Public Consultation on the Draft Community Travel Guidelines for FY2010: Volunteer Statement Drafter Needed
Dear Members: As you are no doubt aware, there is a public consultation open on a draft Travel Procedure for FY2010; of course, this affects At-Large travel. This consultation may be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-03jun09-en.htm At the ALAC Excom meeting yesterday this was clearly noted as a high priority. The consultation closes on 6th July, however, to allow time for community members to comment on a draft once written, and allow time for those coments to be reflected before voting, there is actually not a great deal of time to spare to get a draft written. The Excom proposed a timeline as follows (you may review the timeline for this process, as well as for all other policy advice development processes, at www.atlarge.icann.org/policycalendar): Draft Statement Due: 15th June At-Large comment period open from: 15th June - 21st June Draft incorporating Comments due by: 24th June ALAC Voting period: 28 June - 5 July Is there a volunteer to create a draft statement in the timeframe above? -- -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff@atlarge.icann.org
Why don't we just put something like this in as a Statement with specific RALO and ALS support listed I hope... ...The ALAC wishes to make clear the following in connection with the proposed Travel Procedures for FY2010: In this draft, it is suggested that either RALO leaders may attend each of the three ICANN meetings, or the funding for those 10 persons may be used to support General Assemblies for the Regional At-Large Organisations ("RALOs") throughout the year. The ALAC *(and this is where we could literally list RALO and ALS support)*must reiterate our previous points that this is not an "either/or" situation. There has been a very clear benefit to the RALO leadership attending ICANN meetings on many levels. At the same time, a chance for each RALO to meet face-to-face each year is also of enormous benefit. We understand that there are many communities in ICANN that require travel assistance. While in an ideal world, it would be possible for each of the RALOs to attend an ICANN meeting each year, we understand that ideal is not always possible. We do therefore believe that the RALO GAs could be held in conjunction with existing regional meetings related to the Internet held each year, over a day or two, to keep costs down while ensuring that each region has the essential face-to-face meeting it needs, for all the reasons previously enumerated in our various statements on this subject over the course of time...*(could insert links to the previous statements here as well)* CLO 2009/6/10 At-Large Staff <staff@atlarge.icann.org>
Dear Members:
As you are no doubt aware, there is a public consultation open on a draft Travel Procedure for FY2010; of course, this affects At-Large travel. This consultation may be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-03jun09-en.htm
At the ALAC Excom meeting yesterday this was clearly noted as a high priority. The consultation closes on 6th July, however, to allow time for community members to comment on a draft once written, and allow time for those coments to be reflected before voting, there is actually not a great deal of time to spare to get a draft written.
The Excom proposed a timeline as follows (you may review the timeline for this process, as well as for all other policy advice development processes, at www.atlarge.icann.org/policycalendar):
Draft Statement Due: 15th June At-Large comment period open from: 15th June - 21st June Draft incorporating Comments due by: 24th June ALAC Voting period: 28 June - 5 July
Is there a volunteer to create a draft statement in the timeframe above? --
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Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms
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Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
Why don't we just put something like this in as a Statement with specific RALO and ALS support listed I hope... ...The ALAC wishes to make clear the following in connection with the proposed Travel Procedures for FY2010:
In this draft, it is suggested that either RALO leaders may attend each of the three ICANN meetings, or the funding for those 10 persons may be used to support General Assemblies for the Regional At-Large Organisations ("RALOs") throughout the year.
The ALAC *(and this is where we could literally list RALO and ALS support)*must reiterate our previous points that this is not an "either/or" situation. There has been a very clear benefit to the RALO leadership attending ICANN meetings on many levels. At the same time, a chance for each RALO to meet face-to-face each year is also of enormous benefit.
You have explicit support from NARALO, which discussed this at its last conference call and was considering an independent statement. But what you have is fine. As was said by someone else in our meeting, At-Large and the RALOs are ICANN creations. So long as ICANN maintains these artifacts as a vehicle for bottom-up community policy-making, it needs to enable us to fulfil the mandate *IT* created. - Evan
Yes, but I am not sure that it would have to come at the expense of the RALO leadership giving up their travel to the ICANN meetings - I don't remember that being discussed at our last telephone conference. It seems to me that ICANN, because of the JPA, created this bottom-up approach and should not now be nickel and diming it. I also don't want it to be perceived that because the RALO leaders get to go to the meetings that this has squashed any regional meetings. I have never heard that from ICANN and I sure don't want to bring it into the mix now. It just seems to me that the RALO leadership has BECOME effective because of attending these meetings and are now able to lead regional meetings in an effective way. To me it's a total mix that must be brought to the table - but not one thing to the disadvantage of the other (if that makes any sense at all). D Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:21 PM To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr Cc: At-Large Staff; alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [ALAC] Public Consultation on the Draft Community Travel Guidelines for FY2010: Volunteer Statement Drafter Needed Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
Why don't we just put something like this in as a Statement with specific RALO and ALS support listed I hope... ...The ALAC wishes to make clear the following in connection with the proposed Travel Procedures for FY2010:
In this draft, it is suggested that either RALO leaders may attend each of the three ICANN meetings, or the funding for those 10 persons may be used to support General Assemblies for the Regional At-Large Organisations ("RALOs") throughout the year.
