Jeanette Hofmann ha scritto:
Congratulations to your (re-)elections!
I have one question to Vittorio. If you don't run again, does that mean you will be the board liaison for a few months only? And if so, is this a good idea to exchange the board liaison so quickly?
No, ALAC liaisons are not bound to be members of the ALAC (we already did this for Bret Fausett, who served as ALAC GNSO liaison for two years without being a member), so my term ends in December 2007 even if I am going not to be a member of ALAC anymore after March 2007. By the way, the Board liaison at ICANN meetings has to follow the Board's schedule, which very often conflicts with the ALAC schedule; so when Roberto was both Board liaison and ALAC member, very often the ALAC was missing a member from its meetings, with all the consequent problems with quorums, inclusion etc. Yesterday, for example, we had to physically go and grab Roberto from a Board meeting to allow him to cast a vote for the ALAC positions, which he had to do without having had the chance to follow the discussion in the earlier part of the meeting. Given all of this, we thought that there would actually be an advantage in having a Board liaison that, while being on ALAC lists and following as many ALAC meetings as possible, is not an ALAC member and thus will not create so many problems whenever having to be away. -- vb. [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<----- http://bertola.eu.org/ <- Prima o poi...