May 2007 - At-Large - lists.icann.org

Minutes, Recordings, and Transcripts of At-Large meetings
by Nick Ashton-Hart May 3, 2007

May 3, 2007

Dear colleagues: As many of you know, there have been difficulties and delays with minutes of At-Large meetings being posted expeditiously or in a consistent way. This email is to update you on a standardised process going forward which should greatly improve records-keeping and resolve all these issues. Henceforward, we will be handling these duties in a different way, so that they will be posted much more quickly: 1) We will be recording meetings at ICANN International meetings onsite. The recordings will then be immediately available, instead of waiting for the conference service to make them available (we have also had technical problems and delays with accessing recordings from the conference service, especially in respect of very long meetings such as are regularly a feature of international meetings). For teleconferences, these recordings will be posted, as has been the case for several months now, as soon as we have access to them. 2) The recordings will be sent directly off for transcription; generally the transcripts will come back in a matter of a few days - at which point they will be posted. 3) Very summarised minutes will be produced which give only: those attending / not attending, decisions taken, voting results, and agenda items tabled for discussion at a later meeting - because they are so summarised, you can expect these meetings to be available within minutes after the meeting concludes. To update you on the secretariat-activities left over from the Lisbon meetings: We are in the process of uploading recordings of the African and European regional meetings, and also the ALAC meetings, from the Lisbon ICANN meeting. These recordings will be transcribed as well, and having sourced an affordable transcription service, we are now in the process of getting the transcriptions done. Both transcripts and audio recordings will be posted as they become available. Please accept our apologies for the delays in these administrative tasks from Lisbon in particular. The volume of meetings - the European meetings alone ran to more than 24 hours of meeting time - has done us the favour of exposing the lack of scalability of our previous procedures, but this has also provided an opportunity to improve the accessibility of meeting results and information. LOCATIONS: All of the material related to meetings of the community will continue to be posted on the wikis. The URLs for all of the wikis are now visible from the bottom of the front page of each Wiki, and also at alac.icann.org - to make them all easier to find. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011] USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Re: [At-Large] ALAC websites
by Nick Ashton-Hart May 1, 2007

May 1, 2007

I can ensure that the minutes get posted there as well as on the ALAC site - however the alac.icann.org site was updated on the 11th April of this year to make clear that the recordings and minutes of meetings after those on the site could be found on the wiki - so these are all accessible.] On the documents that can certainly be done. Once I'm over my cold (which I came back from holiday and promptly began to suffer from :() I will generate up some instructions to provide more links and documents released/agreed. On 26/04/07, Vittorio Bertola <vb(a)bertola.eu> wrote: > Nick Ashton-Hart ha scritto: > > This is a longer subject, worthy of a more complete response, but here > > are a few main points: > > Given how this matter has been slipping over time, I just wanted to > point out that this is a real issue, right here right now... perhaps we > can get a decent timeshare of someone @ ICANN so that at least minutes > and official documents are posted promptly on alac.icann.org, until you > can switch to the new one? That'd help already. > > (Not to mention that we are about to undergo a review and we should at > least be able to publish the material to be reviewed...) > > Thanks, > -- > vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- > --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <-------- > -- -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Fwd: Nom Com announcement
by Nick Ashton-Hart May 1, 2007

May 1, 2007

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Patrick Jones" <patrick.jones(a)icann.org> > Date: 30 April 2007 23:29:08 BDT > To: <alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> > Cc: <nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org> > Subject: Nom Com announcement > > Dear ALAC and ALS representatives, > > > > Please note that the ICANN Nominating Committee has today extended > the deadline of Statements of Interest until 18 May 2007 23:59 UTC. > See http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-30apr07.htm and > below for more information: > > > > ICANN Nominating Committee Extends Deadline for Statements of > Interest to 18 May 2007 > > 30 April 2007 > > In order to provide additional time for candidates to submit > Statements of Interest, the 2007 ICANN Nominating Committee has > extended the deadline for Statements of Interest until 18 May 2007 > 23:59 UTC. Candidates should submit completed Statements of > Interest to nomcom2007(a)icann.org. > > The 2007 Nominating Committee began its work in December 2006 at > the ICANN Annual Meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is actively > seeking qualified candidates for the following key positions within > ICANN: > > 3 seats on the ICANN Board of Directors > 2 members to Generic Names Supporting Organization Council (GNSO) > 3 members of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) > (from Africa, Latin America and Caribbean and Asia/Australia/ > Pacific regions) > 1 Country Code Names Support Organization Council (ccNSO) member > The 2007 Nominating Committee has received 33 Statements of > Interest, 29 of the candidates are male, while 4 are female. 14 > candidates are from Europe, 6 are from Asia/Australia/Pacific, 5 > are from Latin America/Caribbean, 5 are from North America, and 3 > are from Africa. > > 25 candidates have declared a willingness to serve on the ICANN > Board, 12 have declared a willingness to serve on the GNSO Council, > 7 have declared a willingness to serve on the ccNSO Council, and 7 > have declared a willingness to serve on the ALAC. Please note that > some candidates have asked to be considered for more than one > position. > > Those individuals selected by the Nominating Committee will have a > unique opportunity to work with accomplished colleagues from around > the globe, address intriguing technical coordination problems and > related policy development challenges with diverse functional, > cultural, and geographic dimensions, and gain valuable insights and > experience from working across these boundaries of knowledge, > responsibility and perspective. > > Information about the 2007 Nominating Committee is available at > http://nomcom.icann.org. Information on the formal call for > Statements of Interest is available athttp://nomcom.icann.org/ > formal-call-2007.html. > > > > > > Patrick L. Jones > > Registry Liaison Manager & > > Staff support to the ICANN Nominating Committee > > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers > > 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 > > Marina del Rey, CA 90292 > > Tel: +1 310 301 3861 > > Fax: +1 310 823 8649 > > patrick.jones(a)icann.org > > > >

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