Danny:
One wonders how much of the At-Large budget will be set aside for IISI activities... Just guessing, but I suppose that neither Paul Twomey nor Veni Markovski recommended to the IISI that they join the EURALO.
If I were you, I would not bet hard money on it. FYI, I have been in Moscow the previous week, as Vice-Chair of the Board, to talk about potential collaboration. And, yes, I spoke about the at large, insisting on the fact that we (ICANN) need to have the voice of the users from everywhere, but in particular from the areas that are less represented (in geographical, or cultural, or whatever else terms). Veni was there, in the same roundtable, and in the same meetings, and supported very much the idea of a higher engagement of the Russian community in ICANN, including AtLarge. And was much more successful than myself, also because of his deep knowledge of the Eastern European world, in explaining the win-win situation of a larger collaboration between the Russian internet community and ICANN. Things are moving, in case somebody hadn't noticed, or pretends not to notice. Regards, Roberto