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• be sure all of you are signed up to the APRALO and other mailing lists
• on the APRALO ALS list, check that the entry for your ALS is correct - and let staff know if anything that needs correcting
• volunteer to talk about your ALS to an APRALO meeting
• consider volunteering for the WG on RoP
• suggest policy topics for webinars

 July 2013 Report

ALSs

Two ALSs have been officially decertified:

• Internet Users Network - Tokyo (at their request)
• Internet Society of Pakistan (which had ceased to exist and has been replaced)

Three orgnisations have applied for ALAC membership - which are in the process of being reviewed and will be voted on including

• the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network
• South Pacific Computer Society
• Internet Society - Nepal Chapter

Election Outcomes:

New Vice Chair: Siranush Vardanyan,  

New NomCom Rep (replacing Siranush)Satish Babu  And our new New ALAC rep (to assume office at the 2013 AGM) Maureen Hillyard. Congratulations again to all - and a reminder to everyone - that we need all of your support.

APRALO Meeting in Durban:

The meeting began with Kuek Yu-Chuang, the newly appointed Vice President for Global Stakeholder Engagement for the Asian Region. He assumes office on 1 August - when he will be based in Singapore. Others in the Singapore office will include staff for compliance and registrars/registries. (He would like to be involved in all of our meetings)

 He talked a bit on his background (he is a Senior Director with Yahoo) and then on what he sees as a fundamental tension in his job.  On the one hand, it is his job to listen to and understand the needs on the ground of his various constituents but that must fit into ICANN plans and commitments that have already been decided and are in train.  The cornerstone of his job will be an APEC strategy which will be launched at the regional IGF in Korea.

 Rinalia talked on the planned IGF workshop - an APRALO-ICANN collaboration on IDNs and IDN variants, looking at the many issues involved, including security and stability, and language scripts.  Cheryl also provided an update on the regional IGF in Korea.

 The meeting agreed that, from now on, we will be devoting at least 5 minutes or more to one or our ALSs giving us all a presentation on that ALS - a bit about its members and its activities.   Satish will be the presenter for the August meeting.

We went through the the outcomes from the survey Pavan did after Beijing.  The main conclusions included the overuse of ICANN terminology (explain the acronyms if you use them), how the ICANN schedule can be overwhelming - so each meeting needs a bit of explanation, more ALS participation,  and praise for the Fellowship  program and its orientation to ICANN.

In the issues sessions, the main issues were covered and have largely been dealt with.  The one big outstanding issue is a proposal from an Expert Working Group (which Carlton was on) that is proposing a new structure for the collection, handling, verification and dissemination of registrant data.  Comment is due mid-August

Action items on everyone (including staff)

• be sure all of you are signed up to the APRALO and other mailing lists
• on the APRALO ALS list, check that the entry for your ALS is correct - and let staff know if anything that needs correcting
• volunteer to talk about your ALS to an APRALO meeting
• Staff - please send out a soft copy of the guide to ALAC to all APRALO ALSs

June 2013 Report

ALSs

 The ALAC will be voting in early July on the decertification of two ALSs: the Internet Users Network Tokyo and ISOC Pakistan. 

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