[At-Large] ALAC Review / Comment Periods

[Vittorio Bertola]

Nick Ashton-Hart ha scritto:
> I thought I would make a point here which might be helpful with
> respect to the timing of making statements about the draft ALAC
> Review report.

I would like to add that there are two different parts in this work.

The first one is the external reviewer compiling their review and making 
some recommendations for future developments.

The second one is the Board - first through its dedicated committee, 
then through the Board Governance Committee and finally through the 
Board itself - discussing the report with the ICANN community and 
understanding whether the recommendations are really sound, and whether 
and how they should be implemented, or whether something entirely 
different should be done.

I see it unlikely that the ALAC Review WG could eventually recommend 
something completely different from the conclusions of the review, but 
this is certainly not impossible.

The ALAC Review WG has organized two different events in Paris, which 
more or less correspond to the two parts above; the first one is aimed 
at supplying Westlake with final comments on their text so that they can 
remove the "draft" label from their report, while the second one is the 
beginning of the subsequent WG discussion process:

http://par.icann.org/en/23jun08/workshop/at-large-review

http://par.icann.org/en/25jun08/workshop/bgc-at-large-review

We hope to see participation in both events, but their scope is 
fundamentally different and I hope that appropriate comments will be 
made for each of the sessions.

Personally, I do not have final comments yet, but my first impression is 
that, even if the recommendations are reasonable, there was not much 
effort in exploring radical changes to ICANN's basic architecture; 
however, possibly that lies outside of the mandate of an external 
reviewer of a single structure on the ICANN map, while it's more of a 
discussion for the Board itself; so it might become a more prominent 
theme in the second phase of the process.

Ciao,
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