[EURO-Discuss] Things to discuss

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

May I suggest that rather than waiting for face-to-face meetings  
months down the line, an easier and quicker option would be to have a  
teleconference? I'm happy to schedule one and since many policy  
developments are speeding up as a consequence of the work in San  
Juan, I recommend that a conference for the region to at least be  
briefed on the current schedule of policy related events.

In several cases the ICANN board has specifically requested the At- 
Large community's considered input - in the case of some things views  
would need to be collected and submitted in only a few weeks' time.

In addition, there are several worldwide policy working groups - you  
can find these all at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi? 
at_large_policy_working_groups. We are asking all regions to find at  
least one volunteer from each region to participate in each of these;  
since EURALO hasn't elected regional officers or appointed an interim  
Secretariat - nobody has even volunteered to act as a temporary  
Secretariat - you are frankly falling behind the other regions who  
are more organised.

None of this is meant to be critical - on the contrary, I'm hoping  
that it causes at least one or two people in the EURALO, or the  
board, to volunteer to join the policy development work...

On 6 Jul 2007, at 15:22, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
> EURALO should get started and there are several things that need
> clarification in order to get started. To name just a few:
>
> 1 EURALO board:
> * We need to elect chairs
> * We need to clarify the role of the board (is it of a more  
> coordinative
> nature or is its role an initializing one?)
>
> 2 Work plan
> * We need to discuss what issues we want to adress in the coming  
> months
> and we need to agree on what our priorities are. I guess we all agree
> that we won't be able to cover all the topics ICANN is dealing  
> with. We
> need to be selective, and it would be good to have a discussion on  
> this
> list on what matters to us and why.
> **
>
> 3 Board meeting
> * The Euralo Board should meet after (or during?) the summer break.
> Where and when? In combination with another meeting? Two possibilities
> come to mind:
> ** We could meet in Geneva on the first weekend in September preceding
> the next open consultation of the IGF.
> ** We could meet in mid October in Warsaw at Wolfgang's
> Studienkreismeeting (Oct. 10/11).
>
>
> What do people think?
>
> Best, Jeanette and Wolf
>
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