This space is to archive all Items that have been put on hold until a future time. These discussion items should be looked at every three months to check if they need to be activated.  NOTE: Please archive Items in numerical order.

ITEM 007: 2018 & 2019 Time table

LEAD: Eduardo Díaz

OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED: Dormant @ 12 February

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: A table with NARALO important dates needs to be created and updated as necessary. Example of these dates are: elections, CROP, fellowship programs, monthly mid/year reports, strategic plans, etc.

  20 November 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. Action required: NARALO secretary to coordinate with staff to prepare the table. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

11 December 2017: [Recording: --]  This item was not discussed during the meeting. [Decision]: 

-→ 08 January 2018: [Recording: --]  This item was not discussed during the meeting. Off Line Report: Time table started but needs to be updated . [Decision]: Off Line Decision: Put dormant to re-check in the future

ITEM 008: Meeting recordings as podcasts

LEAD: Eduardo Díaz

OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED: Dormant @ 12 February

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: Currently, if you want to hear a specific NARALO meeting recording you must find where it is located. This is a “PULL” operation. To make it easier for the region, we should recreate these recordings into podcasts and have them available through a subscription. This will make it a “PUSH” operation. This can be extended to other areas like webinars, working groups, etc.

20 November 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

11 December 2017: [Recording: --]  This item was not discussed during the meeting. Action required: Eduardo to work with Alfredo in setting-up this mechanism. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

-→ 08 January 2018: [Recording: --]  Not discussed during this meeting.  [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

-→ 12 12 February [Recording: --]  This item was not discussed during the meeting. [Decision]: Off Line Decision: Put dormant to re-check to check in the future

ITEM 011: 2018 CROP Program Coordinators (PCs)

LEAD:  Eduardo DíazEduardo Diaz

OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED:Dormant @ 12/11/17

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20 November 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. Action required Action required:  NARALO Secretary in coordination with staff to inform 2018 designations to the CROP manager and update CROP page HERE.Glenn and Judith are the current PCs. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

--->11 December 11 December 2017: [Recording: 33:50]  Status quo, depending on ALAC's decision and when positions are open. ALAC to discuss this sometime after January 2018. NARALO will act accordingly. In the meantime Judith and Glenn will remain in their current positions.[Decision]: This discussion is to be put on a dormant state until ALAC discuss this.

14 March [Recording: 20:50]  Program is being put on hold so there was no to much to say. [Decision]: Recommend to put in dormant state until final decision is made about the program.

ITEM 014: Individual Members Certification Criteria

LEAD: Eduardo Diaz

OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED: Dormant @ 14 May 2018

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: The process for certification of new Individual members should be revised to assure that they are to follow NARALO Rules and Procedures and any other NARALO approved governance document. An on-line form should be created to manage new applications. Current criteria and process are located HERE.

20 November 2017: [Recording: XX]. This item was not discussed during the meeting. Action required: Revise certification process for individual members [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

11 December 2017: [Recording: --]  This item was not discussed during the meeting.. Glenn to lead this item. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting

08 January 2018: [Recording: --]  This item was not discussed during the meeting. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting 

12 February 2018 [Recording: --]  Off Line Report:  [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting

14 March [Recording: 47:00] Briefly talked about these issues. No action items generated [Decision]: Carry froward to next meeting.

09 april [Recording: 48] Silvia explain that the individual members of at-large are the NARALO has a criteria, which is number one, to be a permanent resident of one of the countries or territories in the North American region as defined by ICANN. Not be a member of an accredited ALs, be subscribed to the mailing list of NARALO, this is a very simple criteria and the email requesting membership must be sent to at-large staff, then we coordinate with NARALO leadership and the individual who wishes to become an affiliated member is certified.  [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

--→ 14 May [Recording: --]   [Decision]: Move to a dormant state for future discussion.

Topic 026:  NARALO ALAC Members Update Reports

LEAD: Javier Rúa, John Laprise & Alan Greenberg

OPEN: 09 April 2018, CLOSED: 

TYPE: [Policy]

DESCRIPTION: 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.

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Topic 028: NARALO Policy Group Update Report

LEAD: Jonathan Zuck 

OPEN: 09 April 2018, CLOSED:

TYPE: [Policy]

DESCRIPTION: 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

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Topic 029: NARALO Education Group Update Report

LEAD: Alfredo Calderon

OPEN: 09 April 2018, CLOSED:

TYPE: [Policy]

DESCRIPTION: This discussion Topic is for providing an update report by the head of the Educational Group.

