Participants: Alan Greenberg, Marc Rotenberg, Beau Brendler, Darlene Thompson, Gordon Chillcot, Allan Skuce, Joly McFie, Seth Reiss, Garth Bruen, Evan Leibovitch, Eric Brunner-Williams, Danny Younger, Eduardo Diaz, Glenn McKnight,
Apologies: Gareth Shearman
Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger
ALAC Statement on the current situation in Egypt
Marc: I was disappointed with the statement. The ALAC missed an opportunity here.
Joly: It was good that the ALAC sent a statement but its too bad there wasn’t more in it about ANY government being able to shut down the Internet.
Alan Greenberg feels that we need to be careful of both ICANN’s scope and what people on the ground there felt. ICANN is walking a careful edge in this so should a part of ICANN make a stronger statement than ICANN feels it could/should. We need to balance all of those concerns but should come down on the side of caution.
Joly: We can make strong statements to ICANN about what they should say but should not be making strong statements to others.
Marc: Silence in these situations can also be a decision, not just a lack thereof.
Update on Current Policy Developments
Board/GAC Consultation on New gTLDS
Evan: He has been in contact with some on the GAC and there is a lot of frustration within the GAC because of suggestions being ignored by ICANN. There is a meeting happening in Brussels at the end of this month and on the GAC, Board and certain consultants may speak. The GAC has identified issues with which they have certain concern in this process that they feel are flawed. (trademark protection, objectionable strings) The GAC has been pushing for this meeting and there will be three people from ALAC that will be attending this meeting as observers (Olivier, Rudi, Avri). There will be streaming audio and video and so this part will be public.
Joly would be interested to know where the GAC and ALAC have common grounds.
Evan: We are agreed on many of the things we don’t like such as objectionable strings and trademark protection.
Transition from IPv4 to IPv6
Beau: Should we have a separate call later in the month with specialists on this? Yes.
DNNSEC
We also need a briefing call on this.
Discuss NARALO Input into WT C SWOT analyses
Beau: Our income is requested into this. The time is running short on this and we need to get into this document and get our hands dirty. Perhaps we need to schedule a separate call. If we don’t make our statements known here, it will be difficult to complain further down the road. Do we agree with their analysis of the situation? Perhaps we don’t need a separate call.
AI: Beau will send a follow up message on the SWOT analysis to the NARALO list and provide preliminary input on behalf of NARALO.
Preparations for the NARALO Activities at ICANN SF Meeting
Update on the Townhall Event at Stanford University
What do we need to do here to make this come off?
Marc: We need to get an update but there is a lot of interest.
Heidi: They’ve discussed this with the executive committee and they would like to start a mailing list of interested members in order to move forward on this. We need to discuss the organization of this. There has been interest from Stanford and from ISOC SF. Annalisa Roger wouldn’t mind helping to organize this. Saturday won’t work for this and neither will Sunday. The timing is an issue. Even the evenings are getting filled up. Tuesday is music night but this could be held at the same time and will draw a different crowd. This will happen physically at Stanford but will also be cyber-cast. We would need to charter a bus for this. We also need to look at sponsorships. Do we have presenters set up for this? No, but we don’t think there will be much difficulty for this.
AI: Heidi will add the participants of this call to the mailing list of the Townhall Meeting.
Update on SF Showcase Event
We are attempting to get sponsorships for this event. Darlene is collecting information for the fact sheets. We have also set up the agenda for this. Our keynote speaker is Vint Cerf and Rod Beckstrom will also be speaking. We will be giving Vint a speaker gift. Each ALS will be given a chance to speak. Adam will be talking about our outreach efforts. It should be a very exciting meeting. We have a conference call on this every Thursday.
NARALO Budget Requests for FY12
Beau: We have asked for a general assembly, presence at three large international technology conferences, and presence at NA meetings. ALAC has not put forward a judgment call on what is important and what not.
Heidi: All regions’ ideas have been collected together and then taken to ICANN financial staff to see if it fits with the strategic plan. We will hold a community call in the last week of February with Juan where he will give us an update, they will also brief At-Large in San Francisco about the current status of the At-Large requests.
Evan: Scott Pinzon will be meeting with us in regards to outreach, in-reach and general communications. He has already completed one podcast and another is being done right now and it should be ready SF. Scott is also looking at a newsletter for At Large. We also expect French and Spanish versions of the NARALO brochures.
Update from the At-Large Improvements WTs
WT A: ALAC’s continuing purpose – Unlike bodies like GNSO, there is not restriction on the scope of At Large to participate, not just in GTLD policy but also Internationalization, security initiatives, ICANN policy functions. These are being put into ICANN’s bylaws for At-Large.
WT B: ALS participation – Have a closer look at alternative communicative tools like Posterous and staff has been tasked to look into that more closely. We advanced the other issues like using Adobe Connect for ALS meetings.
WT C: ALAC planning processes – They have been working mainly on the SWOT analysis.
WT D: ALAC’s policy advice development – This is a consolidation of documents that staff and Beau has put together. This will then be hosted on the consumer commens wiki for further comment.
Recent and Upcoming Activities of ALAC
Alan Greenberg has agreed to draft the proposed process for recognition of new GNSO constituencies.
Edmond Chung has agreed to draft the ALAC statement on the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group Interim Report.
Carlton Samuels has agreed to put in a late comment into the public consultation on GNSO Working Group Guidelines.
Recent and Upcoming Activities of NARALO members.
Joly: June 14 for the INET – Vint Cerf and somebody as keynoters
Danny: The GAC thinks that they can veto so many things about ICANN and this is unacceptable to At Large.
The meeting was then adjourned.
