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ALAC Teleconference
Meeting Number: AL.ALAC/CC.0719/1
Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Time: 02:00 - 04:00 UTC (For the time in various time zones click here)
Zoom Room: https://icann.zoom.us/j/454717035
Real time transcription (RTT) link: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=ICANN [streamtext.net]
Interpretation Available: Yes ( ES & FR - Simultaneous)
How can I participate in this meeting? English Conference ID = 1638
¿Cómo se puede participar en la teleconferencia? Spanish Conference ID = 1738
Comment participer a cette teleconference? French Conference ID = 1838
AF: Abdulkarim Oloyede, Dave Kissoondoyal, Tijani Ben Jemaa
AP: Holly Raiche, Justine Chew ,Maureen Hilyard
EUR: Bastiaan Goslings , Joanna Kulesza, Matthias M. Hudobnik
LAC: Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez, Humberto Carrasco, Sylvia Herlein-Leite
NA: Javier Rúa-Jovet , Jonathan Zuck, Marita Moll
Liaisons: Andrei Kolesnikov(SSAC), Barrack Otieno (ccNSO), Cheryl Langdon-Orr (GNSO), Yrjö Lansipuro (GAC)
Dial out Participants:
EN: Maureen Hilyard, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Vernatius Okwu Ezeama, Olivier Crepin-Leblond,
ES: Sylvia Herlein Leite, Sergio Salinas Porto
FR: Ibtissam
Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Gisella Gruber, Evin Erdoğdu, Alperen Eken, Claudia Ruiz
Apologies: Joanna Kulesza, Loris Taylor, Yeşim Nazlar (staff)
Interpreters:
ES:
FR:
Call Management: Claudia Ruiz
Action Items: EN
Adopted Motions: EN
Decisions: EN
Recording: EN, ES, FR
Transcript: EN, ES, FR
Zoom Chat: EN
A G E N D A:
Standing Agenda Items
1. Roll Call and Apologies and Confirmation of Quorum– Staff (4 minutes)
2. Welcome, Aim of the Meeting, Adoption of Agenda and Call for Any Other Business or other Amendments – Maureen Hilyard (5 minutes)
3. Review of ALAC Action Items from 21 January 2020 - Maureen Hilyard (1 minute)
4. ALAC Policy Development Activities - Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Jonathan Zuck and Evin Erdoğdu (25 minutes)
At-Large Policy Resources:
At-Large Capacity Building Workshop - An Introduction to Policy Development at ICANN
2019 ALAC Policy Comments & Advice
At-Large Policy Summary
At-Large Executive Summary page
Multistakeholder Advice Development graphic
Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG)
Recently Ratified by the ALAC (Since last ALAC Monthly Meeting)
The ALAC made several other suggestions regarding ICANN meeting dates in 2022 and from 2024-2028.
Overall, the ALAC supports the suggested changes to the ICANN Public Comment, public input as well as the accountability indicators. We believe those changes would make the Public Comments more effective and show better transparency. We strongly believe that a wide, open and inclusive process should be maintained in policy development process especially with input representing the multistakeholder environment. Policy development must be transparent, efficient and should not be biased or skewed towards a group.
The ALAC Advice to the ICANN Board suggested (8) recommendations: (1) The Registry for .ORG must be organized as either a charitable non-profit [501c(3) in the US] or a “Benefit Corporation” (B Corporation); (2) One-third of the Registry Corporate Board must be representatives of charitable nonprofits; (3) One Board member selected by the ALAC; (4) The Registry for .ORG must enshrine in its bylaws that the principal focus of the domain is nonprofits and individuals and not commercial interests; (5) The Registry must enshrine in its bylaws a commitment to free speech and a resistance to takedown demands with a political basis; (6) The Registry must provide 6 months prior written notice to its registrants of any increase in wholesale price of their domain names registration renewal fees and the option of a 20-year renewal thereof at the pre-increase price; (7) The Registry Agreement must enshrine PIR prohibited practices such a bulk sales to commercial registrars; and (8) The Registry Agreement must establish a “DNS Abuse Ceiling”.
Additional:
- See ISOC/PIR Update (13 February 2020): A letter from Maarten Botterman to the Chair, Internet Society (ISOC), A letter from Jones Day to Public Interest Registry (PIR).
- "At-Large Valentine" submitted to the ICANN Board regarding Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement.
- ICANN Public Comment Update: See https://alpha.icann.org/en/public-comment and provide feedback by 13 March 2020 to public-comment@icann.org.
