[At-Large] [Summit-wg] Resolution of the Board of Directors related to the proposed Summit

[Vittorio Bertola]

Kleinwächter ha scritto:
> To make the development sustainable one could already now start with
> the development of a five year project for At Large with an annual
> "October Summit" (linked to the regular ICANN meetings) rotating to
> the five continents (ATLAS I, November 2008 Africa, ATLAS II, October
> 2009 Europe, ATLAS III, October 2010 North America, ATLAS IV, October
> 2011 Latin America, ATLAS V, October 2012 Asia-Pacific). During the
> other two ICANN annual regular meetings we could have smaller
> PrepComs.

Ok, so now I am seriously confused again. It seems to me that there are 
two very different concepts of this At Large Summit on the table. The 
first is the one you are exposing, with a long term process and 
objectives, yearly meetings, PrepComs, all ALSes attending because they 
have a right to do so, high-level political discussions on the future 
role of the US Government etc. The other is the one Darlene is talking 
about, a one-time event focused on immediate policy objectives and 
deliverables, with pre-requisites on previous contributions before 
attendance is granted, and a very low profile outside of ICANN. The two 
approaches are not impossible to reconcile, but they are definitely 
different in spirit.

I think that the Board would reject the approach you expose, but would 
accept Darlene's one. On the other hand, it would backfire very badly if 
the Summit was presented as if it was of the second kind, but then, once 
there, the attendees moved the tone of the conversation towards what you 
have in mind. At least, if that's what the ALAC really wants to achieve 
with this Summit, it should clearly say so and try to convince the Board 
that this kind of long term political process is useful to ICANN.
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