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Dial Out Participants:

EN: Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Maureen Hilyard, Eduardo Diaz , Glenn McKnight, John Laprise, Marita Moll, Gordon Chillcott, Allan Skuce, Eve Edelson, George Kirikos, Jonathan Zuck, Kristin Doan, Jeremy Pesner, Bill Jouris, Judith Herrerstein,  Adrian Schmidt, Evan Leibovitch, Leas Symeker, Alfredo Calderon, Joe Capatano, Billy Gidendi, John More, 

Audio Only:  Ron DeSilva, Leon Sanchez, Denise De Alcantara

Apologies:    Joey Doyle, Dana Perry, Javier Rua-Jovet. Greg Shatan, Susannah Gray, Allan Greenberg, Yubelkys Montalvo

Staff: Heidi  Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Joe Catapano, Claudia Ruiz

Call Management: TBCClaudia Ruiz

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Summary Minutes:    

Action Items: EN EN

Recording:   EN

AC Recording: EN

AC Chat: EN EN    

Transcript: EN EN

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AGENDA

1. Attendance (

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14/

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48)

This section is to record the meeting attendance.

ALS (Total

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11CA/

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12US) - Attendance (

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10/

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23) 

Note: Knujon decertified.

For updates please contact Evin Erdoğdu, At-Large Staff.

*P=Present

RED = Under decertification   ALAC  voted to decertifydecertification

Unaffiliated (Total 25 ::

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8CA/

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17US) Attendance (

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4/25) 

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For updates please contact Evin Erdoğdu, At-Large Staff.

2. Approval of the Agenda & Discussion Order 

This section is to record the approval of this meeting agenda and its discussion order. (00:01/00:01)

→ 8 October [Recording: XX:XX01]: Agenda accepted.

3. Meeting Discussion Order 

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Item #	Discussion	Lead	Allotted Time/Running Time
041	Introductory Remarks by NARALO Chair →: To put the meeting in perspective  and bring-up anything of general interest to the membership: New in the agenda: Academic Credits ATLAS III New individual members from US: Jeremy Pesner & Joey Doyle EPDP (Expedited Policy Development Process) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data :: This an Expedited Policy Development Process to confirm, or not, the Temporary Specification as a Consensus Policy within 12 months of 25 may 2018. ALS Knujon has been decertified by ALAC with 100% YES votes New  US -Canada Trade agreement	Eduardo	(00:04 / 00:05)
048	At-Large Summit III (ATLAS III) →: To provide updates to this event which is scheduled for ICANN 66 , 2-7 November 2019 in Montreal, Canada	Olivier	(00:05 / 00:10)
025	CROP FY18 →: To provide an update/report for the following CROP supported events:   ARIN 41 (William)	William	(00:05 02 / 00:1012)
042	New NARALO Members →: To introduce new members to the region Jeremy Pesner (US) Joey Doyle (CA) (introduction delayed until November)	Jeremy	(00:05 03 / 00:15)
017	NARALO Outreach Group Update Report →: To provide a summary of the NARALO Outreach Group efforts since our last call ALS Alternatives certification update Knujon decertification Individual Members removal Updates for IGF, ICANN63 and other events Reminder of CROP trips for FY19 Other	Glenn	(00:10 / 00:25)
044	North America Stakeholder Engagement →: To provide an update report on North America Stakeholder Engagement efforts Notes on the Roundtable event in DC Other current and future engagements Things of interest to our region happening in ICANN Org	Chris Joe	(00:10 5/ 00:2530)
045	Academic Credits →:To work on ways that we could possibly exchange academic credit for students who participate in ICANN policy development processes	Chris Yubelkys David	(00:05 / 00:3035)
046	SWebinar :: New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Subsequent PDP →: Short presentation on the Initial Report on the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (Overarching Issues & Work Tracks 1-4) What is this? What did ALAC do different this time to comment on this policy? Why is this important to the end-users?  Overview of the ALAC comments Questions and Answers	Jonathan	(00:30 35 / 00:60)
	if we can get to them.....
043	Social Media Update Report →: To report on the At-Large Social Media Working Group (SoMe) and NARALO required efforts to support this initiative What is the strategy for At-Large? For RALOs? for NARALO? What are timelines for implementation?	Susannah
028	NARALO Policy Group Update Report →: To provide an update report by the head of the Policy Group as to the ICANN policies being discussed at the moment affecting NARALO end-users and/or interest to NARALO members in general	Jonathan
029	NARALO Education Group Update Report →: To provide provide an update report by the head of the Educational Group since our last call.	Alfredo
026	NARALO ALAC members Update Reports →: To provide a summary by our current NARALO representatives in ALAC of what was discussed since our last meeting in ALAC regarding policy and anything else that the region should be aware about.	Javier John L. Alan
-	Any Other Business (AOB)	All	-
-	Next meeting: 12 November 2018 @19:00 UTC	-	-

