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• Heidi Ullrich: There does not appear to be any particular expertise on survey development within staff. There have been some staff resources allocated to a personal survey in terms of staff being able to reach out and call the ALSs and the identified representative of each ALS. And we are hoping to use this Staff resource in the context of the ALS Criteria and Expectations Task Force. It would be great if there is collaboration between the efforts in the Cross RALO Secretariat Group as well as the ALS Criteria Task Force. 
• Alberto Soto: ALSes should have the flexibility to provide the number of contacts for completing the survey, but we should demand at least a minimum of three contacts from each ALS.
• Humberto Carrasco, Siranush Vardanyan, and Heidi Ullrich need to first discuss and agree on the content of the survey. A small working group should be formed for this effort, with at least one representative from each RALO. 
• The purpose of the survey needs to be clarified and whether all RALOs need to do the survey needs to be discussed, as RALOs differ from each other. 
• Such survey can be an opportunity to update RALOs' database on ALS primary and secondary contacts. Such survey can also ask questions how RALO leadership can help further engage ALSes and make them more active.  
• 2010 ALS survey can be a good reference. It asks about ALSes' areas of interest, questions related to the At-Large improvements, and a subset of questions that Rudi Vansnick made on some ccTLD issues. After the survey, RALO Secretariats and Chairs did an analysis of each of their RALO’s results and then that was reported back. 
• To have a database of the actual knowledge that we have within our community – and not only just the ALS representative, but also within the At-Large Structure – would be useful, especially in soliciting specific penholders to draft ALAC Statements in response to public comments. This approach would be much better than sending a flood emails, among which public comment related ones often get lost. 
• The survey result can potentially feed into ATLAS II Recommendation 26 about the policy management process system improvements, which is a long-term goal. Rec 26 aims to scale up the policy advice development process by creating an automated system, for example, that would send the right information to the right people according to key words, etc. 

12 May 2016 (secretariat meeting) 

• Some RALOs have little interest in the survey (e.g. NARALO), APRALO also conducted similar surveys in the past, hence very little progress in this task.
• 2 options for moving forward: 1) Humberto can move forward with Staff on the survey; 2) there will be additional staff resource to help catalog ALS information for a centralized database, and this staff resource can reach out to ALSes individually and ask targeted questions regarding their expertise, not only the ALS representatives but other members. 
• One or two multiple choice questions can be developed to explore ALS expertise. Staff to work with Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Humberto, Siranush to develop the question based on the policy taxonomy and taxonomy of other categories.