MINUTES OF THE MEETING
Polices out for public comment ; ICANNhttp://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/Publichttp://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/Commenthttp://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/Forumhttp://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/page - Dev (5 mins)
The WHOIS Review Team has issued a draft report and recommendations at http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/whois-rt-draft-final-report-05dec11-en.htm
which is available in the six UN languages. This policy is important to any registrant.
Also, the draft Framework for the FY13 budget (http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/op-budget-fy2013-17jan12-en.htm) which
looks at the current and planned work, along with estimated financial resources required to achieve said work was published for comment
Update on possible LACRALO events in Costa Rica
Dev (and Olivier confirmed) that there has been no response from ICANN Finance re: funding of LACRALO events in CR.
The view was expressed that there was no support for LACRALO on the part of the ALAC. OCL explained that ALAC has pressed the Finance Committee to support LACRALO’s proposals to hold events in Costa Rica. Points of view were expressed that there should be a deadline for ICANN’s finance department to decide on the funding for Costa Rica’s events; otherwise LACRALO would risk running out of time and not being able to organize anything. At Large’s Director Heidi Ullrich explained that At Large staff is very well experienced in organizing these types of events and should be able to assist LACRALO and that a response was expected from ICANN Finance early next week.
Several points of views were expressed regarding the Showcase:
- There was no sense in holding a Showcase if only few ALS could attend in person to be at the event.
- Some ALS have expressed their opposition against having a Showcase.
- There should be a Working group to organize the Showcase to be able to assign responsibilities to people to organize it.
- Having a showcase is important to highlight the activities of ALSes in LACRALO to ICANN and other RALOs. ALS reps that do not attend in person can still be shown to the wider At-Large and ICANN by the proposed videos.
LACRALO Proposal for FY13
The budget requests from LACRALO to have a Multi-day gTLD Workshop at LACIGF in August 2012 will be reviewed by the ALAC FBSC and ICANN’s Finance department. This is a ‘Plan B’ if the LACRALO events in CR are not approved. Concerns expressed that the LACRALO Proposal for FY13 didn’t include LACRALO reps already funded for CR ; it was pointed out that several ALS reps are already going to LACIGF and hopefully the numbers would balance out.
Any other business
By laws issue was left for a discussion at a later stage.
