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NARALO Monthly Report - December 2012

1. December Monthly Call Occurred as scheduled 10 December 2012
2. NARALO Operating Principle #3: Participation to NARALO discussions is open to every user and group of users and their participation will be promoted.
3. The Chair continued to follow up on Travel Assistance-related issues from the Toronto meeting, forwarding a list of open issues to staff.
4. NARALO Welcomed our latest ALSes: Connect.NYC and Nova Scotia Community Access Program
5. The Monthly call featured Tom L. from Connect.NYC to present his ALS
6. The Chair is building a sub-report on Language, Interpretation and Translation
7. The Chair participated in the monthly ALAC call
8. The Chair is reviewing Compliance responses to questions issued in November
9. The Chair learned that ICANN's Sydney office was suddenly closed, more information is being requested

NARALO Monthly Report - November 2012

1. November Monthly Call Occurred as scheduled 12 November 2012
2. NARALO Operating Principle #2: "The NARALO will function as long as the Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the NARALO remains valid." The MOU can be found here. 
3. The Chair continued to follow up on Travel Assistance-related issues from the Toronto meeting, forwarding a list of open issues to staff.
4. The Chair continued to promote our new ALS applicants
5. The Chair continued to collect working group representation
6. The Chair released the NARALO Communications Strategy for comments
7. The community monitored with great interest developments concerning TM protections in the new gTLD program. NARALO ALAC members Evan L. and Alan G. insisted on full participation in the policy calls since they were not apprised of the meetings previously.
8. NARALO Members offered advice to APRALO members in advance of their organizing of the Beijing meeting
9. The Secretary added new NARALO members to the Skype chat
10. The Chair released a new dedicated report sub-section on Language, Translation and Interpretation. The Chair will soliciting feedback from the community on the various language services.
11. The community noted that The GAC and ALAC endorsed the WHOIS review report, SSAC provided a response in SAC055
    (http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-055-en.pdf), and the GNSO provided a response by constituency (http://gnso.icann.org/en/correspondence/robinson-to-icann-board-07nov12-en.pdf)
12. Glenn M. worked with At-Large staff to locate survey results from the Adobe chats at Toronto.
13. The Chair released a special sub-report on Compliance issues
14. The recruitment sub-committee began working on a letter template

NARALO Monthly Report - October 2012

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Most of the reporting for October refers to the Toronto ICANN Meeting

1. October Monthly Call Occurred as scheduled 8 October 2012 
   
   
2. Going forward the Chair will review the NARALO Operating Principles regularly to ensure we are working within these parameters and create a running commentary here so all members are aware of these principles (there are 18). The first principle being: "The North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) promotes and assures the North American user participation in the ICANN policy development process. It is formed by the unaffiliated individuals who meet the requirements under rule 17 and by those North American At-Large Structures (ALSs) accredited by the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC)." 
   
   
3. Toronto ICANN meeting

• Staff Acknowledgement: ICANN At-Large Staff were actively engaged in the process of building the Toronto event and made many of the suggestions which resulted in positive results and engagement. For this we thank them for their time and dedication.
  
  
• Event Committee: This very successful meeting is was coordinated through weekly teleconferences by the NARALO volunteer committee starting in August 2012, the membership being: Darlene Thompson, Glenn McKnight, Gordon Chillcott, Eduardo Diaz, Garth Bruen; Olivier Crepin-Leblond and Evan Leibovitch. See Event Planning Data.
  
  
• The Slideshow Sub-committee (Garth, Glenn, Eduardo, Gordon) Slideshow http://www.slideshare.net/gmcknight/naralo-slideshow
  
  
• Meeting  Reports: NARALO Members have been recording meeting briefs from Toronto: At-Large Toronto Meeting Reports
  
  
• Leadership Sessions: Our leadership participated in day-long ALAC sessions on Sunday with the new CEO, ccSNO, CFO, Communications, SSAC, Compliance, and DSSA WG. Transcripts
  
  
• The Outreach (Monday): http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34281

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Audio recordings and interpretation: English, French, Spanish; TranscriptsTranscripts: English, Spanish, French

• New gTLD working group, WHOIS Working Group, Future Challenges, Rules of Procedure, Registrant Rights and Responsibilities

• NARALO Member Glenn McKnight participated in Nominating Committee sessions
• NARALO Chair ran the Secretariats Meeting
• General Assembly:

• Recruitment Activities: Part of the week's activity centered around developing recruitment opportunities. We have enlarged our rolls with several new At-Large Structures and unaffiliated members.

  -NARALO was pleased have two candidate ALSes attend our sessions: Nova Scotia Community Access Program and Connect.NYC. These two groups submitted applications immediately.

  -As for Unaffiliated Members, the Chair sent personal invitations to potential unaffiliated members: Murray M., Peter K., Roy B., Alain B., Andrew M. who attended various sessions.

• Capacity Building Sessions - Monday through Thursday NARALO meet early in the morning to develop a Communication Strategy. This NARALO Communication Strategy Document is the result of our collaborative efforts while in the ICANN 45 Toronto At-Large Capacity Building Sessions.The document follows the four-part discussion agenda which occurred over the four meeting days. Comments may be submitted to the NARALO Chair at any time.

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5. ICANN Functions - Documenting NARALO perspectives on ICANN's functional areas will be a standard part of this report. Suggestions and questions should be sent to the Chair.

• Compliance: The Chair will solicit and forward to staff lists of concerns about Compliance in a supplemental report.
• Language, Translation, and Interpretation: The Chair will solicit and forward to staff lists of concerns about Compliance.
• Travel Support: The Chair will continue to be proactive in monitoring the effectiveness and response of ICANN Travel Constituency. ICANN TC has been helpful in resolving some issues. At-Large understands that coordinating travel for an ICANN meeting is a complex endeavor. In order address problems quickly and provide useful feedback, the Chair has been accepting and forwarding all travel related complaints. Most individual issues have been resolved. However, one item is of continuing concern, namely shuttles to and from overflow hotels. The Chair was not aware there were no shuttles from non-venue hotels and assumed their would because shuttles were provided at other ICANN meetings. This was of specific concern for At-Large members who were required to appear at 7AM meetings Monday - Thursday. At-Large members had to take taxi cabs which could have cost up to $156CAN for the whole week, a not insignificant portion of the Per Diem. We are also concerned about compliance with disability standards whereas members with mobility issues may be better served by shuttle buses as opposed to expectations that they seek public transportation. Questions concerning the lack of shuttle buses have been forwarded to At-Large Staff and noted in the October Monthly Call Action Items. Another issue being examined is wire transfer fees for directly deposited Per Diems. The policy concerning wire transfer fees is not clear, some believe ICANN should bee paying the transfer feed on these deposits. This is also an action item from October's call.
  
   
  6. Next Call Monday 10 December 2012 at 2000 UTC
  

NARALO Monthly Report - September 27, 2012

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