Danny Younger wrote:
Evan is referring to this sentence in point #2 of the ALAC response to the Mid-Term Consultation:
"Please note mechanisms of this process would need careful consideration and further discussed, but could take the form of either one of the two Board Seats being initially made by the ALAC per se or perhaps more preferably an ALAC to Board Liaison role being maintained where the Liaison is the ALAC Chair or nominee of the ALAC Executive."
If anyone is looking for the document, the one I used for reference is at http://forum.icann.org/lists/alac-mid-consult/pdfn1TpttS4Dm.pdf And, by the way, I inadvertently misspoke when I said, "The Board liaison is the only reference to the ExecComm in this document". The term "ExCom" is used twice within (though this colloquialism is not defined) -- as the document's author and in one other context, arguably more damaging than the first one I found. On the bottom of page three (point #6) is this: "... we would recommend that the specific ways on how to allocate the budget for ALAC activities be remanded to negotiations between the ALAC Chair (or Excom as we now have one that is Regionally balanced) and ICANN staff." Budget negotiations? Does ALAC not already have a subgroup already defined for this important purpose (see https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?finance_and_budget_committee)? Under what possible mandate should ALAC be recommending budgetary planning -- hardly a matter of spontaneous urgency -- to be handled by its Executive Commitee (or the Chair alone for that matter) instead of the existing body designed expressly for that role? This example is even clearer than the Board Liaison one (which is indeed ambiguous as Alan pointed out) in demonstrating a role envisioned by the ExCom for itself quite different from the one apparently approved for it by ALAC. It is necessary to request the entire ALAC to take responsibility for its creation. Personally I believe that this document illustrates an *inevitable* tendency for an ExCom to assume -- in the name of expediency -- power it was not authorized to take. As such, it may be justification for immediate dissolution of the Executive Committee. The goal of ALAC should be to reduce the amount of panic reactions it encounters, rather than to search for more-efficient, more-expedient ways to deal with an increasing frequency of panics. - Evan