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Topic 025: CROP FY18

LEAD: Eduardo Diaz

OPEN: 12 February 2018, DORMANT: 10 June 2019

TYPE: [Outreach]

DESCRIPTION: To provide an update/report for the following events: Digital Inclusion  (Glenn), RigthsCon (Judith) and ARIN 41 (William)

→ 12 February 2018 [Recording: 38] Report given. Refer to recording/transcript for details. [Decision]: Recommend to close.

→ 14 March [Recording: 10:00]  Program was explained. There may be about $4K o discretionary money that can be used fro this next year. No action Topic generated. [Decision]: Recommend to keep in the agenda to inform allocation of the two last spots in this program

→ 09 april [Recording: 25] William (WC) mentioned that his trip to the ARIN is more strategic in comparison to the GA trip to New Orleans and that he is looking forward to help out. Glenn sent to WC brochures and materials to help with the outreach.  Glenn also mentioned that he is going to attend The Digital Inclusion in Cleveland and Judith the RigthsCon in Toronto where she is going to be one of panelist as the At-Large Global Indigenous Ambassador program. Read more details in the transcripts (page 12) [Decision]: ACTION Topic: William, Glenn and Judith to prepare to work with Evin and Mario from staff to make sure that all the activities are posted on at-large social media, Twitter, Facebook. Also, to provide short written reports to staff to start documenting all of these activities and some of the achievements.

→ 14 May [Recording: 30:35]  Running out of time at this moment of the agenda.   [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting as first Topic in the agenda.

→ 11June [Recording: 3:34]  Glenn and Judith reported. Glenn RigthsCon leads: Canadian National Institute of the Blind (CNIB) & First Nations doing libraries throughout the Midwest. Judith RigthsCon leads: not specific leads but mentioned that she is following up with some of them. William's report pending. Final specifics about FY19 CROP still pending. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 09 July [Recording: 28:57]  Glenn RightsCon leads: Canadian National Institute of the Blind (CNIB) working on getting their application in soon. Glenn Digital inclusion leads: First Nations doing libraries throughout the Midwest. Judith RightsCon leads: couple Canadian and US non-profits, William's report pending [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 13 August [Recording: 4:00]: New ALSs application by ALTERANTIVE was outreached during the DNS symposium in Montreal which was a CROP sponsored event attended by Glenn. William's report pending. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

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

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

→ 12 November [Recording: 09:30]: William's report pending. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 10 December [Recording: 05:34X]: William's report pending. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 14 January  [Recording: 03:00]: William's report pending. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

Topic 042: New NARALO Members

LEAD: Joey Doyle

OPEN: [open date], DORMANT: 10 June 2019 

TYPE: Outreach

DESCRIPTION: To introduce new members to the region

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

→ 12 November [Recording: 09:50]: Robert introduced himself. Joey was not present during this meeting. Check transcript starting in page #7 for more details.

→ 10 December [Recording: XX:XX]: Joey was not present in the meeting. Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 11 February  [Recording:XX:XX]: Pierre introduced himself. Check transcript starting in page #8 for more details.

→ 8 April: David Mackey introduced himself. Check recording starting at 3:00 for more details. José Lebron introduced himself. Check recording starting at 7:00 for more details.

Topic 043: Social Media Update Report

LEAD: Susannah Gray 

OPEN: 10 Sept 2018, DORMANT: 10 June 2019

TYPE: Outreach

DESCRIPTION: To report on the At-Large Social Media Working Group (SoMe) and NARALO required efforts to support this initiative

→ 10 September [Recording: 28:30] Report given. Transcript excerpt: "The thing I guess at this point we’re really looking from NARALO as some additional volunteers from the community to be on point if NARALO-related social media. As I put in the chat, if you’re interested, please contact me or one of the staff on this call or Evin. And we’ll put your name in the hat, and we’ll get busy. We have a lot of work to do." Transcript excerpt by Alfredo asking for #hashtags : "...if it’s possible to have an action Topic where we, as NARALO, can make a list of all the hashtags of all the ALSes that we have in our region so that we can monitor what activities they are doing, I and Susannah, as the social media leaders, can funnel that information so that At-Large can have access to it in a timely formal manner." Check transcript starting in page #17 for more details [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting

Topic 047: Academic Credits

LEAD: Chris Mondini

LEAD COLLABORATORS: Yubelkys Montalvo (Universities) & David Morar (Students)

OPEN: 10 September 2018, CLOSED:

TYPE: General

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

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Topic 050: Student Outreach by  the North American Graduate Students At-Large Structure

