[At-Large] Nomination: Alan Greenberg GNSO Liaison

[Alan Greenberg]

At 24/10/2008 02:06 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
>I nominate Alan Greenberg for the position as GNSO Liaison.
>
>Best,
>
>Adam

I accept this nomination.

I have thought long and hard about whether I want to continue in this 
role in addition to the roles of Rapporteur for which I have also 
been nominated.

I have decided that, should I be elected, both are appropriate. I 
understand that this will be a heavy load, but I am not a stranger to 
this. The reasons follow:

- I think that I have been effective over the last two years.

- Having started with the request for an issues report on expired 
domain names, I feel that I want to follow this through to the PDP 
stage. This will clearly be a major GNSO policy focus for me, and I 
do not think that adding the rest of the GNSO Liaison 
responsibilities to this will be unreasonable.

- This will be year of very significant change for the GNSO, with the 
preparation and then actual transition to the new structure. I think 
that some measure of continuity will be very important to ensuring 
that our community is well served by that process.

_ On the Rapporteur side, many of you may be tired of me repeatedly 
talking about the need to develop a better functioning and far more 
productive ALAC. There are several aspects to this. We need to 
address policy issues in a time manner, and to do this, we need to 
pick carefully what policy issues we address. To do this effectively, 
I think that we also need to streamline our administrative processes 
so that we do not have to continually focus on that part of our work. 
If the ALAC Review Mid-Point Consultation Report is any indication 
(and I think that it is a strong one), we are going to held 
accountable for our performance, and we do not have a lot of time to 
get ready. I believe that I can be helpful in both aspects.

Alan