December 2017
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The new EURALO Board's call which, was chronicled with the proposal made by Jean-Jacques Subrenat (JJS) sometime last year, 2016, assigning specific responsibilities to individual Board members. The proposal met with a quick objection from EURALO members (two) - Yrjö Länsipuro suggested that we need to balance the European geographic region with the Board members, so going with assigning responsibility to individual Board members may not be an optimal idea. The point raised by YL was supported by another member present on the call.
Wale Bakare (BW) commented that, rather than outright discarding the proposal balancing the Board composition with the EURALO responsibilities still achievable and making board active at the same time, regardless of the number of people that would constitute the board.
At that end, JJS said he is dropping the proposal, that is, further talks have been discontinued.
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The size of the EURALO Board will be 5 members, plus ex-officio, the EURALO Chair, and EURALO Secretary;2. There should be a maximum limit of 1 Board member per country; 3. Each EURALO At-Large Structure will be given 5 votes that they will need to cast on 5 people;4. As is the usual custom in votes involving people, votes will take place by secret ballot;5. The Board will be selected for a two-years-term, and as a novelty: not performing Board members can be recalled after one year to allow to be replaced by better candidates.
In addition, Erich Schweighofer (ES) also in support of the rules and suggested should not be changed during elections but the topic needs better solutions than now.
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Rank | Options ID | Options | Votes | % |
1 | 15918232 | Annette Mühlberg (Germany) | 20 | 76.92 |
2 | 15918234 | Erich Schweighofer (Austria) | 19 | 73.08 |
2 | 15918239 | Yrjö Länsipuro (Finland) | 19 | 73.08 |
4 | 15918237 | Roberto Gaetano (Italy) | 14 | 53.85 |
5 | 15918235 | Jean-Jacques Subrenat (France) | 11 | 42.31 |
6 | 15918233 | Clément Genty (France) | 4 | 15.38 |
7 | 15918236 | Matthias Markus Hudobnik (Austria) | 2 | 7.69 |
The The results can also be viewed as curated here https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=378068yjpk6XHiExmScj7gA5yS
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There were various, parallel activities that took place including sessions for multistakeholder discussion of policy dialogue on issues – Artificial Intelligence, DNS and Emerging Identifiers, Internet-of-Things (IoT) etc. Also, At-Large Outreach and Engagement, Workshops, individual internet end users at the ICANN and At-Large booths. As reported at the At-Large IGF Geneva matrix Wiki page https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sIeZecgH7LeyUuPmT4Vo7Z5NoXePhfpnW9O4d0rqu_w/edit# there were 109+ internet end users interested in joining At-Large, at their various RALOs. However, there are 21 individual end users who signified interests in joining our regional At-Large; EURALO. Also, pictures of At-Large members taken during sessions, at booths, dinner, workshops can be viewed at https://www.flickr.com/photos/glennmcknight/albums/72157688188242422
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EURALO’s October 2017 Secretariat report is focused majorly on the events that took place at ICANN60 meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) between 28 October and 3rd November 2017. One of such is the European At-Large Organization Organization (EURALO) - Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE) Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony. Also, discussion about the preparation for the upcoming regional's internet related policy discussions; the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum (IGF) which will take place in Geneva, Switzerland between 18 - 22 December 2017.
*EURALO - RIPE MoU Signing Ceremony at ICANN60 Meeting, Abu Dhabi, 1st November 2017
According to the EURALO Chair, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond said, in his email to the EURALO members:
Wednesday 1st November 2017 was a historical day as EURALO signed a cooperation agreement (MoU) with Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE), the Regional Internet Registry...
This will allow for more cooperation between the RIPE community focusing on allocation of IP addresses, and the region's At-Large Community. At this stage we are opening the door to making European users more aware of the work that RIPE does, whilst opening a channel for end user feedback to RIPE.
I thanked the people and At-Large Structures that were physically present at the 29 March 2007 signing of the EURALO MoU with ICANN. That was the very beginning of our region's coordination.
But one person in particular deserves our strongest appreciation and thanks, and that's Wolf Ludwig. He held EURALO together for so many years. He did all of the groundwork, with colleagues in the region, to make sure EURALO was a Founding Partner of EuroDIG, in effect, the European IGF. He constantly made EURALO significant on so many levels, both inside ICANN and in outside Internet Governance circles. Wolf is a key architect of this organisation.
On a personal note Wolf is also one of my mentors at ICANN. When I initially got involved at ICANN, Wolf suggested that I'd be EURALO's IPv6 "expert" - and that step was the first step into all of the different positions that I held in this organisation and his welcoming attitude allowed me to have all the wonderful experiences that I have lived so far in this amazing organisation.
The signing ceremony was followed by photographs and some can be viewed here RIPE - EURALO MOU
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Axel Pawlik, Managing Director, RIPE NCC and Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of EURALO sign the RIPE - EURALO MOU. (see this page for all details)
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