[EURO-Discuss] ALAC meeting with the Board, Sydney

[Sébastien Bachollet]

Hi Adam and Wolf,
Thanks for your proposals - very useful to prepare the next meeting in
Sydney.
I am writing this mail in the plane from Paris to San Francisco during the
Euralo meeting I am not able to participate.
Maybe you already discuss some of those issues.

I would like to add the following points:

Now all the statement of the Summit are voted by ALAC and for all we need to
follow the work and help the WG to update the At-Large thinking.
One of them is the Future of ICANN. I summit to the WG and then to ALAC an
add-on position paper with comments on the last document issue by the PSC.
I guess it will be under ratification by ALAC shortly.
I would like to raise the question of future of ICANN with Board members -
what is the current thinking? - how they see the current discussion going on
in the ICANN arena? - And what about Viviane Reding's proposal? - The role
of At-Large to balance the one's of the governments and of the providers?...

Karl Auerbach wrote ..."ICANN is now hiring a new president on the basis of
he/she having run a $100,000,000 (US$) corporation.  That's $100,000,000!
There seems to be no sense within ICANN that money is to be spent wisely.
Rather there seems to exist a corporate lifestyle of lavish and unbridled
expenditure." If it is the reality, is it in agreement with the Board? And
How was the bottom-up process to do that?...

Thanks for reading

Sébastien Bachollet
Président d'honneur - Isoc France
sebastien.bachollet at isoc.fr
www.egeni.org
www.isoc.fr
 

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : euro-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:euro-discuss-
> bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] De la part de Wolf Ludwig
> Envoyé : lundi 4 mai 2009 23:17
> À : Discussion for At-Large Europe
> Objet : Re: [EURO-Discuss] ALAC meeting with the Board, Sydney
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> thanks for your offer raising some special concerns of EURALO at
> the next ALAC meeting with the Board in Sydney. I agree with the
> points you mentioned already like
> 
> *the Operational Plan and Budget Framework and I am rather curious
> about any response or comments from the Board regarding our
> Statement we submitted after the Mexico meeting. And a "positive
> idea for the future" could be an improved operational space for RALOs
> and budget allocations for more outreach and impact ... (what we
> discussed at our GA);
> 
> *the new gTLD issue is also a pressing one for a number of European
> initiatives (like .Berlin, .Paris and others) and it would be good to
> know the Board's opinion on the time frame and clear decisions in
> this matter (or will it just be another never-ending-story ;-);
> 
> *or what you suggested as well like "keeping budget lines open to
> >enable implementing any recommendations from the ALAC review in
> >FY2010".
> 
> I don't know whether our members have any more questions and
> concerns -- just in case, I would like to invite them to let you know.
> 
> Thanks and kind regards,
> Wolf
> 
> 
>  Adam Peake wrote Sat, 2 May 2009 21:36:
> >Hi,
> >
> >In Sydney ALAC will have the usual meeting with a couple of board
> >members. It's our opportunity to tell the board what's on our minds.
> >Are there issues you would like raised? Don't think the reason for
> >this meeting is to complain (or only to complain...), positive ideas
> >for the future welcome.
> >
> >Some of the topics we've been interested in should see updated policy
> >documents over the next few weeks (operational plan and budget for
> >sure, perhaps new gTLDs) so can hold off on those for a while.
> >
> >Couple of things I'm thinking about:
> >
> >I would like them to comment on is keeping budget lines open to
> >enable implementing any recommendations from the ALAC review in
> >FY2010.
> >
> >To recommend/discuss making the agenda of a future ICANN meeting
> >(Seoul?) attractive to user/non-commercial interests (as Paris was
> >oriented to business interests.) As well as helping ALAC, could be
> >important both to build the GNSO non-commercial stakeholder's group,
> >and increasing non-commercial, particularly consumer organizations
> >(mentioned in all kinds of different sources) in ICANN
> >
> >I know people have been keen to develop a "registrants bill of
> >rights". Anyone comment on this, I don't know where we're at with
> >this.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Adam
> >
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