Attending: Darlene Thompson, Evan Leibovitch, Robert Guerra, Alan Greenburg, Michael Miranda, Gareth Shearman, Frederic Teboul, Seth Reiss, Wendy Seltzer
1. Roll Call
2. Review of Minutes of Last Meeting
3. Review of Action items Last Meeting
4. NARALO Election
There was an election for the Chair and Secretariat but nobody showed up. So, it looks like Evan will continue as Chair and Darlene as Secretariat.
Frederic is now up-to-date on the polling software for next time around.
There is a new group (The Centre for Building Sustainable Communities) that has applied as an ALS from Oshawa, ON. If anybody has any questions on them, they can ask Evan. Their due diligence report came up clear.
As there was no dissent in accepting this group so we will allow this consensus. If there is no on-line dissent in the following week, then the regional advice will be to support this application.
5. ICANN Travel Policy
We have put together a position paper for ICANN Travel Policy. This document was also be used for the Presidents Committee in regards to increasing public confidence in ICANN.
Now that we have the Travel Policy paper together, we are unsure who to submit this to. Frederic suggested sending it to Keiran McCarthy and Wendy suggested Kevin Wilson and Doug Brent. Should we be sending this in right away or not? Apparently there is a travel policy that has been circulated among the board that is quite similar to what we have seen.
It was decided that we wait until after tomorrow’s ALAC conference call.
6. RAA
Since Danny left that section, there has been very little information available. As ALAC hasn’t done much in this regard, perhaps the regions need to lead this up. As this issue will come up at the ALAC meeting tomorrow we will wait until after that meeting. A briefing should be coming out from staff on August 20, 2008.
7. Other Business
Darlene: Could we please reschedule our NARALO meetings so that they can come after the ALAC meeting?
Alan: Mailing lists – it seems that it is getting harder and harder to avoid cross-posting. Does anybody have any ideas how to avoid cross-posting with the way the lists are set up now? Perhaps everybody who subscribes to ALAC should also be subscribed to At-Large.
