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December 2017

A.  November EURALO meeting

The meeting focused on important events and issues such as EURALO - RIPE MOU signing at ICANN60 meeting, call for EURALO Board 2017 - 2019, IGF Geneva 2017. As well, other important subjects were discussed, including the EURALO hot topics. 

The call for EURALO Board members for the term 2017 and 2019 https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/displayspaces/EURALO/pages/105526494/EURALO+Board+2017-2019+Workspace

The new EURALO Board's call which, was chronicled with the proposal made by Jean-Jacques Subrenat (JJS) sometime last year, 2016, assigning specific responsibilities to individual Board members. The proposal met with a quick objection from EURALO members (two) - Yrjö Länsipuro suggested that we need to balance the European geographic region with the Board members, so going with assigning responsibility to individual Board members may not be an optimal idea. The point raised by YL was supported by another member present on the call. 

Wale Bakare (BW) commented that, rather than outright discarding the proposal balancing the Board composition with the EURALO responsibilities still achievable and making board active at the same time, regardless of the number of people that would constitute the board.   At that end, JJS said he is dropping the proposal, that is, further talks have been discontinued. 

WT5 Geographic Names: the WT5 for Geographic-names was raised by Christopher Wilkinson (CW).  Tatiana Tropina (TT) asked why can't the WT5 be included as EURALO Hot-topics. (CW) suggested that as ALAC 'co-lead' would like to know which EURALO members have joined the WT5 and have views about protection and use of geographical names, terms/indications etc. Asked EURALO members to send him an e-mail if interested.

B.  December EURALO Meeting

The December meeting was opened by EURALO Chair, Olivier Crépin-Leblond (OCL). The meeting is reported below in accordance with the confirmed agenda:

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The meeting agenda was followed by the EURALO Board appointments for the term 2017 to 2019 https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/displayspaces/EURALO/pages/105526494/EURALO+Board+2017-2019+Workspace.

The EURALO Chair made a remark regarding point raised by Roberto Gaetano. The issue is of geographical distribution and/or representation of one candidate per country and any incidence on the voting process. That was supported by citing the below rules, by Olivier:

The size of the EURALO Board will be 5 members, plus ex-officio, the EURALO Chair, and EURALO Secretary;2. There should be a maximum limit of 1 Board member per country; 3. Each EURALO At-Large Structure will be given 5 votes that they will need to cast on 5 people;4. As is the usual custom in votes involving people, votes will take place by secret ballot;5. The Board will be selected for a two-years-term, and as a novelty: not performing Board members can be recalled after one year to allow to be replaced by better candidates.

 In addition, Erich Schweighofer (ES) also in support of the rules and suggested should not be changed during elections but the topic needs better solutions than now.

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Subsequently, each candidate vying for the EURALO Board presented their interests to members, according to their listing at Wiki https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/displayspaces/EURALO/pages/105526494/EURALO+Board+2017-2019+Workspace However, it was suggested by the Chair that the future EURALO Board address the procedure for the vote and selection criteria for EURALO Board.

Then updates on the preparation for the IGF 2017 in Geneva were provided and further details can be perused at https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/displayspaces/atlarge/pages/99608668/At-Large+Outreach+activities+at+IGF+2017+Geneva

The report about the At-Large FY19 Additional Budget. EURALO Chair made comment about using the additional budget request for CROP activities, https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/displayspaces/atlarge/pages/99609192/At-Large+FY19+Additional+Budget+Request+Workspace

And lastly, the ICANN Academy 2018 Leadership program report; Olivier said, the selection of EURALO members to the program should be between the newcomer and the old timer. This time is between Bastiaan Goslings (EURALO ALAC member) (BG) and WB (EURALO Secretary).

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The EURALO Board to choose among the two candidates for the Leadership Program.

C.  EURALO Board Election Results

At closes of election on Friday 15 December 2017 23:59 UTC.
Number of voters: 26 · Group size: 36 · Percentage voted: 72.22
Ranked by votes

The  The results can also be viewed as curated here https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=378068yjpk6XHiExmScj7gA5yS 

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They are elected to serve the EURALO Board Members for the period of two years beginning in December 2017.

D.  The 12^th Internet Governance Forum(IGF), Geneva 2017, in Switzerland

The 12^th global Internet Governance Forum (IGF), organized by the United Nations and took place at the United Nations office, Geneva, Switzerland between 18 – 21 December 2017.

