[ALAC] Draft Agenda for ALAC ExCom meeting of 15th July

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear Evan:

It would not be  appropriate for me to comment on the substance of your 
comments of course, but with respect to the technical issues: there is 
no impediment to anyone  on ALAC or the RALOs joining Excom calls (which 
is of course why their agendas are public and their meetings are announced).

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> https://st.icann.org/alac-excomm/index.cgi?15_july_2009
>
> Once upon a time the rationale given for the existence of the Executive
> Committee was that occasionally ALAC was required to move faster than
> was, and that a small group of five could handle issues of critical
> timeliness more easily than the whole group of 15.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> In December mailing list discussions it was revealed that the ExecComm
> was going to take on certain additional administrative functions that
> could (and should) have just as easily been delegated to a conventional
> working group.
>
> Under any situation of normalcy, there would be an ALAC administrative
> working group, open to all interested people just like all other working
> groups are right now. Just like topic-driven WGs draft policy
> recommendations (to be approved by At-Large), so too would a admin WG
> draft propose changes to matters of internal operation. It would have an
> ALAC liaision who would raise its issues to the whole group.
>
> Instead we have a self-selected group, that (unlike any other WG or
> subcommittee) shuts out non-ALAC members.
>
> Such a closed culture leads to undesirable outcomes, such as the wording
> of the agenda item regarding two draft documents regarding ALAC job
> descriptions and the method to select the ALAC Board Liaison:
> /
> "Decision Required: Whether or not these items shall be proposed to the
> full ALAC (as amended if required)"/
>
> Such wording infers that the option exists to NOT bring these issues to
> ALAC. I can only dream about whether or when the opportunity to debate
> such issues will trickle down to the RALOs and ALSs.
>
> The non-emergency operation of the Executive Committee continues to
> serve as prima facie evidence of deep ALAC dysfunction, a continued
> effort to shut out non-ALAC participation in important matters while so
> much of ALAC is not pulling its weight. I propose that the non-emergency
> functions of the ExecComm be immediately revoked and charged to a
> conventional ALAC Administrative Working Group (that would be chaired by
> the ALAC Secretary, and involve participation by RALO secretariats and
> anyone else from At-Large who is interested).
>
> - Evan
>
> PS: I also ask that links to the existing ALAC Working Groups be listed
> at http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/ Right now they're almost impossible
> to find by a casual user (http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/issues is
> badly organized, non-intuitively named, and not pointed to from the main
> ALAC web page). Come to think of it, the who At-Large corner of the
> ICANN website needs an overhaul, but that's a different issue.
>
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