Re: [alac] Selecting Our Successors

[Bret Fausett <bfausett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I think that there are pros and cons with your proposal....

I'm glad the proposal prompted a discussion on these issues. I wanted  
to get it out now because I was aware that Europe and Asia-Pacific  
are moving forward first and they might set some "precedent" for the  
rest of us to follow.

Izumi and Vittorio are correct, of course, that what works for one  
region might not be right for another region. Personally, I share a  
lot of Wendy's skepticism that the layers of structures built into  
the ALAC model dilute the value of participation to the point that  
ALSs might well wonder why they should be involved at all. I'm not  
sure what a "Council" at the RALO level will do, other than elect  
ALAC members and be a conduit for information to and from the ALAC,  
but if the European ALSs think it would be valuable, then we should  
defer to that.

Siavash made the good point that anything we try, whether the  
proposal I floated or the "Council" model, ought to be viewed as  
experimental, and we can change the model if it proves not to work.

         Bret