Meeting Summary of Tele-Conference
June 8, 2009
NARALO Teleconference
Present: Evan Leibovitch, Darlene Thompson, Gareth Shearman, Garth Bruen, Alan Greenburg, Seth Reiss, Eduardo Diaz
Staff: Heidi Ulrich
1. Roll Call
2. Review of the Summary Minutes 11 May 2009
3. Review of the Action Items 11 May 2009
Papergate – Although the ALAC supported the NARALO advice to not accept but it wasn’t unanimous. This was questioned by both Evan and Darlene but no answers have been forthcoming. This is the first time this has happened that wasn’t just a confusion of wording.
ROP – Heidi and Nick are going to be reviewing the GA ROP and getting back to Seth, Gareth and Darlene so that we can review same and update.
4. Open Public Comment Periods
NARALO needs to comment on the Travel Support document. There are no provisions for regional meetings or outreach. We need a regional meeting each year so as not to lose the momentum of the Summit. We need to put this out on the ALAC list and then word-craft it in Sydney. Alan Greenburg will start the process with suggesting some brief text. NARALO participants will then add to this text.
New GTLDs/IRT should be taken on as well.
a. NARALO perspective
Proposed Agenda Items:
1. Sydney Meetings schedule
a. At-Large Meeting schedule and agendas
Click on the link and you will see the updated agenda.
It was proposed and agreed to add the following issue to the agenda of the At-Large Meeting that will take place in Sydney on 21 June 2009: “Response to Travel Support Guidelines”.
2. Recent and Upcoming Activities of ALAC (Alan, Beau, and Gareth)
a. At-Large Policy Development Schedule
Alan discussed several policy issues:
i. GNSO – There will be a PDP on post-expiration domain expiry. Good participation is needed. Although Alan is currently chairing this WG, he is looking for a replacement. There will likely be an initial informal meeting on this issue during the Sydney meeting.
ii. RAA – there are two issues currently being worked on:
(1) Registrant Rights Charter
(2) Future amendments to the RAA
iii. Performance indicators – Alan agrees with Carlos that rather than judging performance on numbers, it is better to look at the content of the input.
3. Recent and Upcoming Activities of NARALO ALSes
4. Outreach and How to Improve it
Last year we put in for an ICANN presence at three meetings but it was ignored. Should we even bother with this? We need ICANN’s formal go ahead.
a. Upcoming global policy briefings
See link
b. New policy staff member - Director for Policy Communication
Scott Pinzon, based in Seattle. He has a keen interest in working with the RALOs on policy issues and will be chatting with us in Sydney.
c. Adobe Connect (see: Adobe Connect Resource Page) and Social Text wiki FAQ page
We didn’t end up having the 30 minute pre-call on this but would be happy to reschedule. The Tech staff doesn’t mind doing this but would prefer for us to go through the resource page first ourselves. Cheed to know how to use the white board and the fact that there doesn’t seem to be a date/time stamp on chat. Possible dates are 15 or 16 June.
Cheryl wanted info on how to even format the look of the Adobe Connect room.
5. NARALO ALSes on Google maps - next steps
6. AoB
