[At-Large] [EURO-Discuss] VOTE RESULTS: 2014 At-Large Board Director (Seat #15) Selection Process

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 4 April 2014 02:40, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:


> We’ve had liaisons, joint meetings, and periodic informal discussions
> about 'the broader CS community' for some time, but the latter bit has not
> really progressed much.


In my personal experience, things go well when there is a specific common
agenda. Consider that the CCWG on Internet Governance -- an initiative
sprung out of the ALAC/NCSG meeting in Buenos Aires and co-chaired by
Olivier and Rafik -- collected enough steam community-wide to be cited as a
reason for the dissolution of the Board Special Committees.

I'd certainly call that a win. So we know it's doable.

I find other areas of collaboration possible as ALAC starts exploring
privacy issues more (the Singapore workshop we held on TOR was surprisingly
well attended and may likely be repeated). OTOH, I might hope that NCSG --
at least some bits of it -- might find common ground with, for instance,
the intense At-Large dissatisfaction with the utility and enforceability of
Public Interest Commitments as they exist now in the new gTLD program.

Wouldn’t this be a worthy topic for some drill down discussion in the
> context of
> https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ATLAS+II+Draft+Agenda ?  It
> would be of particular interest to those of us with feet on both sides of
> the lines, but I’d think it’d also be of wider interest as well.
>

Wolf is involved with identifying Subject Matter Experts for the various
thematic sessions being done as part of the ATLAS program. Have a talk with
him; there's room for this.

- Evan