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ALAC Finance and Budget Subcommittee

31st March 2007 Teleconference

Summary Minutes

Present: A Muehlberg, C Langdon-Orr, F Seye Sylla, A Greenberg, V Scartezini
Absent: None
Staff: N Ashton-Hart

The Chair called the meeting to order at 12:18 UTC.

The Chair asked if there were any additional agenda items. None were proposed. The agenda was therefore adopted without objection.

The Chair asked if there was any change proposed to the order in which items were discussed. It was agreed to go in reverse order for time reasons.

Item 6

The Chair noted that there were some proposals from APRALO that were not listed. The Staff noted that he was aware of this but couldn’t find the message. The Chair said she would arrange for this to be sent.

The members agreed that an item should be added to allow one person from a region where any ICANN Regional meeting is held to receive travel support to represent At-Large at such gatherings, as was the case with Bilal Beiram attending the Dubai regional meeting this week.

The Staff noted that it expected to add a number of items, including ALAC and Secretariats attendance at each ICANN International Meeting, provision for translation and interpretation of documents, teleconference services, and the like. There was no objection.

A Muehlberg noted that she believed that the EURALO Chair had a project for the new financial year in mind but was uncertain what it was. The Staff noted that he was unwell but should be reachable before the end fo the week and that the staff would try to reach him.

Item 5

A Greenberg suggested adding to ‘Broaden Participation’ that documents were not very accessible unless well-written, with good summaries, and written in plain English.

A discussion of the WHOIS part of the Compliance Section was held. It was agreed that a statement should be added to reflect that the statements in this text were only in relation to the Operations Plan Framework and without prejudice to At-Large’s views on other aspects of WHOIS. The Staff were directed to draft something suitable for inclusion in the next revision.

F Seye Sylla noted that many in Africa were not very literate and so the messaging of ICANN should be in audiovisual formats that they would understand though it was accepted by all that the mission of ICANN was not conducive to general Internet education.

The consensus to review Rev1 of the text, to be sent by the Staff later 31st March before it is released for general comment by the community. Members agreed that they would be able to comment until 5th April. The Staff would then include any revisions and transmit the draft to the community on 6th April, with comments to be taken until 16th April.

Item 4

A Greenberg noted that he had several comments to make in relation to the draft but would make them by email in the interests of time. Other members said that they would do the same.

The Committee agreed by consensus to adopt the same timelines for comment and community review for this text as for that under Item 5.

It was agreed to hold the next meeting on 18th April at 1200 UTC.

The Chair adjourned the meeting at 1330.