December Report 2018
December was pretty quiet due to end of year holidays globally. The December activities focused mainly on the updates of the EURALO Hot Topics documents from 2017 to December 2018.
A. The EURALO Task Force on ALS Engagement, Thursday, 13 December 2018
Follow up on discussions on the Task force on ALS Engagement can be perused via this link.
The text below was an email sent by the EURALO Chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) to the EURALO community members, about EURALO Hot Topics:
The EURALO Task Force on ALS Engagement has held a call on Thursday (see: https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/aTlKBg)
We briefly discussed the EURALO Hot Topics document which needs to be updated. A few days ago I emailed each EURALO ALS representative on record individually to get input. This is a reminder that we need more input on these hot topics.
Starting from the 2017 Hot Topics, the EURALO list of 2018 Hot Topics is on https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vvZoMJL2AcG2bK5vp-bxi6gr3uE8OJULdtpA3WbL32s/edit?usp=sharing
In your opinion, which of the 2017 topics would be worth keeping in EURALO’s focus in the coming year? What new topics would you like to add to the list? The current changes on the document reflect the discussions we had on today's call. We aim to conclude this exercise by January 2019.
B. Financial Year 2020 (FY20) Additional Budget Request (ABR)
The text below was an email sent by the EURALO Secretary, Wale Bakare (WB) on behalf of EURALO Finance and Budget Sub-Committee (FBSC) Representatives to the EURALO community members, on the EURALO proposed projects request:
Following the announcement for the Financial Year 2020 ( FY20) Additional Budget Request (ABR) to support At-Large community activities.
As part of the process, each RALO has been asked to submit their ABR-Y20 requests for funding. The EURALO Chair, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond has suggested to the 2018-2019 ALAC Finance and Budget Sub-Committee (FBSC) members from our RALO to expedite action on the proposals to be submitted to At-Large staff, on or before the deadline of 4th January 2019. However, EURALO had four proposals submitted for the ABRY19, unfortunately, none of the proposals was granted.
EURALO Chair and FBSC are now reviewing, trying to amend (with proposers) and to re-submit three of the proposals for consideration for the ABR-Y20.
The proposals are listed below:
1. Diversity in ICANN Leadership Bodies
2. Internet-of-Things (IoT) and the Increasing Governance Challenge Ahead IGF 2019 Workshop
3. Support participation of individual users in EURALO
As the amendments of the proposal have completed, the EURALO FBSC representatives kindly invite the EURALO members to read and comment on the proposal. The deadline for submission of these proposals is near, comments open today and close on 1200 UTC, 3rd January 2019.
C. Action Items
1. Roberto Gaetano to include some wording to the EURALO Hot topics doodle doc on Universal Acceptance.
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4. Wale Bakare to continue discussions on FY20 Euralo proposals via mailing list.
November Report
EURALO- CENTR MOU Update
EURALO Chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) communicated to the EURALO members by email that on Tuesday 13th November 2018, the Chair of the Board of Directors of CENTR, the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries and representative for DENIC Jörg Schweiger, will be co-signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with him for the purpose of collaboration between EURALO and CENTR.
OCL elaborates that the collaboration between CENTR and EURALO will be based on a mutual agreement listed as follow:
1) Regularly updating each other on areas and activities of mutual interest;
2) Encouraging awareness of each other’s activities and mission among their respective members;
3) Promoting Internet development in the European region by encouraging participation in fora relating to Internet standards, policy development, and Internet governance;
4) Promoting an open, bottom-up, multistakeholder Internet governance model;
5) Raising awareness about the DNS and its importance in maintaining an open Internet;
6) Collaborating on joint capacity-building events and related activities of mutual interest, including meetings, training courses, projects and workshops in the areas of Internet policy and Internet governance.
EURALO Activities at Global Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Paris 2018, France
EURALO signing MoU with CENTR at IGF Paris
The text below was an email sent by the EURALO Chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) to the EURALO community, on the signing ceremony of the MOU between the EURALO and CENTR at the 2018 IGF in Paris.
"I am very pleased to sign this Memorandum with CENTR on behalf of EURALO. The aim of EURALO, as defined by our community, is to have at least one At-Large Structure in every country of our region. Collaborating with CENTR will reinforce the multistakeholder model that has already generated great opportunities, starting with National and Regional IGFs. Thanks to CENTR for considering this collaboration and to AFNIC for proposing that we sign this document at the IGF in Paris."
More info and pictures on https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EURALO/pages/105527601/2018+MOU+EURALO+-+CENTR
EURALO Call 20 November, 19 UTC
EURALO Chair (OCL) talked briefly of previous action items and then asked members if the agenda is OK or for any additions.
EURALO meeting discussion was largely dominated by the following action items.
Action items
Annette Mühlberg to report on the status of the topic Framework of interpretation at the next EURALO monthly call. Olivier Crepin-Leblond and EURALO members to organize a Webinar on the topic. This was again renewed as an item to be confirmed pending progress from the work of the Cross Community Working Party on Human Rights.
