AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
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January 2018 Report
Certification of Norway Chapter of the Internet Society as an EURALO At-Large Structure (ALS)
The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) voted by accepting the Norway Chapter of the Internet Society application as an At-Large Structure of EURALO.
The ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you that Norway Chapter of the Internet Society has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS). The ALAC greatly appreciates your group's interest in involving individual users in EURALO and ICANN and looks forward to working with you and your colleagues.
EURALO Board Call, 18/01/2018 at 19:00 UTC
The EURALO Board call was held on 18 January 2018 had some of the newly elected Board members in attendance. Some matters were discussed and agreed on include, the suggested proposals during the brainstorming session at the joint ICANN/ISOC dinner at the IGF, Geneva 2017.
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EURALO Secretary, Wale Bakare volunteers to update EURALO Facebook page.
EURALO Community Regional Outreach Program (CROP) Requests
The CROP requests need to be filed 6 to 8 weeks ahead of an event. Forecasting of CROP requests is therefore very important. The EURALO Board agreed to propose the following use of CROP slots for this Financial Year, ending 30th June 2018:
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- EuroDig 2018 to take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 5 – 6 June 2018. There are 2 CROP slots for EuroDIG
EURALO Outreach Calendar
- The calendar needs to be populated
- The question on how to populate the calendar will be placed to the EURALO ALS Engagement Taskforce in coordination with communications team.
Collaboration with RIPE and Next Steps
EURALO Chair, OCL to get in touch with Chris Buckridge of RIPE to inquire about the upcoming meeting in Marseille, France.
OCL to explore collaboration with CENTR with the goal to sign an MOU in Barcelona, Spain during ICANN63 meeting.
EURALO Monthly Call
The call started with a review of ICANN Policy Consultations currently in place.
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All ALAC and RALO Additional Budget Requests can be found on: https://community.icann.org/x/mwhyB
EURALO February 2018 Report
EURALO Taskforce on ALS Engagement Call 6 February 2018 at 17:00 UTC
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OCL has emailed Lutz Donnerhacke asking him whether he would be interested in participating in the SSR2, as an EURALO representative to the Review Team2.
EURALO March 2018 Report
San Juan ICANN61: RALO Leadership meeting – Sunday 11, March 2018
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Olivier Crepin-Leblond to request volunteers to participate in the EURODIG 2018 meeting, considering the 6 weeks requirements to file CROP funding requests.
EURALO April 2018 Report
1. General Data Protection Regulation and ICANN
Challenges of GDPR
EURALO chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) reminded members about the importance of the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR as it relates to ICANN/WHOIS.
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Any interested volunteers to, please email to staff@atlarge.icann.org, copy EURALO chair, OCL as well as Yrjö Länsipuro (YL) and Annette Muehlberg (AM)
2. EURALO April Call, 17 April 2018
Sébastien Bachollet (SB) commented that we should include latest topical ICANN issues such as GDPR updates, the ongoing discussion at GNSO. Basically, SB is concerned about ICANN/WHOIS compliance.
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SB suggested we should discuss the selection of candidate to Community Onboarding program at EURALO Board call on 18 April.
3. EURALO Board Conference call 18 April 2018
Third EURALO GDPR Webinar
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- Olivier Crepin-Leblond to take the lead on the coordination of the third GDPR Webinar, targeting the last week of April or first 2 weeks of May. The objective will be to make it a “reporting” session with ALS sharing their experiences on the implementation of GDPR. Olivier Crepin-Leblond to send another email to all EURALO ALSes asking them to share their experiences on GDPR.
- Olivier Crepin-Leblond to liaise with Annette Mühlberg to set-up a Webinar on the topic Framework of Interpretation and Develop a checklist for human rights impact assessment.
- On Proposal 3: Discussions are still ongoing about RDS (Registration Directory Services) and SSR2-RT (Security & Stability Review Team #2); there is still a focus on the security aspect: privacy vs. security. Olivier- to contact SSAC, first to identify what is the best time to start a discussion and as suggested by Jean Jacques highlighting the point that the privacy aspect must be considered alongside security and stability aspects. That is a central concern of our user community.
- Silvia Vivanco to open a wiki page on Proposal 3 in coordination with Olivier.
- Wale Bakare to continue updating and promoting the EURALO Facebook. Olivier Crepin-Leblond to send an email to all EURALO ALs encouraging them to get engaged in the EURALO FB page.
- Olivier Crepin-Leblond to notify Alan Greenberg that Matthias Markus Hudobnik is the selected EURALO COP candidate.
- Olivier Crepin-Leblond to notify Andrei Kolesnikov, Clement Genty and Oksana Prykhodko on their selection for the CROP slots for EURODIG.
EURALO May 2018 Report
A. EURALO May call
- Regional Outreach: EURALO Members at re:publica 2018 Belin, Germany
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OCL mentioned that John Laprise, the At-Large Social media Working Group chair is asking people to join the social media group. OCL commented that interested EURALO members to send email to the mailing list.
C. EURALO Webinar on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 29 May 2018
The EURALO webinar took place on the 29 May 2018, the following speakers participated in the discussions of the GDPR:
1. EURALO chair, Olivier Crépin-Leblond welcomed the participants, then introduced the speakers.
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- Michele's Blog Post about the case
- Oksana Prykhodko spoke about how the GDPR will affect the Eastern Europe - a report from Ukraine, European Media Platform.
- Big Brother Awards - for GDPR non-compliance - a report from Germany by Oliver Passek, Digital Courage, through Olivier Crépin-Leblond. Olivier Crepin-Leblond talked about the use of software system for keeping refugees’ records in Germany.
