[At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] Call for nominations to ALAC Liaison and Appointment Positions for 2008 - 2009

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Dear Hong,

your effort and activities as ALAC IDN Liaison was amazing, inspiring and
you managed to engage ALAC and At-Large in the current IDN discussions .

Personally, i would like to ask you to consider continuing as ALAC Liaison
on IDNs "if you can", and i would to thank you good work and the IDN
informative wiki that you have created .

Regards,
Mohamed

> Dear Friends,
>
> I'm deeply grateful that I have been able to work with you as an IDN
> liaison
> in 2007-2008. It is indeed difficult to balance the volunteer work and a
> full time job, but I manage to be a liaison as dedicated and energetic as
> possible. At the end of the my term of service, I reviewed and
> restructured
> the IDN Policy Wiki to make it more informative and accessible to the IDN
> users. I hope I'm leaving a meaning legacy for my successor. But I warn
> anyone who is going to to take this job: the liaison work will be very
> demanding and time-consuming. It involves a lot of hard works, lonely and
> behind the scence. It requires a very strong will, apart from sufficient
> knowledge and time committment. I wish my successor good luck and am happy
> to help in any way as a volunteer from an ALS.
>
> May I take the opportuntity of farewelling to you to recommend Mr.
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy, President at ISOC India Chennai to take my
> place?
> Sivasubramanian is very active on Internet governance and shows his
> enthusia
> of serving the at-large community at the recent APRALO election. I hope
> such
> a capable IDN user could take the lead and continute the important work on
> IDN policy advice.
>
> My best wishes to all of you
>
> Hong
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Cheryl Langdon-Orr
> <cheryl at hovtek.com.au>wrote:
>
>> I hereby advise the At-Large Community, ALS's RALO's and the serving
>> ALAC,
>> that as at 1330 UTC today October 23rd, the Nomination period for the
>> Elections of the 2008-2009 ALAC Liaison and Appointment positions,
>> listed
>> below, is open for a period of 14 days and will end at 1200 UTC on
>> November
>> 5th during our Cairo Meeting.
>> ALAC Liaisons to:-
>>
>> GNSO
>>
>> ccNSO
>>
>> NCUC
>>
>> SSAC *
>>
>> IDN WG's **
>>
>> ALAC Appointments to:-
>>
>> dotMobi Policy Advisory Board ***
>>
>>
>> ALAC or At-Large Community Members who currently fill these roles are
>> eligible and may be nominated or self nominate for re-election.  However
>> it
>> should be noted that under current travel support and budget policy for
>> the
>> 2008 -2009 ICANN Meetings any liaison or appointment that is *not* a
>> serving
>> ALAC delegate has no assurance that any travel funding will be able to
>> be
>> made available to any Face to Face ICANN meeting (or activity) in that
>> period, although we will as usual make every effort to facilitate remote
>> participation this may be a point for nominees to consider. It should
>> also
>> be noted that under the new travel support policy it is the constituency
>> or
>> Committee that appoints the liaison to another ICANN body that has the
>> budgetary responsibility for any such support.
>>
>> Nominations *must* be accepted (self nominations will count as an
>> acceptance) by sending a message to the public list no later than the
>> close
>> of the nomination period i.e. 1200 UTC 5th of November. *** see dotMobi
>> PAB
>> Note below
>>
>> This is a regular election (where more than one candidate has been duly
>> nominated and accepted) that will be held at the end of the Cairo ICANN
>> Annual General Meeting and the electorate will include the delegates
>> (that
>> is that is one of the 15 Members of the At-Large Advisory Committee)
>> whose
>> term starts at the closure of that Annual General Meeting, and will not
>> include the former ALAC members whose term ends at the closure of that
>> Annual General Meeting.
>>
>> Your attention is drawn to Rules 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (ELECTION OF LIAISONS,
>> QUALIFICATION CRITERIA FOR LIAISONS, PRIVILEGES OF LIAISONS, OTHER
>> APPOINTMENTS and QUALIFICATION CRITERIA FOR APPOINTMENTS of the ALAC
>> Rules
>> of Procedure.
>>
>> Further it should be noted that the specifics of the minimum performance
>> criteria and general expectations of the role of being an ALAC
>> liaison/appointment will be discussed and modified in Cairo and
>> candidates
>> will be made aware of the outcomes of this deleiberatio0n before the
>> close
>> of nomination period.
>>
>>
>> NOTES on some Liaison and Appointments
>> * SSAC -> this liaison role has very specific requirements and the SSAC
>> accept our suggestions of liaison (providing they are suitably qualified
>> in
>> their skill-sets to embrace the complex nature of some of the work done
>> in
>> this committee, as a matter of courtesy not requirement to quote the
>> SSAC
>> Chair Mr. Steve Crocker in a recent message to me as ALAC Chair  " We
>> greatly appreciate the utility of good communication across the various
>> ICANN components, and, in the security area, we are particularly aware
>> that
>> our subject matter cuts across virtually every aspect of ICANN.  Over
>> time,
>> we have accepted Liaisons from ALAC, GAC, RSSAC, and, using a different
>> label, the IETF.  We have always treated Liaisons as full members of our
>> committee, and, indeed, one of our requirements is that a liaison should
>> be
>> someone with expertise and ability in our area, the same as any other
>> committee member.  As a matter of form, we do not consider any other
>> organization as owning a slot on the SSAC.  (With the external review of
>> SSAC about to commence, perhaps this is one of the myriad of details
>> that
>> might be changed, but the charter doesn't speak to this issue and our
>> practice has been to view membership fairly uniformly.)  As a matter of
>> practice, we're delighted to have cross pollination, so we try to treat
>> suggestions from other organizations pragmatically, and so far we have
>> not
>> pushed back on any proposed Liaison."
>>
>> **  IDN's WG Liaison ->  as this role is involved in both fast track
>> ccTLD
>> and new gTLD issues a suitable candidate is one who brings with them
>> considerable and extensive experience in the matters discussed so far
>> and a
>> clear passion to further these important issues in the next 12 months
>> within
>> ICANN.
>>
>> ***  dotMobi PAB ->  this appointment is currently held by Mr. John
>> Levine
>> and he has already indicated (earlier this month to the public list),
>> his
>> willingness and desire to continue to serve in this role...  Therefore
>> this
>> notice of nominations recognizes the validity of this prior nomination
>> (and
>> acceptance) as having now been received  in due and proper course for
>> any
>> ensuing election to be held.
>>
>>
>> Cheryl Langdon-Orr
>>
>> ALAC Chair 2007-2008
>>
>>
>>
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