NARALO Monthly Teleconference
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Date: Monday, 12 August 2013
Time: 19:00 UTC (for the time in various timezones click here)
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How can I participate in this meeting? 1(800)550-6865, Teleconference ID: 1638
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Attendees:
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Alan Greenberg, Murray McKercher, Glenn McKnight, Gordon Chilcott, Garth Bruen, Evan Leibovitch, Darlene Thompson, Eduardo Diaz, Louis Houle, Michael Maranda, Gareth Shearman, Seith Reiss, Bill Thannis, Allan Skuce, Thomas Lowenhaupt, Avri Doria, Joly MacFie
Apologies: Olivier Crépin-Leblond
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Action Items: Action Items 12 August 2013
Transcript: EN
Chat: AC Chat transcript 12 August 2013
Recording:
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A G E N D A
1. Welcome and Roll call - Staff (2 min)
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2.1 NARALO Monthly call 2013.07.16 from Durban
2.2 NARALO Monthly Report - June and July 2013
2.3 NARALO call time will observe DST until its end Sunday 3 November 2013 (See 12.2 for details)
2.4 Staff: On a March 18 2013 ALAC briefing call on RAA changes staff (Margie Milam and Sam Eisner) were asked to identify ICANN's economic advisers and provide the economic study document that was the basis for changes to RAA 3.3.6 and 3.3.7, Will At-Large staff please forward this request again? (This is the fifth call for this information)
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2.6 All Durban NARALO Participants Please Add Meeting Briefs to the At-Large Reports
2.7 Eric Brunner-Williams to Provide analysis of Active and Non-Active ALSes
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2.12 Staff: Please advise on the status of Indigenous Peoples Fellowship Access in North America
2.13 Run-off election for NARALO Secretariat will be held once the Operating Procedures are ratified.
3. Meetings (5 Minutes)
Review of ICANN46 Durban Meeting ICANN47 & At-Large Summit
At-Large Summit II Working Group (ATLAS II)
9.5 ATLAS 2: A call for volunteers to work in a WG that is being assembled
(Was 6.1 The Summit will be at ICANN50 London, England 22-26 June 2014)
(Was 6.2 NARALO GA - Los Angeles)
4. Review of Communication/Outreach Strategy
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4.1 The Chair has created a DRAFT/TEST editable PDF form application based on the existing WORD version. This will eventually be replaced with an online form which is being discussed at the ALAC level. (Garth)
4.3 Fellowship Program to include indigenous populations from NARALO (Open)
4.4 The Chair is in possession of 100 NARALO pamphlets. Once the new PDF form is complete and posted, the Chair will begin issuing contact letters in the format developed by the recruitment sub-committee to be sent to the organizations identified by NARALO at the Toronto session. The Chair has reached out informally to people in his region to have a face-to-face meeting in Boston (TBD). Trying to form and ISOC chapter and recruit local ALSes. (Garth)
4.5 Overview of last ICANN Outreach Call (Murray)
4.6 NARALO Communication Strategy Document: This work is never "done", we will constantly update and improve our communication. Please submit your comments to the Chair or directly into the document.
5. Our Community (10 Minutes)
5.1 ALS Spotlight: Special Discussion This Week Lead By Chris of ISOC Colorado: "Removing Need at RIPE" (5 - 10 Minutes)
5.1.2 Next Spotlight will be KnujOn again with a video to "reset" the cycle. (Garth)
5.1.3 Spotlights to follow will be assigned in alphabetical order, beginning in August. (Darlene)
5.3 Potential De-accreditation of The Alberta Community Network Association (Garth)
5.3.1 Paragraph 16 of our Operating Principles state that: "When an ALS representative does not vote in 3 consecutive NARALO elections or does not contribute a comment on ICANN policy through collaboration on the At-Large discussion lists in 12 consecutive months, it automatically loses its voting rights and active status within the NARALO. The ALS should be notified of the status change and may regain its voting rights and active status if within the next 12 months it votes or participates to online discussions, otherwise the Chair will submit to ALAC a request for de-certification of that ALS."
5.3.2 In reference to this the Chair sent a postal letter to the this ALS and had not received a response.
5.5 Elections, Elections, Elections (Darlene) 2013 NARALO Selection, Election and Appointments Workspace
5.5.1 Status and time-line of election process (Staff/Darlene)
5.5.2 WHAT - Posts are up for election (Darlene)
5.5.3 WHO - Is running for these posts
5.5.4 WHEN - Is the election?
5.8 Disconnect Between "Individual Internet Users" and the reality of ALSe (Garth)
5.8.1 Why unaffiliated Statements of Interest (SOI) are important - Documented Participants v. "Lurkers"
5.8 Adding Officers, Expanding Participation
5.8.1 Vice-Chair. Other regions have Vice-Chairs. The volume of work is expanding, the need for more support within this group is growing. Vice-Chairs are a common requirement for the GA. The Chair will draft language for updating the Operating Principles to be submitted to the region for review. We will follow the ROP and hopefully incorporate this post so it can part of the election this year.
