[At-Large] <IMPORTANT> Draft Plan for Tuesday's AtLarge communitymeeting with ICANN Board

[Siavash Shahshahani]

Izumi,

> One background information, which I think may be usefule is, that
> there was a suggestion yesterday for the meeting with the Borad members
> to try to provide "advice" on policy issues since ALAC is essentialy
> an "advisory" role to the Board so the sentiment there was, in my
> interpretation, let us do the job - which does not mean that we don't have
> any in-depth dialogue, but rather, that could be a part of the dialogue.

Advice to the Board is not just chatty and superficial advice. It is
ALAC's institutional role to provide advice to the Board, but the
communication of advice is not limited to meetings with the Board, ALAC
has to come up with substantive papers and reports on key issues and
communicate them to the Board. Meetings with the Board are special
occasions; sometimes they may be used for emphasizing certain important
advice which has not been headed, but  we have to treat them as special.

Siavash