Current Statements (ALAC Advice, Comment or Correspondence)
Public Comment Name | Public Comment Close | Status | Penholder(s) | ||||||
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Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Draft Report |
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Initial Report of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Team – PHASE 2 |
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Draft Proposal for NextGen@ICANN Program Improvements |
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Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP) Study 1 |
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Revised Community Travel Support Guidelines |
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5. Review of current ALS and Individual Member applications – Evin Erdoğdu and Alperen Eken (5 minutes)
For Information: ALS application tracking page and Individual Members page
ALS Snapshot
Region | Number | Countries & Territories |
AFRALO | 61 | 32 |
APRALO | 59 | 29 |
EURALO | 38 | 18* |
LACRALO | 58 | 22 |
NARALO | 24 | 3 |
TOTAL | 241 | 104 |
ALS Application Status
Certified (2) | #312 Internet Society Lebanon - APRALO, #306 Internet Society Chapitre Haiti - LACRALO |
Decertification (1) Reference: Decertification Wikispace | #246 Association of Internet Users - NARALO AFRALO will begin the process of providing evidence to ask the ALAC to decertify MACSIS and several other ALSes, which are no longer active. Note: AFRALO recently ratified their AFRALO Decertification Rules. |
Vote (1) | #293 ACSIS COTE D'IVOIRE - AFRALO |
Awaiting advice (8) | #313 Women's Technology Empowerment Centre - AFRALO (awaiting GSE feedback), #311 Association des Utilisateurs des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication - AFRALO (awaiting GSE feedback), #310 GreenICT Initiative (GreenICTi) - AFRALO (awaiting GSE feedback), #305Battery Operated Systems for Community Outreach Uganda - AFRALO (negative GSE feedback, will move to AFRALO for feedback), #304 Corporacion Asesorias para el Desarrollo de la Innovacion y Tecnologia - Asesorias IT - LACRALO (awaiting GSE feedback),#282 Association pour le Développement des Sociétés de l'Information au Tchad (ADESIT) - AFRALO (awaiting AFRALO feedback) |
Due diligence (2) | #309 Initiative TIC et Citoyenneté - AFRALO (positive GSE feedback, undergoing due diligence), #288 Liberia Information Technology students Union - AFRALO (awaiting applicant feedback - to confirm with AFRALO whether will be moved to "on hold" status) |
On hold (7) | #303 AgeCare Foundation (CRB) - AFRALO, #299/308 China Internet Development Foundation - APRALO (Withdrawn), #297 The Bear Foundation - NARALO (Withdrawn), #292 Asociacion Civil Para la Investigacion Social y Tecnica de Internet (AGEIA España) - EURALO, #270 BSDCongo - AFRALO, #267 Surabhi Softwares, #112 Arab Regional ISPs & DSPs Association (ARISPA) - APRALO |
Individual Snapshot
Region | Number | Observers |
AFRALO | 14 | 3* |
APRALO | 27 | 0 |
EURALO | 56 | 6 |
LACRALO | 0 | 11 |
NARALO | 30 | 0 |
TOTAL | 127 | 20 |
Recently accepted: 1 - AFRALO, 1 - APRALO
Applications: 1 - AFRALO
Other
- AFRALO Orientation Call TBD. Reference: RALO ALS and Individual Orientation Calls: NARALO 06 September 2017, APRALO 19 June 2017.
6. Reports and Discussion with At-Large Plus Leaders – Introduced by Maureen Hilyard (10 minutes)
a. Liaisons: ccNSO; GAC, GNSO and SSAC
b. WGs: CPWG and Sub-Committee on Outreach and Engagement
c. RALO Chairs: AFRALO, APRALO, EURALO, LACRALO and NARALO
See: At-Large Reports
See: At-Large Governance
For Discussion
7. Discussion with Leon Sanchez, ICANN Board Vice-Chair and Director Selected by At-Large - Maureen Hilyard (10 minutes)
8. Post ATLAS III/2020 At-Large Activities - Review and Development of Recommendations for the ALAC - Maureen Hilyard and Leads (15 minutes)
See: Post-ATLAS III Activities
Activity | Lead | Current Status | Recommendations for the ALAC |
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Post-ATLAS III Reporting | Eduardo Diaz | ||
Policy Involvement | Jonathan Zuck | Increased participation in policy development. Plans to engage in 67 delayed. | More language assistance on list would be interesting. |
Capacity Building | Joanna Kulesza | ||
Outreach and Engagement | Daniel Nanghaka | ||
Communications | Maureen Hilyard | Communications Strategy Document currently in progress; NPOC and GAC to be included in the development of ICANN Learn courses; GSE discussions held re Pacific Plan; Attended ITI consultation webinar. |
9. ALS Mobilization - Update and Next Steps - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)
See: ALS Mobilization Working Party
10. ICANN67 - Discussion of how a Virtual Meeting will look - Maureen Hilyard, Jonathan Zuck, Joanna Kulesza and Gisella Gruber (15 minutes)
See: ICANN67 - Cancún Meeting - March 2020
a) Proposed prioritisation of ICANN67 sessions (At-Large Virtual Programme 8-20 March.pdf)
b) Availability of Spanish interpretation for At-Large sessions (first language to be rolled out for virtual conferences - in LAC region)
11. AOB - Maureen Hilyard (5 mins)
a) Request from ccNSO for At-Large volunteers to join their ccPDP3 WG which will focus on "developing a review mechanism for decisions pertaining to the delegation, transfer, revocation retirement of ccTLDs". If anyone is interested please contact me and I can send you her letter of invitation about joining up.