2017-05-18 APRALO Monthly Teleconference

Date: Thursday, 18 May 2017

Time: 06:00 - 07:00 UTC (for the time in various timezones click here)

Meeting Number: AL.AP/CC.0517/1

How do I participate in this meeting?

English Conference ID = 1638

Chinese Conference ID = 2038 

Adobe Connect Meeting Room:    https://participate.icann.org/apralo/

Action Items: EN 

Recording:  EN, ZH

Transcript:   EN, ZH

AC Chat Transcript: EN

Participants

EN: Satish Babu, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Holly Raiche, Maureen Hilyard, Shreedeep Rayamajhi, Pavan Budhrani, Tomohiro Fujisaki, Lianna Galstyan, Kaili Kan, Hong Xue, Aris Ignacio, Beran Gillen, Faheem Soomro, Sohaib Saleem, Nadira Alaraj, Wintrhop Yu, Amir Qayyum, Sam Goundar, Decka David, Ranjit Nair, Amal Al-Saqqaf, Eranga, Isaac Maposa, Ali AlMeshal, Narine Khachatryan

ZH: None

Apologies: Suhaidi Hassan, Kelvin Wong, Yasuichi Kitamura, Naveed Rais

Staff: Silvia Vivanco, Evin Erdoğdu, Siranush Vardanyan

Call Management: Evin Erdoğdu

ZH Interpreters: Jessie, YiYi & Ray

Agenda

1. Roll call - Staff (2 min).

2. Membership Matters - Satish/Evin (5 min)

• Welcome to New Members (Satish, 2 min)
• Current Membership Pipeline (Evin, 5 min)

3. Update on At-Large Review (3 min, Holly)

4. ALAC Policy Update -  Holly/Maureen/Kaili  (15 min)

See: Policy Advice Page on New At-Large Website 

See: Policy Advice Development Page

See: ICANN Public Comment page 

1. 1. Statements approved by the ALAC
      • Recommendations to Improve ICANN's Transparency
      • Interim Paper Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Names of Countries and Territories as Top Level Domains
      • ICANN's Draft FY18 Operating Plan and Budget, and Five-Year Operating Plan Update
      • Draft 2016 African Domain Name System Market Study
      • Proposed Fundamentals Bylaws Changes to Move the Board Governance Committee's Reconsideration Process Responsibilities to Another Board Committee 
   2. Statements in process: being drafted, in comment or in vote:
      
      • Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations for New gTLDs (closes 19 May 2017) - Statement submitted with ratification pending; ALAC ratifying the Statement 
      • Deferral of Country Code Names Supporting Organization Review (closes 19 May 2017) - ALAC ratifying a Statement 
      • GNSO Community Comment 2 (CC2) on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (closes 22 May 2017)  - ramon.soto, andrei.kolesnikov, bastiaan.goslings, evan.leibovitch, leon.sanchez, Maureen, and satish.babu drafting a Statement 
      • Recommendations to Improve SO/AC Accountability (closes 26 May 2017)  - Alan Greenberg and Cheryl Langdon-Orr drafting a Statement
      • Proposed Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement (closes 30 May 2017) - Maureen and bastiaan.goslingsdrafting a Statement 
   3. Statements that seem to be stalled:
      • None
   4. Public Comment requests to which the ALAC decided not to submit Statements: 
      • Release of Country and Territory Names within the .PIONEER, .FUJITSU, .OBI, .SHARP, .TOYOTA, and .LEXUS TLDs (closes 20 Jun 2017) 
   5. New Public Comment requests to which the ALAC needs to make decisions: 
   • • Revised ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law: Process and Next Steps (closes 12 Jun 2017) 
     • Draft Framework of Interpretation for Human Rights (closes 16 Jun 2017)

5. Leadership Selection Process in APRALO (7 min, Satish/Silvia)

• Update of Selection Process (3 min, Silvia )
• ALAC and APRALO decision on Endorsement of Candidates (4 min, Satish/Silvia)

6. Organizational Matters -  (10 min)

1. General Assembly: Activating Sub-Committees: Program, Organizing, Finance, Outreach (Satish/Silvia) (5 min)
   1. APRALO Activities at ICANN 60 AGM - Abu Dhabi - October- November 2017
2. Preliminary Results of APRALO ALS Capacity Survey and Action plan (Satish, 5 min)
   • Thirty five responses received from 18 countries
   • 27 ALSes out of the 50 APRALO Members responded
   • Action Plan Required for the remaining ALSes

7. At-Large Community Onboarding - (7 min, Dev/Issac/Beran)

8. Update from NomCom (5 min, Amir)

9. AOB - 6 min