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(If you have never attended a Connect Pro meeting before: Test your connection and get a quick overview)

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Attendees:

Apologies:  Eduardo Diaz

Staff:  Heidi Ullrich,  Silvia Vivanco, Gisella Gruber, Matt Ashtiani

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Recording: ENGLISH 

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A G E N D A Being updated -send additions to chair 

1. Welcome and Roll call - Staff (2 min)

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3.2 Darlene will be attending all meetings remotely and Dharma will also be assisting at this meeting

3.3 6.2 ICANN47 Durban, South Africa 14-18 July 2013 

4.  Review of Communication/Outreach Strategy (5 Minutes)

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5.1 ALS Spotlight: Special Discussion This Week Lead By Chris of ISOC Colorado: "Removing Need at RIPE" (5 - 10 Minutes)

5.1.2 Next Spotlight will be KnujOn again with a video to "reset" the cycle. (Garth)

5.1.3 Spotlights to follow will be assigned in alphabetical order, beginning in August. (Darlene)

5.2 Status of ALS Applications & Regional Advice: on ISOC Canada (Staff)

5.3 Potential De-accreditation of The Alberta Community Network Association (Garth)

5.3.1 Paragraph 16 of our Operating Principles state that: "When an ALS representative does not vote in 3 consecutive NARALO elections or does not contribute a comment on ICANN policy through collaboration on the At-Large discussion lists in 12 consecutive months, it automatically loses its voting rights and active status within the NARALO.  The ALS should be notified of the status change and may regain its voting rights and active status if within the next 12 months it votes or participates to online discussions, otherwise the Chair will submit to ALAC a request for de-certification of that ALS."

5.3.2 In reference to this the Chair sent a postal letter to the this ALS and had not received a response.

5.5 Elections, Elections, Elections (Darlene)  2013 NARALO Selection, Election and Appointments Workspace

5.5.1 Status and time-line of election process (Staff/Darlene)

5.5.2 WHAT - Posts are up for election (Darlene)

5.5.3 WHO - Is running for these posts

5.5.4 WHEN - Is the election?

5.6 Change to election cycle (Garth)

5.6.1 The schedule of elections were suddenly changed without much notice. Since At-Large is a "bottom-up" structure, the Chair and region are wondering why this did not go through the normal channel for our approval? (Olivier)

5.7 Review of Active and Non-Active ALSes  (Eric)

5.8 Disconnect Between "Individual Internet Users" and the reality of ALSe (Garth)

5.8.1 Why unaffiliated Statements of Interest (SOI) are important - Documented Participants v. "Lurkers"

 

5.7 New ALS Webinar

5.8  Adding Officers, Expanding Participation

5.8.1 Vice-Chair. Other regions have Vice-Chairs. The volume of work is expanding, the need for more support within this group is growing. Vice-Chairs are a common requirement for the GA. The Chair will draft language for updating the Operating Principles to be submitted to the region for review. We will follow the ROP and hopefully incorporate this post so it can part of the election this year.

5.8.2. Concept of a "Floating" Funded Post.

5.9 Cross-Ralo Relations (Communication Strategy IV)

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6.1 The Summit will be at ICANN50 London, England 22-26 June 2014

6.2 NARALO GA - TBD Location

7. New gTLDs (5 Minutes)

7.1 May 9th Webinar

7.2 Agenda for ICANN new gTLD Pgm Comm meeting in Amsterdam

8. Committee/Working Group Activity - Future Space for All WG/Committee Reports (10  Minutes)

8.1 NOMCOM - Report supplied to list (Glenn)

8.2 A Call for ICANN to Embrace its Inner Regulator (Evan)

8.2.1 Support for this letter has been posted by Tyler W. Cox and Steve Attwell

8.3 ATRT Status (Avri)

8.4 Going forward, the Chair will request all NARALO working group leaders provide updates to the Monthly Reports (Garth)

8.4.1 This is quick and simple way for the region to record their activities. Please forward briefs of your work to the Chair, Secretary and Staff

9. At-Large Advisory Committee "ALAC" Issues (Olivier, Evan, Eduardo, Alan - 10 Minutes)

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9.3 Board-Stakeholder Action List

9.4 Comments into the ATRT: Open comment period , Interactive version of the same questions (Alan)

9.4.1 ATRT also welcomes any input relevant to the issues raised in the AoC section

9.4 ICANN Board meeting 18 May 2013 in Amsterdam

9.5 ATLAS 2: A call for volunteers to work in a WG that is being assembled

9.5 Population of At-Large mailing lists (Alan)

10. ICANN Functions (5 Minutes) (Communication Strategy III.5)

10.1 Compliance Tracking

10.1.1 Detailed Questions and Issue have been sent to the ICANN CEO but there has been no response

10.2 Language and Translation (4 Minutes)

10.2.1 Requests from Louis H:

10.2.1.1: Translation of the ICANN News Alert in Spanish and in French

10.2.1.2: An abstract of the Naralo Monthly Meeting that we could post on our Web site (or RSS it), including some of the documents produced by ICANN, that we discuss and that would be worth translating to attract attention toward NARALO.

10.2.1.3: Translate RAA and legal documents related to the RAA into French and Spanish

10.2.1.4: Translations of Registrar/Registry documents in local languages(where the company operates) to avoid consumer disputes.

10.2.2 Preliminary Issue Report on Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information

10.3 Travel (1 Minutes)

10.3.1 Sponsored NARALO Members should advise the Chair if they are having any problems with travel arrangements to Durban

10.3.2 No sponsored NARALO travelers reported issues with their reimbursement for the China visa

10.3.3 On tracking travel-related reimbursement, we need a better tracking system with full-disclosure. Conversations via Skype, etc, can't be tracked.

10.3.4 Travel Support Guidelines

10.3.5 Chair has created an ongoing Sub-Report on Travel issues and welcomes comments from the community. Thanks to assistance from Constituency Travel we were able to resolve a number of questions.

11.  Any Other Business "AOB" (2 Minutes)

11.1 News

11.1.1 Dot-less Domains

11.2 "At-Large" and "AtLarge" As reserved strings (Tom L.)

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12.1. Going forward, let's list previous action items and not have a separate page - Staff: please list ALL additional action items from THIS call bellow this entry. And then list the same action items at the top of the NEXT meeting agenda.

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2.X Darlene Thompson will be unavailable to attend the Durban meeting in person as Secretary. We will be calling for volunteers on THIS CALL to substitute. Staff: Please be prepared to tally an informal consensus vote.

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