[EURO-Discuss] Towards EURALO: A Proposed Roadmap

[Jacqueline Morris]

Nick
In order to move forward on document creation, you might want to use
the consensus wiki tool that Brandon Saunders helped the ALAC use for
their self-review. It's very helpful to clarify differences and thrash
them out as the group moves towards consensus. The remaining items can
be thrashed out at the f2f.
Jacqueline

On 1/11/07, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I hope you have had a great Festive break and New Years celebrations.
>
> As so many regions are accelerating their work towards forming RALOs, an
> effort which has sped up in many regions following the launch of LACRALO in
> Sao Paulo, I thought I would make a few comments about how we could move
> forward in Europe.
>
> Firstly, On the incorporation of a legal entity for EURALO:
>
> As you all know, it has proven somewhat contentious to agree the country of
> incorporation. During the public forum in Sao Paulo, Paul Twomey, ICANN CEO,
> may have made this issue slightly easier to resolve by the following
> statement:
>
> ...I WOULD JUST MAKE ONE OTHER OBSERVATION ON THE ONE LANGUAGE ISSUE.
> IT IS VERY IMPORTANT -- AND I THINK THIS IS TRUE IN MANY INTERNATIONAL
> ENTITIES.
> IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE MAINTAIN A SINGLE LANGUAGE FOR BUSINESS.
> THAT SORT OF FOR THE ACTUAL DOING OF BUSINESS AND FOR THE CONDUCTING OF
> LEGAL AFFAIRS, IT IS ACTUALLY VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THAT IN ONE
> LANGUAGE.
> THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN'T TRANSLATE DOCUMENTS.
> BUT THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE -- THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS SHOULD BE IN THAT ONE
> LANGUAGE...
>
> This is excerpted from the scribe of the session on Thursday - you can see
> the whole notes of the session at:
> http://sp.icann.org/transcript/7dec06/public-forum
>
> It had already been the subject of consensus that the country of
> incorporation would be determined by:
>
> 1) legal documents could be filed in English
> 2) The cost of incorporation is low
> 3) The cost of operating the company is low
>
> There are only two countries we had explored incorporating in which allow
> ALL legal documents to be filed in English: The United Kingdom, and
> Switzerland.
>
> As a result, these are the two countries we must choose between.
>
> Secondly, on completing work on the Bylaws:
>
> There are still open points on the Bylaws as you know. Some of these can
> likely be resolved via online debate and discussion, but some of them may
> require a face-to-face discussion.
>
> Thirdly, the ALS community needs to agree on the contents of a Memorandum of
> Understanding
>
> As previously stated, I will produce a draft text incorporating the ideas
> from Africa, Latin America/Caribbean Islands, and Asia-Pacific, for review;
> this should be done in the next 10 days or so at most.
>
> Proposed Process to conclude work:
>
> What I suggested on the ALAC monthly teleconference yesterday was that we
> should borrow from the LAC region's experience on how to conclude these
> discussions. The model they used was as follows:
>
> 1) Work in advance had produced an MoU and Operating Principles which had a
> high degree of consensus, with only a few areas which were still the subject
> of discussion.
>
> 2) Arrangements were made for the ALS community to come to the ICANN
> International Meeting in Sao Paulo and meet for several hours to conclude
> work, over three separate sessions. ICANN staff prepared draft agendas and
> put forward proposals for discussion in relation to the remaining open
> areas, with the participants completely free to go in other directions with
> respect to those points, but with the staff proposals as a place to start
>
> 3) Agreement was reached on a text, which was reviewed onsite by the ICANN
> General Counsel's office to make sure that there were no problems with the
> MoU in that respect. After that was concluded, the regional ALS
> representatives elected the two representatives from the region to the ALAC.
>
> 4) A signing ceremony involving the press, and Vint Cerf and Paul Twomey,
> were conducted in the plenary hall, and a resolution of the board was
> adopted accepting the MoU subject to completion of  a public comment period.
>
> If the region is willing, we can proceed on this basis, with the Lisbon
> ICANN meeting scheduled for 26-30 March 2007 as the venue for the F2F
> meetings(http://www.icann.org/meetings/lisbon/ ). Part of
> the benefit of this approach is it also allows the ALS community to attend
> the ICANN international meeting and engage with other constituencies and
> policy development discussions.
>
> Of course your thoughts are much appreciated.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
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