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10 September [Recording: 36:00] Report given. Transcript excerpt:"So, again, we have two tools. We have CROP which is three trips that ICANN has been generous enough to support. Plus we have discretionary funding." Check transcript starting in page #21 for more details. [Decision]:  Carry Forward to next meeting. 

→ 8 October [Recording: XX23:XX]:00]: Mentioned IGF coming up and three CROPs for 2019 - 1. ARIN 43 Bridgetown, Barbados 7-10 April 2019, 2. Digital Inclusion Charlotte, North Carolina 1-3 April 2019 3. NTC19 Portland, Oregon 13-15 March 2019

ITEM 025: CROP FY18

LEAD: Eduardo Diaz

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10 September [Recording: 02:00] William's report pending. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 8 October [Recording: XX:XX]:21:00]: William's report pending. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

ITEM 026:  NARALO ALAC Members Update Reports

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→ 10 September [Recording: 01:41]  Overview given.  Check transcript starting in page #2 for more details. [Decision]:  Carry Forward to next meeting.

→ 8 October [Recording: XX01:XX]:15] Overview given. No transcript available at 10/11/18.

ITEM 042: New NARALO Members

LEAD: George Kirikos & Joey Doyle Jeremy Pesner

OPEN: [open date], CLOSED:

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→ 10 September [Recording: 05:50]  George Kirikos introduced himself. From transcript : "I’ve been [using the Internet] for a very long time. Way back, well, I guess when I was in school, we used the Commodore PETs in grade 7. So that got me hooked on computers. I was an early user of bulletin board systems, which obviously then transformed into Internet and AOL and things like that way back in the early 80s." Check transcript starting in page #4 for more details. - Check transcript starting in page #4 for more details. Joey was not available for this call. Will try to confirm him for our next call. Alfredo introduced two NA fellows that will be participating in ICANN63 as fellows. These were Michael Casadevall and Janos Szurdi. Check transcript starting in page #6 for more details. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting

→ 8 October [Recording: 55: XX:XX]:42]: Jeremy introduced himself. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

ITEM 043: Social Media Update Report

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→ 10 September [Recording: 16:31]  Report given. Transcript excerpt: "We are also working with two universities, the University of California in Los Angeles and also Arizona State University and also the University of Colorado, to work on ways that we could possibly exchange academic credit for students who participate in policy development processes or have some other ICANN policy development advancing role. So we are talking to them actively." Yubelkys Montalvo from HETS was very interesting in helping with this effort. Check transcript starting in page #10 for more details. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 8 October [Recording: XX30:XX]:

ITEM 046: SWebinar :: Work Ahead to meet the Implementation Review

LEAD: Allan Greenberg and Cheryl Langdon-Orr

OPEN: 8 October 2018, CLOSED: 8 October 2018

50]: DC office hosted 12 members from Indonesia to talk about organization and policy of private sector corporations such as ICANN. This was in conjunction with the State Department and done about twice a year. Also, coordinate UN meeting for the ICANN Government  Engagement team. Finally held a sucessful meeting with the US Chamber of Commerce. Main theme was GDPR. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

ITEM 046: SWebinar :: New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Subsequent PDP

LEAD: Jonathan Zuck

OPEN: 8 October 2018, CLOSED: 8 October 2018

TYPE: TYPE: Education

DESCRIPTION: Short presentation on the Initial Report on the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (Overarching Issues & Work Tracks 1-4)

• • • • • What is this?
        • What did ALAC do different this time to comment on this policy?
        • Why is this important to the end-users? 
          • Overview of the ALAC comments

→ 8 October [Recording: XX41:XX] 00] Webinar given. Please hear details via the recording starting at indicated time.

