Monday, 10 June 2024
AFRALO Roundtable: Enhancing Internet Infrastructure in Africa
High-Level Notes
Nii Quaynor - Need short and long term plans. The short-term plans need to fit into longer term plans.
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Claire Craig - Commented that the ALS survey was useful for other regions. Also asked to how many people was the survey sent.
Action Items
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No Action Items recorded.
Recommendations to ICANN org
• What can ICANN org and ICANN stakeholders do to improve internet infrastructure?
• ICANN can help policy makes and legislators by building the capacity of legislators so they themselves can explain and bring what we need to do in Africa. ICANN can assist by highlighting policies to assist the private sector.
• Raise awareness, increase root instances and servers, as the next billion users will come from Africa, there will be questions about accessibility and what it means to be connected.
• DNS infrastructure relies heavily on the underlying Internet infrastructure and anything that we can do to improve implement infrastructure will help the DNS, make more exchange points, putting more links between borders between countries , Increase root servers instances and resolvers.
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AFRALO: Building a Multilingual Internet: Opportunities and Challenges
High-Level Notes
Can you share with us some successful examples of domain names and email addresses being used in local languages within Africa?
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- No Action Items recorded.
At-Large Leadership Welcome Session
High-Level Notes
- The At-Large Community will be focusing on the different sessions taking place at ICANN80.
- A lot of sessions will be on Next Round along with standing topics like DNS abuse.
- Leon Sanchez, ICANN Board Member, provided an update on the Board's recent meeting and other issues of concern. The Board had a workshop had that focused on private contention resolution. No conclusion has been rached so far regarding how the Board will proceed with this. Board is studying options that have been submitted and is inclined to prevent private contention resolution.
- The Board has appointed Hadia Elminiawi as a member of the SSAC.
- The Board is adopting a resolution on GAC advice regarding contention resolution.
- Where are we in terms of the ombuds search?
- The person has been selected and is in the contracting process
- What happened to the resolution on WS2?
- we have failed to comply with this recommendation and several on the board are pushing for this happen as it was recommended by the group.
- Regarding layoffs, how was number selected, was there a framework
- No additional details can be provided at this time as it is an operational issue. The Board was informed that this would happen but the Board was provided with detailed criteria.
- Was anyone within At-Large support impacted?
- No, At-Large support was not impacted.
- Is there anything At-Large can do to help prevent private resolution? Has the Board considered making the auctions be part of the application process?
- No, the Board has not considered this, though it is an interesting solution. The Board believes that the At-Large has contributed and has been helpful with the Next Round.
- Regarding RVCs, Board welcomes RVCs but will stay away from RVCs concerning content.
- The At-Large Policy Subject Matter Experts provide an overview of the policy topics.
- The GNSO council will be discussing the SPIRT Charter at its upcoming meeting. Singular/Plural issue is not on the agenda.
- The At-Large community went over the session reports and made a call for volunteers for rapporteurs.
- The At-Large community discussed the At-Large Campaign Playbook. The playbook is meant to systematize the process for requesting At-Large participation in campaigns.
- Reminder that At-Large sessions are listed on the At-Large Agenda Wiki page. Please reach out to staff with any questions.
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- Rapporteurs to submit reports to the At-Large wiki page before the At-Large Wrap-Up session on 13 June 2024
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
At-Large, Fellows and NextGen Interaction
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- ICANN org to provide Outreach and Engagement materials to ALAC leadership. Initial set of materials is being finalized and will hopefully be shared by the end of the month.
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At-Large/RAOs RALOs should work on:
- A precise definition of the kind of support the ALSes may provide to the ICANN Com team in their campaign
- A clear and precise process for that, and a defined framework for the actions to be undertaken by the ALSes
Joint Session: ALAC & SSAC
High-Level Notes
- There are evergreen topics that both groups are interesting in discussing. Both Advisory Committees appreciate the commitment to safety and security and the continued collaborative spirit.
- Jonathan Zuck provided an overview of the first draft of the safer cyber campaign course
- A lot of course focuses on phishing since that is what many end users deal with
- How will ALAC get people to see this presentation?
- Could be delivered as a seminar for audiences. Would take a UA day model approach to delivering this content to end users
- Could also be added to the ICANN learn platform. Could also be added to other media platforms.
- Current focus is on ALAC stakeholders. Once there’s more success to it, it could spread further
- Safer Cyber is of importance to users around the world. SSAC can provide information about cyber security and packaged by ALAC
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- No action items recorded.
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Joint Session: ALAC & GAC
High-Level Notes
Contention Resolution
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- No Action Items recorded.
