FYI -------- Message original -------- Sujet: Re: ALAC/At-Large Improvements Implementation Project - Final Report for review by the SIC Date : Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:16:51 -0400 De : Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com> Pour : Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> Copie à : Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com>, ICANN AtLarge Staff <staff@atlarge.icann.org>, Sébastien Bachollet <sebastien@bachollet.com>, Ray Plzak <plzakr@gmail.com>, Fadi Chehadé <fadi.chehade@icann.org>, Diane Schroeder <diane.schroeder@icann.org> Olivier, On behalf of the board, I am pleased to receive your message and I congratulate you and everyone involved in preparing and delivering your Final Report. We await formal action by the Board Structural Improvements Committee. Steve On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

Dear Steve,

On behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and as instructed by an Action Item I was assigned during a recent ALAC Conference call, I have the honour to forward to you a copy of the Final Report on ALAC/At-Large Improvements Implementation Project for your perusal, as transmitted to the Board Structural Improvements Committee (SIC) in June 2012. I understand that the Board SIC will present this (has presented this?) to the Board for ratification.

By this email, I need to pay tribute to the many volunteers who have worked directly on this project; as always, their work remains unquantified, although it is fair to estimate that this amounts to many thousands of person-hours. It is truly a testimony that a multi-stakeholder community is able to perform a self-review and bring it to conclusion thanks to the many talents and determination of our community. I trust that you will join me in agreeing that this is a milestone in the At-Large Community's history, but also in ICANN's and in the wider history of multi-stakeholder systems: a community of volunteers having no financial interest in the matter whatsoever, else than making sure the operational multi-stakeholder model of Internet Governance works better than it ever has before, for the public interest.

The At-Large Community is now continuing the work that has been assigned to its many working groups to work towards a next generation ALAC 3.0+. Work is well under way to reviewing its own by-laws and procedures in its Rules of Procedure Working Group and sub-groups. The undertaking of this continuous improvements process is key to the ALAC keeping up with an Internet environment that is in constant change.

Finally, I thank you and the Board for its recent messages of support of our At-Large community. These have been such a boost for our community. We have an increasing pool of motivated men and women from around the world joining the At-Large to make a difference. Please do not fail them by starving them of resources. The opportunity is there to stand together to affront challenges ahead of us. Don't let ICANN miss it.

Yours sincerely,

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. (Confucius)