FINAL DRAFT of 2024 APRALO RoP for read and review by APRALO Members as at Jan 18 2024 VIEW Only, Comments (substantive) need to be sent APRALO-Discuss list
A. Objectives/Terms of Reference
The working group will consider the following aspects related to membership:
- Examine the existing provisions in our Rules of Procedure, and suggest new provisions or modifications to existing provisions relating to the obligations and responsibilities of individual members.
- Clearly stipulate the roles and responsibilities of the elected individual member representative and his/her relations vis-à-vis the APRALO Leadership Team
- Design a Code of Conduct document laying out expected standards of behavior and other related matters, which is intended to be shared with every newcomer to our community.
- The WG will make sure that all changes to the ROPs are consistent with the At-Large Review recommendations.
B. Additional Points that may need to be addressed
Some issues that may need to be clarified (tentative, there may be more)
- Unaffiliated Individual Member criteria
- Says the applicant should not be a member of an existing ALS: is this valid?
- Enforcing the above criteria: trust the initial affidavit or "trust but verify". How about ongoing verification?
- Role of UIM Representative
- Is he/she an APRALO LT Member?
- What are his/her eligibilities?
- Job description/deliverable (such as Periodic updates to the APRALO community)
- The Election Process
- How to avoid conflicting leadership positions in APRALO and other ICANN positions
- Process of Nominations and Elections (for instance, should we forbid expression of support from the community on the list?)
- Membership type
- Need for an Associate Member category? (The recent case of China Internet Development Foundation)
- Membership status
- Affirming the current types of association
- ALS Representative
- Member of an APRALO ALS
- Unaffiliated Individual Member
- Subscriber of apac-discuss mailing list
- Periodic purge of apac-discuss list?
- Term of appointment for Individual members?
- Deregistration of ALSes
- Any ALAC-level decisions on membership post-ATLAS III
- Affirming the current types of association
- Code of Conduct
- Updating Expected Standards of Behaviour/Code of Conduct
- An APRALO Starter Pack?
C. Timeline
- The drafting team will obtain clearance from ICANN legal department
- The process of adoption of the new rules will include approval by APRALO membership.
Timeline - Target (Before the next GA)
Mailing list: apralo-rop-review@icann.org
Next Call: 04 January 2024
Previous Call: 19 December 2023
| Members |
|---|
| Cheryl Langdon-Orr (Co-Chair) |
| Justine Chew (Co-Chair) |
| Satish Babu |
| Ali AlMeshal |
| Nitin Walia |
| Shreedeep Rayamajhi |
| Amrita Choudhury |
| Jay Paudyal |
|
Naveed Bin Rais (withdrew on ) |
| Mahee Bandara Kirindigoda |
| Priyatosh Jana |
| Mohammad Kawsar Uddin |
| Maureen Hilyard |
| Amir Qayyum |
| Gopal Tadepalli |
| Prateek Pathak |
| Fouad Bajwa |
| Abhishek Gautam |
| Andrew Molivurae |
| Louk Chi |
| Adarsh Bu |
| Sabarinath Pillai |
| Cherie Lagakali |
| Bibek Silwal |
| Kristina Hakobyan |
| Yashar Hajiyev |
| Namra Naseer |
| Members |
|---|
| Satish Babu |
| Ali AlMeshal |
| Fouad Bajwa |
| Nitin Walia |
| Cheryl Langdon-Orr |
| Lianna Galstyan |
| Shreedeep Rayamajhi |
| Amrita Choudhury |
| Hanan Khatib |
| Jay Paudyal |
| Naveed Bin Rais |
| Farha Diba |
| Syuzan Marukhyan |
| Mahee Bandara Kirindigoda |
| Priyatosh Jana |
| Shaila Sharmin |
| Mohammad Kawsar Uddin |
| Maureen Hilyard |
| Amal Ramzi Al-saqqaf |
| Amir Qayyum |
4 Comments
Amrita Choudhury
For individual members, i think the rules mention they cannot be members of ALS. However, there are many individual members who are part of an ALS. Perhaps this needs to be discussed
Justine Chew
This suggests a lack of monitoring and action taken to enforce RoP paragraph 27.5.2.5, especially where an existing unaffiliated individual member changes his/her status which disqualifies him/her from unaffiliated individual membership but does not then inform APRALO LT/Secretariat/ At-Large Staff of such change.
Is it unreasonable to rely solely on the good faith of unaffiliated individual member declarations?
If yes, the perhaps whenever individual members representatives of ALSes are asked to confirm their ongoing status for their respective ALSes, the same can be done for unaffiliated individual members?
If no, then the question becomes who's operational responsibility is it to actively monitor the qualification of each existing unaffiliated individual member?
Amrita Choudhury
Yes justine we cannot rely solely on good faith of applicants and their declaration. Perhaps when a request for individual memebr comes, the ALS's from that region can be specifically asked to confirm if the person is a member of their ALS apart from the generalised mail that is sent when application for ALS's come in
Shreedeep Rayamajhi
I think there needs to be clarity in terms of how we will define the members of ALS and individual member. There can be situation where People can be a member of an organization but they do not want to identified as a member or the association.
Apart from that Internet society chapters are there where most of the community leaders are associated in such cases there can be an issue of Association with Individual Members.