Olivier Crepin-Leblond to send the 2017 Hot Topics Draft to the EURALO ALS Engagement Task Force with the task to get a copy of the other RALOs Hot topic surveys and adjust it to EURALO's needs.
https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EURALO/EURALO+Hot+Topics+2018
EURALO’s By-Laws Task Force to follow up on the relevant action items of the EURALO GA, such as analyzing the pros/cons of including a Treasurer in the new By-Laws. EURALO By-Laws Task Force examines the advantages, constraints, and costs of having a postal and/or physical address in Switzerland, including mailboxes. Postal address http://www.maildrop.ch and for a physical address: https://myswissmailaddress.com/en
Yesim Nazlar to add Joanna Kulesza to the EURALO By-Laws Task Force and membership table.
Silvia Vivanco to add the Links to the Macron speech (FR and EN) to be added to the IGF 2018 Paris wiki page.
Olivier Crepin-Leblond to include a report on FY 20 Budget Request from the EURALO representatives to the FBSC in the Agenda of the Next EURALO monthly call.
Olivier Crepin-Leblond to send the link with the announcement https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-11-19-en of the "The Eastern European DNS Forum Comes to Moscow" to EURALO's mailing list.
Appointments
ALAC Subcommittee on Finance and Budget (FBSC)
EURALO Chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (as an FBSC participant), Bastiaan Goslings and Wale Bakare were selected to continue as members representing EURALO on the ALAC Subcommittee on Finance and Budget (FSBC) 2018 - 2019. https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/atlarge/pages/99687730/ALAC+Subcommittee+on+Finance+and+Budget
ALAC Appointee Selection Committee (AASC) for ALAC Fellowship Program Mentor. Nenad Marinkovic was confirmed to continue as EURALO member on the ALAC Appointee Selection Committee (AASC) 2018 - 2019. https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/atlarge/pages/99705818/ALAC+Subcommittee+on+Appointee+Selection
EURALO October Report
A. EURALO October Call 09/10/2018
The October call focused mainly on the review of different calls for the upcoming public comment of Working Groups (WGs). EURALO Chair, Olivier Crépin-Leblond (OCL) urged EURALO members to participate in the different WGs.
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Alexandra Kulikova (AK), Head of Global Stakeholder Engagement for Eastern and Central Europe commented that she attended some regional events where she meets EURALO members. She also mentioned one key challenge - geographical issue. She then mentioned the next Russia IGF 2019 meeting in June/July where she would like to meet some of the ALSes.
https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EURALO
C. CENTR-EURALO MoU signing
EURALO Chair, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond (OCL) email to the members on the CENTR-MOU update: OCL said that he has sent a version of the MoU with further amendments proposed by the EURALO Board, but it looks like CENTRare ready to sign during the IGF week in Paris. Three options for a signing ceremony were explored, including signing at an event organized by AFNIC/.FR. The choice of ceremony depends primarily on CENTR & AFNIC.
EURALO September 2018 Report
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CROP: EURALO Outreach Strategic Plan
In his email to the EURALO Board, EURALO Chair, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond (OCL) - advised that the CROP Financial Year 18 process has been completed and opened the CROP Financial Year 19 process.
That was followed with the draft of EURALO Outreach Strategic Plan by the EURALO Board members as well as the ALS engagement Task Force, it is available on:
https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/display/CROP19/EURALO+Outreach+Strategic+Plan
EURALO August Report 2018
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OCL to contact RALO co-chairs (once selected) of the ALAC outreach & engagement (O &E) working group, who will be working on their respective O&E plans. https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/display/CROP19/NARALO+Outreach+Strategic+Plan
3.CROP Review Team
CROP Review Team and CROP Program Coordinator discussion: The CROP Review Team (CROP RT) will be constituted to review the CROP application and CROP PC will be retired soon. https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/display/CROP19/CROP+Contacts
Heidi Ullrich (HU) said - if there is no Public Meeting or official ICANN meeting occurring in that RALO’s region in that FY, a meeting in that region that is assessed by the relevant regional Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) regional vice-president as being: (i) directly and demonstrably related to ongoing ICANN policy, advisory or technical activities (e.g. a Regional Internet Registry meeting), and (ii) consistent with the ICANN Organization’s outreach plan for that region.
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1.EuroDIG 2018: June 2- 6 2018 in Tbilisi, Georgia
The three EURALO CROP travellers to EuroDIG 2018 are Clement Genty, Oksana Prykhodko, and Andrei Kolesnikov. The CROP travelers’ reports are on https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/soaceoutreach/pages/116792157/EURALO+Trip+Assessment+3+DRAFT
The EURALO members present at EuroDIG, Tbilisi, had a photograph with the ICANN President & CEO Göran Marby. Details on EURALO-ICANN AtLarge Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/EURALO/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
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The EURALO has conducted several webinars to address different angles of GDPR, as well as At-Large.
- The At-Large Capacity Building webinar held on 2018-01-24. Topic: "Data Protection - What do you need to know as End-Users about GDPR”. The webinar record on
https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/x/wgW8B6urvBQ
The webinar included presentations from Chuck Gomes and Thomas Rickert, they explained GDPR and how it relates to end users.
- The EURALO webinar on General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) held on 2018-02-19. Link to the recorded webinar on https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/JTdKBg
The webinar had Thomas Rickert, Pierre Bonis, Michele Neylon and Athina Fragkouli explained to us how their organization worked towards GDPR *implementation*.
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Following a discussion of the members of the EURALO Board, the following individuals, having applied for funding, have been selected to receive CROP Travel Funding:
- Clément Genty
- Andrei Kolesnikov
- Oksana Prykhodko.
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