The ALAC *(and this is where we could literally list RALO and ALS support)*must reiterate our previous points that this is not an "either/or" situation. There has been a very clear benefit to the RALO leadership attending ICANN meetings on many levels. At the same time, a chance for each RALO to meet face-to-face each year is also of enormous benefit.
You have explicit support from NARALO, which discussed this at its last conference call and was considering an independent statement. But what you have is fine. As was said by someone else in our meeting, At-Large and the RALOs are ICANN creations. So long as ICANN maintains these artifacts as a vehicle for bottom-up community policy-making, it needs to enable us to fulfil the mandate *IT* created. - Evan _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann .org At-Large Online: http://www.atlarge.icann.org ALAC Working Wiki: http://st.icann.org/alac
Judging by the conversation on the teleconference yesterday I think that the point is being made that the chairs and secretariats being able to attend ICANN meetings should not prevent one regional meeting per year for each RALO. We just have to continue to say this loud and clear. Gareth On 12-Jun-09, at 10:21 AM, Thompson, Darlene wrote:
Yes, but I am not sure that it would have to come at the expense of the RALO leadership giving up their travel to the ICANN meetings - I don't remember that being discussed at our last telephone conference.
It seems to me that ICANN, because of the JPA, created this bottom-up approach and should not now be nickel and diming it. I also don't want it to be perceived that because the RALO leaders get to go to the meetings that this has squashed any regional meetings. I have never heard that from ICANN and I sure don't want to bring it into the mix now.
It just seems to me that the RALO leadership has BECOME effective because of attending these meetings and are now able to lead regional meetings in an effective way. To me it's a total mix that must be brought to the table - but not one thing to the disadvantage of the other (if that makes any sense at all).
D
Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca
-----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:21 PM To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr Cc: At-Large Staff; alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [ALAC] Public Consultation on the Draft Community Travel Guidelines for FY2010: Volunteer Statement Drafter Needed
Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
Why don't we just put something like this in as a Statement with specific RALO and ALS support listed I hope... ...The ALAC wishes to make clear the following in connection with the proposed Travel Procedures for FY2010:
In this draft, it is suggested that either RALO leaders may attend each of the three ICANN meetings, or the funding for those 10 persons may be used to support General Assemblies for the Regional At-Large Organisations ("RALOs") throughout the year.
The ALAC *(and this is where we could literally list RALO and ALS support)*must reiterate our previous points that this is not an "either/or" situation. There has been a very clear benefit to the RALO leadership attending ICANN meetings on many levels. At the same time, a chance for each RALO to meet face-to-face each year is also of enormous benefit.
You have explicit support from NARALO, which discussed this at its last conference call and was considering an independent statement. But what you have is fine.
As was said by someone else in our meeting, At-Large and the RALOs are ICANN creations. So long as ICANN maintains these artifacts as a vehicle for bottom-up community policy-making, it needs to enable us to fulfil the mandate *IT* created.
- Evan
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OK! That is all I wanted to hear! Thanks! Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Gareth Shearman Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:34 PM To: Thompson, Darlene Cc: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org; At-Large Staff Subject: Re: [ALAC] Public Consultation on the Draft CommunityTravel Guidelines for FY2010: Volunteer Statement Drafter Needed Judging by the conversation on the teleconference yesterday I think that the point is being made that the chairs and secretariats being able to attend ICANN meetings should not prevent one regional meeting per year for each RALO. We just have to continue to say this loud and clear. Gareth On 12-Jun-09, at 10:21 AM, Thompson, Darlene wrote:
Yes, but I am not sure that it would have to come at the expense of the RALO leadership giving up their travel to the ICANN meetings - I don't remember that being discussed at our last telephone conference.
It seems to me that ICANN, because of the JPA, created this bottom-up approach and should not now be nickel and diming it. I also don't want it to be perceived that because the RALO leaders get to go to the meetings that this has squashed any regional meetings. I have never heard that from ICANN and I sure don't want to bring it into the mix now.
It just seems to me that the RALO leadership has BECOME effective because of attending these meetings and are now able to lead regional meetings in an effective way. To me it's a total mix that must be brought to the table - but not one thing to the disadvantage of the other (if that makes any sense at all).
