The point of having the nearest regions attend the meeting is to save on costs (cheaper airfares), and it also ensures that each RALO has one face-to-face General Assembly each year to set priorities, talk to the larger ICANN communities, etc. Of course there are many ways to do this; this is how the planning currently works. If each region were willing to give up its one chance to be assured of a face-to-face meeting, we could do as you describe. Perhaps they would be willing to do that; personally, I'm happy to take the lead of the regions on this matter. I would suggest, though, since the RALOS are so new, that the current arrangement in the early period will help for regions to have greater cohesion than otherwise - but that's just my opinion. On 11/05/07, Luc Faubert <LFaubert@conceptum.ca> wrote:

Hi Nick,

Wouldn't it be best to have At-Large people from all regions to every meeting? We could do something like this:

- ICANN decides to fund travel for a constant number of x At-Large individuals to every meeting, - x is distributed among the five regions proportionnaly to its number of registered ALS, - Each region then decides who will go (max. 1 individual/ALS) + 1 unaffiliated user.

The number x could be revised annually to take into account the growth of ALS certifications.

This would all be independent of the Fellowships program.

Regards,

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-----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Nick Ashton-Hart Sent: 11 mai 2007 08:34 To: karen banks Cc: At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [At-Large] Global Fellowships Program

Sorry, I think there is a misunderstanding here. My apologies for helping to create one.

For the regional meetings, EACH ALS may designate one delegate. This means that not one or two people are coming from the regions, but much larger numbers.

As to who chooses to go: each ALS chooses who their delegate is.

On 11/05/07, karen banks <karenb@gn.apc.org> wrote:

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hi nick

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There is nothing official posted, but how it is working is like this:

At each international meeting, at least one At-Large region is invited to send one delegate per At-Large Structure to a regional meeting at the ICANN Meeting. This is in addition to the members of the ALAC, who are also subsidised to attend each International Meeting.

The region or regions to be invited is based upon where the international meeting is located. So, for San Juan, we have LAC and North America coming, for Lisbon it was Europe and Africa. For Asia it will be just the Asia/Australia/Pacific ALSes who will be attending I believe.

thanks for this.. so, the ALAC members attend all meetings, and then 1 or 2 other folk woulc come along depending on the region of meeting?

and, the process for deciding who goes.. is that rather informal also? or is that a formal ALAC committee procedure?

sorry for so many questions, but the fellowship announcement has encouraged people to think about attending ICANN meetings, but naturally, ALAC is a comfort zone for many of the people we work with

karen

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