ALAC February Teleconference

Meeting Number: AL.ALAC/CC.0217/1

Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2017                                    

Time: 12:00-14:00 UTC (For the time in various timezones click here)

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

Interpretation Available: Yes ( EN, ES & FR  - Simultaneous)

How can I participate in this meeting? English Conference ID = 1638

¿Cómo se puede participar en la teleconferencia? Spanish Conference ID = 1738

Comment participer a cette teleconference?  French Conference ID = 1838

Russian Conference ID =  2138

ALAC:

NA:Alan Greenberg, Javier Rua-Jovet, Garth Bruen

AP: Maureen Hilyard, Holly Raiche , Kaili Kan

EUR: Sébastien Bachollet, Andrei Kolesnikov, Bastiaan Goslings, Satish Babu

LAC: Alberto Soto, León Sanchez, Harold Arcos

AF: Tijani Ben Jemaa, Seun Ojedeji, Wafa Dahmani

Liaisons:  

Julie Hammer (SSAC), Maureen Hilyard (ccNSO), Cheryl Langdon-Orr (GNSO), Yrjö Länsipuro (GAC)

Participants:

EN: Sarah Kiden, Barack Otieno, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Lianna Galstyan, Satish Babu, Abdeldjalil Bashar Bong, Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Aris Ignacio, Yubelkis Montalvo, Shreedeep Rayamajhi, Sohaib Saleem

ES:  Alberto Soto, Harold Arcos, Maritza Aguero

FR:  Adam Ahmat Doungous

RU: N/A

Apologies: Daniel Nanghaka, Marita Moll, Maureen Hilyard, Leah Symekher, Aziz Hilali, Murray McKercher

Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Evin Erdoğdu, Yesim Nazlar

Interpreters:

FR: Claire & Isabelle

ES: Veronica & David

RU: Galina & Ekaterina

Call Management: Gisella Gruber

Action Items:   EN    

Adopted Motions:  EN

Decisions:  EN

Recording: EN,  ES,  FR, RU

Transcript:  EN,  ES,  FR, RU        

Chat:  EN       

 A G E N D A:     

Standing Agenda Items

1. Roll call and apologies – Staff (5 minutes)

2. Adoption of agenda; call for Any Other Business or other amendments – Alan Greenberg (2 minutes)

3. Chairs Announcement- Alan Greenberg (3 minutes)

a. Results of Board Seat 15 Election - Leon Sanchez

b. Welcome to Bastiaan Goslings, new ALAC Member representing EURALO

c. New ALT Member from EURALO - Andrei Kolesnikov

4. Review of outstanding Action Items from ALAC Meeting of 24 January 2016 requiring ALAC involvement - Alan Greenberg (0 minutes)

5. ALAC Policy Development Activities - Ariel Liang & Alan Greenberg (15 minutes) 

• • 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
        • None 
     2. Statements in process: being drafted, in comment or in vote:
        • At-Large Review: Draft Report (closes 24 Mar 2017) - At-Large Review Working Party and Regional At-Large Organizations drafting responses 
        • ALAC Response to CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 2 SO/AC Accountability Subgroup Questions Regarding SO/AC Accountability - Alan Greenberg finalizing a draft Statement 
     3. Statements that seem to be stalled:
        • None
     4. Public Comment requests to which the ALAC decided not to submit Statements: 
        • Reference Japanese Label Generation Rules (LGR) for the Second Level (closes 08 Mar 2017) 
     5. New Public Comment requests requiring decision:

        • GNSO Initial Report on the IGO-INGO Access to Curative Rights Protection Mechanisms Policy Development Process (closes 01 Mar 2017)

        • Recommendations to Improve ICANN's Transparency (closes 10 Apr 2017)
        • Interim Paper Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Names of Countries and Territories as Top Level Domains (closes 21 Apr 2017) 

6.  Review of current ALS applications – Staff (5 minutes)  

For Information:  ALS application tracking page and Individual members page

1. Total number of ALSes: 220 (in 99 countries)
2.  Recently certified ALSes: #259 ONG FEMMES &TIC - AFRALO,  #258  Centre Africain de Complémentarité Scolaire, Universitaire et de Promotion (CACSUP) - AFRALO,  #257  Association Des Femmes d'Askejour pour le Développement et et la Coopération (AFADEC) - AFRALO
3. Recently decertified ALSes: None
4. Applications currently being voted on: None
5.  Applications pending: See At-Large Structure Applications and Certification Process
6. Regional Advice awaited for: #261 ICT Association of Malawi (ICTAM) - AFRALO, #260 Action pour l'Education et la Promotion de la Femme au Tchad (AEPF-Tchad) - AFRALO
7.  Staff processing Due Diligence for: #262 Armenian Internet Traffic Exchange Foundation (ARMIX) - APRALO
8. Applications on hold: #210 ISOC Gambia - AFRALO (210) ISOC Gambia [PDF, 495 KB] Application suspended as per AFRALO Leadership, and advice from Internet Society to wait until further notice from ISOC. 
   

7.  Reports – Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

See: At-Large Reports from WGs,

See: RALOs and Liaisons wiki page

See: ALAC Monthly Reports wiki page

Note:  Usually, little discussion of these reports is scheduled for this meeting. Short comments calling attention to important issues are welcome. Any WG or RALO Chair/Liaison seeking to discuss his/her report in more detail is advised to inform the Chair in advance or if minimal time is required, add the item to AOB before adoption of the agenda.

For Information/Discussion

8. At-Large Review - Update and Discussion - Holly Raiche and Cheryl Langdon-Orr (30 minutes)

9. ccNSO Extended Process Similarity Review Panel (EPSRP) - Alan Greenberg (20 minutes)

• EPSRP Report
• ALAC Comment on EPSRP Report (Last page)
  
• SSAC SAC-084 Report (Page 6-7, Findings, Recommendations)
  
• SSAC SAC-088 Response to ccNSO Correspondence
• SSAC SAC-089 Response to ccNSO Correspondence
• ccNSO to Board Correspondence (Bottom page 2, reference to ALAC)

10. ALS De-certifications - Next Steps - Alan Greenberg, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang (5 minutes)

• Committee for a Democratic United Nations (EURALO) 
  
• Asociación Costarricense de Derecho Informático (LACRALO)
• N-CAP (NARALO) 
• Association for Community Networking (AFCN) (NARALO) 
• Reference: ALSes decertification workspace  

11. At-Large at ICANN 58 - Alan Greenberg, Gisella Gruber and ALL (this needs your input)  (20 minutes)

See: ICANN 58 - Copenhagen Meeting - March 2017

a. Main Schedule

b. Review of Agendas

c. Questions for the Board, GAC and GSE

d. Planned Outreach and Engagement Events - Olivier Crépin-Leblond/Dev Anand Teelucksingh

e. Social events

f. Logistics

12. Any Other Business - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)