[At-Large] [ALAC-Announce] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2016 ALAC Leadership Team

Sat Oct 10 22:35:48 UTC 2015

The confusion of trying to locate the most up to date versions of key
documents and workspace pages is a real problem on community.icann. The
search engine can take you to totally irrelevant pages if you dont know the
exact title of the page you want.
On 11/10/2015 11:14 am, "Alan Greenberg" <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Seun,
>
> The PDF pointed by your first link is the current Rules of Procedure (RoP)
> and the one that was quoted in earlier messages. A simpler URL for the
> current RoP is http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-2013-04.
>
> It is pointed to by
> https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Rules+of+Procedure which also
> includes the various other documents that are pointed to by the RoP.
>
> Your second link is to a wiki workspace (mobile version) for the group
> that revised the RoP several years ago. Near the top are two links that are
> equivalent to the two links above. The rest of that workspace had many
> links to the previous Rules Ror instance *ALAC/2007/1/1.Rev11 - EN*
> <https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/2262614/AL-2007-1-1-Rev11%20ALAC%20Internal%20Rules%20of%20Procedure%20-%20EN%20.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1334600024000&api=v2>
> points to the previous set of rules as described by the text just above the
> link. Later in the page are pointers to pages for individual sections that
> were used by the drafting committee. This entire page is preserved to
> document the process and will not be changed. The links at the top were
> added to make sure people could find the current rules.
>
> I will suggest that a warning be added so that people do not mistake the
> old rules for the current set.
>
> Alan
>
>
> At 10/10/2015 04:57 PM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
>
> Dear Chair/ALAC,
>
> I observed the PDF document at the url below is consistent with the
> section quoted by Alan but not the text posted in the wiki.
>
> PDF:
>
> https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/2262672/ALAC%2BRoP-06April2013.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1378914284000&api=v2
>
> ALAC RoP on the wiki:
> https://community.icann.org/m/mobile.action#page/2262614
>
> I suggest that the 2 documents be reconciled.
>
> Regards
>
> Sent from my Asus Zenfone2
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos.
> On 10 Oct 2015 21:23, "Christopher Wilkinson" < cw at christopherwilkinson.eu>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear Alan:
>
> Without wishing to disturb these otherwise calm waters, may I enquire:
>
> -as I understand it, the ALAC Chair is eligible for a second term.
> That does not necessarily mean that the 'reconduction' is automatic,
> unless there are no other candidates.
> Normally, I would expect the staff also to call for nominations for the
> Chair.
>
> -At Large is naturally aware that the current Chair is eligible and
> willing to be elected for a second term
>
> -(I am not a candidate for any of the announced positions).
>
> However it is increasingly evident that ICANN needs a far more crisp,
> informed and critical ALAC than we have experienced in recent years.
> There is a potential vacuum in the representation of civil society and
> users' interests: It is likely that GAC will abstain from voting
> participation in the 'Member'. Civil society participants in GNSO have not
> reined in the contracted parties. Discussion in CCWG is moving towards
> codifying how the SO and AC are accountable to the 'non-ICANN community'.
>
> At Large should lead the way.
>
> Best regards
>
> Christopher
>
>
> On 10 Oct 2015, at 17:06, ICANN At-Large Staff <staff at atlarge.icann.org >
> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Please see below the call for nominations for members of the 2016 ALAC
> Leadership Team (ALT) sent on behalf of Alan Greenberg, Chair of the ALAC.
>
> ===========================================
> ALAC LEADERSHIP TEAM
>
> Now that it is confirmed that the ALAC Chair, Alan Greenberg, will
> continue for another term, he has requested that a call for nominations be
> issued for the other four members of the ALAC Leadership team (ALT) from
> the four remaining regions:
>
> - Africa
> - Asia, Australasia and Pacific Islands
> - Europe
> - Latin America and Caribbean Islands
>
> The ALAC Rules of Procedure call for up to two Vice-Chairs, at the
> discretion of the incoming ALAC Chair, and Alan has indicated that he would
> prefer two Vice-Chairs as was the case during the past year.
>
> Nominations are now open for individuals to serve as the two Vice-Chairs
> of the ALAC and the two non-titled ALT positions.  Nominations may be made
> by any current ALAC Member. Nominees need not be an ALAC Member at the time
> of the nominations, but must have an expectation of being an ALAC Member
> after the completion of the upcoming Dublin ICANN Meeting.
>
> Requirements for ALT members can be found in Section 6 of the ALAC Rules
> of Procedure ( http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-2013-04).
>
> Nominations will close on Saturday,  17 October 2015 at 23:59 UTC.
>
> Nominations need not be seconded, but it is an ALAC tradition that others
> may second the nomination as a show of agreement with the nomination.
>
> Nominations other than self-nominations must be accepted within seven days
> after the close of nominations. Acceptance should be sent to the
> alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org< mailto:alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>>.
>
> Nominees without access to that list should send their acceptance to
> staff at atlarge.icann.org< mailto:staff at atlarge.icann.org
> <staff at atlarge.icann.org>>.
>
> Staff will forward all acceptances to ALAC-Announce at atlarge-lists.icann.rog
> < mailto:ALAC-Announce at atlarge-lists.icann.rog
> <ALAC-Announce at atlarge-lists.icann.rog>>.
>
> Following the close of the nominations period and the acceptance or
> rejection of all nominations, candidates from regions where the position is
> not contested will be declared to  have won by acclamation.
>
> If there are multiple candidates from any region, the candidates, in
> conjunction with the ALAC, will be given the opportunity to resolve the
> situation. Failing that, an secret vote of the ALAC will decide the winner.
>
> If the resultant ALT includes two members nominated to be Vice-Chairs,
> those two will serve in those positions. If there are less than two or more
> than two nominated as Vice-Chairs, the ALAC Chair will decide who will
> occupy the Vice-Chair positions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie
> Peregrine and Terri Agnew
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