November Report

EURALO- CENTR MOU Update

EURALO Chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) communicated to the EURALO members by email that on Tuesday 13th November 2018, the Chair of the Board of Directors of CENTR, the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries and representative for DENIC Jörg Schweiger, will be co-signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with him for the purpose of collaboration between EURALO and CENTR.

OCL elaborates that the collaboration between CENTR and EURALO will be based on a mutual agreement listed as follow:

1) Regularly updating each other on areas and activities of mutual interest;

2) Encouraging awareness of each other’s activities and mission among their respective members;

3) Promoting Internet development in the European region by encouraging participation in fora relating to Internet standards, policy development, and Internet governance;

4) Promoting an open, bottom-up, multistakeholder Internet governance model;

5)  Raising awareness about the DNS and its importance in maintaining an open Internet;

6) Collaborating on joint capacity-building events and related activities of mutual interest, including meetings, training courses, projects and workshops in the areas of Internet policy and Internet governance.

EURALO Activities at  Global Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Paris 2018, France

EURALO signing MoU with CENTR at IGF Paris

The text below was an email sent by the EURALO Chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) to the EURALO community, on the signing ceremony of the MOU between the EURALO and  CENTR at the 2018 IGF in Paris. 

"I am very pleased to sign this Memorandum with CENTR on behalf of EURALO. The aim of EURALO, as defined by our community, is to have at least one At-Large Structure in every country of our region. Collaborating with CENTR will reinforce the multistakeholder model that has already generated great opportunities, starting with National and Regional IGFs. Thanks to CENTR for considering this collaboration and to AFNIC for proposing that we sign this document at the IGF in Paris." 

More info and pictures on https://community.icann.org/display/EURALO/2018+MOU+EURALO+-+CENTR

EURALO Call 20 November, 19 UTC

EURALO Chair (OCL) talked briefly of previous action items and then asked members if the agenda is OK or for any additions. 

EURALO meeting discussion was largely dominated by the following action items.

Action items

Annette Mühlberg to report on the status of the topic Framework of interpretation at the next EURALO monthly call. Olivier Crepin-Leblond and EURALO members to organize a Webinar on the topic. This was again renewed as an item to be confirmed pending progress from the work of the Cross Community Working Party on Human Rights.

Olivier Crepin-Leblond to send the 2017 Hot Topics Draft to the EURALO ALS Engagement Task Force with the task to get a copy of the other RALOs Hot topic surveys and adjust it to EURALO's needs. 

https://community.icann.org/display/EURALO/EURALO+Hot+Topics+2018 

EURALO’s By-Laws Task Force to follow up on the relevant action items of the EURALO GA, such as analyzing the pros/cons of including a Treasurer in the new By-Laws. EURALO By-Laws Task Force examines the advantages, constraints, and costs of having a postal and/or physical address in Switzerland,  including mailboxes. Postal address http://www.maildrop.ch and for a physical address: https://myswissmailaddress.com/en

Yesim Nazlar to add Joanna Kulesza to the EURALO By-Laws Task Force and membership table.

Silvia Vivanco to add the Links to the Macron speech (FR and EN)  to be added to the IGF 2018 Paris wiki page. 

Olivier Crepin-Leblond to include a report on FY 20 Budget Request from the EURALO representatives to the FBSC in the Agenda of the Next EURALO monthly call. 

Olivier Crepin-Leblond to send the link with the announcement https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-11-19-en of the "The Eastern European DNS Forum Comes to Moscow" to EURALO's mailing list.

Appointments

ALAC Subcommittee on Finance and Budget (FBSC)

EURALO Chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (as an FBSC participant), Bastiaan Goslings and Wale Bakare were selected to continue as members representing EURALO on the ALAC Subcommittee on Finance and Budget (FSBC) 2018 - 2019.  https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALAC+Subcommittee+on+Finance+and+Budget

ALAC Appointee Selection Committee (AASC) for ALAC Fellowship Program Mentor. Nenad Marinkovic was confirmed to continue as EURALO member on the ALAC Appointee Selection Committee (AASC) 2018 - 2019. https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALAC+Subcommittee+on+Appointee+Selection

EURALO October Report

A. EURALO October Call 09/10/2018

The October call focused mainly on the review of different calls for the upcoming public comment of Working Groups (WGs). EURALO Chair, Olivier Crépin-Leblond (OCL) urged EURALO members to participate in the different WGs. 

https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=74587834

The EURALO General Assembly in Barcelona, ICANN63 meeting was touched briefly.  CENTR-EURALO MoU: EURALO made an application to the CENTR as an observer member of the CENTR. Christopher Wilkinson (CW) was going to attend the CENTR meeting in Belgium, to support the EURALO application. OCL to invite someone from CENTR to the General Assembly with the aim of signing the MOU at the ICANN63 meeting.  

B. ICANN 63 Meeting,  Barcelona: 19 - 26 October 2018

EURALO General Assembly, October 24, 2018

1. Roll Call both in the room and online and Kick off at 17.17 Barcelona Time.

2. Last meeting recording transcript and its adoption: No comment from EURALO members and the recording was adopted.

3. The first guest speaker, Alan Greenberg, spoke about EURALO's meticulous way of doing things and its good organization. He commended EURALO organization for that. (AG) talked about the At-Large Review, and thanked Olivier's efforts and tasks for EURALO. The next speaker, new incoming ALAC Chair, Maureen Hilyard talked about her experience of coming to EURALO meeting and she will be participating in regional monthly meetings.  She mentioned the new At-Large work structure to integrate the regional leaders.

4. Jean-Jacques Subrenat (JJS2) asked about the feedback of IANA transition sent to the At-Large staff.

5. JJS2 commented on the ByLaws relating to a physical address. Olivier stated that EURALO is not part of ICANN org but has got a MoU with ICANN organization. JJS2  suggested investigating the use of one’s personal address or a third party address in Switzerland.

Action Items

a. Investigate the repercussions of an EURALO bank account and physical address 

6.  Yrjö Lansipuro (YL) briefed participants about the EURALO ALS Engagement Task Force  - YL spoke about the work of the engagement task force and suggested we should update the list for all ALSes, to properly check that the topics are within the remit of ICANN. 

 a. Joanna Kulesza (JK) commented that she will volunteer to do some works on outreach in Poland. 

Discussion on Greater Collaboration and Communication with the GSE Regional: ICANN VPs for regional leaders attended the Regional Leadership meeting. 

Alexandra Kulikova (AK), Head of Global Stakeholder Engagement for Eastern and Central Europe commented that she attended some regional events where she meets EURALO members. She also mentioned one key challenge - geographical issue. She then mentioned the next Russia IGF 2019 meeting in June/July where she would like to meet some of the ALSes.

https://community.icann.org/display/EURALO/Agenda+2018+EURALO+General+Assembly. 

https://community.icann.org/display/EURALO

C.  CENTR-EURALO MoU signing

EURALO Chair, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond (OCL) email to the members on the CENTR-MOU update: OCL said that he has sent a version of the MoU with further amendments proposed by the EURALO Board, but it looks like CENTRare ready to sign during the IGF week in Paris. Three options for a signing ceremony were explored, including signing at an event organized by AFNIC/.FR. The choice of ceremony depends primarily on CENTR & AFNIC.

EURALO September 2018 Report

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