It has been pointed out to me that my earlier posts to these lists, on this topic, were rather obscure in describing what was required of the ALAC to do, now, with regards to this WG Report, and the proposed ALAC Community Statement. Here is an attempt at something more easily understood / in a better form. Sorry for any confusion caused... CLO COMPLETION of GNSO Improvements Council Structure Proposal ad hoc Working Group - Report to the ICANN Board On 26 June 2008 the ICANN Board of Directors endorsed the recommendations of the Board Governance Committee's (BGC) GNSO Review Working Group, with the exception of the BGC's recommendation regarding GNSO Council restructuring. The Board asked the GNSO to convene a small working group on Council restructuring -consisting of one representative from the current NomCom appointees to the GNSO Council, one member from each GNSO constituency and one member from each liaison-appointing advisory committee (including, of course, the ALAC). The Board directed that the group: "should reach consensus and submit a consensus recommendation on Council restructuring by no later than 25 July 2008 for consideration by the ICANN Board as soon as possible." (see ICANN Board Resolution 2008.06.26.13, http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-26jun08.htm <http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-26jun08.htm> - _Toc76113182 for the complete text.) The ALAC Liaison to the GNSO, Alan Greenberg, was nominated to represent ALAC on the working group. An ad-hoc supporting committee of the ALAC was formed in order to help Alan represent ALAC during the deliberations of the working group. The members of the ad-hoc committee are: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Sebastien Bachollet, Vanda Scartezini, and Izumi Aizu. The working group on GNSO council restructuring began its work on 4 July 2008 and has deliberated exhaustively during seven conference call meetings and via email from that date, through midnight on 25 July and into the next day in an effort to develop a consensus recommendation for Board consideration. The ad-hoc supporting committee of the ALAC worked closely with Alan during this period. A copy of the Report of the working group can be found here. https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?at_large_advisory_committee Appended to it are statements from each of the members on behalf of the community they represent, including a statement from Alan Greenberg on behalf of the ALAC. Next Steps Since the Board of Directors of ICANN is to begin its discussions on the output of the working group at its meeting on Thursday 31st July, and the ALAC Executive Committee believes that it is important that the Board have a clear statement from the ALAC on these issues, it is the intention of the Chair of ALAC to ask the ALAC to approve a Statement to be transmitted to the Board as an official Advisory Committee statement. To this end, a draft Statement, drawn heavily from the statement of Alan on behalf of the ALAC annexed to the report will be available on or before 1200 UTC 30th July 2008. As soon as it is available a vote will commence, running as required for seven days, to allow ALAC Members to vote to approve, not approve, or abstain on the draft Statement. In order to be prepared for the vote, ALAC Members are asked to carefully consider urgently: * The report of the working group; * The statement of Alan on behalf of the ALAC in the report above * When posted the Draft Statement. Please use the Comments option on this page to have your questions answered or comments considered for inclusion in the proposed ALAC Statement, or to otherwise comment on the matter at hand.