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Summary Minutes and Action Items NARALO  November Monthly call Monday November 12th  2012

Roll call- Staff

Minutes

I would like to list the previous action Items Garth reviewed the Agenda  for today's call

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Toronto Review All the events came off flawlessly and I received compliments and it was a successful eventsevent. Meeting reports: Some people had problems editing them in the WIKI. Heidi: We had 3 requests signalling that we had an issue. It was lack of access to the WIKI.

OCL: The same people file reports and we need more Glenn: I think the issue is changing actitude in people. We have to remind people. Only a few people made an effort to report. Gordon: I am still waiting from a couple of reports. One of the areas where we had success and failure is in the slide show. The Sub-Committee did a fantastic job in re-interpreting. The table was a success. We did not have a computer.

Agenda 4item  4. Review of the Communication Strategy. We need to constantly improve. 4.2. How do we improve the functions of our calls. We will duplicate the style of the announcement and reminders. 4.3 Overuse of acronyms. Spell out terms.

Recruitment: We would like to create a semi-permanent question in creating recruitment. Eduardo: Suggest that you call to all members.

Action Item: SubCommittee on Recruitment : Who would like to volunteer to be a subcommitte Chair? Garth volunteered himself. Others: Glenn, Joly, Evan

-New ALS applications

Due diligence has been completed, and the next step is the Regional Advice from the Ralo. Garth proceeded will proceed to vote whether the RALO should recommend or not approval: Nova Scotia -  8 approvals and approved. No disapproval. Connect NYC: 9 approvals and approved. No disapproval.University Community Partnership for Social Action Research: No disapproval

ACTION ITEM : Pending email to the NARALO list, if no objections formal  recommendation approval will be sent to the ALAC.

Garth welcomed non-affiliated members. Heidi: A Wiki page could  be created to identify who the affiliated members are.

5.4 Working Group watch: We wanted to see where we participated and where we did not. You can see WG's where there is good participation and where there is not so good participation. IRT ..AG mentioned that the groups are long defunct. The names issue was also old. We need to make sure that anything listed  has lived in our lifetime. OCL: There are some listed on the page but does not appear to be archived. CLO and staff went through the whole list. Garth: I put forward the proposal to assign people to new WG. AG: You cannot assign, it is a collaboration. When somebody comes on as a new ALS we present them with projects and we can ask them is this something that interests you? Glenn: Recently I had conversations with Sala on capacity building. Anybody who joins a Committee needs to know what the expectations are.

ACTION ITEM: To clean up the Working Groups list

Garth: Are there any errors on the list? Other than omissions? Evan: At large members are increasingly getting involved on issues. There are some that are not ALAC initiated.

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Eduardo: I went to Beijing office, passport was sent to NY.

NOMCOM

Glenn: Posted a document. We are doing a monthly report. We refined the application process. We have  two ALAC members as Chair and Chair Elect providing excellent representation  We have a total of four alac voting positions We are taping every session for the record.

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 10. ICANN's Functions In terms of ICANN's functions there are 3. Garth: I will be drafting a compliance list of questions.

Travel: Can travel constituency be on the call before the meetings so we can address questions,? concern. Perdiem and re-imburesement are also pending. There should be a tracking number for this? Heidi asked if Gath can send a message to Heidi. Heidi clarified that ICANN does pay for the wire transfer fees.

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Is the Internet really prepared for disaster? Critical portions of  the internet were kept online by diesel generators. Is issue of interest?

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