D
Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca
-----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:21 PM To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr Cc: At-Large Staff; alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [ALAC] Public Consultation on the Draft Community Travel Guidelines for FY2010: Volunteer Statement Drafter Needed
Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
Why don't we just put something like this in as a Statement with specific RALO and ALS support listed I hope... ...The ALAC wishes to make clear the following in connection with the proposed Travel Procedures for FY2010:
In this draft, it is suggested that either RALO leaders may attend each of the three ICANN meetings, or the funding for those 10 persons may be used to support General Assemblies for the Regional At-Large Organisations ("RALOs") throughout the year.
The ALAC *(and this is where we could literally list RALO and ALS support)*must reiterate our previous points that this is not an "either/or" situation. There has been a very clear benefit to the RALO leadership attending ICANN meetings on many levels. At the same time, a chance for each RALO to meet face-to-face each year is also of enormous benefit.
You have explicit support from NARALO, which discussed this at its last conference call and was considering an independent statement. But what you have is fine.
As was said by someone else in our meeting, At-Large and the RALOs are ICANN creations. So long as ICANN maintains these artifacts as a vehicle for bottom-up community policy-making, it needs to enable us to fulfil the mandate *IT* created.
- Evan
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Darlene, couldn´t agree more with your point of view. Moreover, because in the case of my region, LACRALO Created the Chair position in Mexico (we only had Secretariat before this) and I remember, as it happened to be my proposal, that the main ideas were related to the added value that could provide having both officers involved in this process (that included participating in f2f meetings). This is the reason we wanted to follow other RALO´s example (such us NARALO in this matter). And so we did it. I wasn´t at yesterdays teleconference but wan´t to agree with Gareth also about his idea. Regards, Andrés Piazza LACRALO Chair htto://www.internetandlaw.com.ar -----Mensaje original----- De: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] En nombre de Thompson, Darlene Enviado el: viernes, 12 de junio de 2009 02:36 p.m. Para: Gareth Shearman CC: At-Large Staff; alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Asunto: Re: [ALAC] Public Consultation on the DraftCommunityTravel Guidelines for FY2010: Volunteer StatementDrafter Needed OK! That is all I wanted to hear! Thanks! Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Gareth Shearman Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:34 PM To: Thompson, Darlene Cc: alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org; At-Large Staff Subject: Re: [ALAC] Public Consultation on the Draft CommunityTravel Guidelines for FY2010: Volunteer Statement Drafter Needed Judging by the conversation on the teleconference yesterday I think that the point is being made that the chairs and secretariats being able to attend ICANN meetings should not prevent one regional meeting per year for each RALO. We just have to continue to say this loud and clear. Gareth On 12-Jun-09, at 10:21 AM, Thompson, Darlene wrote:
Yes, but I am not sure that it would have to come at the expense of the RALO leadership giving up their travel to the ICANN meetings - I don't remember that being discussed at our last telephone conference.
It seems to me that ICANN, because of the JPA, created this bottom-up approach and should not now be nickel and diming it. I also don't want it to be perceived that because the RALO leaders get to go to the meetings that this has squashed any regional meetings. I have never heard that from ICANN and I sure don't want to bring it into the mix now.
It just seems to me that the RALO leadership has BECOME effective because of attending these meetings and are now able to lead regional meetings in an effective way. To me it's a total mix that must be brought to the table - but not one thing to the disadvantage of the other (if that makes any sense at all).
D
Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca
-----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:21 PM To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr Cc: At-Large Staff; alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [ALAC] Public Consultation on the Draft Community Travel Guidelines for FY2010: Volunteer Statement Drafter Needed
Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
Why don't we just put something like this in as a Statement with specific RALO and ALS support listed I hope... ...The ALAC wishes to make clear the following in connection with the proposed Travel Procedures for FY2010:
In this draft, it is suggested that either RALO leaders may attend each of the three ICANN meetings, or the funding for those 10 persons may be used to support General Assemblies for the Regional At-Large Organisations ("RALOs") throughout the year.
The ALAC *(and this is where we could literally list RALO and ALS support)*must reiterate our previous points that this is not an "either/or" situation. There has been a very clear benefit to the RALO leadership attending ICANN meetings on many levels. At the same time, a chance for each RALO to meet face-to-face each year is also of enormous benefit.
You have explicit support from NARALO, which discussed this at its last conference call and was considering an independent statement. But what you have is fine.
As was said by someone else in our meeting, At-Large and the RALOs are ICANN creations. So long as ICANN maintains these artifacts as a vehicle for bottom-up community policy-making, it needs to enable us to fulfil the mandate *IT* created.
- Evan
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Dear all, as outlined already by Cheryl and Evan:
The ALAC *(and this is where we could literally list RALO and ALS support)*must reiterate our previous points that this is not an "either/or" situation. There has been a very clear benefit to the RALO leadership attending ICANN meetings on many levels. At the same time, a chance for each RALO to meet face-to-face each year is also of enormous benefit.
