Participants: Hong Xue, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Siva Muthusamy, Holly Raiche, Pavan Budhrani, Fouad Bajwa, Edmon Chung, Vivek Anand, Charles Mok
Apologies: None
Staff: Matthias Langenegger
1. Roll-call and apologies
No apologies were noted.
2. Review of action item:
Secretariat to contact the ALS’es to encourage them to participate more
Done
Staff will organize an At-Large briefing on IDNs at an Asian-friendly time.
Done
Staff will coordinate with Charles Mok and WT D on the policy advise development schedule presented at the APRALO meeting today.
Done
Hong: Thanks to Charles for this great proposal and thanks to Cheryl for bringing this document to WT D.
Staff will consult with the APRALO list whether the next APRALO teleconference should be held on December 21st or January 4th.
3. APRALO announcements
Application period for ICANN's Leadership Positions Now Open
Vivek: I am working with a couple of organizations here in India to help reach out to potential new leaders for the ICANN NomCom positions. I also suggest that we combine this effort with our ALS outreach efforts.
Hong: I would also like to draw your attention to the ICANN announcement on the new leadership positions.
Cheryl: How can we help you look outside of our ALSes for new potential leaders? The existing ALS members already have a pathway to ICANN leadership position through the regional At-Large organisations.
Vivek: In my view, an outreach effort to local leaders could also lead to new ALS applications.
Hong: With regards to the fellowship, I have just been informed that Siva has been awarded a fellowship to attend the San Francisco meeting. Congratulations to Siva!
APRALO Leadersihp Elections
Hong: I hope that staff can help us set up the upcoming election principles. We need 1.5 weeks for nominations, 1 week for accepting the nominations and 1.5 for potential elections. We also need another 2 weeks for preparations.
Cheryl: We do not need to have our elections completed by 30 June according to our bylaws.
Hong: I note that Charles will be Vice Chair until 30 June.
Cheryl: We also need to choose my replacement until 30 June and we need to look at the Secretariat position.
Hong: I suggest that we start the election cycle for the Chair position now. First of all, we need some discussion on this position on the list. Hopefully, the position will be filled by the end of San Francisco.
Cheryl: We need to be careful about the dates. All terms run until June 2011. The way I understand it, Hong would remain Chair
4. Update on Regional Policy Workplan
Charles: WT D informed me that they would like me to present the proposal during their meeting. However, I think we should get feedback from the APRALO members first.
Hong: Thank you, Charles. This is a terrific document.
Edmon: The idea of this proposal is to have the working group prioritize our involvement in the public consultations.
Holly: There might be different priorities for the APRALO members. We might all need to have a look at the consultations and identify the relevant topics.
Edmon: That's exactly my point. How do we prioritize? Do we run monthly polls or do we consult the list.
Holly: I support the idea that we have a small group of people to discuss and identify the important policy issues and report back to APRALO during the monthly calls.
5. Update on Outreach & In-reach
CLO: Ideally, we would be looking at the public consultations that end two meetings ahead.
6.1 Updates from the ALAC members and liaisons
Cheryl: I would like to draw your attention to the Strategic Planning website we have set up to collect the comments from the RALOs and ALSes:https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ICANN+Strategic+Planning+Development+2011+Community+Workspace
This is the first full work week of the ALAC and we will start working on the ALAC statement on the strategic plan.
The meeting was then adjourned.
