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Participants: Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Alan Greenberg, Michele Neylon Blacknight, Sandra Hofeichter, Statton Hammock

Apologies: None

Absent: Evan Leibovitch, Rudi Vansick

Staff: Marilyn Vernon, Seth Greene

A G E N D A

ALAC-REGISTRAR AGENDA: 05 MAY 2011

1. Introduction -- 2 min (Olivier)

2. Open/Free Discussion – 40 min (all)

References:

From Mason Cole's email to OCL:

Desire on ALAC’s part to have registrar channel help educate end users on best utilization of a domain name. Too many service providers have varying policies; end-users don’t know what to expect.
We discussed whether registrars can / should provide information that ALAC could aggregate for general use and for distribution in their outreach and education efforts
ICANN the organization is of little help – their website is bad and doesn’t show up on search. It’s an unknown entity for end-users.
ALAC is forming a group on developing more trust in the domain name system, via education. We committed to providing 3-4 ideas for either our own consumer education effort or as our contributions to ALAC’s effort.
We asked ALAC to provide information about their purported network of end users (up to 2 million) so we could have a better idea about how to tailor potential messages. They may or may not have detailed information available.

Registrars to produce education information products for end-users/consumers by the next meeting or sooner. – Staff/ALAC to follow up with Tim Cole and Registrars.
Registrars to develop 3 or 4 more ideas for education/outreach and to identify who among them would be ready to work on this. – Staff/ALAC to follow up with Tim Cole and Registrars.
ALAC to identify any data that could be shared with the Registrars.

3. Next Steps – 10 min (Olivier, all)