Page History
The Minutes Summary were prepared by the Staff in the first instance
Standing Agenda Items
The Agenda for this Meeting was adopted.
C Samuels was designated Chair for this meeting.
The Meeting Summary of the last meeting was accepted.
The Chair followed up on the Action Items.
S Salina noted that he has made contact with ACUI and asked them to respond to the outstanding question to their application.
Nomination of the Board Liaison
The Chair noted that two candidates for the Board liaison position have been nominated: the incumbent, Wendy Seltzer and Beau Brendler. They have until 21 June to accept their nomination.
Further information about the board liaison candidates will be sent to the LACRALO members in due course. The opportunity to have a question session with the candidates after the Paris meeting will be explored.
The Chair encouraged the members to gather as much information as possible on the candidates.
New Policy Initiatives Under Consideration
The Chair noted that there have recently been three briefing sessions on Fast Flux Hosting, the Operating Plan and Budget and the new gTLD program. He pointed out that the briefing sessions have been recorded and are available for future reference.
With regards to the operational plan and budget, the Chair noted that he did not believe that the proposed increase in spending for translations and interpretations would be enough to address the needs of the region.
A Piazza said that he would like to have more discussion on policy issues during the monthly Teleconferences.
It was suggested to have regional working groups to increase the regional input into ICANN’s policy process.
The Chair noted that all regions were free to adopt their own agenda. He pointed out, however, that the LACRALO was constituted to represent issues of ICANN policy to the ALAC, which is the conduit for At-large into ICANN. He added that there were different At-Large working groups already in place and before creating regional working groups the opportunity to join existing working groups should be explored.
D Younger from NARALO said that S Ricciardi recently left the new gTLD working group and there was currently no representative from LACRALO. He encouraged interested participants in LACRALO to join.
C Samuels said that he would join the new gTLD-working group.
JL Barzallo suggested changing the format of the agenda and putting discussion on policy issues as a standing agenda item at the beginning of the monthly conference calls. There seemed to be widespread agreement on this.
The Chair said that he had no objection on this. He emphasized, however, that ALAC policy issues needed to be discussed as well and encouraged the participants to start the policy discussions on the mailing list before the teleconference.
The Staff noted that a considerable amount of briefing material on the new gTLD program would be published in Spanish and English shortly.
Update on LACRALO GA
The Chair noted that although it was unsure that the deadline could be met they continued to work on a GA budget. He estimated that the GA would cost between USD 55000-56000.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be on 17 July at 1300 UTC.
The meeting was then adjourned.
