August 2011

• significant problems continue with the translation of emails to the LACRALO mailing list. Changes were made but emails from lac-discuss-es often does not appear on the lac-discuss-en list
• Jose Arce was elected as interim LACRALO president, see 2011 Election Call - LACRALO Chair page
• two nominations were received for the preferred candidate from LACRALO to the Nominating Committee, a vote was held - see the LACRALO Delegate to NomCom 2011 page on the results
• Several attendees from LACRALO attended the pre-IGF meeting in Trinidad August 8-11 2011

July 2011

• significant problems encountered with the translation of emails to the LACRALO - entire conversations on the Spanish list not seen at all on the English list and vice versa due to the length of the emails being rejected by the Google translation engine due to the size of emails. See http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/lac-discuss-en/2011/004222.html for a summary of the problem. This has significantly impacted discussion within LACRALO
• call for nominations for interim LACRALO president was issued, see 2011 Election Call - LACRALO Chair page
• call for preferred candidate from LACRALO to Nominating Committee see LACRALO Delegate to NomCom 2011 page
• Sergio and Jose Arce were the main drafters of a statement to ICANN COO re: pooling of RALO travel resources for AFRALO GA - see ALAC proposal re pooling resources for AFRALO Summit, GA
• Jose Arce submitted statement on Preliminary Issue Report on the UDRP - see ALAC Statement on the Preliminary Issue Report on the Current State of the UDRP
• Fatima and Natalia submitted comments on WHOIS Discussion Paper - see http://forum.icann.org/lists/whoisrt-discussion-paper/msg00024.html
• Persons from LACRALO attending the Singapore meeting in person had discussions on various LACRALO matters. See http://dl.dropbox.com/u/877052/LACRALO-conference-calls/lacralo-22-june-2011-singapore.txt for a summary of the discussions
•  

...

• new ALS application received from Ageia Densi Colombia|www.atlarge.icann.org/file/24683/download/24969||\ in late May. Regional review is underway with regional advice to be sent to ALAC soon.
• submitted comments on the draft FY12 Operating Plan and Budget
• LACRALO comment on Draft FY12 Operating Plan and Budgetupdated a summary for consideration by the RALOs in dealing with inactive ALSes as it relates to quorum and involvement in RALO and policy issues.
• translation of the LACRALO mailing list broke again soon after May 19, 2011 but the new translation engine was implemented in its place.
• the LACRALO chair, Andrés Piazza from AGEIA DENSI, Argentina has announced his intention to step down as chair due to work commitments. Call for candidates to serve the remainder of his term will begin by the end of June 2011 

...