Olivier and all, Even if it would be better for me to shorten the meeting by one day, I totally disagree on removing the Friday morning session for the following reasons: · The most important part of the Friday session is the board public meeting and not the SO/AC Chair reports. · I find the Board public meeting one of the most important events of the week: remember when the Board members voted the resolution on .xxx and the discussion that took place just before, or when they voted on the resolution 20 in Nairobi. Those were very important moments that the community lived directly. I think its one of the ICANN particularities to have a public Board meeting with decision made and discussion. We may have a boring and empty one as in San José, but it was an exception, and I hope it will be the last one. · The report of the Board committees is also an interesting thing, mainly because of the opportunity to react for the community. · Tell you the truth, I would like to see the ALAC Chair presentation given with more details on the main things (for example on the academy, LACRALO events and At-Large improvement for the San José meeting). I find this exhibition of the SO/AC activities interesting and informative. · Finally, and as you said Olivier, our ExCom meeting needs to be on Friday afternoon to be able to have the senior staff absolutely free for interaction with our concerns. ---------------------------------------------------------- Tijani BEN JEMAA Executive Director Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations Phone : + 216 70 825 231 Mobile : + 216 98 330 114 Fax : + 216 70 825 231 ---------------------------------------------------------- -----Message d'origine----- De : alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] De la part de Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond Envoyé : lundi 26 mars 2012 15:42 À : ALAC Working List Objet : [ALAC] ICANN meeting on Fridays Dear Folks, there is currently some discussion amongst the Board and SO/ACs, about the Friday session at ICANN meetings. The sessions starts at 8:00 with Board Committee Report, then continuing with SO/AC Chair Reports and then the ICANN Board Meeting. Traditionally, this has been poorly attended and rather boring to sit through. There is discussion whether this could be replaced with written reports to be filed on the ICANN Web Site, thus shortening the ICANN week by one day. Any note of thanks would take place in the Thursday afternoon Public Forum & Wrap up. The response I have provided so far, is that whilst I am not against having our ALAC report published instead of spoken -- for those of you who have attended, I have kept my spoken report to less than 3 minutes but for some, the reporting is really tedious and long --, I am concerned that this would shorten an already packed week. In particular, the ALAC Executive Committee meets on Friday afternoon and this is the time when we have access to the CEO, COO, CFO etc. This is the time when we can really interchange with Senior ICANN staff. I am therefore concerned that ICANN not having a morning session on Fridays would mean our afternoon session would be scrapped too. Also, in San José, we also used the Friday morning for LACRALO capacity building, so this day was needed. I'd be interested in your point of view, so that I can relay it to the Board members who have asked me my point of view. Kind regards, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list <mailto:ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org> ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org <https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac> https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac At-Large Online: <http://www.atlarge.icann.org> http://www.atlarge.icann.org ALAC Working Wiki: <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Advisory+Committee+(AL AC)> https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Advisory+Committee+(ALA C) ----- Aucun virus trouvé dans ce message. Analyse effectuée par AVG - <http://www.avg.fr> www.avg.fr Version: 10.0.1390 / Base de données virale: 1518/3785 - Date: 24/07/2011 La Base de données des virus a expiré.