- Mr. Lucien Castex, from the Internet Society France Chapter spoke about the e-Bastille initiative: how to protect your personal data with GDPR.
- e. Mr. Raoul Plommer and Mr.Teemu Ropponen – from the Open Knowledge Finland and the Internet Society Finland Chapter presented the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on GDPR
D. 2018 EURALO ALAC Member and ALAC NOMCOM REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION RESULTS
The following EURALO candidates have been selected by acclamation and election in 2018:
Bastiaan Goslings – ALAC Member representing EURALO (Term: 2018 AGM – 2020 AGM; by acclamation)
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Rank | Options ID | Options | Votes | % |
1 | 15943174 | Wolfgang Kleinwachter | 18 | 58.06 |
2 | 15943173 | Anne-Marie Joly | 8 | 25.81 |
3 | 15943175 | Abstain | 5 | 16.13 |
You may review the results independently under:
https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=803366a84MLcwbXSVjkIF7QrLN
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- Olivier Crepin-Leblond and Wale Bakare to start populating the EURALO event calendar with regional events.
EURALO June 2018 Report
1.EuroDIG 2018: June 2- 6 2018 in Tbilisi, Georgia
The three EURALO CROP travellers to EuroDIG 2018 are Clement Genty, Oksana Prykhodko, and Andrei Kolesnikov. The CROP travelers’ reports are on https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/EURALO+Trip+Assessment+3+DRAFT
The EURALO members present at EuroDIG, Tbilisi, had a photograph with the ICANN President & CEO Göran Marby. Details on EURALO-ICANN AtLarge Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/EURALO/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
2. EURALO FY18 RALO Discretionary Funding Status
Heidi Ullrich (HU) communicated to the EURALO community, informing members that the end of ICANN Financial Year 2018 (FY18) is 30 June. HU said that EURALO has $649.50 remaining in the RALO discretionary fund. https://community.icann.org/display/CRALO/RALO+Requests+for+Funding+to+support+an+Outreach+Activity
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- Yrjö Länsipuro and Olivier Crepin-Leblond to solicit input from ALS who work with privacy and GDPR to provide comments on the ICANN Seeking Community Feedback on Proposed Unified Access Model.
4. Social Media Working Group (SoMe WG)
John Laprise said the working group is to look at how we use social media. JL is looking for 3/5 individuals to coordinate, sharing content and active participants within EURALO perspective. Social media power users to start the work.
- Olivier, Oksana, Wale, and Yrjö volunteered to be members of the SoMe WG
5. ALAC Chair: Call for Nominations
According to ALAC Chair, Alan Greenberg’s email to At-Large members, call for Nominations will remain open for no less than 14 days and will end at 23:59 on Monday, 18 June 2018.
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a.Geographic Names
Christopher Wilkinson (CW) commented that the ad-hoc process not the best way of selection. He stressed that the geographic region should take the interest of internet end-user across the globe.
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¤ To the extent that this has not already been covered already this week, do you have any further comments on GDPR and WHOIS implications and what is ICANN expecting from the DPAs and the courts.
c. Questions and Answers Session with ICANN CEO and President, Göran Marby
Q1. Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) asked about the next round of new gTLDs: OCL said, David Olive, spoke to us about the next round of new gTLDs. Is it your belief there will be the next round? I thought the people hadn’t chosen that yet?
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9.At-Large Regional Leaders Meeting – June 28, 13.30 – 15.00 Local Time.
d. RALO Hot Topics
EURALO Chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) presented the current situation about the EURALO hot-topics and suggested other RALOs should present updates with regards to their hot-topics.
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CROP discussion to be included in September call.
2. Panama Policy Discussion
YL said chair of the Geographical names, WT5 was pushing for compromising about Capital cities.
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EURALO chair announced that due to the summer holiday break, there is no call in August and the next call will take place in September.
B. EURALO’s New ALS Application
The Asociación Grupo de Estudio e Investigación Académica en Derecho, Economía y Negocios en la Sociedad de la Información,
(Association Study Group and Academic Research in Law, Economics, and Business in the Information Society) application as EURALO ALS member has been received and this will follow a due diligence by the ICANN At-Large staff. The association is based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
C. At-Large Regional Leadership Conference Call 19/07/2018
1. RALO Topic
Olivier Crépin-Leblond (OCL) commented that the topic of best practices to improve two-way communications to be included in the Barcelona meeting Agenda.
2.Regional Outreach and Engagement: CROP
OCL to contact RALO co-chairs (once selected) of the ALAC outreach & engagement (O &E) working group, who will be working on their respective O&E plans. https://community.icann.org/display/CROP19/NARALO+Outreach+Strategic+Plan
3.CROP Review Team
CROP Review Team and CROP Program Coordinator discussion: The CROP Review Team (CROP RT) will be constituted to review the CROP application and CROP PC will be retired soon. https://community.icann.org/display/CROP19/CROP+Contacts
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https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=43982055
4. CROP Travel Reports for Financial Year 2018 (FY18) - July 2017 to June 2018
The financial year 2018 (FY18), is the year’s CROP funded travels were a real success and that the travel reports are available from https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/EURALO+Approved+Forms
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https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/EURALO+Trip+Assessment+1+DRAFT
https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/EURALO+Trip+Assessment+2+DRAFT
https://community.icann.org/display/soaceoutreach/EURALO+Trip+Assessment+3+DRAFT
5. Criteria for the RALO FY19 Discretionary Funding
RALO Requests for Funding to support an Outreach Activity - At-Large staff to add the criteria to a google doc so all RALO leadership can comment on it.
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6.ALS Criteria and Expectations
Alan Greenberg to consolidate the various documents and papers on the ALS Criteria and Expectations and send it to the At-Large Review implementation WG (ARI WG).
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