[NA-Discuss] NARALO General Assembly
Glenn McKnight
mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 16:11:10 UTC 2015
Hi Folks
Without out much debate on the merits of the location or timing . My
question to the community.
Do you agree that NARALO should have a GENERAL ASSEMBLY apart from
ICANN meetings in the next fiscal period? Date and location to be
determined
Thanks
Glenn McKnight
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Thomas Lowenhaupt <toml at communisphere.com>
wrote:
> I like the idea of focusing on NARALO issues. ICANN meetings seem just too
> busy for that.
>
> Tom Lowenhaupt
>
>
>
> On 1/26/2015 2:24 AM, Allan Skuce wrote:
>
>> or We could wait til the next year and hold the GA along with the NA
>> ICANN meeting.
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>> To: Glenn McKnight; NA Discuss
>> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] NARALO General Assembly
>>
>> Although I think that this is a great idea and has the potential for
>> getting a lot of out NARALO members more informed and possibly
>> involved with ARIN, there are considerations that may make it difficult.
>>
>> - The ARIN meeting is on Thursday, October 8 and Friday, October 9.
>> That is just a few days before the start of the pre-ICANN events for
>> ICANN 54 in Dublin (and since this is an Annual General Meeting of
>> ICANN, there tend to be more activities in the week preceding the
>> formal meeting (October 17-23). It would be difficult to have support
>> from At-Large Staff and Constituency Travel.
>>
>> - Two other regions have already indicated that they plan to request
>> a General Assembly (EURALO and AFRALO), so a third one may be a bit
>> of a hard sell in one budget year. Although potentially the NA GA
>> could be funded in lieu of another region, the timing above makes
>> that less likely.
>>
>> - Glenn's note proposes to hold the GA "during" the ARIN meeting. Is
>> that really what was meant? If the meetings overlap, doesn't that
>> negate the benefit of holding the two meetings in the same location?
>> I presumed that the intent was to hold the GA immediately before or
>> after the ARIN meetings.
>>
>> That being said, if NARALO does make this request, there will need to
>> be clarity on:
>>
>> - Will you bring the ALS reps in for just the GA, or the ARIN meeting as
>> well?
>> - If the latter, this will need the agreement of ARIN that they can
>> accommodate the additional people.
>> - If you are expecting funding from ARIN, that will need to be
>> clarified as well.
>> - You will need to clearly state what the intent of the GA is, and
>> what are the expected outcomes.
>> - In light of the close proximity to the Dublin meeting, it will make
>> a difference whether you are proposing to have the GA before or after
>> the ARIN meeting.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> At 23/01/2015 12:54 PM, Glenn McKnight wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks
>>>
>>> It's this time for the ALAC Finance and Budget submission and the
>>> deadline is February 4th, 2015
>>>
>>> One of the ideas that has merit is a proposal to do a NARALO General
>>> Assembly. This assembly could be scheduled during the ARIN meetings
>>> in Montreal during early October. This will be the first NARALO
>>> General Assembly and also it's been 16 months since ATLAS 2. This
>>> meeting is an Inreach meeting to build capacity. The session would also
>>> be streamed to permit members who could not make the sessions
>>>
>>> This request would be off season so it would be reasonable and North
>>> American travel to Montreal isn't that expense including the two ALS''s
>>>
>> >from PR.
>>
>>> Please comment on this idea to warrant a submission
>>>
>>> Thanks all
>>>
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