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

Thu May 21 10:13:55 EDT 2009

Cher Sébastien,

I think, your points and concerns are perfectly in line with what we 
discussed yesterday at the monthly EURALO call: How can we follow-up 
the Summit Declaration and the role of ALAC - RALOs - and the Internet 
users at ICANN? We therefore suggested that ALAC should bring this up 
again in Sydney (- see the posting on the board list:)

>It would be good if ALAC would formally ask the ICANN Board 
>what they think about the recommendations in the Summit 
>Declaration handed over to them at the closure of the Summit 
>in Mexico.

>Some keywords for such an approach to be prepared for Sydney:
>The Summit preparation was a big effort by the ALAC community 
>and conducted successfully, it was a considerable investment in 
>terms of money for ICANN and it was not meant as a "single event" 
>but rather more a continuing process for the community ...
>The statements and recommendations on the different work 
>subjects would therefore need further consideration and validation 
>by the ICANN Board ...

Wish you a good time in SF! All the best,
Wolf

Sébastien Bachollet wrote Thu, 21 May 2009 03:58:
>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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