Participants: Beau Brendler, Alan Greenberg, Darlene Thompson, Marc Rotenberg, Annalisa Roger, Evan Leibovitch, Allan Skuce, Chris Grundemann, Eric Brunner-Williams, Eduardo Diaz, Glenn McKnight, Joly McFie, Gareth Shearman, Gordon Chillcott
Apologies: Monique Chatrand
Guests: Olivier Crepin-Leblond
Staff: Matthias Langenegger
Review of Action Items from last meeting
AI: Annalisa will send a list with affordable hotels in the meeting venue area to the NARALO list.
ONGOING
AI: Staff will send out a call for volunteer for the NARALO Showcase WG will be sent out.
DONE
AI: Alan will draft suggested modifications to the NARALO Rules of Procedure for Meetings and the Operating Principles (to fix an omission with regards to the votes of the unaffiliated user representative).
ONGOING - Alan: this is more time-consuming than expected. There are additional areas that need fixing.
AI: Beau will draft a document in response to the DOC letter
CANCELED Alan: In my view it is no longer necessary to redact a document, the time has passed.
Beau moved, seconded by Alan, to cancel the action item on drafting a response to the DOC letter.
The motion passed unanimously.
Open Public Consultations
AI: Eric will draft a note on the ownership, trust, and economic (legal) barriers to operational data and the importance of data to informed policy making.
Evan: We put out a statement, which basically says that the current course of action on new gTLDs is unacceptable. We also created two WGs to draft detailed recommendations.
Evan: At the moment, there is only a tentative location and a tentative date for the GAC - Board meeting on new gTLDS. The location does no longer seem to be Geneva.
Olivier: We have been in contact with the Board and the GAC urging them to have the meeting as soon as possible. Late February is too close to San Francisco. We are still waiting for a joint statement to announce the exact date and location.
Alan gave a synopsis of the ALAC statement on Uniform Rapid Suspension.
Review of Cartagena Meeting
Update on ALAC Officer and Liaison Positions
Beau gave a short summary of the ALAC leadership elections in Cartagena. You can find the complete list of the current ALAC members and officers at:http://www.icann.org/en/committees/alac/
Update on ALAC Policy Discussions
A review of ALAC’s policy discussions in Cartagena can be found in the Chair's report from Cartagena.
Update on ICANN developments and important Board decisions
Evan: The big news was the approval of .XXX. There are still wrestling over some details but they decided to go ahead. However, there was no vote to launch the new gTLD process.
Eric: The fact that the GAC invoked the Bylaws concerning the rejection of GAC advice by the Board is remarkable.
Alan: There are about 6 sections that talk about GAC advice in the ICANN Bylaws and not a single section on ALAC advice. However, the Board has largely ignored those sections, a fact that was highlighted by the GAC recently. This will have to change in the future. Secondly, the Board revised its decision on the morality and public order (MAPO) issue and referred back to the group drafting the recommendations. That's encouraging to see.
Eduardo: The first letter of the DOC was on MAPO. They said ICANN should not get involved in this.
Evan: The GNSO resolved that ICANN needs to install a mechanism to deal with objectionable strings. This obviously puts ICANN in a difficult position with regards to the DOC letter. The ICANN Board will eventually have to deal with it. The GAC and the ALAC are both involved in the MAPO issue. At-Large improvements work team A has started drafting possible Bylaw changes to help strengthen ALAC’s institutional role, although the draft modifications are not as detailed as those pertaining to the GAC. Lastly, there is also a small WG drafting alternative Applicant Guidebook text for certain areas. The alternative Guidebook is more user-centric than the actual Applicant Guidebook.
NARALO Input to Work Team C SWOT Analysis
Olivier: Work team C looked at recommendations 5 and 6 of the At-Large improvement recommendations. We were trying to identify specific strengths and weaknesses and hope that each region can provide input on this SWOT analysis from their regional perspective.
See: https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/NARALO+input+into+WT+C+SWOT+analyses
Gareth: I would like to volunteer to be the conduit for the NARALO
AI: Garteh will collect the input from NARALO to the WT C SWOT analysis.
Update on San Francisco Showcase Working Group
Eduardo: Staff will shortly send out a doodle for the first WG call.
There is also a wiki workspace to plan the SF showcase available under:
https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+San+Francisco+Showcase+Working+Group
Update from the At-Large Improvements WTs
Annalisa summarized the recent WT B developments.
Annalisa: While it is possible to get an Adobe Connect meeting room from ICANN for your ALS meetings, we at ISCO SF did not find it particularly useful. However, it could help draw in some members in other ALSes perhaps.
Alan: It would be helpful to have one standardized page per ALS on our wiki to provide information and contact details.
Beau and Annalisa agreed to that.
Darlene: If we do factsheets for our ALSes for SF as LACRALO did for the Cartagena showcase we would already have what Alan is suggesting.
There was general agreement to this proposal.
Marc: I made a proposal to do a town hall meeting in San Francisco perhaps at Stanford University. This would be a great opportunity to draw in the interested public.
Beau liked the suggestion.
Annalisa: I would like to note, however, that Stanford is 60 miles away from Union Square. I could certainly help but logistics are challenging. If there are other ICANN events taking place in Silicon Valley there might be shuttles. Otherwise it could prove difficult to get bring the attendees from SF to Stanford university.
Recent and Upcoming Activities of NARALO members
Beau: I am happy to announce that we will produce a document on the consumer constituency in San Francisco.
Alan: Beau, there seem to be two different definitions of consumers: 1) people buying stuff online, and 2) consumers of the Internet itself.
Beau: My definitions is the latter
Alan: Okay because the draft charters, I have seen seem to focus on the financial transaction aspect.
Beau: That must be an older version.
Eduardo: I would like to remind you that the NomCom is looking for applicants for the coming year. I would like to encourage you to put forward candidates. The deadline is April 4th.
Beau: Thanks to all.
The meeting was then adjourned.
