[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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