[EURO-Discuss] EURALO at Lisbon - PLEASE READ

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear Community:

Since the Lisbon ICANN Meeting is almost upon us, I thought I would  
recap events and provide links for all of you.

Firstly, everything about the EURALO meetings - agendas, preparatory  
documents, etc - can be found from the www.euralo.org site. The quick  
link is to https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?lisbon_icann_meeting.

Note that all EURALO meetings - indeed all At-Large meetings - allow  
for remote participation. This is especially important for all of you  
as the objective of this meeting is to finish and agree:

The Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN - which forms the RALO;
The Bylaws of the EURALO

The meeting will also nominate those willing to serve for the two  
elected ALAC seats, one of which is currently vacant, and the other  
filled by Vittorio Bertola of Italy. In order to allow all European  
ALSes to participate in the vote, I anticipate that the meeting will  
decide to use our online election tool to hold the election over a  
few days period.

Should the ALSes present and participating agree at least an MoU,  
there will be a signing ceremony in front of the entire ICANN meeting  
on Thursday, at the public forum, where all ALSes present will  
physically sign the MoU alongside Paul Twomey the President and CEO  
of ICANN and in front of the entire ICANN Board and community  
present. The African groups will be signing their MoU at the same  
time, and the Asia-Pacific ALS community will announce that their MoU  
is complete.

Those ALSes who are not present will be able to digitally sign, or  
adhere, to the MoU via a procedure which will be determined as part  
of the European meetings.

All ALSes will be able to vote for ALAC and other regional leadership  
positions, whether they are in Lisbon or not.

These two points are important: the process is deliberately designed  
to include every ALS and respect all points of view and the remote  
participation possibilities help to ensure that this is the case.

Note that there is a nominations page for you to nominate (either  
self nominate or nominate others) for the two ALAC seats: it is at:  
https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?nominations_2007

The draft Bylaws are also available online for comments, as is the  
draft MoU. They are at:

https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?draft_mou
https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?draft_bylaws


-- 
Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart
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