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

[Roberto Gaetano]

Two additions to the comprehensive explanation by Vittorio.

There is nothing that prevents Vittorio to continue as Board Liaison even if
he terminates as ALAC member. Quite the contrary, this is an advantage, as
we will have the possibility to cover this task without impacting on the
other activities, that will be carried on by the regular members. It was
already the case for Bret as GTLD Liaison.

In the future, ALSes and RALOs will be able to influence also the internal
mechanisms, if they discuss the matter in advance and via their two
representatives can bring motions to the ALAC. This, based on what is
discussed above, might include candidatures to Liaison positions (but not
Chair or Vice Chair positions).

Cheers,
Roberto

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: euro-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org 
> [mailto:euro-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On 
> Behalf Of Vittorio Bertola
> Sent: 08 December 2006 09:19
> To: patrick at isoc.lu; Discussion for At-Large Europe
> Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] At-Large Advisory Committee 
> Election Results
> 
> 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,
> -- 
> vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] 
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