You have explicit support from NARALO, which discussed this at its last conference call and was considering an independent statement. But what you have is fine.
We didn't have the opportunity yet to discuss this at our monthly call yet but I am almost certain that EURALO - like NARALO - would strongly support the ALAC statement/what CLO said on it. Best, Wolf Thompson, Darlene wrote Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:
Yes, but I am not sure that it would have to come at the expense of the RALO leadership giving up their travel to the ICANN meetings - I don't remember that being discussed at our last telephone conference.
It seems to me that ICANN, because of the JPA, created this bottom-up approach and should not now be nickel and diming it. I also don't want it to be perceived that because the RALO leaders get to go to the meetings that this has squashed any regional meetings. I have never heard that from ICANN and I sure don't want to bring it into the mix now.
It just seems to me that the RALO leadership has BECOME effective because of attending these meetings and are now able to lead regional meetings in an effective way. To me it's a total mix that must be brought to the table - but not one thing to the disadvantage of the other (if that makes any sense at all).
D
Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca
-----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:21 PM To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr Cc: At-Large Staff; alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [ALAC] Public Consultation on the Draft Community Travel Guidelines for FY2010: Volunteer Statement Drafter Needed
Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
Why don't we just put something like this in as a Statement with specific RALO and ALS support listed I hope... ...The ALAC wishes to make clear the following in connection with the proposed Travel Procedures for FY2010:
In this draft, it is suggested that either RALO leaders may attend each of the three ICANN meetings, or the funding for those 10 persons may be used to support General Assemblies for the Regional At-Large Organisations ("RALOs") throughout the year.
The ALAC *(and this is where we could literally list RALO and ALS support)*must reiterate our previous points that this is not an "either/or" situation. There has been a very clear benefit to the RALO leadership attending ICANN meetings on many levels. At the same time, a chance for each RALO to meet face-to-face each year is also of enormous benefit.
You have explicit support from NARALO, which discussed this at its last conference call and was considering an independent statement. But what you have is fine.
As was said by someone else in our meeting, At-Large and the RALOs are ICANN creations. So long as ICANN maintains these artifacts as a vehicle for bottom-up community policy-making, it needs to enable us to fulfil the mandate *IT* created.
- Evan
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I certainly agree with this. Indeed I think we could get most of the active North American ALS organisations to sign on to this specifically in support of the NARALO position. Gareth On 10-Jun-09, at 5:46 PM, Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
Why don't we just put something like this in as a Statement with specific RALO and ALS support listed I hope... ...The ALAC wishes to make clear the following in connection with the proposed Travel Procedures for FY2010:
In this draft, it is suggested that either RALO leaders may attend each of the three ICANN meetings, or the funding for those 10 persons may be used to support General Assemblies for the Regional At-Large Organisations ("RALOs") throughout the year.
The ALAC *(and this is where we could literally list RALO and ALS support)*must reiterate our previous points that this is not an "either/or" situation. There has been a very clear benefit to the RALO leadership attending ICANN meetings on many levels. At the same time, a chance for each RALO to meet face-to-face each year is also of enormous benefit.
We understand that there are many communities in ICANN that require travel assistance. While in an ideal world, it would be possible for each of the RALOs to attend an ICANN meeting each year, we understand that ideal is not always possible. We do therefore believe that the RALO GAs could be held in conjunction with existing regional meetings related to the Internet held each year, over a day or two, to keep costs down while ensuring that each region has the essential face-to-face meeting it needs, for all the reasons previously enumerated in our various statements on this subject over the course of time...*(could insert links to the previous statements here as well)*
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Dear Members:
As you are no doubt aware, there is a public consultation open on a draft Travel Procedure for FY2010; of course, this affects At-Large travel. This consultation may be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-03jun09-en.htm
At the ALAC Excom meeting yesterday this was clearly noted as a high priority. The consultation closes on 6th July, however, to allow time for community members to comment on a draft once written, and allow time for those coments to be reflected before voting, there is actually not a great deal of time to spare to get a draft written.
The Excom proposed a timeline as follows (you may review the timeline for this process, as well as for all other policy advice development processes, at www.atlarge.icann.org/policycalendar):
Draft Statement Due: 15th June At-Large comment period open from: 15th June - 21st June Draft incorporating Comments due by: 24th June ALAC Voting period: 28 June - 5 July
Is there a volunteer to create a draft statement in the timeframe above? --
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Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms
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Andres Piazza -
At-Large Staff -
Cheryl Langdon-Orr -
Evan Leibovitch -
Gareth Shearman -
Thompson, Darlene -
Wolf Ludwig