Although I cannot claim there has been or will be an occasional exception, when such messages come from Staff, they are either forwarding a general ICANN announcement, or acting on behalf of me or some other volunteer. Announcements going out to the larger ICANN community generally have the formal intro. Those to the ALAC and regional leaders, in my mind, do not need this. I am happy to follow the lead of the ALAC on this. Can we please hear from other ALAC members and RALO leaders? Alan At 06/11/2015 03:40 PM, gbruen@knujon.com wrote:

If we're truly bottom up, we should not follow a pattern (even in formality) of having the staff lead

------Original Message------ From: Alan Greenberg To: gbruen@knujon.com To: Ariel Liang To: ALAC Subject: Re: [ALAC] Call for Volunteers to Review Two Public Comment Proceedings Sent: Nov 6, 2015 15:25

In the past, such messages would generally start with "On behalf of Alan Greenberg, Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee..."

I find that too wordy (and a bit pompous). But if you think that omitting it is confusing, it can be added back.

Alan

At 06/11/2015 03:08 PM, gbruen@knujon.com wrote:

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I am confused. Is staff or ALAC calling for this? Who is the "we"?

Thanks

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