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

[Wolf Ludwig]

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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