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NARALO Meeting Summary

May 14, 2012

Present: DarleneThompson, Gordon Chilcott, Allan Skuce, Gareth Shearmen, Garth Bruen, Beau Brendler, Glenn McKnight, Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Evan Leibovitch

Staff:  Heidi Ulrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Silvia Vivanco

Regrets:  Seth, Eduardo

Agenda:

1. Roll call

2. Review of Action Items of call 16 April 2012

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See:At Large New gTLD Review Group Workspace

DT gave a description of the time lines that we are working with for this working group.

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Please make sure you look at the ICANN work on taking down domain names.  It’s very important.

Although we’ve decided not to do a NARALO showcase, we need to do some kind of event.  Volunteers?

GB has some issues with things that he has submitted in the past but he would like to read the report in full before he gives an opinion.

AG:  The URS is for the fast take-down of domain names that were misbehaving.  The “Powers that Be” have said that the cost of doing such would be much too costly and ICANN isn’t willing to fund it.  There was no active “heads up” to the GNSO group that this was the case.  Can this be done at a reasonable cost?  That is the question.  People that know how much this will cost say that this will be VERY costly.  This bears watching.

EL:  How quickly can we resolve this?  It can be a ticking time bomb.

AG: How it will unfold is the question.  If we can find a reasonable cost on this, fine, but if not, it’s a huge problem.  If there is a site masquerading as another, that’s more of a problem over another group that may just be poking fun at the site.

GB:  Are there mitigation providers that can do it at a lower cost?

AG:  Not that we know of yet – there were several that bided on it and none came in at under $600, rather than the $200 that they were hoping for.

TORONTO MEETING

EL:  Perhaps we can do an open house rather than another type of venue there.  This may be useful in recruiting others into ICANN for potential ALSs.  This could be an excellent idea for outreach.

Glenn, Gordon and Darlene offered to help Evan in this endeavor.

Call for volunteers to lead NARALO Toronto "event" effort.

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Summary:  AG:  Report is good, it is masterful it cites all the real controversial issues, it put the blame on ICANN because not policing internet properly, the group must report directly to the group. The deadlines are too tight for the Board, but the report is well done. Alan thought that the WHOIS summary was good.  It put the blame solidly on ICANN for not policing the system and for not doing adequate reporting.

AG: URS comment: In the middle of the budget doc to fund Summits to find the URS, which is to fund the procedure to fine the domains who are misusing trademarks. The providers of dispute resolution mechanisms have said there is no way we can do that for that price. It is defined to be self-funding. There is no active heads up to the GNSO.

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