[ALAC] African Region MoU with ICANN / Process Agreed on Today's Teleconference

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Good afternoon everyone!

As agreed on the teleconference this afternoon, I have the pleasure to
attach the following:

1) A finalised text of the draft Memorandum of Understanding between the
African regional ALSes and ICANN (note that I have added some paragraph
numbers, standardised the formatting, and removed the paragraph which
limited the signatories to only three ALSes so that all present in Lisbon
can sign - see below)

2) The redlined text of the above, which has been previously sent around to
the list, for comparison;

3) The signed MOU between ICANN and the Latin America & Caribbean Islands,
for reference.

As was determined by the African ALS representatives on the call, the
following is the process of finalising the text and forming the RALO:

1) The document (1) above will be the final text of the MoU, UNLESS an
objection is registered ON OR BEFORE 15th February 2007. Note that none of
the ALSes on today's call objected to any provisions of the attached.

2) If there are no objections, this text will be forwarded to ICANN's legal
counsel for a final once-over, and at the same time will go out for a
standard public comment period, which as was explained on the call today is
standard practice whenever ICANN proposes to enter into any significant
contractual arrangement.

3) The public comment period will likely be for 30 days (ICANN legal to
confirm), which will easily allow for the MoU to be signed in a public
ceremony at the Lisbon ICANN International Meeting, March 26 - 30 2007.

AFRALO Meeting in Lisbon:

Again as mentioned on the call today, ICANN will be able to provide travel
support to allow one representative of each African ALS to attend the ICANN
Meeting in Lisbon so that you can meet together and debate the priorities of
your region with respect to policy development in ICANN, elect the two
representatives of your region to the At-Large Advisory Committee, meet with
the other stakeholders participating in ICANN, and learn more by attending
meetings and seminars on the many areas of activity underway at present.

ICANN staff will shortly provide more information on the process of making
these arrangements with you by email to the list, and help you to organise
the meetings between yourselves and help to ensure that your meetings do not
conflict with other meetings in Lisbon you may want to attend.

May I say that I very much look forward to meeting you all, and will be very
happy to help you celebrate the inauguration of African end-user
participation as a formal organisation within ICANN!
-- 
Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart
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FESTIVE GREETINGS! As per usual, in lieu of cards for friends and
colleagues, I have made a donation in your name to Medecins Sans Frontieres,
to help them provide medical care to those much less fortunate than
ourselves.
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