LEAD: David Morar, Anna Cecile Loup 

OPEN: 12 November 2018, CLOSED:

TYPE: Outreach

DESCRIPTION: To provide an updated report on efforts related to outreach University students by the North American Graduate Students At-Large Structure

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Topic 059: RIR Outreach

LEAD: Judith Hellerstein

OPEN: 14 January 2019, CLOSED: 

TYPE: Outreach

DESCRIPTION: to provide a report on RIR outreach efforts

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Topic 065: Real-Time Transcription (RTT)

LEAD: Judith Hellerstein

OPEN: 15 July 2019, CLOSED:

TYPE: [[Outreach]

DESCRIPTION: To provide an update report on the results of this resource.

• FY20 Additional Budget Request (ABR)
• Approved:
  • Real-Time Transcription (RTT) of up to ten (10) hours of Inter-sessional At-Large teleconference calls in English during FY20
    • F/U: Judith & Silvia to coordinate FY20 RTT meeting schedule

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Included here to f/U on reports (@ 8 June 2020)

Topic 017: NARALO Outreach Group Update Report

LEAD: Glenn McKnight

OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED:

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: To provide a summary of the NARALO Outreach Group efforts

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Topic 044: North America Stakeholder Engagement

LEAD: Chris Mondini & Joe Catapano

OPEN: 10 September 2018, CLOSED:

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: To provide an update report on North America Stakeholder Engagement efforts

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Topic 064: FY20 NARALO Discretionary Funds

LEAD: Eduardo Diaz

OPEN: 15 July 2019, CLOSED:

TYPE: [Outreach]

DESCRIPTION: To report on the use of the funding for FY20 outreach and engagement activities by Regional At Large Organizations (RALOs) - $4k/RALO

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Topic 067: Introduction of New Individual  Members

LEAD: Eduardo Diaz

OPEN:15 July 2019, CLOSED: 

TYPE: [General]

DESCRIPTION: To introduce new individual members to the region

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Topic 068: Universal Acceptance (UA)

LEAD: Denise de Alcantara-Hochbaum

OPEN: 12 August 2019, CLOSED:

TYPE: Policy, Outreach

NARALO Universal Acceptance Working Group

SUPPORTING BACKGROUND AND DOCUMENTATION:

This topic was created as an action item assigned by ALAC to all RALOS. See the following email received on 25 July 2019: 

"Dear RALO Chairs,

Further to an action item from yesterday's ALT-PLUS meeting, please see the Tracking Pages for the At-Large Universal Acceptance Pilot for your respective RALO here.

These pages are meant to facilitate the record of At-Large activity related to UA by region. Please share with your leadership team and community. John Laprise, ALAC Vice Chair has also requested you please also contact your regional UASG Ambassador regarding Universal Acceptance.

You may find the main At-Large Workspace on the UA Pilot here, with the below resources from Ajay Data of the UA Steering Group (UASG). Please share these resources with your RALO community."

See: RALO Tracking Pages for UA Pilot

Resources Shared by Ajay Data

• Universal Acceptance Frequently Asked Questions
• Universal Acceptance Fact Sheet
• Universal Acceptance Quick Guide
• Test Your Email’s Mail Server EAI Support
• Get Systems UA Ready: Blueprint for CIOs
• Blog: A U.S. $9.8 Billion Opportunity – Universal Acceptance of ALL Online Identities
• UASG FY20 Action Plan
• Signup for Working Groups

For more details and technical documents, please visit:

• UASG website
• Sign up for UA General Updates and Discussion
• Report a UA Issue
• Social Media: Twitter - Facebook - YouTube
• Email: info@uasg.tech

Additional UASG Resources

• UASG101 - Introduction to Universal Acceptance
• UASG102 - Email Address Internationalization (EAI) 
• UASG 103 - Programming Language Hacks
• At-Large ICANN65 Talking Points
• At-Large ICANN64 Policy Discussions Summary
• Universal Acceptance Steering Group 
• 2017 Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of a Variety of Email Addresses - UASG017

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Topic 072: North American School of Internet Governance (NASIG) Updates 

LEAD: Eduardo Díaz

OPEN: 18 November 2019, CLOSED:

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

DESCRIPTION: To provide an update on efforts regarding the North American School of Internet Governance

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Topic 073: 2021 or 2022  NARALO General Assembly (NGA 2021/2)

LEAD: Eduardo Díaz

OPEN: 18 November 2019, CLOSED:

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: → To provide an update on efforts regarding the 2021 (or 2022) NARALO General Assembly

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