NARALO GA

March 3, 2009

Mexico City, MX

1. Welcome to new NARALO members

2. Introduction of each ALS

• Knujon
• Communautique
• Consumer Reports Webwatch
• Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities
• ISOC Quebec
• CLUE
• N-CAP
• Telecommunities Canada
• The Intellectual Property & Technology Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association
• Emerging Futures Network
• ISOC Puerto Rico
• ALAC Nom Com
• Wendy Seltzer - Individual

Visitors:

• Analisa Roger – DotGreen Registry Corporation
• Jennifer Knoll – DotGreen Registry Corporation
• Elizabeth Hitchcock - Individual

3. Services Briefing on Registrar/Registry RAA Non-Compliance in NARALO Region

Guest speaker – David A. Giza, Senior Director, Contractual Compliance

Q & A

A typical person wanting to set up a website doesn’t know the difference between a reseller and an accredited registry.

Q. Are the improvements that you are taking applicable to the ccTLD world?
A. ccTLDs are on the list but we don’t have that plan completely developed at this point.

Q. Policy is useless without policy enforcement. Study showed that dozens of registrars have actual addresses that are different than those posted, etc. Section 3.7.8 of the RAA goes to the way that Registrars are to verify Registrants information. There is an OR between a and b which allow registrars to do neither (in the way of verification of registrar inaccuracies).
A. True, it doesn’t go far enough but they are working on it.

Q. Is it possible to amend RAA without going through the approval?
A. Usually the amendments are discussed as a matter of policy by the GNSO council and they would pass it along to the ICANN board. If it gets passed by the board, then they become binding. Also, the Board could take action without receiving a recommendation from the GNSO council but this wouldn’t have the weight of policy which would be binding.

Q. How many complaints – how many have been acted upon?
A. Those numbers are not available.

Q. Clause 5.10 on Third-Party Beneficiaries.
A. There must be compliance conditions extended to those Beneficiaries but would need to be investigated further with the legal team.

Q. Section 5.3.2.1 – Onlinenic was convicted of cybersquatting, yet ICANN’s compliance team has taken no action – Why?
A. This is definitely being discussed amongst their legal team. The Onlinenic situation involved a default judgment and that is not a conviction.

4. Reports and Performance Review

a. Chair
b. Secretariat
c. ALAC
d. Liaisons
e. Staff support
f. Quality of background materials

Performance has been a significant issue in the RALO. We need a frank discussion on how we have progressed, what can be done better, etc. Attendance records are easy but we also need other performance metrics. We have only been around for two years and we have been able to get a lot of things done.

What do each of us expect of NARALO and has this been accomplished?

a. Alan – the NARALO has had performance issues. When just using the metrics, its very difficult judge by numbers only. NARALO has been at the top of the pile when it comes to pumping out policy and such. We need more people to become involved, though, or else we will not remain in this position. We must also keep emotion aside in our work. We can debate attendance forever. If participation is zero across the board then you are obviously not an active participant.
b. Eduardo – The Chair and Secretariat have kept the lines of communication open. This Summit has been one of the first times that many of us have clearly understood some of the key issues.
c. Dharma – It would be ideal to move to identifying issues that are of interest to NA users. Metrics should be tied to how we push policy.
d. Seth – Extended appreciation to all involved. Being able to come to the Summit has been welcome. Beau has done a great job of bringing issues forward to highlight important policy issues and to focus us. Evan may wish to invite more comments at the beginning of teleconferences and reserve views to later. The tone of the lists should be more constructive and less aggressive.
e. Gareth – It has been a steep learning curve and keeping up with the e-mail lists is not easy. Alan, Beau, Evan & Darlene have been working hard to keep everything moving.
f. Louis – Contributors have been doing a good job. It is really hard to keep up with the e-mail lists. NARALO needs to become bigger. Those that have been contributing heavily cannot do much more so we need more that can do so. We need to be more constructive on how we do things but we are a very young group. We still need to grow. We also still need more resources.
g. Glenn – Likes most everything that has been said. As a new person, its really hard to track what is actually happening on the lists and sometimes it sounds like a party line. The Summit has really helped to inspire him and will encourage all. Performance review – There must be a link between performance review and the strategic plan and meeting benchmarks. Are we achieving our benchmarks? What are they? It’s a rancorous group but we get a lot done.
h. Beau – We need to recruit people with some institutional memory, even if only on a consultant type basis. We need more experts like Danny. Performance requirements for ALAC have been a challenge. We are all volunteers. There are a large number of people on ALAC who do nothing. Over all feelings are positive.
i. Monique – Appreciation to all involved. Special thanks to staff. Agree with Dharma so that we can identify user issues. Summit has been very inspiring.
j. Garth – Half of life is showing up for stuff. Nobody here is full time and we have a lot of other commitments.
k. Evan – Happy to help make the Summit happen. There has always been a lack of understanding of ICANN culture. The Summit has really helped to explain this to people. It is disappointing that we do not have more individual users here. We need to attract more. General outreach has been a disappointment and we need to become bigger and more diverse. The loss of Jacob Malthouse has been felt. Energetic debate is good but we also need to remove emotion from the mix. Its good to Chair a group but we need something to chair.
5. Operating Procedures

a. Identification of those that have not worked well.
b. Suggestions for how to improve operating procedures.
c. Development of procedures for mid-term recall.

Motion to add Spanish to our official languages.
Motion: Eduardo
Seconder: Darlene
All in favour

Motion to change 2 reps to one rep per ALS but leave it at two unaffiliated individuals
Motion: Gareth
Seconder: Dharma
All in favour

Darlene moved
Garth seconded
All in favour to accept the document with the changes as shown on the screen.

We are also going to take the discussion off line as to recall procedures.

6. NARALO/At-Large Staff Discussion

a) Increasing ALS engagement

Cheryl & Vanda – The Proposed Framework for FY10 Operating Plan and Budget; Fiscal Year Ending 30 June, 2010 was passed around. We all need to give this a read over and then give our inputs. Once this document is approved there won’t be another chance to change it. This is the budget of the At-Large so we have input into it – its not just for ALAC. If we want outreach, we need a budget for it. Its not just influencing our narrow budget list; rather, we need to expand the budget and pull from other sections.

b) Outreach/publicity

c) ICANN/At-Large budget/financial transparency

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