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Action Items: EN

Recording: EN, ZH

Transcript: EN, ZH

Chat: EN

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Dial out Participants

EN: Maureen Hilyard, Satish Babu, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Holly Raiche, Gopal T VTadepalli, Shreedeep Rayamajhi, Jaewon Son, Aris Ignacio, Mubashir Sargana, Alan Greenberg, Amrita Choudhury, Hanan Khatib, Jahangir Hossain, Gunela Astbrink, Leon Sanchez, Suhaidi Hassan, Syuzan Marukhyan, Justine Chew, Ali AlMeshal, Aisyah Shakirah, Amal Al-Saqqaf, Jahangir Hossain, Lianna Galstyan, Mieke Taoi, Amir Qayyum, Nadira Al-Araj, Prateek Pathak, Priyatosh Jana, Vivek Rana, Winthrop Yu, Decka David, Pavan Budhrani

ZH: None

Apologies:    None

Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Gisella Gruber, Jia-Rong Low, Mikhail Anisimov, Seher Sağıroğlu, Yeşim Nazlar

ZH Interpreters:  Ray & Sandy

Call Management: Yeşim Nazlar

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Agenda:

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1. Roll call - Staff (2 min)

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3. ALS Mobilization Work and its impact on RALOs (Alan Greenberg, 10 min)

4. APRALO Elections Announcement (Heidi, 5 min)

See: 2020 APRALO Regional Selections

5. ALAC Policy Update -  Holly/Justine (15 min) 

Recently Ratified by the ALAC (since last APRALO Monthly meeting)

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Middle East and Adjoining Countries (MEAC) Strategy 2021-2025 Note: ratified by the AFRALO & APRALO LT; ALAC to endorse.
Executive Summary TBD

Proposed Dates for ICANN Public Meetings 2024-2028 and Revised Dates in 2022
The ALAC noted that ICANN has been striving to be more inclusive in an effort to engage more volunteers with diverse backgrounds. ICANN acknowledges the difficulty in getting new people to join and engage within ICANN and to increase the diversity of participants. The Multistakeholder Model Work Plan takes note of the importance to ICANN to develop pathways to enable effective participation. One of the more practical ways for ICANN to facilitate participation is for ICANN Org, to be more aware of and to avoid clashing with important holidays and religious days observed by volunteers who work countless hours to improve ICANN’s multistakeholder advisory work. By avoiding these dates as much as possible it is showing all  volunteers that ICANN Org understands their concerns and does its best to avoid conflicts. 

The ALAC made several other suggestions regarding ICANN meeting dates in 2022 and from 2024-2028.

Third Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT3) Draft Report
The ALAC noted the ATRT review has produced a considerable amount of work in little time and this is laudable. Nevertheless, from an end-user perspective, ATRT should consider deliberating the following questions: (1) How can ICANN better address conflicts of interest? The ICANN community is relatively small, with relatively few actors involved in the process. Conflicts of interest, perceived or real, can impact negatively on ICANN’s standing; (2) How can transparency be increased? (3) How can ICANN ensure that in cases where issues persist, processes are initiated to correct trajectory? (For example, if multiple reviews identify the same issue or if they find implementation to be lacking, how can this be fast-tracked transparently and effectively?) (4) Might it be necessary to “silo off” or ring-fence certain functions, including reviews, compliance, and other types of community oversight? (5) How can ICANN improve their responsiveness to community and review team questions and affairs, and what policies should be created to ensure these are dealt with? The ALAC also suggested taking several noted options into consideration, emphasizing from an end user perspective, more, not less, accountability and transparency is required from the ICANN community and org. 

Overall, the ALAC supports the suggested changes to the ICANN Public Comment, public input as well as the accountability indicators. We believe those changes would make the Public Comments more effective and show better transparency. We strongly believe that a wide, open and inclusive process should be maintained in policy development process especially with input representing the multistakeholder environment. Policy development must be transparent, efficient and should not be biased or skewed towards a group.

ALAC Advice to the ICANN Board on ISOC/PIR Issue
The ALAC noted the proposed sale of PIR to Ethos Capital has, understandably, created quite a stir, prompting commentary from many perspectives within the ICANN community, and applauds the efforts by the ICANN Board to clarify and make transparent, as much as possible, the process regarding the deal and to take the time to encourage the best possible result.

The ALAC Advice to the ICANN Board suggested (8) recommendations: (1) The Registry for .ORG must be organized as either a charitable non-profit [501c(3) in the US] or a “Benefit Corporation” (B Corporation); (2) One-third of the Registry Corporate Board must be representatives of charitable nonprofits; (3) One Board member selected by the ALAC; (4) The Registry for .ORG must enshrine in its bylaws that the principal focus of the domain is nonprofits and individuals and not commercial interests; (5) The Registry must enshrine in its bylaws a commitment to free speech and a resistance to takedown demands with a political basis; (6) The Registry must provide 6 months prior written notice to its registrants of any increase in wholesale price of their domain names registration renewal fees and the option of a 20-year renewal thereof at the pre-increase price; (7) The Registry Agreement must enshrine PIR prohibited practices such a bulk sales to commercial registrars; and (8) The Registry Agreement must establish a “DNS Abuse Ceiling”.

