I went to the small room meeting of Board Governance Committee Working Group on ALAC review this morning and offered some suggestions including the way they moderate the session so that many non-English native speakers in the audience could also participate easily. That was well accepted and I was asked to offer my intervention IF and when something wrong culturally happens. That happened, unfortunately, as the moderator kept asking questions only to the members of the podium, and arbitrarily started to nominate people to come and get on the podium. I waited for quite a while for him to start accepting open comments, but that did not happen. So I flagged, asked the moderator for me to say something, but then rejected. In the end I was given, and offered the suggestion, but all in all it was not accepted. In the large room and in that fashion, it is not inclusive nor constructive to let that to happen. But it gave me some other ideas - since it is the VERY review on ALAC, why not ALAC organize a workshop on our own? It could be a joint session with BGC WG on ALAC, in the way most constructive to all, including ALSs and RALO people, as well as with other ICANN constituencies, at our coming Cairo meeting. Being put on the table subject to review is one thing, but cooperating with that process will add more value to the review and, in turn, to ALAC I believe. izumi --
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