Thanks Roberto. For those without a sufficiently long history in ICANN, prior to his current NomCom appointment to the ICANN Board starting in 2006, Roberto was an ALAC member and served as the ALAC Liaison to the Board. So he does have a sufficiently long and detailed knowledge of ALAC to make this a true compliment. Alan At 31/08/2009 12:47 PM, Roberto Gaetano wrote:

My personal opinion is that time has passed between the Westlake report and the Board vote, and in between ALAC has produced results. If I compare the discussions on the Board just to get the agreement for the Summit, and the discussions these days, there is a huge difference. Of course, the ALAC Review WG, the Board Review WG, the SIC, etc. have pointed out the acquired maturity of ALAC, and therefore it has been possible to successfully argue the case (although we settled on 1 voting director as a compromise between 2 and 0). But the real factor that has determined this result is simply the fact that ALAC is delivering: it went a long way since the discussions about matters of principle in the beginning and the concrete proposals, that led to policy decisions, that we are witnessing these days. This process was underway when Westlake was producing its report. They could not have guessed the results, but now we know. So, congratulations to all of you in ALAC for years of hard work that are now bringing results, and with the results the recognition.

Cheers, Roberto