<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear APRALO Community,<br><br></div>We have had the practice of organizing RALO monthly meetings as face-to-face meetings when they happen during an ICANN meeting. This is because many ALS representatives are usually available during ICANN meetings, and a face-to-face meeting with whoever is present in person (with the rest of the ALSes joining in by telephone/Adobe Connect as usual) is a good opportunity to discuss things in detail.<br><br></div><div>As per the mail below, ALAC is piloting an initiative that would eliminate RALO face-to-face monthly meetings during ICANN Meetings (except for the RALO in whose region that particular ICANN meeting is organized. The pilot would run for two meetings: ICANN59 and ICANN60 (of course, for us ICANN60 is the General Assembly, so it wouldn't apply to us for ICANN60).<br><br></div><div>We would like to get the general feeling of the community on this matter. If any of you feel that this is a problem in any way, kindly let us know. If we do not hear comments, we will assume that we are ok with going ahead with the pilot. I am sending this out right away because the deadline for our response is very short (2 May 2017).<br><br></div><div>May I also remind you that we have our monthly call tomorrow (Thursday, 27 April 2107) at 06:00 UTC?<br></div><div><br></div><div>With kind regards,<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div><div>satish<br><br></div><div><br><br><div><br><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Heidi Ullrich</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Heidi.Ullrich@icann.org">Heidi.Ullrich@icann.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:18 AM<br>Subject: [Secretariat] Proposal for pilot reduction of F2F Monthly RALO meetings during ICANN Meetings<br>To: "<a href="mailto:secretariat@atlarge-lists.icann.org">secretariat@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:secretariat@atlarge-lists.icann.org">secretariat@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All, <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">During ICANN 58, the ALAC and Regional Leaders discussed the need for more time to discuss issues together as a team during ICANN Meetings or for Working Group Meetings.
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<p class="MsoNormal">In order to open up more time on the At-Large schedule, a suggestion was made to begin a pilot to reduce the number of RALO f2f monthly meetings held during ICANN Meetings, in particular during the Community Forum (March Meeting) and the
Policy Forum (June Meeting). <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The suggestion was that only the RALO in which the ICANN Meeting is taking place would be encouraged to hold their monthly meeting f2f during the ICANN Meeting.
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<p class="MsoNormal">RALOs who need to plan events happening either in the months following the ICANN Meeting or at the next ICANN meeting could hold informal planning sessions if they wished.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Monthly Meetings of the RALOs would continue to be held via teleconference.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The ALAC is requesting that the RALO leadership ask their regions if there is any strong feeling
<b><i>not</i></b> to move ahead with this pilot and <b>report back to the ALAC by Tuesday, 2 May</b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Heidi<u></u><u></u></p>
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