Saturday, 21 October
At-Large Leadership Welcome to ICANN78
Jonathan Zuck welcomed the ALAC to ICANN78 and provided a summary of upcoming ALAC sessions at ICANN78.
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- ALAC/At-Large members to fill out At-Large Sessions Reports from ICANN78.
Joint Session: ALAC and GNSO Council
Justine Chew welcomed everyone to the meeting between the GNSO and ALAC.
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A summary of the meeting is available here.
Sunday, 22 October
At-Large Operations, Finance and Budget (OFB-WG) - Overview and Year Ahead
OFB to continue the discussion on the ABRs at the next call, Carlos Reyes will be invited to speak at the next call.
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The OFB-WG to discuss a plan to deal with the Strategic Sessions
At-Large Consolidated Policy WG (CPWG) - Overview and Year Ahead
Members of the CPWG provided updates on the Transfer Policy Review, Internationalized Domain Names EPDP, Registration Data Request Service, Closed Generics, GNSO Guidance Process for Applicant Support Program, and the Next Round Program.
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No Action Items recorded.
Joint Session: ALAC & SSAC
Steve Crocker discussed DNSSEC, its history, and implementation of the system. Briefly discussed Registration Data Request Service and the gap in end-user perspective.
Rod Rasmussen provided an update on upcoming SSAC leadership changes.
Action Items:
- matthias.hudobnikto follow up on DNSSEC mobilization campaign with the SSAC and collaborate with Andrei Kolesnikov to provide an update during the Wrap Up session.
Rod Rasmussen provided an update on upcoming SSAC leadership changes.
At-Large RALO Coordination Session
Action Items:
- Silvia Vivanco and Gisella Gruber to work with the Cross-RALO group and GSE RVPs to organize a meeting at ICANN79 to report on the progress made in the RALO/GSE Partnership.
ALAC Outreach and Engagement Sub-Committee Meeting
Action Items:
- Silvia Vivanco , Gisella Gruber and Heidi Ullrich to work with Sarmad Hussain and GSE RVPs on promoting UA Day and encourage ALSes and RALOs to organize UA Day proposals by the Deadline of 15 December 2023.
- Heidi Ullrich to work with the At-Large to identify topics for the Policy Accelerator to be sent to Melissa Allgood.
Monday, 23 October
Joint Session: ICANN Board and ALAC
No action items recorded.
Tuesday, 24 October
At-Large Plenary 1: The impact of Technological Advancements on ICANN
No Action Items recorded.
Joint Session: ALAC and GAC
Action Items:
- Andrew Chen and Heidi Ullrich to work with Sally Newell Cohen on preparing a brief report on the org actions related to the 2017 joint ALAC-GAC statement on effective communication.
- gregory.shatan (Unlicensed) and Alan Greenberg to prepare a brief ALAC statement on Closed Generics.
Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN Meeting
Action Items:
- AFRALO members to continue discussion and edits of the AFRALO ICANN 78 statement to be ready to be submitted to ICANN by end November.
- AFRALO ALSes and Hadia Elminiawi to follow up on the proposal to host an AFRALO-AFRICANN UA event as well as encourage AFRALO ALEs to submit UA Day proposals. (In Progress)
Wednesday, 25 October
At-Large EURALO Plenary: Multistakeholder Governance for New Internet Infrastructures: SpaceX, IRIS2, and Equitable Internet Access for All. Part II - An Open Policy Session
Speakers:
- Dr Uta Meier-Hahn, German Development Cooperation - GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)
- Pari Esfandiari, EURALO - Outlined concerns including security issues, capacity, reliability during solar storms, compatibility (network of networks), market concerns such as competition and high barriers to entry, business models, environmental, geopolitics.
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- joanna.kulesza to follow up with John Crain on next steps in the topic of Multistakeholder Governance for New Internet Infrastructures.
At-Large Plenary 2: WSIS+20: Towards an Engagement Strategy
Veni Markowski, SVP Government Engagement, noted that the ICANN Government Engagement team is happy to work with interested members of At-Large on how best to engage in the WSIS+20 through national delegations.
Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Civil Society perspective, stated that the best way to engage is for the At-Large ALSes to contact their government delegation. Outlined three main points: 1) Protect what we have; 2) Identify gaps and weaknesses; 3) Develop key objectives.
Nigel Hickson gave the government perspective.
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Lucien Castex - Gave the ccTLD perspective. Stressed that there should be diversity in terms of culture, language, persective at the WSIS +20.
Action Items:
- Olivier Crépin-Leblond and marita.moll to organize a follow up to the WSIS+20 discussion to identify next steps . Ensure how to send gov't delegations the end user perspective and key priorities
- Work with jonathan.zuck and the co-Chairs of the OFB-WG on the possible sub-WT within the OFB-WG - WSIS Coordination WT. If this WT is formed, Michelle DeSmyter to create a mailing list.
- Michelle DeSmyter to create the mailing list for the new WT.
ALAC Anniversary - Brainstorming on the Future
Action Items:
- Claudia Ruiz to develop a chronological list of all past ALAC Chairs, Board Liaisons and Seat 15 holders.
Thursday, 26 October
At-Large Leadership Development Session
Action Items:
- Heidi Ullrich to work with jonathan.zuck and Sally Newell Cohen on organizing a session on communications with At-Large.
At-Large Wrap-Up
- jonathan.zuck announced that the CPWG calls are mandatory for all ALAC members so that they are aware of the topic when ratifying ALAC statements.
- Justine Chew To facilitate any request(s) in response to Contracted Parties' outreach for updates on their DNS Abuse mitigation efforts from time to time.
- Justine Chew To bring back the discussion on enforceability of Registry Voluntary Commitments (RVCs) to CPWG.
- Justine Chew To formulate a discussion with CPWG on a potential way to help resolve contention sets in the Next Round of applications so as to lessen the risk of qualified Applicant Support applicants failing to secure their string as a result of contention sets.
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