[lac-discuss-es] CALL FOR COMMENTS: At-Large Review Working Party Draft Charter

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Subject: [lac-discuss-es] CALL FOR COMMENTS: At-Large Review Working Party Draft Charter
From: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:43:25 +0000

Dear All,

The At-Large Review Working Party is calling for comments across the At-Large
Community for its Draft Charter: https://community.icann.org/x/CcRYAw. To
provide your input, please log in to Confluence wiki and submit it on that page
using the comment function by December 9, 2015 at 23:59 UTC. See the At-Large
Review background information below.

ICANN Bylaws require independent reviews of its organisationsal effectiveness
to reinforce its various accountability mechanisms to the community. The first
review of the At-Large Advisory Committee
(ALAC)<https://community.icann.org/x/NxAnAw> was held from 2008 to 2012. The
focus of that review was on ALAC itself because the Regional At-Large
Organisations (RALOs) and their At-Large Structures (ALSs) were newly
established and it would have been inappropriate to review them at that time.

The current At-Large Review<https://community.icann.org/x/Y5MQAw> is underway.
The focus of this Review is to examine organizational effectiveness of the
At-Large community, with the focus on the five RALOs and the nearly 200 ALSs.
This review is scheduled to begin approximately in April 2016 and be carried
out by an Independent Examiner. Involvement of the At-Large community as well
as input and participation from the broader community are important components
of this review process.

As discussed in ALAC Meetings, the Organizational Effectiveness Committee of
the
Board<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/organizational-effectiveness-committee-2014-03-21-en>
has requested that an At-Large Review Working
Party<https://community.icann.org/x/aZMQAw> be assembled to function as a
liaison between the ALAC/At-Large community, the Independent Examiner and the
Organizational Effectiveness Committee of the Board to provide input on review
criteria and the At-Large assessment, coordinate interviews and objectively
supply clarification and responses to the preliminary findings and
recommendations. Once a final report is issued and the Board takes action on
it, as appropriate, the At-Large Working Party is expected to coordinate with
the At-Large community to prepare an Implementation Plan and champion
implementation of improvement activities.

The draft charter of the At-Large Review Working Party was reviewed in its
teleconference on November 23, 2015<https://community.icann.org/x/kcJYAw>. The
draft charter is now open for comments from RALO members. You may download and
review the draft charter from this wiki page:
https://community.icann.org/x/CcRYAw. To provide your input, please log in to
Confluence wiki and submit it on that page using the comment function by
December 9, 2015 at 23:59 UTC. If you don't have a login or have other issue
using the wiki, kindly contact
staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

Regards,

Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine
and Terri Agnew
ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC
E-mail: staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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