ICANN participation

Dear AtLarge, here is my first few para for the Second part of our response
to the Board
Governance Working Group Report on AtLarge Review.
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On Effectiveness and participation
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*4. Educating and engaging the ALSs should be an immediate priority;
compliance should be a longer term goal.
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We agree that there is a good room to improve the participation of ALSs in
our RALO and AtLarge activities. For that reason, we have been working very
hard to organize the Summit – a global meeting of all ALSs to come to one
place together.

We also note that it is very important for us to continue our outreach work
to recruit more new ALSs, and also explore ways to setup a mechanism where
individuals who have keen interest in ICANN policy areas while she or he may
not have strong interest in joining any of the existing ALSs with good
reasons.

To achieve these, we hope that ICANN continue to provide sufficient
resources.

*5. ALAC should develop strategic and operational plans (including
performance criteria and cost information) as part of ICANN's planning
process
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We agree that it is worth to consider developing Strategic and Operational
Plans as suggested in WG Report. We like to work out the specific details in
coming months. We also note and support that in the Independent Review
Report, there were two recommendations

*6. More effort needs to be put into developing accurate cost models for At
Large activity
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Together with the Recommendation 4 of the Independent Review Report "ICANN
should implement on activity-based costing system", we support the idea of
having cost model based on AtLarge activities. In fact, we advocate more
transparency than current budget information on AtLarge activities. We also
like to see clear distinction be made between specific AtLarge related costs
and general ICANN out reach activity costs which benefits all ICANN
constituencies, not specific to AtLarge.

We also agree with the comments of WG Report on the Recommendation 5 of the
Independent Review Report - while we need sufficient resource support to
ALAC activities, we like specific ways on how to allocate the budget be left
to the consultation and negotiation between ALAC Chair and ICANN staff.

[Comments on Points 7 to 9 will come later]
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