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A G E N D A:

Standing Agenda Items

1.   Roll call and apologies – Staff (2 minutes)

2.   Adoption of agenda; call for Any Other Business or other amendments – Alan Greenberg (3 minutes)

3. Introduction and Chair's Remarks - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)

4. Review of outstanding Action Items requiring ALAC involvement - Heidi Ullrich (5 minutes)

New Business

Items for Decision

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5. ALAC Policy Development Activities - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes) 

• See: Policy Advice Development Page

• See: ICANN Public Comment page
  

a. Recently adopted ALAC Statements, Documents or Groups:

• • Draft document from GAC Sub-group on Geographic Names - Adopted 13Y, 0N, 0A
    
  • Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) Charter - Adopted

b. Statements or Endorsements currently being developed, reviewed or voted on by the ALAC

• • ICANN Draft Five-Year Operating Plan - ALAC considering drafting a Statement
  • New gTLD Auction Rules for Indirect Contention - ALAC considering drafting a Statement
    
    • Example: Game/Games

c. Currently Open Public Comments

• • .NGO/.ONG Registry Agreement Amendment - Mandatory Technical Bundling of Second-Level Domains - No Statement (Public Comment closes on 06.12.2014)
  • Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part D Policy Development Process (PDP) Recommendations for ICANN Board Consideration - No Statement (Public Comment closes on 01.12.2014)
  • .MADRID - Introduction of Two Approved Launch Programs  - No statement

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6. ALS Issues - Alan Greenberg (30 minutes)

a. ALS certification and decertification

i. Voting Privacy Proposal:

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Most votes open

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. Modified secret (how voted not revealed publicly but, if possible, available for audit in case of dispute) if:

• • No advice received from RALO for certifications; or
  • Any ALAC Member requests that the vote be secret.

ii. Review of voting process related to ALS Certification

Where regional advice has been given, if any member of the ALAC requests a vote on a given applicant to be held, the question to be put shall be: "Shall the advice of the region in respect of accreditation of [name of applicant] be overturned?". The available responses to the question shall be: ‘YES', ‘NO', and ‘ABSTAIN' where only one answer may be chosen. If no member of the ALAC requests a vote to be held on such an application within a number of days after the regional advice has been given (the number of days to be as determined by the ALAC from time to time), the applicant shall be certified as an At-Large Structure by unanimous consent upon the expiry of the number of days above-referenced.

b. ALS criteria and expectations

Current - http://tinyurl.com/ALAC-RoP-AdjDoc4-2013-07, page 1

Proposal: create an ad hoc review group to consult with RALOs and propose a replacement set of criteria and expectations.

• • Work ongoing in RALOs, but it is an ALAC responsibility to set MINIMUM standards
  • Metrics group has started some of this, and work will return to them once we set minimum expectations

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7. CCWG Selection - Next Steps - Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

• • Co-chair selection: Proposal: Request that Selection Committee add this to their recommendations to be ratified by ALAC
  • Regional representation: What if Selection Committee does not have a candidate to propose for each region?

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8. Finance and Budget Sub-Committee - Composition and Next Steps - Alan Greenberg (15 minutes)

See FBSC Workspace, including current composition

a. Proposal:

• • For composition of the FBSC, I propose the following:
    •  two members per region, one from the ALAC and one a RALO leader
    •  the RALO leader (either the Chair, a Vice-chair or Secretariat would be the person in the RALO responsible for overseeing (and filtering) RALO request. Might consider another appointee, but only if given real authority by RALO.
    • Others may participate in "non-voting role"

• • The FBSC will make choices to ensure that what we are submitting is high quality and more likely to get accepted.

• • We will set some guidelines for RALO and overall ALAC requests to try to ensure that the quality is there.

• • Although past success is not an assured guideline - we will carefully review what kinds of projects are being funded (https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/budget-requests-fy15-09may14-en.pdf and https://www.icann.org/en/about/financials/budget-requests-xlsx-fy15-09may14-en.xlsx).

• • In the past, we have largely depended on RALO requests. I think that we may want to partially shift gears and also look at ALAC initiatives.
    • One of these may be a request to expand the work-week, most likely the Saturday before the week, but this will take a lot more discussion.

• • Based on his past experience, I have requested that Tijani stay on the FBSC and play a lead roll.
  • I will chair the SC but preferably NOT represent NARALO.
  • CROPP committee to be considered.

b. FY16 AC/SO special requests - proposed pilot At-Large program for global indigenous members - Heidi Ullrich

Items for Discussion

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9. ALAC Meeting Schedule and Attendance - Alan Greenberg(15 minutes)

Options:

• One time that everyone can "accept" - no one has blackout time (midnight-06:00)
• One time that everyone can "accept" - no one has blackout time (01:00-05:00)
• Rotate the pain - middle of night meetings but they rotate

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• First options minimize number of people who suffer
• Last option increases number who suffer, but only sometimes

a. FY16 AC/SO special requests - proposed pilot At-Large program for global indigenous members

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10. ICANN 52 At-Large Meeting Schedule - Alan Greenberg and Léon Sánchez (10 minutes)

See: At-Large ICANN 52 - February 2015 Workspace

Items for Information

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11. Update on IANA Stewardship CWG Face-to-Face - Olivier Crépin-Leblond (10 minutes)

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12. Upcoming ALAC Review - Alan Greenberg, Holly Raiche and Cheryl Langdon-Orr (5 minutes)

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13. Any Other Business

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(5 minutes)