Dear Stefan: It is important for you to understand that the diversity requirements for ALAC members who are elected are a part of the ICANN Bylaws. They are therefore not optional in any way, shape or form. They require that the minimum diversity requirements are: That the elected ALAC members should be residents or nationals of different countries That they should be members of different ALSes. These requirements are echoed - and additional diversity provisions added to them - in the EURALO Bylaws. I wanted these points to be entirely clear to everyone: there are diversity requirements which are not optional - and as regards the EURALO bylaws and MoU, those requirements cannot be disregarded because one person or another takes a view as to their importance; they have to be respected unless and until they are amended. On 09/05/07, Stefan Hügel <sh@fiff.de> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

there is one remark, I would like to make.

Am 09.05.2007 um 08:20 schrieb Nick Ashton-Hart:

1) As you all know, the diversity requirements for all the officers was an important matter for many ALSes. They are also important to ICANN as a whole, else there would not be a diversity element to the ICANN Bylaws in respect of ALAC members. As a consequence, it is strongly recommended that Ms. Cretu join an ALS which is different from any other ALAC member, or ALAC candidate in this election, as that would clearly enhance the diversity of the ALAC members if she were to be elected. It was clearly not the intent of the diversity provisions that one ALS should have two ALAC members as members; this would not be in keeping with the spirit of these provisions.

I fully agree that we should go for diversity - more, I'd like to stress it. In my opinion, the candidature of Veronica Cretu does not contradict diversity, but enhances it, as she represents groups not represented by the other candidate for ALAC. The more formal aspect of ALS-membership seems a less important point to me in this case.

I appreciate that the open questions to the candidature are clarified now.

Best Stefan

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