ALAC May Teleconference

Meeting Number: AL.ALAC/CC.0517/1

Date: Tuesday, 23 May 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 ( RU, 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 (apology), Garth Bruen (absent)

AP: Maureen Hilyard, Holly Raiche (apology), Kaili Kan (apology)

EUR: Sébastien Bachollet, Andrei Kolesnikov (possible apology), Bastiaan Goslings (apology)

LAC: Alberto Soto (apology), León Sanchez, Harold Arcos

AF: Tijani Ben Jemaa, Seun Ojedeji (apology), Wafa Dahmani

Liaisons:  Julie Hammer (SSAC), Maureen Hilyard (ccNSO), Cheryl Langdon-Orr (GNSO),

Participants: Olivier-Crépin Leblond, Otunte Otueneh, Leah Symekher, Yubelkys Montalvo, Satish Babu, Dev Anand Teelucksingh,Nadira AlAraj, Wale Bakare, Vernatius Ezeama, Judith Hellerstein, Bartlett Morgan, Beran Gillen, Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Isaac Maposa

ES:  Maritza Aguero, Harold Arcos, Wladimir Davalos

FR: Sebastien Bachollet, Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong

RU: none

Apologies: Javier Rúa-Jovet, Kaili Kan, Bastiaan Goslings, Glenn McKnight, Holly Raiche, Seun Ojedej, Andrei Kolesnikov

Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Yeşim Nazlar, Evin Erdoğdu, Mario Aleman, Gisella Gruber.

Interpreters:

FR: Isabelle & Jacques

ES: Veronica & David

RU: Galina & Maya

Call Management: Gisella Gruber

Action Items: EN

Adopted Motions: EN

Decisions: EN

Recording: EN, ES, FR, RU

Transcript:  EN, ES, FR, RU        

AC 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. Review of outstanding Action Items from the ALAC Meeting of 25 April requiring ALAC involvement - Alan Greenberg (0 minutes)

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

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
      • Deferral of Country Code Names Supporting Organization Review
   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) - ALAC submitted a Statement with ratification pending; ALAC ratifying a Statement 
      • GNSO Community Comment 2 (CC2) on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (closes 22 May 2017)  - holly.raiche, leon.sanchez, ramon.soto finalizing a Statement on Work Track 2 Questions; the other Work Track question responses are in process being finalized 
      • 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 
      • Revised ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law: Process and Next Steps (closes 12 Jun 2017) - EURALO ALSes drafting a Statement 
      • Draft Framework of Interpretation for Human Rights (closes 16 Jun 2017) - EURALO ALSes were approached for soliciting input 
   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: 
      • Proposed Implementation of GNSO Consensus Policy Recommendations for the Protection of IGO&INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs (closes 10 Jul 2017)

5.  Review of current ALS applications – Evin Erdoğdu (5 minutes)  

For Information:  ALS application tracking page and Individual members page

1. Total number of ALSes: 224 (in 100 countries)
2.  Recently certified ALSes: #264 Chapitre Sénégalais de l'Internet Society (Senegalese ISOC) - AFRALO, #263 Internet Development Initiative (IDI) - APRALO 
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: #262 Armenian Internet Traffic Exchange Foundation (ARMIX) - APRALO, #265 Cybercafe Association CCAOI - APRALO
7.  Staff processing Due Diligence for: #267 Surabhi Softwares - APRALO, #266 Internet Society Capítulo Paraguay - LACRALO
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, #112 Arab Regional ISPs & DSPs Association (ARISPA) - APRALO
   

6.  Reports – Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

See: At-Large Reports from WGs,

See: RALOs and Liaisons wiki page (now including CSC Liaison Report 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 Discussion

7. At-Large Review - Initial Review of Draft Final Report - Holly Raiche, Cheryl Langdon-Orr and Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)

See: ITEMS Draft Final Report  and  Redline DOCX - April 2017

       Alan's thoughts XLSX, DOCX, PDF

8. ALAC Teleconferences - how to make more effective and productive - Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

9. Restarting of New gTLD and Registration Issues WGs - Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

Mission - Draft (v01) PDF, DOCX

At-Large New gTLDs Working Group  and At-Large Registration Issues Working Group workspace

10. At-Large at ICANN 59 - Gisella Gruber and ALL (this needs your input)  (20 minutes)

See: ICANN 59 webpage

a. Review of ICANN core schedule 

b. At-Large Agenda Development  

c. AFRALO Activities at ICANN 59 - Tijani

11. ICANN59: Do we want to re-institute meeting reports? - Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

12. Mentoring - Planning for new ALAC Members and Regional Leaders - Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

13. Status of ALAC and Regional Selections, Elections and Appointments - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)

Status as of 23 May 2017

See: 2017 ALAC and RALO Elections, Selections and Appointments

14. Any Other Business - Alan Greenberg (8 minutes)

    a. At-Large Onboarding Activities - Dev

    b. CCWG IG Charter - Next Steps - Olivier