Additional:

• See ISOC/PIR Update (13 February 2020): A letter from Maarten Botterman to the Chair, Internet Society (ISOC), A letter from Jones Day to Public Interest Registry (PIR).
• "At-Large Valentine" submitted to the ICANN Board regarding Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement.
• ICANN Public Comment Update: See https://alpha.icann.org/en/public-comment and provide feedback by 13 March 2020 to public-comment@icann.org.

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Draft Proposal for NextGen@ICANN Program Improvements
The ALAC suggested several significant recommendations to the NextGen@ICANN Program, to the benefit of the community by opening the program and ensuring a welcoming environment to all NextGenners, including first time participants. The ALAC's recommendations would ensure that participants are selected with a stronger focus on their work and can then attend more than one meeting to engage with the community and find their “policy home”. As a part of its recommendations, the ALAC stated that At-Large would welcome a more active participation of NextGenners in its community.

Name Collision Analysis Project (NCAP) Study 1
The ALAC acknowledged the report as a useful primer on the subject of Name Collisions. The ALAC noted that they look forward to further deliberation by the relevant groups and their onward action with respect to the third goal of Study 1, which is to determine if the NCAP Project will proceed onto a Study 2.

Initial Report of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Team – PHASE 2
For all recommendations not listed in the ALAC statement, the ALAC noted that they they “Support as written”. The ALAC “supported wording with change” for several other recommendations - 1, 6, 7, 9, 15, 19 - and made a general comment that differentiation between natural and legal persons would offload the system from unnecessary queries that are permissible under GDPR.

Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Draft Report
The ALAC noted that ensuring the security, stability and resiliency of the DNS is arguably ICANN's single most important role. The ALAC has a particular interest in the recommendations related to DNS Abuse, and notes that several of the recommendations overlap with and complement those issued by the RDS WHOIS2-RT and the CCT RT. DNS Security, stability and resiliency is not something that we can afford to ignore.

The ALAC has a particular focus on and interest in DNS Abuse. To address this may require contractual changes to facilitate Contractual Compliance action. Such changes require either negotiations with the contracted parties or a PDP, and the ALAC recommends against a PDP and instead encourages ICANN to come to an agreement with contracted parties. Known vulnerabilities need to be corrected with the utmost haste.

ALAC Feedback to PIR Public Comment Proceeding
Note: Not an ICANN Public Comment. The Public Interest Registry (PIR) held a Public Comment proceeding on the issue of the ISOC/PIR. (8) responses were submitted on behalf the ALAC to the PIR Public Comment proceeding.

The ALAC made several suggestions to PIR regarding the issue of ISOC/PIR. The ALAC noted that PICs are the best mechanism with which to enshrine the essential characteristics of a .ORG registry, yet there are significant issues with PIC enforcement that need to be addressed for PICs to be considered a trustworthy assurance. They noted that from the standpoint of an "individual end user," a 10 annual price cap would add a lot of predictability. The ALAC also noted that the stewardship council for .ORG is a good start, but its mandate should be wider than just free speech and privacy, and suggested a few board seats reserved for 501c(3) organizations, chosen by the community, would be more powerful. Reserving certain seats to be selected by NPOC and perhaps the ALAC (to represent the individual registrants) would help a great deal.

The ALAC’s objective is to enshrine PIR's best practices in its contract with ICANN such that they survive any further transitions of ownership.

Public Comment for Decision 

Addendum to the Initial Report of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Team – Phase 2 05 May 2020 
Guidelines for Developing Reference Label Generation Rules (LGRs) for the Second Level Version 2 12 May

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2020 

Current Statements (ALAC Advice, Comment or Correspondence)

Other:

• See: At-Large PDP 3.0 Workspace (resources available and comments welcome)
  
• Take the At-Large GeoNames Survey (deadline: 30 April)

64. ALAC Updates (Maureen, 5 min)

57. APRALO Updates (15 min)

• APRALO Policy Platform 2020: Next steps (Justine, 9 min)

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  • • Link to Google doc for comments | Link to At-Large Policy Platform
    • "Skills outreach survey" per Outreach & Engagement WG
    • At-Large Capacity Building Webinars 2020
    • Policy discussions vide APRALO mailing list
  • Outreach & Engagement WG Update (Ali, 3 min)
  • Social Media WG Update (Shreedeep Rayamajhi, 3 min)

  6. APRALO Elections Announcement (Heidi, 5 min)

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  87. NomCom Update (Amrita, 3 min)
  

  89. AOB (2 min)