AFRALO Monthly Teleconference

Date: 06 April 2011

Time: 18:00 - 19:00 UTC (For the time in various timezones click here)

Meeting Number: AL.AF/CC.0411/1

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Summary Minutes: FR

Action Items: EN, FR

Interpretation: French and English

Transcript: FR EN

Recording: English,  Francais

Adobe Connect Meeting Room: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/afralo2011

Participants: Aziz Hilali, Yaovi Atohoun, Etienne Tshitshimbi, Michel Tchonang, Didier Kasole, Tijani Ben Jemaa, Dave Kissoondoyal

English: Mohammed El Bashir, Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Wilson Abigaba,

Apologies: Fatimata Seye-Sylla, Moataz Shaarawy, Gabriel Bombambo, Pierre Dandjinou

Staff: Gisella Gruber-White, Seth Greene, Heidi Ullrich

A G E N D A (English)

Standing Issues:

1. Roll Call - 2 minutes

2. Review of the Action Items of 2 March 2011  - 5 minutes

AI: The Staff will contact FORCAS one more time to ask for clarification on the remaining issues in the application form. The candidat will be informed that the regional advice to the ALAC will be to reject the application if no response is produced in the given timeframe.

AI: Tijani will send an email to the discussion list to propose Hawa Diakité as the AFRALO representative in the ccNSO study group on use of country and territory names.

3. Open Public Consultations - 5 minutes

a. At-Large Policy Advice Development Schedule

b. At-Large Policy Development wiki page

c. Public Consultations on which ALAC is preparing statements:

• ALAC Statement on the Whois Review Team

• ALAC Statement on the Stability, Security, and Resilience of the DNS Review Team (SSR-Team)

• ALAC Statement on the Proposed Recommendation for a Global Outreach Program

d. Recently submitted ALAC statements:

• ALAC Statement on the Proposed Framework for the FY12 Operating Plan and Budget

• ALAC Statement on the Draft Proposal for the Study of Issues Related to the Delegation of IDN Variant TLDs

• ALAC Statement on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Working Group Proposed Final Report

• ALAC Statement on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Working Group Proposed Final Report

• ALAC Statement on Proposed PDP Policy

• Draft Response to 2011 GAC gTLD Scorecard

• ALAC Response to NTIA Notice of Inquiry

Proposed Agenda Items

4. At-Large Structure Applications (Fatimata and Staff) - 15 mins

a. Update on ALS applications

• European Media Platform (EURALO)
• The Ukrainian Internet Association (EURALO)
• Netmission.Asia (APRALO) 

b. Regional Advice on ALS Application from FORCAS 

See: Application FORCAS

5. Feedback from the ICANN San Francisco Meeting (Tijani, Fatimata, Aziz) (10 minutes)

• AFRALO Report of activities between Cartagena and San Francisco

• African ICANN Community Adopts a Statement of the ICANN African Community on ICANN Geographic Regions Review (EN, FR)

• Report from the Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee to the 40^th Meeting of ICANN in San Francisco, USA (PDF)

• Highlights of the ICANN San Francisco Meeting

6. At-Large Improvements Implementation for RALOs (Fatimata and Staff) (10 mins)

a. At-Large Structures get individual wiki pages (see AFRALO ALS wiki pages)

b. Adobe Connect Room for AFRALO ALSes (Room available at: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/afraloals/)

7. ICANN Dakar: 23 to 28 October 2011 (Fatimata, Tijani) (10 minutes)

• Preparations required for this meeting

8. Update on the Joint SO/AC (JAS) Working Group on New gTLD Applicant Support Working Group (Tijani) - 5 minutes

Background Information:

Proposed Revised ALAC JAS Charter (endorsed by the ALAC on 2 February)

9. Recent and Upcoming Activities of ALAC (Dave, Mohamed, Tijani) - 5 mins

10. Recent/Upcoming activities of AFRALO members (all) - 5 mins

11. Any other Business