Question:

Alan, you stated that “I think that for a NARALO to have a chance of succeeding, there needs to be more US-based ALSs in existence and participating in the RALO creation process.”  Why, specifically, US-based ALSs for a chance of succeeding?

Also, I definitely agree with Michael Maranda’s opinions.  We are not trying to create some complicated structure as I understand has been done in the past – just attempting to form up under the processes that are in place at this time..  Personally, I thought that it would be important for the Canadian ALSs and US ALSs to get together since some of our US counterparts have more experience in this group than some of the newer ones coming in from Canada.  There would be valuable information to share and, perhaps, give us better focus in order to be more effective.  Also, I never really saw the Vancouver meeting as being the definitive meeting to create the NA RALO but more of a preliminary one to bring everybody up to speed.

I guess those south of the border don’t see this as being important, though.  Its rather a shame.

Darlene

Darlene A. Thompson

Community Access Program Administrator

Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP

P.O. Box 429

Pond Inlet, NU  X0A 0S0

Phone:  (867) 899-7363

Fax:  (867) 899-7334

dthompson@gov.nu.ca

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From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Alan Greenberg
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 6:43 PM
To: Luc Faubert; Nick Ashton-Hart; na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Potential Meeting in Vancouver

I was offline most of last week, and am just starting to catch up.

My position was not quite as you stated. I felt that a NARALO formation meeting was not appropriate at this time. I was quite happy to have the meeting take place with funding from ICANN, but as a meeting primarily aimed at Canadian ALSs.

I think that for a NARALO to have a chance of succeeding, there needs to be more US-based ALSs in existence and participating in the RALO creation process. I agree with John that their should be significant progress made electronically, although I believe that a face-to-face meeting prior to the formal signing would be a good thing. However, having the definitive NARALO formation meeting with so few US ALSs and only one in attendance is both premature and a recipe of failure.

For the record, I could not attend the meeting due to other commitments.

Alan

At 02/02/2007 03:14 PM, Luc Faubert wrote:

Nick,

If I understand well, you're telling us that Wendy Seltzer, John Levine and Alan Greenberg, the North American ALAC reps have decided that a NARALO formation meeting is not a good idea?

Given that their mandate includes -- at least for Wendy and John who have the NA interim seats -- "assist[ing] in the formation and qualification of At-Large Structures and Regional At-Large Organizations (RALOs)" (see "Responsibilities of the Interim ALAC" at http://www.icann.org/committees/alac/ ), I guess I'm missing something here.

I would appreciate explanations from our 3 ALAC reps, as I don't recall them stating their views on this list. I'm sorry if I'm mistaken,