5. New Discussions (→= current meeting date)

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DESCRIPTION: To work on ways that we could possibly exchange academic credit for students who participate in ICANN policy development processes

→ 8 October [Recording: XX27:XX00] :  

6. Any Other Business (AOB)

This section is for any new discussions not in the agenda for this meeting.

ITEM 046*: [Item title here]

LEAD: [name]

OPEN: [open date], CLOSED:

TYPE: [General], [Policy], [Education], [Outreach]

DESCRIPTION: [Brief description]

*Use this format. The number shown is the next in the sequence of discussions. Update every meeting if necessary.

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Supporting Material

General:

Two schools identified. Arizona State University, Phoenix - Responded enthusiastically. Best approach to use research clusters. These  are groups of 4-5 student that choose a topic and work on it for a year under a direction of a University professor. At the end they produce a paper and present their findings. Most probably will start in fall '19. The other institutionalization is University of Colorado Boulder. Not moving forward at the moment but talks are open. Will follow-up with them in the future. programs. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

ITEM 048: ATLAS III

LEAD: Olivier Crepin-Leblond

OPEN: 8 October 2018 CLOSED: 8 October 2018

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: To provide updates to this event which is scheduled for ICANN 66 , 2-7 November 2019 in Montreal, Canada

→ 8 October [Recording: 05:05] : Provided an extensive summary covering from structure of how it will be coordinated, leadership and a brief timeline. There were question regarding the working groups , selection criteria, working group leaders, etc. [Decision]: Closed.

6. Any Other Business (AOB)

This section is for any new discussions not in the agenda for this meeting.

ITEM 049*: [Item title here]

LEAD: [name]

OPEN: [open date], CLOSED:

TYPE: [General], [Policy], [Education], [Outreach]

DESCRIPTION: [Brief description]

*Use this format. The number shown is the next in the sequence of discussions. Update every meeting if necessary.

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Supporting Material

General:

• 2017 Rules and 2017 Rules and Procedures
• Decertification Workspace
• Individual Members Roaster
• FY18 Budget Workspace
• FY19 At-Large Additional Budget Request (ABR) Workspace
• ALAC Finance and Budget Sub-Committee (FBSC)
• ALAC and the ALAC Appointee Selection Committee (AASC)
• NARALO Newsletters
• CROP Procedures & Guidelines

Policy:

See:

• NARALO Hot Topics

• At-Large Policy Advice Development Page

Statements approved by the ALAC

None

Statements in process - Drafting, Comment or Vote

Drafting ICANN Seeking Community Feedback on Proposed Unified Access Model Internal Deadline 31 Aug 2018 
Penholder(s): Gregory Shatan

Comment IPC/BC Accreditation & Access Model for Non-Public Data v1.7 Internal Deadline31 Aug 2018   Note: Not a formal ICANN public comment.
Penholder(s): Jonathan Zuck

Drafting Initial Report on the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (Overarching Issues & Work Tracks 1-4) 26 Sep 2018
Penholder(s): Jonathan Zuck

Vote Draft ICANN Africa Strategic Plan 2016-2020 Version 3.0 10 Sep 2018 
Penholder(s): Fatimata Seye Sylla

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Initial Report on the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (Overarching Issues & Work Tracks 1-4) 

While the ALAC and wider At-Large community continue to debate the actual benefits to communities in expanding the New gTLD Program, they acknowledge that the Program will likely continue to be expanded in one form or another. In this respect, the ALAC put on record their responses, suggestions and in some cases, advocacy, to the preliminary recommendations and questions as posed by the GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group in its Initial Report, from the perspective of and benefit to Internet end users At-Large. The ALAC highlighted key consensus positions on the 86-page statement, including: Concept of "Rounds", Community Applications and Community Priority Evaluation, Metrics, Public Interest Commitments, Applicant Support Program, IDNs, Universal Acceptance, SSAC Research and Recommendations, Objections, and High Standards for Applicants.

