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• We have had a global email list for all members of At-Large since late 2006;
• We have had simultaneous interpretation at meetings since late 2006, and also on many teleconferences since early 2007 – though this has proven to be quite complicated and does not always work well. ICANN has done what it could to start making documents available in translated editions, beginning in late 2006 – though far more is required to ensure proper and effective participation;
• Devolution of decision-making on substance has been in the process of implementation through several mechanisms, including via working groups, since the last RALO was formed in June 2007;
• The ALAC itself established Rules of Procedure in detail – including in relation to establishing working groups, subcommittees, and the like – in October 2007, the RALOs having done so earlier;
• We developed a completely transformed and very open mechanism for applications to join At-Large which included the involvement of the RALOs in depth, and transmitted those changes to the Board for approval and recognition some months ago;
• Our new website, at http://www.atlarge.icann.org^{Image Removed}, has just gone live; while it is still being configured and a new menuing system and new content is being added, it incorporates from what we can tell all the improvements which are proposed in relation to the GNSO’s websites;
• We have under preparation a membership database system for keeping track of community members (which we hope to see brought online as soon as possible);
• We are in the process of developing an Accountability Framework for members of the At-Large Advisory Committee, which upon completion will be used as the basis for similar frameworks for the RALOs.

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The ALAC has joined with others in supporting the Joint Proposal from the User Community for GNSO Council Structural Change. The objective of this statement is to set at a high-level the principles and basic tripartite structure of the GNSO which we believe that the Board of Directors should endorse. The Joint Proposal clearly states that if the Board does accept this basic structure, the relevant communities will then need to decide how to organise their engagement within the three groupings that the Joint Proposal endorses.

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Since as mentioned the At-Large community has been actively engaged in developing and implementing new approaches to a working group modality for policy development, some of the experiences we have had in that process may prove salutary. We have created a report of our efforts in this regard over the past year, and contrasted them with the GNSO Improvements recommendations , in hopes that this may prove useful. It may be found at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?al_alac_od_wg_0308_2^{Image Removed}

These are just a few of the obvious issues that occurred to us. Resolving them is integral to designing an overall solution at the GNSO Council level.

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