Dear all: Apologies for the duplicates you will receive, but it has been requested that all emails about Lisbon follow-up should go to both lists. To recap: * the meetings in Lisbon were successful! The EURALO has been brought into existence at last! * an MoU was agreed and was signed by ICANN and by 10 ALSes. It has been posted for public comment, as have all MoUs, and that notice can be seen at: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-3-30mar07.htm * Bylaws and a procedure for electing the initial EURALO board and ALAC reps were also agreed in Lisbon. Whilst the dates have been the subject of a good deal of debate, the Lisbon agreed procedure has not been criticised which is of course very positive. This can be found at: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?nominations_2007 * Any ALS that wishes to digitally sign the MoU can do so until the end of the public comment period on 20th April by sending the text at the bottom of this email to me, copied to the discuss list at euro-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org. Obviously, I'm sure those who signed would prefer that all ALSes join them. * Any ALS who does NOT wish to sign is still automatically a member of the EURALO. See Section 3 of the MoU, at https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi/european-ralo-mou-en-FINAL.pdf?action=... * If the EURALO CHOSE to do so, it COULD decide to limit some - but definitely not all - of the rights of the ALSes who do NOT agree to be bound by the MoU. Please see the MoU, Section 6, Clause 4, at the above link. IF such limitations were to be proposed, those ALSes who have signed the MoU would almost certainly have the right to vote on that PARTICULAR measure, and those which have not signed or agreed to be bound would almost certainly NOT have the right to vote on that PARTICULAR proposal. However: * At the present time, NO LIMITATIONS ON NON-SIGNING ALSes HAVE BEEN PROPOSED OR AGREED. Therefore, ALL ALSes IN EUROPE HAVE FULL RIGHTS TO PARTICIPATE IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE EURALO. There has been some question about this raised in previous emails. I hope this reinforces that there is nothing to worry about. * Discussion on voting and nominations is now open on the euro-discuss list. TEXT TO SEND TO DIGITALLY SIGN THE MOU (please fill in the bracketed sections as relevant]: --- I hereby consent for the [ALS name here] to be bound by the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the Signing Organisations in the European Region as if I were personally signing the document. [Name] [Title / Position] [Date] --- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart