[NA-Discuss] NARALO General Assembly

Thomas Lowenhaupt toml at communisphere.com
Mon Jan 26 13:35:10 UTC 2015


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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