Attendance: Darlene Thompson, Allan Skuce, Gordon Chillcott, Gareth Shearman, Beau Brendler, Olivier Crepin-LeBlond, Eduardo Diaz, Avri Doria, Garth Bruen, Evan Leibovitch, Alan Greenburg, Joly MacFie,
Staff: Gisella Gruber, Matt Ashtiani, Silvia Vivanco
Apologies: Seth Green
A G E N D A
NARALO AGENDA: Monday, January 9, 2012
Quote of the day: "Delighted by the reactions his buffoonery produces, he is having the time of his life, like a canine wallowing joyfully in his own crap."
-- Article in AlterNet about, among other things, GoDaddy's reversal on SOPA, and the writer's opinion of CEO Bob Parsons
1. Budget submissions
Thanks to: Darlene, Evan, Gareth
Brief summary: Darlene, Evan
The notion this year was to ask for big-ticket items (i.e. Toronto GA, 'booth' events at trade shows)
Gareth, Evan, Darlene and Beau met last week and put together two budget templates, one for a Toronto Event and one for outreach at three different trade shows. Consensus was to go forward on this.
The finance folk during the Finance-sc meeting earlier today were also talking about multi-year planning on recurring items. There is also a movement to consider another Summit by the finance people. Things are definitely improving.
2. Costa Rica meeting: 60-day countdown
Summary: Beau
Paperwork due today: travel forms, banking forms etc.
We will hold a NARALO meeting at the regular time, for those who want direct access
Issues, goals, policy suggestions
During the Costa Rica conference we will be holding the NARALO conference at the regular time and date.
Also, for those that are traveling to Costa Rica, the deadline is today to have your forms in.
3. 'New' RAA working group formed in at-large
Summary: Beau (co-chair)
Brief issue summary: Alan Greenberg
Goals of new working group:
* Refining the 'aspirational' charter to make it more of a real one
* Determining real needs for future RAA amendments
* End-user "bill of rights": Is it adequate?
They are taking the old meeting list of the previous RAA working group and reforming a “new” group. The new group will be a lot more open than the old. The goals are listed above. Many from the old group will be continuing as well as some new ones.
4. Recruitment video project
Thanks to, and summary from: Glenn/Joly
See: NARALO Outreach Video- Longer version
Shorter Video after feedback
Version 2
This version has Sub Section Intros
Version 3
Soft launch two weeks before Costa Rica meeting
There are now multiple versions of this and they are working on a short edited version and this will be done in the very near future. We would like to also push ahead at making these public, especially during the Costa Rica meeting. Heidi will go off-line with Joly to discuss the soft launch before Costa Rica and will try to tie it into other outreach tools.
5. Survey project
Thanks to Glenn/summary by Beau
Survey questionnaire is completed
Broad range of questions, some controversial about ICANN's scope
What's needed now: FEEDBACK on survey questions.
We want to DEPLOY this survey right after Costa Rica meeting.
Please everybody, have a look at the survey and give feedback on it. We can discuss this further at the Costa Rica meeting. ICANN still needs to do a worldwide survey but ours is a good start in showing what the public interest is as we would like to bring it forward. We also need to stress that any survey that will be global need to be in French and Spanish as well as English.
Avri: The GNSO also has a working group that is writing a WHOIS survey (the wg is open to all) and the questions that the group is writing will be coming out for review and under the PDP process that the GNSO is working on, if ALAC has a comment on any working group, the PDP MUST respond.
6. Rob Hall/Nomcom/ICANN leadership capture and credibility concerns
Beau agreed to produce draft letter and has not yet done so. The intent is to write the letter and then ask for discussion time at Costa Rica.
Other business:
* New gTLDs, JAS report, Evan's statement: Evan
The new gTLD working group in ALAC is meeting regularly to discuss the rollout timetable among other things.
* SOPA/PIPA: NARALO has been largely silent. Should we say anything about this, and if so, what? Or can we offer support to NCSG?
The US government has proposed to be able to do take downs that affect internet freedom of speech. There are aspects of this that are within ICANN’s remit because its asking for filtering at the DNS level. Joly is interested in this and will ask on-line to determine what course of action on this matter would be reasonable.
* NARALO statement to U.S. Government (Olivier/Evan/Beau): Statement encourages government leadership to regard the at-large as place for end-user feedback.
There were two hearings not long ago and Beau/Olivier sent a letter of feedback but has not yet received any kind of response back.
*At-Large Improvements: There is a fairly lengthy procedure going on in order to make improvements in the way that At-Large works and we are encouraging anybody to contribute to this. There will also be a work team that will focus on in-reach and out-reach.
Avri mentioned that the items that the old work teams used to work on are no longer being done. Avri would like to know how to bring some of these old items forward. Cheryl was supposed to be working on a group to address the issue of the board member selection. Other than that, we do not yet have good mechanisms for bringing things forward. Things like this could be brought up on the At-Large or NA-DISCUSS list or to a specific committee chair.
