[At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] [Fwd: Re: Draft agenda and planning for EURALO¹s 1st General Assembly in Paris]

[Carlton Samuels]

The LACRALO compromise was to allow *individuals* to participate in
discussions on policy but they may not vote if a vote is called; that right
reserved to qualified ALS only.

In the arrangement under discussion, it seems to me if one allows an
individual to be a *board member* - i.e. an officer - of a RALO, then
support to attend a RALO GA seems like a no brainer.

Carlton  

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[mailto:alac-internal-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan
Leibovitch
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [ALAC-Internal] [Fwd: Re: Draft agenda and planning for
EURALO¹s 1st General Assembly in Paris]


> What needs clarification across the RALOs is whether or not board  members
have to be ALS members in order to qualify for travel support to
participate in RALO meetings. This is why forward the subsequent  exchange
we had with Nick about this issue.
>   
To clarify:,

Within NARALO we solved this by allowing individual members, and
enabling a pseudo-ALS for for them. That is, for the purposes of formal
representation in the GA, the individual members of NARALO collectively
have the status of one ALS and as such may select representatives for
voting (or potentially travel). They can also stand for election for the
Chair or Secretariat or ALAC rep.

We explicitly rejected the notion that an individual member must have
the exact same status as a representative of a membership organization
that has gone through the ALAC due diligence process. The intent, if I
recall, was that active individual participants should be encouraged to
get involved with like-minded larger groups that would then become ALSs.
This would in turn increase participation beyond the individuals, which
is a prime goal of the RALO/ALS process.

This approach did not please _everyone_, but we believed it struck a
reasonable balance between ICANN goals and the awareness that not
everyone who was interested in At-Large was part of an ALS. So far I
believe this balance has worked well.

- Evan


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