[EURO-Discuss] At-Large Advisory Committee Election Results

[Vittorio Bertola]

Patrick Vande Walle ha scritto:
> A few days ago, it was explained on this list that the nomcom chair
> would suggest a name for the ALAC liaison. Now we see that the ALAC
> actually had a vote. Who decided that and when ? Who voted in favour on
> this change ? who voted against ?

I think that there is a misunderstanding. The message that was sent some 
time ago was about appointing one new ALAC member representing EURALO, 
since Annette, who was previously sitting in one of the two EURALO 
seats, decided to apply for Roberto's seat - the one representing ICANN 
and appointed by the ICANN Nomcom - and the Nomcom picked her. Thus, 
this frees up one of the two EURALO seats, which, until we formally 
incorporate EURALO and sign an MoU with ICANN, is to be filled by the 
ICANN Board. As soon as we sign that MoU, the ICANN-Board-appointed ALAC 
members (they being me and whoever will get appointed in place of 
Annette in the next few weeks) will expire, and EURALO will have to 
appoint two representatives in the ALAC.

The ICANN Board, however, usually asks for advice before making the 
appointment; initially, since this is going to be a short-lived 
appointment - we hope to finalize the EURALO process by the ICANN Lisbon 
meeting, next March - Roberto and I suggested that we could ask the 
Nomcom to provide another name, which would have allowed the Board to 
make a very quick appointment, and thus to bring the appointed person 
here in Sao Paulo for this ICANN meeting. However, there was another 
proposal that the three European ALAC members pick someone instead. I 
strongly disagree on that, because I think that if we don't go for a 
quick appointment, then it should be the ALSes who suggest someone, also 
because it might be someone that the ALSes might want to reappoint after 
we sign the MoU in March (though there is absolutely no constraint to 
that effect). So we discussed the matter here in Sao Paulo, and all the 
three European ALAC members agreed to make a call to the European ALSes 
to suggest one or more names, to be then discussed and forwarded to the 
ICANN Board for consideration; Annette is supposed to post that call 
shortly.

In any case, please all of you start considering and posting possible 
nominees (or self-nominations) as temporary European ALAC member, even 
if it might be just for a few months and for one ICANN meeting in 
Lisbon. Also, I want to make it clear that I will not reapply for my 
seat, I think that four years is enough and I really want some new 
people from this group to be able to serve on the ALAC (I said this in 
public before being appointed as ALAC Board liaison, so it's not 
connected to that).

The message that Nick sent yesterday, instead, was about the internal 
ALAC appointments: the ALAC, as any Committee, has to appoint its Chair, 
Vice Chairs, and also a number of liaisons to other bodies. These 
positions are to be filled internally by the ALAC, as they represent the 
distribution of labour among its members. In this specific case, there 
was no established procedure, and even no advance knowledge of all the 
nominations, so it was actually impossible to have any further 
consultation - it was all decided yesterday at an open meeting of the 
ALAC. I still see it a bit difficult to imagine that these positions can 
be filled by a broader group than the ALAC itself, since they are really 
connected to internal balances in a 15-people group that has to work 
together, but I already suggested that the ALAC should have better 
procedures for these appointments, which could allow sufficient time to 
have a consultation with the RALOs about the various nominees.

Ciao,
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