ALAC Monthly Teleconference
20 November 2007
Summary Minutes
ALAC Present: C Langdon-Orr, V Cretu, V Scartezini, A Greenberg, N Thu Hue, B Brendler, C Aguirre, I Aizu, S Bachollet, J O Salgueiro (joined at 1400 UTC)
Liaisons Present: H Xue
ALAC Apologies: F Seye Sylla, A Muehlberg, R Guerra, H Diakite
Liaisons Apologies: J Morris, W Seltzer
Absent: M El Bashir
As the meeting was not quorate at the meeting start time a briefing was requested by the Chair of H Xue on the IDN workshop at the IGF. It was reported that this session went very well. In particular the IDN email standard is in the very final stages of approval which is very good news for users.
The meeting was declared open and quorate at 13:51 UTC
The Chair suggested that the volume of work lent itself to many items being moved to subcommittees.
A Greenberg asked that item 2 under New Business be dealt with on the call and it was decided to move it under adoption of the minutes of the previous meeting.
A Greenberg and I Aizu moved the adoption of Sept 11 & Oct 9 minutes. This was unanimously agreed.
A Greenberg noted he was overdue in providing a written statement which he promised to transmit shortly. With respect to the community representation as required by the Domain Tasting PDP, it was decided that A Greenberg should represent At-Large.
A Greenberg is to notify the requisite staff by copy to the Chair.
Action Items, LA Meeting
Item 1: Proposed by the Chair that D Younger, a member of the Secretariats, and an ALAC member should take the lead on this. B Brendler had volunteered and A Greenberg supported B Brendler’s suggestion that D Younger be appointed. The Chair suggested we have a lawyer involved too.
At this point telephone line interference made continued participation in the meeting impossible and a quorum was lost. The few remaining members who could hear after the interference cleared up after 20 minutes continued informal discussions.
A number of suggestions were put forward to try and provide better connectivity options including trying out ISOC’s system Marratech.
Sebastien offered to find out if we could use Marratech for the next ALAC teleconference to see how it works.
Nick to liaise with the relevant ISOC people to sort out repayment by ICANN for LD charges associated with dial-outs.