Recommendations for Managing IDN Variant Top-Level Domains
The ALAC believes the main challenge while integrating IDN variant top-level domains is to balance positive user experience while ensuring the security, stability and manageability of the DNS. The ALAC provided advice on (4) questions posed by ICANN regarding the issue, and in general believes strict adherence to the Root Zone LGRs are the most appropriate way of arriving at IDN variant labels.

IPC/BC Accreditation & Access Model for Non-Public Data v1.7 Note: Not a formal ICANN Public Comment.
The ALAC understands that tiered access is the most probable solution to ensuring compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), yet it has serious concerns as to the structure of this proposed model. The ALAC recommends a three-dimensional access model of accreditation: 1) identity of the petitioner; 2) determining the petitioner’s purpose; and 3) requesting information on how they will use that data. The ALAC feels these considerations towards the access model will propel the ICANN community further towards a reliable and trusted domain name system (DNS).

Draft ICANN Africa Strategic Plan 2016-2020 Version 3.0
The ALAC recommended (1) an increased number of African ICANN staff to be seriously considered in the Draft Africa Strategic Plan; (2) involving more African participation in strategy planning and implementation; (3) local capacity building; (4) increased representation of African stakeholders in the SOs and ACs in addition to the ALAC and GAC. The ALAC also noted criteria for implementation should be further developed, and offered collaboration with the African community in At-Large.

Statements in process - Drafting, Comment or Vote

Comment ICANN Seeking Community Feedback on Proposed Unified Access Model  
Penholder(s): Gregory Shatan

Vote Next Steps on Reviews 05 Oct

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2018 
Penholder(s):  

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Alan Greenberg

Drafting Proposed gTLD-Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Profile 13 Oct 2018
Penholder(s): Joanna Kulesza, Jonathan Zuck

Drafting Registration Directory Service (RDS-WHOIS2) Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations 05 Nov 2018
Penholder(s): TBC 

Drafting Draft PTI and IANA FY20 Operating Plan and Budgets 12 Nov 2018 
Penholder(s): Joanna KuleszaTBC

Statements that seem to be stalled

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Public Comment requests to which the ALAC decided not to submit Statements

• • The Independent Review Process Implementation Oversight Team (IRP-IOT) Draft Recommendations
  • Proposed Renewal of .COOP Sponsored Registry Agreement
  • Proposals for Kannada, Oriya and Telugu Scripts' Root Zone Label Generation Rules
  • Study on Technical Use of Root Zone Label Generation Rules 

New Public Comment requests to which the ALAC needs to make decisions

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• • Modification of Domains Protected Marks List Service

New Public Comment requests to which the ALAC needs to make decisions

• • Proposals for Malayalam and Tamil Scripts' Root Zone‬ Label Generation Rules (Note: likely "No Statement")

Upcoming Public Comment Requests

September

October

• • Initial Report on the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (Work Track 5 – Geographic Names at the Top-Level)
    
  • Competition, Consumer Trust & Consumer Choice Review Team – Final Report
  • Proposals for Bengali, Malayalam, and Tamil Scripts Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)
    
  • Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) 2 Review: Draft Report and Recommendations
    Proposal for Sinhala Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)
    
  • Implementation of Privacy and Proxy Services Accreditation Program
    Recommendations on the Technical Use of the Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)Accreditation Program
    
  • Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Policy Status Report
    

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  • Translation and Transliteration of Contact Information Policy Draft
    
  • New gTLD Auction Proceeds Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) – Initial Report
    
  • Final Recommendations for Managing the IDN Variant Top-Level Domains
    
  • Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) Initial Report
    
  • Proposal for Sinhala Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)

November

• • Renewal of the .INFO Registry Agreement
    
  • Renewal of the .ORG Registry Agreement
    
  • Renewal of the .AERO Sponsorship Agreement
    
  • ICANN 5-year Strategic Plan for FY21-25
    
  • Initial Report on the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (Work Track 5 – Geographic Names at the Top-Level)

Education:

• Education WG wiki
• Outreach and Engagement WG wiki

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