I think Nick is right is trying to move forward with this. So: With this e-mail, I wish to notify the European RALO community that I am willing to serve as a member of the At-Large Advisory Committee representing the European region. If chosen, I leave it up to the consensus or election process to decide if my term would be either the ICANN AGM 2008 or 2009. Many of you know that I have been involved for a long time in ICANN and other Internet related processes, ranging from the IETF to WSIS/IGF. My educational and professional background is in computing and networking. Despite some suggestions to the contrary, the opinions of individual Internet users matter a lot to me. Which is why I have been actively involved for years in my ALS, an ISOC chapter made of only private individuals and SMEs. According to the process we agreed on, all nominations should be seconded to be taken into consideration. In the hope it would make the process fully transparent, I have not seeked any prior support for this nomination, or entered into any off-list arrangement. I would therefore be very grateful if someone would support this nomination. Best regards, Patrick Vande Walle Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
Dear All:
May I suggest that rather than continuing to discuss the dates for nominations, it would be sensible to start the process of nominating candidates? I am away from 10th to 24th April but Susie will be here and can keep the Nominations Wiki page up to date.
In putting forward candidates, please remember:
We need at least five (5) board members - and whilst many can be nominees from the same country, only one from each country could be elected with respect to those first five. We need two ALAC members - from different countries and different ALSes - though again multiple candidates from the same country are entirely possible.
Please remember that whatever timeline is ultimately decided, it is important that the ALAC members, at least, are elected early May at the latest, as at least one, if not both, will need to attend the ICANN Meeting in San Juan and they need time to arrange for time away, to get tickets purchased, and to get up-to-speed on what is going on in ALAC to most effectively represent the region.
I hope this meets with everyone's favour.
-- Patrick Vande Walle Check my blog at http://patrick.vande-walle.eu Jabber me at patrick@vande-walle.eu