There were various, parallel activities that took place including sessions for multistakeholder discussion of policy dialogue on issues – Artificial Intelligence, DNS and Emerging Identifiers, Internet-of-Things (IoT) etc. Also, At-Large Outreach and Engagement, Workshops, individual internet end users at the ICANN and At-Large booths. As reported at the At-Large IGF Geneva matrix Wiki page https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sIeZecgH7LeyUuPmT4Vo7Z5NoXePhfpnW9O4d0rqu_w/edit# there were 109+ internet end users interested in joining At-Large, at their various RALOs. However, there are 21 individual end users who signified interests in joining our regional At-Large; EURALO. Also, pictures of At-Large members taken during sessions, at booths, dinner, workshops can be viewed at https://www.flickr.com/photos/glennmcknight/albums/72157688188242422

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The At-Large at the 2017 IGF – Sights and Sounds https://icann-community.icannatlassian.orgnet/wiki/displayspaces/atlarge/pages/99608923/At-Large+at+the+2017+IGF+-+Sights+and+Sounds

EURALO Brainstorming Session at IGF 2017

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EURALO’s October 2017  Secretariat report is focused majorly on the events that took place at ICANN60 meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) between 28 October and 3rd November 2017.  One of such is the European At-Large Organization Organization (EURALO) - Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE) Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony. Also, discussion about the preparation for the upcoming regional's internet related policy discussions; the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum (IGF) which will take place in Geneva, Switzerland between 18 - 22 December 2017. 

*EURALO - RIPE MoU Signing Ceremony at ICANN60 Meeting, Abu Dhabi,  1st November 2017

 According to the EURALO Chair, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond said, in his email to the EURALO members: 

Wednesday 1st November 2017 was a historical day as EURALO signed a cooperation agreement (MoU) with Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE), the Regional Internet Registry...
This will allow for more cooperation between the RIPE community focusing on allocation of IP addresses, and the region's At-Large Community. At this stage we are opening the door to making European users more aware of the work that RIPE does, whilst opening a channel for end user feedback to RIPE. 

I thanked the people and At-Large Structures that were physically present at the 29 March 2007 signing of the EURALO MoU with ICANN. That was the very beginning of our region's coordination.

But one person in particular deserves our strongest appreciation and thanks, and that's Wolf Ludwig. He held EURALO together for so many years. He did all of the groundwork, with colleagues in the region, to make sure EURALO was a Founding Partner of EuroDIG, in effect, the European IGF. He constantly made EURALO significant on so many levels, both inside ICANN and in outside Internet Governance circles. Wolf is a key architect of this organisation.
On a personal note Wolf is also one of my mentors at ICANN. When I initially got involved at ICANN, Wolf suggested that I'd be EURALO's IPv6 "expert" - and that step was the first step into all of the different positions that I held in this organisation and his welcoming attitude allowed me to have all the wonderful experiences that I have lived so far in this amazing organisation.

The signing ceremony was followed by photographs and some can be viewed here RIPE - EURALO MOU

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 Axel Pawlik, Managing Director, RIPE NCC and Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of EURALO sign the RIPE - EURALO MOU. (see this page for all details)

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On the monthly call, Wale made a Presentation on CCWG Auction Proceeds for new gTLDs. Details of the Hopt Topics, Strategy and Outreach Strategy were shared with members.

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The month of September is usually a busy one, as EURALO members return from a well deserved summer break.

The DRAFT RIPE MOU was finalised.

The EURALO Hot Topics 2017 was finalised. Essentially, it was an update on the Hot Topics 2016, adding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a very hot topic for Europe. ICANN is impacted by the GDPR and has its own pages about the topic too.

The EURALO Strategy was finalised thanks to the input of EURALO members.

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Work continued on the EURALO Bylaws and started on the EURALO Hot Topics 2017 as well as the EURALO Strategy, a first draft of which was presented by the EURALO Individuals Association.

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Work already started on devising the EURALO CROP FY18 Strategy, taking the Reference FY17 Strategy as a reference starting point. Concern was emitted about the next EuroDIG and SEEDIG taking place in Tbilisi, Georgia, outside the EURALO region. Wolf Ludwig, EURALO Secretary opened discussions with Jean-Jacques Sahel, VP for Western Europe, regarding this topic.

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Direct contact of the EURALO ALSes listed in the EURALO ALS Expertise Table yielded two Statements:

1. At-Large Workspace: Draft Framework of Interpretation for Human Rights (pen held by Bastiaan Goslings)
2. At-Large Workspace: Revised ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law: Process and Next Steps (pen held by Christopher Wilkinson)

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Dev Anand Teelucksingh told EURALO members about the Community Onboarding Project .

EURALO filed an IGF workshop proposal for: Session Title: Reinforcing the role of end-users in defending the Public Interest. Full details of this proposal and other proposals are found on: At-Large 2017 IGF Workshop Proposal Workspace

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In particular, the EURALO Bylaws TaskForce focussed on adherence to Swiss Law for the form of the Bylaws, and its more intricate details.

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The discussion in the F2F General Assembly included current EURALO Hot Topics; an update on all EURALO TaskForces; a discussion with Guest speaker Jean-Jacques Sahel, VP Stakeholder Engagement Europe and Michael Yakushev VP Eastern Europe, Russia & Central Asia, GSE - Russia CIS focussing on the EURALO Outreach Strategy; and most importantly, a Discussion and adoption of the EURALO Annual Report 2016 - 2017

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Many EURALO participants worked to provide feedback on the At-Large Review: Draft Report - especially contributing to the At-Large Workspace: At-Large Community Response to the At-Large Review Draft Report  ALSes were sollicited as well to provide responses to the Review, from an ALS prespective.

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