[EURO-Discuss] At-Large Advisory Committee Election Results
Jeanette Hofmann
jeanette at wz-berlin.de
Fri Dec 8 05:44:53 CST 2006
Congratulations to your (re-)elections!
I have one question to Vittorio. If you don't run again, does that mean
you will be the board liaison for a few months only? And if so, is this
a good idea to exchange the board liaison so quickly?
thanks, jeanette
Annette Muehlberg schrieb:
> I would like to second Vittorio's explanation.
>
> Annette
>
> Vittorio Bertola schrieb:
>> 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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