[EURO-Discuss] Lisbon Results and Follow-Up

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear all:

Apologies for the duplicates you will receive, but it has been requested
that all emails about Lisbon follow-up should go to both lists.

To recap:

* the meetings in Lisbon were successful! The EURALO has been brought into
existence at last!

* an MoU was agreed and was signed by ICANN and by 10 ALSes. It has been
posted for public comment, as have all MoUs, and that notice can be seen at:
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-3-30mar07.htm

* Bylaws and a procedure for electing the initial EURALO board and ALAC reps
were also agreed in Lisbon. Whilst the dates have been the subject of a good
deal of debate, the Lisbon agreed procedure has not been criticised which is
of course very positive. This can be found at:
https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?nominations_2007

* Any ALS that wishes to digitally sign the MoU can do so until the end of
the public comment period on 20th April by sending the text at the bottom of
this email to me, copied to the discuss list at
euro-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org.  Obviously, I'm sure those who signed
would prefer that all ALSes join them.

* Any ALS who does NOT wish to sign is still automatically a member of the
EURALO. See Section 3 of the MoU, at
https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi/european-ralo-mou-en-FINAL.pdf?action=attachments_download;page_name=ralo_organising_instruments;id=20070331180551-0-7795

* If the EURALO CHOSE to do so, it COULD decide to limit some - but
definitely not all - of the rights of the ALSes who do NOT agree to be bound
by the MoU. Please see the MoU, Section 6, Clause 4, at the above link. IF
such limitations were to be proposed, those ALSes who have signed the MoU
would almost certainly have the right to vote on that PARTICULAR measure,
and those which have not signed or agreed to be bound would almost certainly
NOT have the right to vote on that PARTICULAR proposal. However:

* At the present time, NO LIMITATIONS ON NON-SIGNING ALSes HAVE BEEN
PROPOSED OR AGREED. Therefore, ALL ALSes IN EUROPE HAVE FULL RIGHTS TO
PARTICIPATE IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE EURALO. There has been some question about
this raised in previous emails. I hope this reinforces that there is nothing
to worry about.

* Discussion on voting and nominations is now open on the euro-discuss list.


TEXT TO SEND TO DIGITALLY SIGN THE MOU (please fill in the bracketed
sections as relevant]:
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I hereby consent for the [ALS name here] to be bound by the terms of the
Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the Signing Organisations in
the European Region as if I were personally signing the document.

[Name]
[Title / Position]
[Date]

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Regards,

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