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Comment participer a cette teleconference?  French Conference ID = 1838

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AF: Abdulkarim  Abdulkarim Oloyede, Dave Kissoondoyal, Tijani Ben Jemaa

AP: Holly  Holly Raiche, Justine  Justine Chew ,Maureen Hilyard

EUR: Bastiaan Goslings , Joanna Kulesza (apology), Matthias M. Hudobnik (apology)

LAC: Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez, Humberto  Humberto Carrasco, Sylvia  Sylvia Herlein-Leite

NA: Javier  Javier Rúa-Jovet , Jonathan Zuck, Marita  Marita Moll 

Liaisons: Andrei Kolesnikov(SSAC), Barrack Otieno (ccNSO), Cheryl  Cheryl Langdon-Orr Orr (GNSO), Yrjö Lansipuro  Yrjö Lansipuro (GAC) 

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Dial out Participants:

EN: Hadia Elminiawi , Seun Ojedeji, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Barrack Otieno Maureen Hilyard, Vernatius Okwu Ezeama, Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Vanda Scartezini, Sebastien Bachollet, Hadia Elimiawi, Alan Greenberg, Abdeljalil Bachar Bong, Daniel Nanghaka, Glenn McKnight, Judith Hellerstein, Nadira Al-Araj, Satish Babu, León Sanchez, Sarah Kiden, 

ES:  Sergio Salinas Porto, Humberto Carrasco, Alberto Soto,

FR: 

Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Gisella GruberSilvia Vivanco, Evin Erdoğdu, Alperen Eken,  Claudia Ruiz

Apologies: Joanna Kulesza, Loris Taylor, Yeşim Nazlar (staff), Matthias Hudobnik, 

Interpreters: 

ES: David and Veronica

FR:  Claire and Jacques

Call Management:  Claudia Ruiz

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Action Items: EN

Adopted Motions: EN

Decisions: EN

Recording: EN, ES, FR

Transcript: EN EN, ES, FR

Zoom Chat: EN

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A G E N D A:   

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Standing Agenda Items

1. Roll Call and Apologies and Confirmation of Quorum– Staff (

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4 minutes)

2. Welcome, Aim of the Meeting, Adoption of Agenda and Call for Any Other Business or other Amendments – Maureen Hilyard (5 minutes)

3. Review of ALAC Action Items from

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21 January 2020 - Maureen Hilyard (

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1 minute)

4. ALAC Policy Development Activities - Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Jonathan Zuck and Evin Erdoğdu (25 minutes)

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At-Large Capacity Building Workshop - An Introduction to Policy Development at ICANN
2019 ALAC Policy Comments & Advice
At-Large Policy Summary
At-Large Executive Summary page
Multistakeholder Advice Development graphic
Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG)

Recently Ratified by the ALAC (Since last ALAC Monthly Meeting)

ALAC Advice to ICANN Board on DNS Abuse (submitted to the ICANN Board on 24 December 2019)

Implementation Plan for the GNSO Consensus Policy Relating to the Protection of Certain Red Cross Names
As a worldwide internationally recognized humanitarian aid organization, and one that has been regularly the target of those seeking to fraudulently extract donations, the ALAC believes that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (incorporating National Red Cross or Red Crescent Societies, and the International Committee of the Red Cross) should be given the benefit of protection to its various identifiers, designations and/or acronyms as intended by the policy changes proposed for implementation in the said updated consensus policy. This includes the proposed action to recognize changes to the official names of the Red Cross Society entities, including component names, in Eswatini and Macedonia, respectively, an action we view as necessary.

Registration Directory Service (RDS-WHOIS2) Review Team Final Report
The ALAC finds the report to include very useful information that should be used to guide the development of relevant policies, and appreciates the team's effort and supports the provided recommendations. 

The ALAC highlights the importance of the recommendations related to the accuracy of data, and it strongly advises its acceptance by the ICANN Board. In light of the GDPR, the ALAC noted the importance of several other recommendations in the WHOIS Report​ encouraging a more proactive position of contractual compliance, especially in regards to DNS Abuse, as well as the team's findings with regard to law enforcement needs.

