[EURO-Discuss] At-Large Advisory Committee Election Results

[Annette Muehlberg]

I would like to second Vittorio's explanation.

Annette

Vittorio Bertola schrieb:
> Patrick Vande Walle ha scritto:
>   
>> A few days ago, it was explained on this list that the nomcom chair
>> would suggest a name for the ALAC liaison. Now we see that the ALAC
>> actually had a vote. Who decided that and when ? Who voted in favour on
>> this change ? who voted against ?
>>     
>
> I think that there is a misunderstanding. The message that was sent some 
> time ago was about appointing one new ALAC member representing EURALO, 
> since Annette, who was previously sitting in one of the two EURALO 
> seats, decided to apply for Roberto's seat - the one representing ICANN 
> and appointed by the ICANN Nomcom - and the Nomcom picked her. Thus, 
> this frees up one of the two EURALO seats, which, until we formally 
> incorporate EURALO and sign an MoU with ICANN, is to be filled by the 
> ICANN Board. As soon as we sign that MoU, the ICANN-Board-appointed ALAC 
> members (they being me and whoever will get appointed in place of 
> Annette in the next few weeks) will expire, and EURALO will have to 
> appoint two representatives in the ALAC.
>
> The ICANN Board, however, usually asks for advice before making the 
> appointment; initially, since this is going to be a short-lived 
> appointment - we hope to finalize the EURALO process by the ICANN Lisbon 
> meeting, next March - Roberto and I suggested that we could ask the 
> Nomcom to provide another name, which would have allowed the Board to 
> make a very quick appointment, and thus to bring the appointed person 
> here in Sao Paulo for this ICANN meeting. However, there was another 
> proposal that the three European ALAC members pick someone instead. I 
> strongly disagree on that, because I think that if we don't go for a 
> quick appointment, then it should be the ALSes who suggest someone, also 
> because it might be someone that the ALSes might want to reappoint after 
> we sign the MoU in March (though there is absolutely no constraint to 
> that effect). So we discussed the matter here in Sao Paulo, and all the 
> three European ALAC members agreed to make a call to the European ALSes 
> to suggest one or more names, to be then discussed and forwarded to the 
> ICANN Board for consideration; Annette is supposed to post that call 
> shortly.
>
> In any case, please all of you start considering and posting possible 
> nominees (or self-nominations) as temporary European ALAC member, even 
> if it might be just for a few months and for one ICANN meeting in 
> Lisbon. Also, I want to make it clear that I will not reapply for my 
> seat, I think that four years is enough and I really want some new 
> people from this group to be able to serve on the ALAC (I said this in 
> public before being appointed as ALAC Board liaison, so it's not 
> connected to that).
>
> The message that Nick sent yesterday, instead, was about the internal 
> ALAC appointments: the ALAC, as any Committee, has to appoint its Chair, 
> Vice Chairs, and also a number of liaisons to other bodies. These 
> positions are to be filled internally by the ALAC, as they represent the 
> distribution of labour among its members. In this specific case, there 
> was no established procedure, and even no advance knowledge of all the 
> nominations, so it was actually impossible to have any further 
> consultation - it was all decided yesterday at an open meeting of the 
> ALAC. I still see it a bit difficult to imagine that these positions can 
> be filled by a broader group than the ALAC itself, since they are really 
> connected to internal balances in a 15-people group that has to work 
> together, but I already suggested that the ALAC should have better 
> procedures for these appointments, which could allow sufficient time to 
> have a consultation with the RALOs about the various nominees.
>
> Ciao,
>