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In recent years, the ICANN Board's capacity to process advice from the ACs has been strained by the volume of inputs demanding the board's attention. At [[ICANN 73]] the ACs registered disappointment that their advice was not receiving due attention. At the joint meeting of the GAC and the board, [[Jorge Cancio]] noted that some of that could be attributed to the timeframe in which advice is received:

In recent years, the ICANN Board's capacity to process advice from the ACs has been strained by the volume of inputs demanding the board's attention. At [[ICANN 73]] the ACs registered disappointment that their advice was not receiving due attention. At the joint meeting of the GAC and the board, [[Jorge Cancio]] noted that some of that could be attributed to the timeframe in which advice is received:

<blockquote>The idea of a question, at least in my eyes, is when is the input from the GAC or from any other advisory committee, most opportune. Most efficient because if -- when it comes after the recommendations are finalized by the GNSO, for instance, and the decision is already before the Board, and the GAC or ALAC or some other advisory committee issues an advice on those recommendations, which would, for example, imply that some of the recommendations are adapted, if the Board's role in your understanding is not to change those recommendations, it's not possible to say okay, recommendation 6 says we will do A, B and C but ALAC and GAC say that we should also do D, so we ask the Board to decide that the final recommendation has to be A, B, C and D. If that is not your role, then this calls a little bit into question what is the affectivity, the efficiency of such advice, that moment this time.<ref>[https://73.schedule.icann.org/meetings/zEse3bALxXMxoi2rz ICANN 73 Archive - Joint Session: ICANN Board and GAC], March 9, 2022 (registration/login required)</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>The idea of a question, at least in my eyes, is when is the input from the GAC or from any other advisory committee, most opportune. Most efficient because if -- when it comes after the recommendations are finalized by the GNSO, for instance, and the decision is already before the Board, and the GAC or ALAC or some other advisory committee issues an advice on those recommendations, which would, for example, imply that some of the recommendations are adapted, if the Board's role in your understanding is not to change those recommendations, it's not possible to say okay, recommendation 6 says we will do A, B and C but ALAC and GAC say that we should also do D, so we ask the Board to decide that the final recommendation has to be A, B, C and D. If that is not your role, then this calls a little bit into question what is the affectivity, the efficiency of such advice, that moment this time.<ref>[https://73.schedule.icann.org/meetings/zEse3bALxXMxoi2rz ICANN 73 Archive - Joint Session: ICANN Board and GAC], March 9, 2022 (registration/login required)</ref></blockquote>

===Pending Action on Advice===

===Pending Action on Advice===

As of March 2022, the ICANN Board was moving 151 advice documents through its process. Thirty-one advice documents had been closed within the twelve month period ending in March 2022.<ref>[https://features.icann.org/board-advice ICANN.org - Board Advice Dashboard]</ref>

As of March 2022, the ICANN Board was moving 151 advisory statements through its process. Thirty-one advisories had been closed within the twelve month period ending in March 2022.<ref name="dash">https://features.icann.org/board-advice ICANN.org - Board Advice Dashboard]</ref> However, the method of counting advice in the ARR creates a challenge in understanding the volume of advice received. As an example, the ICANN website currently lists 53 advice submissions from the [[ALAC]] in processing stages.<ref name="dash" /> A closer look at those submissions reveals that 40 of the listed advisories are specific components of the ALAC's advice regarding the [[SUBPRO]] final report.<ref>[https://features.icann.org/board-advice/alac ICANN.org - Board Advice Dashboard: ALAC Advice]</ref> Each recommendation contained with the ALAC advice is individually listed for tracking purposes. The table below treats each piece of advice submitted to the board as one whole, rather than multiple constituent parts.

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