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Notes: 
   -  Summary minutes for this meeting were taken by EURALO Secretariat Oksana Prykhodko and by At-Large staff member Seth Greene.
   -  No explicit action items were assigned during this EURALO call, these are part of the meeting minutes (points 5, 6 and 8).

Standing Issues

1. Roll Call and apologies

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Apologies:  Olivier Crepin Leblond, Sebastien Bachollet, Manuel Schneider, Rudi Vansnick Vansnick  

Absentees:  Siranush Vardanyan

Staff:  Seth Greene, Marilyn Vernon

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• Point at which the GAC gets involved in policy development:  One specific issue is that the GAC could consider participating earlier in the policy development process.  For it to enter the process later, as it seems to now, has caused impasses and problems at the end.  Christopher suggested that we stress to governments that the GAC begin participating earlier.
• Vertical integration:  The Board’s decision on Vertical Integration was not consistent with either European or US competition law (according to Christopher).
  • As reference, see:  The ALAC Statement on the Initial Report on Vertical Integration Between Registrars and Registries.
• The JAS WG process to provide applicant support is only still in a vague form, though this is beginning to take shape now and get some momentum.
  

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A second main topic discussed in Belgrade was outreach; in addition, of course, the GA itself was a major outreach/”inreach” event.  During the GA, Olivier reported that an ALS application might be received shortly from Russia, and Wolf noted one might be received from ColognePoland.  EURALO will also use the upcoming European Summer School on Internet Governance as an outreach vehicle.

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