Kleinwächter ha scritto:
To make the development sustainable one could already now start with the development of a five year project for At Large with an annual "October Summit" (linked to the regular ICANN meetings) rotating to the five continents (ATLAS I, November 2008 Africa, ATLAS II, October 2009 Europe, ATLAS III, October 2010 North America, ATLAS IV, October 2011 Latin America, ATLAS V, October 2012 Asia-Pacific). During the other two ICANN annual regular meetings we could have smaller PrepComs.
Ok, so now I am seriously confused again. It seems to me that there are two very different concepts of this At Large Summit on the table. The first is the one you are exposing, with a long term process and objectives, yearly meetings, PrepComs, all ALSes attending because they have a right to do so, high-level political discussions on the future role of the US Government etc. The other is the one Darlene is talking about, a one-time event focused on immediate policy objectives and deliverables, with pre-requisites on previous contributions before attendance is granted, and a very low profile outside of ICANN. The two approaches are not impossible to reconcile, but they are definitely different in spirit. I think that the Board would reject the approach you expose, but would accept Darlene's one. On the other hand, it would backfire very badly if the Summit was presented as if it was of the second kind, but then, once there, the attendees moved the tone of the conversation towards what you have in mind. At least, if that's what the ALAC really wants to achieve with this Summit, it should clearly say so and try to convince the Board that this kind of long term political process is useful to ICANN. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------