At-Large Cross RALO Coordination Session
High-Level Notes
TOPIC : ALAC - RALO communications
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- Ozan Sahin and Nathalie Peregrine were asked to have the CROP rules and procedures translated in other languages (FR and ES) as they are not widely understood by all.
Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN Meeting
The group discussed the statement “Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Africa through Multilingual Internet Infrastructure.” The statement recognizes Africa’s diverse linguistic landscape, which includes more than 2,000 spoken languages, and highlighted several recommendations to achieve a multilingual internet in Africa.
Action Items
- Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong and hadia.elminiawi to edit the statement incorporating suggestions as follows" Second recommendation- include the "number of root services instances". Edit under "Capacity building" instead of "advocate and promote - "building capacity and skills across Africa". Spell out DNS Industry including Internet service providers and hosting providers.
- Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong to send the AFRALO-AFRICANN statement (once finalized) to staff to forward to the Board.
Thursday, 13 June 2024
At-Large ISOC Chapter Roundtable
High-Level Notes
- All ISOC members present introduced themselves.
- The vision and mission of ISOC and ICANN was presented
- ISOC’s website has the expectations of the chapters
- The role of ISOC Chapters and ALS, ALS can assist ISOC Chapters and vice versa.
- They considered setting up a whatsapp chat.
- This is a subset within At-Large. not a preferential but being a subset has advantages.
- All ALS are the same. ISOCs are not a privileged class within At-Large
- There is not much funding from ICANN for ALSes (limited)
- ISOC does provide grants, administrative funding which can be used to advance ISOC mission, but it can also be used to advance the At-Large mission.
- Discussion of ISOC role within ICANN, we need to enhance everybody’s participation. ISOC Chapters have tools in common, we can discuss practices that we can put into place.
- Important to make the comparison between ISOC Chapters and ALS. ISOCs have a regional person in charge to follow up. ISOC has a manager who follows up with activities.
- We can have a score- give grades. ISOC Chapters receive a minimum of 3,000 $ per year as administrative funding on the condition that they are active and administer their chapter. This is very important.
- JZ mentioned the “global campaign” as there are a lot of messages that need to get out to the global community.
- JZ presented the Campaign playbook.
- ISOC chapters found this discussion is interesting and helpful to strengthen the communication channels and means of cooperation between ISOC and ICANN & ALAC for the welfare of the global community. Hope to keep the momentum onwards.
- Follow up- Greg Shatan – invited all to the Community Forum in Seattle. Suggested next time to hold a similar meeting in Seattle, Greg offered to organize the meeting at the Community forum.
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- gregory.shatan to lead the next ALS/ISOC session at ICANN82.
- Heidi Ullrich /Staff to set up a ALS/ISOC workspace
At-Large Leadership Wrap Up Session
High-Level Notes
- Amrita C. provided an overview of the work of the Internet Governance Forum Support Association, its remit, and its reach.
- Primary purpose of the association is to support the IGF and its initiatives.
- Justine C. provided an update on the GNSO Council meeting
- Matthias H. provided a short update on the SSAC sessions and highlighted a discussion on AI, and cybersafe campaign with the ALAC
- Joanna K. provided an update about the GAC session that was held with the ALAC. There may be additional joint correspondence between the ALAC and GAC. There are opportunities to work intersessionally with the GAC.
- If ALAC advice is issued on contention resolution, a method on how it can be mitigated should be added.
- taking opportunity for private resolution out of the equation
- Session reports should highlight action items that ALAC should tend to
- Avri discussed in covering the session reports the topics of PICs/RVCs, Applicant Support, registration data access, and DNS Abuse.
- Justine also covered the fees that are being discussed for Next Round applications and bid credits for Applicant Support.
- Reminder from Justine to work on ALAC Procedure for filing comments and objections in the Next Round.
- Claire provided an overview of the remit of the OFB-WG.
- Maarten Botterman provided an overview of the ICANN Strategic Plan
- Board to adopt the plan by March 2025
- A public comment is scheduled for 09 July 2024 and a community webinar will be available to discuss the Strategic Plan
- Hadia E. provided an overview of AFRALO sessions that took place at ICANN80. AFRALO provided advice that is impactful to the Africa region.
- Denise H. provided an update about the NextGen program participants
- Sheerdeep R. provided an update about the Fellowship program participants. Highlighted that previous Fellows are stepping into ALAC leadership rolls
- Bukola O. provided an udpate about social media enagement within the ALAC and at-large community. Contest winners were announced.
- Jonathan Z. announced that he will be unavailable for the next 45 days. He has delegated responsibility to Claire Craig and Justine Chew.
- Heidi U. announced that Claudia Ruiz will be transitioning to the ccNSO team.
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