5.8.2. Concept of a "Floating" Funded Post.
5.9 Cross-Ralo Relations (Communication Strategy IV). To review upon completion of ROP changes
5. Our Community (10 Minutes)
5.1 (NEXT TELECONFERENCE) ALS Spotlight: Telecommunities Canada
5.2 Changes to NARALO Operating Procedures (Proposed, for discussion and consensus). See NARALO ROPs WIKI
5.2.1: #7 Removal of the phrase "as long as they fulfill the language requirements" and expansion from "person" to "persons".
5.2.2: #9: Addition of "ALAC Rules of Procedure" to the list /guiding documents for NARALO officers
5.2.3: #11: Changes the requirement for candidacy from "Statement of Interest" submission to "nomination"
5.2.4: #12: Change of language to match change in #11
5.2.5: #13: Dealing with problematic elections (as in no consensus or ties for ALAC elections)
5.2.6: #15: Change "ALSes" to "General Assembly"
5.2.7: #16: Change "vote" to "participation"
5.2.8: #17: (A)Unaffiliated NARALO members Must Submit an Affirmation to At-Large Staff. (B) Failure to meet criteria terminates membership. (C) The unaffiliated individuals will adopt a verifiable process to ensure that their elected representative can reflect the views held among their membership with his/her vote.
5.2.9: #18: Participation to NARALO affairs and discussions implies agreement with the NARALO Code of Conduct.
5.2.10: #19: In the case of a tie in any election for Chair or Secretariat, the decision of who is declared winner will rest on a secret ballot of three people. Those three persons will be selected, from the current occupants of the following positions, in order, excluding any people who are among the tied candidates: the three current ALAC members, the NARALO Chair, the NARALO Secretariat (or representative thereof if the position is filled by more than one person or an organization). Should there not be three persons who meets these requirements, the selection shall be by random choice overseen by At-Large Staff.
5.2.11: #20: All consensus decisions and votes of the General Assembly members shall weight all members equally.
5.2.12: #21: Where these Operating Principles may conflict with the NARALO Rules of Procedure for Meetings or the Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN, these Operating Principles shall prevail.
6. The At-Large Summit & NA GA
See Agenda Item 3 - 6 to be retired in next call
7. New gTLDs
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7.1 May 9th Webinar7.2 Agenda for ICANN new gTLD Pgm Comm meeting in AmsterdamNow what?
8. Committee/Working Group Activity - Future Space for All WG/Committee Reports
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8.1 NOMCOM - Report supplied to list (Glenn)
8.2 A Call for ICANN to Embrace its Inner Regulator (Evan)
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8.3 ATRT ATRT2 Status (Alan)
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8.4 Going forward, the Chair will request all NARALO working group leaders provide updates to the Monthly Reports (Garth)
9. At-Large Advisory Committee "ALAC" Issues (Olivier, Evan, Eduardo, Alan - 10 Minutes)
9.2 ATRT Letter from Jean-Jacques
9.2 Policy Advice Development Page
9.3 Board-Stakeholder Action List
9.4 Comments into the ATRT: Open comment period , Interactive version of the same questions (Alan)
9.4.1 ATRT also welcomes any input relevant to the issues raised in the AoC section
9.4 ICANN Board meeting 18 May 2013 in Amsterdam
9.5 Population of At-Large mailing lists (Alan)
10. ICANN Functions (5 Minutes) (Communication Strategy III.5)
10.1 Compliance Tracking
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10.2 Language and Translation (4 Minutes)
10.2.1: An abstract of the Naralo Monthly Meeting that we could post on our Web site (or RSS it), including some of the documents produced by ICANN, that we discuss and that would be worth translating to attract attention toward NARALO.
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10.2.3: Translations of Registrar/Registry documents in local languages(where the company operates) to avoid consumer disputes.
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10.3 Travel (1 Minutes)
10.3.1 Sponsored NARALO Members should advise the Chair if they had any problems with travel Durban arrangements. Chair has created an ongoing Sub-Report on Travel issues and welcomes comments from the community. Thanks to assistance from Constituency Travel we were able to resolve a number of questionsAll travel-sponsor related issues should be reported or copied to the Chair.
10.3.4 2 Travel Support Guidelines
11. Any Other Business "AOB" (2 Minutes)
11.1 News
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11.2 "At-Large" and "AtLarge" As reserved strings (Tom L.)
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