DRAFT PTI and IANA FY21 Operating Plan and Budgets
The ALAC noted that the proposed PTI and IANA FY21 Operating Plan and Budgets are aligned with the ICANN Strategic Plan, and are also very similar to previous years' budgets. An adjustment in the PTI budget is noticeable, including adjustments in salaries, services and other administrative cross-charges from ICANN to PTI or IANA.

However, the ALAC pointed out that a change is in process in the Governance of the Root Server System, these changes are not reflected in the proposed PTI and IANA FY21 Operating Plan and Budgets. The ALAC asked several exploratory questions in their response.

In addition, informal ALAC feedback was given regarding:

• ALAC Chair's Letter to SubPro PDP WG Co-Chairs (16 December 2019) calling for scope of upcoming public comment call to cover all draft final recommendations. See Letter from the Co-Chairs of the New gTLDs Subsequent Procedures PDP WG, in response to ALAC (03 January 2019)
• GNSO Invitation to Provide Input for PDP 3.0 Implementation

Public Comment for Decision 

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Proposed Final Report of the New gTLD Auction Proceeds Cross Community Working Group
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.

Public Comment for Decision 

Middle East and Adjoining Countries (MEAC) Strategy 2021-2025 03 Apr 2020 

Current Statements (ALAC Advice, Comment or Correspondence)

Additional

• Please see an ongoing workspace regarding CPWG SubPro Updates

5.  Review of current ALS and Individual Member applications – Evin Erdoğdu and Alperen Eken (5 minutes)  

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ALS Application Status

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Recently accepted: 1- AFRALO, 1 - APRALONARALO

Applications: 1 - AFRALO, 1 - APRALO

Other

• AFRALO Orientation Call TBD. Reference: RALO ALS and Individual Orientation Calls: NARALO 06 September 2017, APRALO 19 June 2017.

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See: At-Large Governance

For Discussion

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. Discussion with Leon Sanchez, ICANN Board Vice-Chair and Director Selected by At-Large - Maureen Hilyard (10 minutes)

8. Post ATLAS III/2020 At-Large Activities - Review and Development of Recommendations for the ALAC - Maureen Hilyard and Leads (

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15 minutes)

  See: Post-ATLAS III Activities

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8.  At-Large Review Implementation - Update and Next Steps - Maureen Hilyard, Cheryl Langdon-Orr (5 mins)

See: At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development

See: At-Large Review Implementation Status Report 2

9. ALS Mobilization - Update and Next Steps - Alan Greenberg (

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5 minutes)

See: ALS Mobilization Working Party

10. ICANN67 - Initial Look at At-Large Schedule and Main Topics Discussion of how a Virtual Meeting will look - Maureen Hilyard, Jonathan Zuck, Joanna Kulesza and Gisella Gruber (7 15 minutes)

See: ICANN67 - Cancún Meeting - March 2020

a. Block Schedule

b. Main Topics and Sessions 

11.  FY21 Additional Budget Requests - Review of Initial Requests and Next Steps - Maureen Hilyard  and Heidi Ullrich (5 minutes)

 a. At-Large FY21 Budget Development Workspace 

12. SOAC Chairs F2F Meeting - Maureen Hilyard (5 minutes

a. Aims and Objectives

See: ICANN67 - FAQs

      a)  Skeleton of ICANN schedule will be discussed tomorrow at the SO-AC Chairs meeting.

      b) Proposed prioritisation of ICANN67 sessions (At-Large Virtual Programme 8-20 March.pdf)

      c) Availability of Spanish interpretation for At-Large sessions (first language to be rolled out for virtual conferences - in LAC region)

1113. AOB - Maureen Hilyard (5 mins)

a. Items from David Olive

     a) SO-AC Chairs meeting in LA at the end of Jan 2020 i) Planning and Prioritisation  ii)  Interaction with the Board and ICANN Org   iii) Flexibility Fund 

    b) Request from ccNSO for At-Large volunteers to join their ccPDP3 WG  which will focus on "developing a review mechanism for decisions pertaining to the delegation, transfer, revocation retirement of ccTLDs".  If anyone is interested please contact me and I can send you her letter of invitation about joining up. 

 b. At-Large Fellowship Mentor