[ALAC] ICANN Board Meeting tomorrow

[Alan Greenberg]

That being said, Are RALO people being funded for Cairo or not?

At 27/08/2008 11:53 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> > ICANN's board will meet tomorrow, with an agenda including substantial
> > discussion of the GNSO Council Restructuring.  If there are points to be
> > added to that discussion, beyond those already raised regarding the
> > importance of making room for Internet *users* on the Council (which I
> > will re-emphasize), please let me know.
> >
> > Please also share any comments on other topics. I will bring the ALAC's
> > concerns about the travel policy and support for RALO participants to
> > the table, if that is desired.
> >
>
>While there are massive concerns about the travel policy, my personal
>inclination would be to leave that off the table at this meeting as an
>explicit item. I would prefer for At-Large to have concrete
>counter-proposals, perhaps backed by some of Alan's excellent analysis.
>I feel it is important not to simply be reactive and negative.
>
>I would also like to say that we continue to work with Staff on
>good-faith efforts to refine the policy before going to the Board;
>however I am not encouraged by the lack of timely clarification of vague
>Staff statements regarding the policy. It is now more than one week
>since the "clarification" conference call, and we still are left with
>potentially misleading comments regarding the maintenance of the status
>quo pending ongoing discussions.
>
>OTOH, I agree with Cheryl and Jacqueline about the larger issue of the
>Board failing to heed (or maybe even read) what ALAC sends it. That is
>far more fundamental than the travel policy. I am extremely concerned
>about the last-minute, and undiscussed, travel policy rider on the
>Summit resolution, as much by the process as the product. That the ALAC
>liaison appears to have been shut out of the method that brought
>something to the Agenda that directly affected At-Large, is just astounding.
>
>- Evan
>
>
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