2012 ALAC White Paper, “Making ICANN
> > Relevant, Responsive and
> > Respected<
> http://www.atlarge.icann.org/correspondence/future-challenges-white-paper-17sep12-en.pdf
> >”,
> > both regarding the proposed summit and reflected in the recent
> "Montevideo
> > statement" by you and other Internet leaders,
> >
> > ICANN's global At-Large community looks forward to actively contributing
> to
> > this effort. You can count on our help and support in creating a truly
> > diverse, inclusive and purposeful event.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee
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>
> --
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
>
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