Call for Statements of Interest | NA RALO Seats on ALAC
CALL FOR STATEMENTS OF INTEREST | NORTH AMERICAN R.A.L.O. IN FORMATION | 18 MAY 2007 Consistent with Paragraph 10 of the Draft Operating Principles ("OP") for the North American RALO in Formation, I am pleased to open the Call for Statements of Interest for persons interested in serving on ICANN's At Large Advisory Committee. Consistent with Paragraph 9 of the OP, the only requirement for service is that a candidate live in the North American region. This initial call for Statements of Interest is to elect two (2) members of the ALAC. One person will serve a two year term and the other will serve a one year term. The ALAC members will be elected by the voting members of the NARALO, only if and after its members ratify the Operating Principles now out for a vote. Each year hereafter, the NARALO will elect one (1) person. This Call for Statements of Interest will remain open from today, Friday, 18 May 2007 through and including Friday, 22 June 2007 (11:59 pm HST). If you are interested in applying, please send an email to Nick Ashton-Hart (nick.ashton-hart (at) icann.org) and to me (bfausett (at) internet.law.pro) with the following information: -- START -- (a) Your name: first name, FAMILY NAME (in capital letters) (b) Your e-mail address. (c) Your telephone number(s) and/or Skype/Yahoo!/Mac or other VOIP or Audio Chat ID. (d) Your country of citizenship. If you hold multiple citizenships please state all. (e) Your city and country of residence and your preferred mailing address. (f) Education and professional background. Summarize your educational background, such as degrees achieved and the university(s) where you studied, and the three most recent places of employment and positions held. (g) Internet Involvement and Interest in ICANN. Help us understand the skills and experience you would bring to the ALAC and how you would help the ALAC achieve its mission. (h) Conflicts of Interest. Please refer to the ICANN Conflicts of Interest policy http://www.icann.org/committees/coi/coi-policy-04mar99.htm. This document is aimed at conflicts for ICANN Directors and Officers, but should provide guidance for all ICANN leadership positions. If you have had any relationship with an ICANN accredited registry or registrar (other than registering a domain name) or any organization that has been in dispute with ICANN, please describe that relationship here. Conflicts of interest are not necessarily disqualifying, since we anticipate that many experienced people may have such relationships. -- END -- PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL RESPONSES WILL BE PUBLIC AND WILL BE POSTED FOR REVIEW ON THE ALAC WEB SITE AND THE NA-RALO MAILING LISTS AS APPROPRIATE. Please let me know if you have any questions. Bret Fausett Interim Chair, North American RALO General Assembly Member, WEB405, Accredited ALS
Interesting call, consistent with principles that haven't yet been ratified. It hardly seems consistent to open the call before the procedures for their evaluation have been determined. --Wendy Bret Fausett wrote:
CALL FOR STATEMENTS OF INTEREST | NORTH AMERICAN R.A.L.O. IN FORMATION | 18 MAY 2007
Consistent with Paragraph 10 of the Draft Operating Principles ("OP") for the North American RALO in Formation, I am pleased to open the Call for Statements of Interest for persons interested in serving on ICANN's At Large Advisory Committee. Consistent with Paragraph 9 of the OP, the only requirement for service is that a candidate live in the North American region.
This initial call for Statements of Interest is to elect two (2) members of the ALAC. One person will serve a two year term and the other will serve a one year term. The ALAC members will be elected by the voting members of the NARALO, only if and after its members ratify the Operating Principles now out for a vote. Each year hereafter, the NARALO will elect one (1) person.
This Call for Statements of Interest will remain open from today, Friday, 18 May 2007 through and including Friday, 22 June 2007 (11:59 pm HST).
If you are interested in applying, please send an email to Nick Ashton-Hart (nick.ashton-hart (at) icann.org) and to me (bfausett (at) internet.law.pro) with the following information:
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(a) Your name: first name, FAMILY NAME (in capital letters)
(b) Your e-mail address.
(c) Your telephone number(s) and/or Skype/Yahoo!/Mac or other VOIP or Audio Chat ID.
(d) Your country of citizenship. If you hold multiple citizenships please state all.
(e) Your city and country of residence and your preferred mailing address.
(f) Education and professional background. Summarize your educational background, such as degrees achieved and the university(s) where you studied, and the three most recent places of employment and positions held.
(g) Internet Involvement and Interest in ICANN. Help us understand the skills and experience you would bring to the ALAC and how you would help the ALAC achieve its mission.
(h) Conflicts of Interest. Please refer to the ICANN Conflicts of Interest policy http://www.icann.org/committees/coi/coi-policy-04mar99.htm. This document is aimed at conflicts for ICANN Directors and Officers, but should provide guidance for all ICANN leadership positions. If you have had any relationship with an ICANN accredited registry or registrar (other than registering a domain name) or any organization that has been in dispute with ICANN, please describe that relationship here. Conflicts of interest are not necessarily disqualifying, since we anticipate that many experienced people may have such relationships.
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PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL RESPONSES WILL BE PUBLIC AND WILL BE POSTED FOR REVIEW ON THE ALAC WEB SITE AND THE NA-RALO MAILING LISTS AS APPROPRIATE.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Bret Fausett Interim Chair, North American RALO General Assembly Member, WEB405, Accredited ALS
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-- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/
Dear Colleagues, As you may recall, when we were creating the NARALO, we agreed that we would select our ALAC members by a rough consensus process (as described in Para. 12 of the Operating Procedures, http:// www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_OP). This year, we will be selecting two ALAC members, one for a two-year term and the other for a one-year term. As Interim Chair, I would like to describe what I see as the path forward on this consensus process. (a) If we have only one candidate, I propose that we seek consensus around seating that candidate for the two-year term. We will then engage in a series of arm-twisting exercises to see if we can coerce someone to serve for the one-year term. (b) If we have exactly two candidates, I would ask the candidates themselves to see if they can agree on who will serve the one-year term and who will serve the two-year term. If they can agree, then we will seek consensus around seating them both for their agreed terms. (c) In the event that two candidates cannot agree on term lengths *or* if we have more than two candidates, then I would ask all of the candidates to speak to the NARALO General Assembly, both in person in San Juan and by email on the NA-Discuss list, about their vision, commitment, expectations, experience, et al., and then, after some appropriate amount of time, the length of which we should discuss, I would like to call for an anonymous straw poll (anonymous, but verifiable by the Chair and Staff) to gauge the support for each. If the results of the straw poll suggest that there are two obvious choices, I will share the results with the candidates privately and see if they can agree on who should sit for which terms and who should stand down. If they can agree, then we will have a public ratification vote, or "hum," to make the results official. If they cannot agree, then we will continue the discussion and, after some appropriate time to be agreed by all, we will call for a public vote. (d) While it would be nice to seat two candidates while in San Juan, this is an aspirational goal, not a fixed deadline. We should take whatever time is necessary to ensure that we have rough consensus around the process itself. As long as we have new ALAC members seated by the Los Angeles meeting in October, we should consider ourselves "on track." * * * * * After the ALAC election is complete, we will call for formal election of a permanent Chair for the General Assembly. -- Bret
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