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AL.ALAC/ST.0709/3.Rev1
ORIGINAL: English
DATE: 10th August 2009
STATUS: FINAL
Introductory Text
By the Staff of ICANN
The following text was drafted by the At-Large staff with contents as requested by the At-Large Executive Committee, as a reply to the public consultation “Proposals for the Systematization of Organisational Reviews” to be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#review-processes.
The last paragraph was drafted by the Staff as requested by the Chair of ALAC on 3rd August 2009 in order to allow the Statement to apply equally to the consultation that followed that above-referenced, to be found at http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#review-cycles.
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Statement of the ALAC to the Public Consultations on Proposals for Systematization of Organizational Review Processes, and Bylaw Amendment Related to Organisational Review Cycles
Whilst the ALAC has not been able to review these proposals in depth due to the volume of public consultations currently underway, we wish to make the following points.
The entire current structure of independent reviews should be rethought, as it is increasingly clear that having multiple reviews conducted and implemented independently of one another is multiplying the complexity of the entire process, and does not sufficiently take into account the growing interdependencies between the different component parts of ICANN.
Accordingly, is our view that the Bylaw amendment proposed is not the right approach. It simply continues the present paradigm when what is needed is a more fundamental rethink.