ALAC April Teleconference

Meeting Number: AL.ALAC/CC.0417/1

Date: Tuesday, 25 April 2017                                    

Time: 04:00 - 06:00 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, Garth Bruen
AP: Maureen Hilyard, Holly Raiche (apology), Kaili Kan
EUR: Sébastien Bachollet, Andrei Kolesnikov, Bastiaan Goslings
LAC: Alberto Soto, León Sanchez, Harold Arcos
AF: Tijani Ben Jemaa, Seun Ojedeji (apology), Wafa Dahmani (apology)
Liaisons: Julie Hammer (SSAC), Maureen Hilyard (ccNSO), Cheryl Langdon-Orr (GNSO), Yrjö Länsipuro (GAC)

Participants: Alan Greenberg, Javier Rua-Jovet, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Maureen Hilyard, Kaili Kan, Olivier-Crépin Leblond, Barrack Otieno, (Maritza Aguero), Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong, Dev Anand Teelucksingh, Rinalia Abdul Rahim (Wladimir Davalos), Beran Gillen, Seth Reiss, Andrei Kolesnikov, Bastiaan Goslings, Alberto Soto, León Sanchez, Harold Arcos, Tijani Ben Jemaa, Julie Hammer, Yrjö Länsipuro 

ES: Maritza Aguero, Harold Arcos, Alberto Soto, Wladimir Davalos
FR: N/A
RU: N/A

Apologies: Wafa Dahmani, Holly Raiche, Seun Ojedeji, Daniel Nanghaka

Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Yeşim Nazlar, Evin Erdoğdu, Siranush Vardanyan

Interpreters:
FR: Isabelle & Jacques
ES: Veronica & Claudia
RU: Galina & Maya

Call Management: Evin Erdoğdu

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. Review of outstanding Action Items from the ALAC Meeting of 28 March 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
      • None 
   2. Statements in process: being drafted, in comment or in vote:
      • Recommendations to Improve ICANN's Transparency (closes 10 Apr 2017) - A Statement has been submitted with ratification pending; ALAC ratifying a Statement 
      • Interim Paper Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Names of Countries and Territories as Top Level Domains (closes 21 Apr 2017)  - At-Large Community commenting on a Statement 
      • ICANN's Draft FY18 Operating Plan and Budget, and Five-Year Operating Plan Update (closes 28 Apr 2017) - Tijani BEN JEMAA drafting a Statement 
      • Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Implementation Guidelines (closes 02 May 2017) - andrei.kolesnikov reviewing the public comment 
      • Draft 2016 African Domain Name System Market Study (closes 05 May 2017) - wafa.zaafouri and seun.ojedeji drafting a Statement 
      • Proposed Fundamentals Bylaws Changes to Move the Board Governance Committee's Reconsideration Process Responsibilities to Another Board Committee (closes 10 May 2017) - leon.sanchez drafting a Statement 
      • Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations for New gTLDs (closes 19 May 2017) - At-Large Community commenting on a Statement 
      • Deferral of Country Code Names Supporting Organization Review (closes 19 May 2017) - Alan Greenberg drafting a Statement in consultation with Maureen
      • GNSO Community Comment 2 (CC2) on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (closes 22 May 2017)  - Alan Greenberg and Cheryl Langdon-Orr drafting a Statement 
      • Recommendations to Improve SO/AC Accountability (closes 26 May 2017)  - Alan Greenberg and Cheryl Langdon-Orr drafting a Statement 
   3. Statements that seem to be stalled:
      •  None
   4. Public Comment requests to which the ALAC decided not to submit Statements: 
      • Proposal for Ethiopic Script Root Zone‬ Label Generation Rules (LGR)  (closes 05 May 2017)
   5. New Public Comment requests to which the ALAC needs to make decisions: 
      • Proposed Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement (closes 30 May 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: 222 (in 100 countries)
2.  Recently certified ALSes: #261 ICT Association of Malawi - (ICTAM) - AFRALO, #260 Action pour l'Education et la Promotion de la Femme au Tchad (AEPF-Tchad) - AFRALO
3. Recently decertified ALSes: None
4. Applications currently being voted on: #263 Internet Development Initiative (IDI) - APRALO (Vote to close 1 May)
5.  Applications pending: See At-Large Structure Applications and Certification Process
6. Regional Advice awaited for: #264 Chapitre Sénégalais de l'Internet Society (Senegalese ISOC) - AFRALO, #262 Armenian Internet Traffic Exchange Foundation (ARMIX) - APRALO
7.  Staff processing Due Diligence for: #267 Surabhi Softwares - APRALO, #266 Internet Society Capítulo Paraguay - LACRALO, #265 Cybercafe Association CCAOI - 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. 
   

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. ALAC Credibility - Alan Greenberg (15 minutes)

See: Discussion Document

8. At-Large Review - Initial Review of Draft Final Report - Holly Raiche, Cheryl Langdon-Orr and Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

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

GNSO WP to Board Operational Effectiveness Committee

Summary

MSSI to GNSO

9. ALAC Chair and ALT Responsibilities - Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

See: ALAC Rules of Procedure (Sections 5.9-11, 3.6)

10. CCWG on Internet Governance - Proposed Changes to its Charter - Olivier Crepin-Leblond (10 minutes)

11. At-Large at ICANN 59 - Gisella Gruber and ALL (this needs your input)  (15 minutes)

See: ICANN 59 webpage

a. Review of ICANN core schedule 

b. At-Large Schedule Development 

12. FY18 Additional Budget Requests - Approved Requests and Next Steps - Heidi Ullrich and Alan Greenberg (15 minutes)

See: At-Large FY18 Special Request Implementation Workspace

13. ALAC Elections to Start - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)

See: 2017 ALAC and RALO Elections, Selections and Appointments

14. Any Other Business - Alan Greenberg (3 minutes)