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Olivier Crepin-Leblond to request volunteers to participate in the EURODIG 2018 meeting, considering the 6 weeks requirements to file CROP funding requests.

EURALO April 2018 Report

1. General Data Protection Regulation and ICANN

Challenges of GDPR

EURALO chair, Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) reminded members about the importance of the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR as it relates to ICANN/WHOIS.

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Any interested volunteers to, please email to staff@atlarge.icann.org, copy EURALO chair, OCL as well as Yrjö Länsipuro (YL) and Annette Muehlberg (AM) 

2. EURALO April Call, 17 April 2018

Sébastien Bachollet (SB) commented that we should include latest topical ICANN issues such as GDPR updates, the ongoing discussion at GNSO.  Basically, SB is concerned about ICANN/WHOIS compliance.  

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SB suggested we should discuss the selection of candidate to Community Onboarding program at EURALO Board call on 18 April. 

3. EURALO Board Conference call 18 April 2018

Third EURALO GDPR Webinar

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EURALO CROP Requests for FY17: EuroDIG - Call for Volunteers for CROP Travel (In-Camera) 

Following a discussion of the members of the EURALO Board, the following individuals, having applied for funding, have been selected to receive CROP Travel Funding:

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- Regional Outreach: EURALO Members at re:publica 2018 Belin, Germany 

The EURALO members presented, about their experience during their participation in the re:publica event in Berlin, Germany.      

Matthias Hudobnik (MH) reported that the re:publica event was very interesting. He talked about the different people from various professional backgrounds were present at this year event. He tried to get people involved in ICANN issues such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). MH suggested that EURALO should apply for sessions in next year event (re:publica). He further stated that there is a good chance to get people into EURALO so that, they can get involved in ICANN issues. He stated that there were people with keen interest in, for example, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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OCL reported that there is going to be the At-Large capacity session at ICANN62 in Panama. He said the NCSG asked whether At-Large could do a joint session – ( this was accepted). OCL suggested that people from next Gen should attend to get a better feel for ICANN issues.

  
- EURALO at RIPE76 with a link to https://ripe76.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ [ripe76.ripe.net] 

RIPE76 meeting report from OCL – reporting that the meeting has been very interesting, the themes are about core technical issues such as IP addresses – IPv6.

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Anne-Marie’s response to strategy question – stated that she would bring the experience and skills to improve the process of selection of people to ICANN different bodies.   

At-Large Social Media Working Group

OCL mentioned that John Laprise, the At-Large Social media Working Group chair is asking people to join the social media group. OCL commented that interested EURALO members to send email to the mailing list.

C. EURALO Webinar on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 29 May

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2018  

The EURALO webinar took place on the 29 May 2018, the following speakers participated in the discussions of the GDPR:  

1.    EURALO chair, Olivier Crépin-Leblond welcomed the participants, then introduced the speakers.

 2.    Webinar The webinar focused on the stakeholder perspectives

1. 25 May 2018 - GDPR enforcement is now live - how are ICANN and Contracted parties prepared? Speaker - Michele Neylon, a member of the EURALO Individual user & Registrar.

i.  Brief A brief description of the latest version of ICANN "Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data"

1. Letters from the Congress to US-based Registrars and Registries

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 Wolfgang Kleinwächter  – ALAC Delegate to the NomCom representing the European Region (Term: 2018 AGM – 2019 AGM; by-election) Note:  Wolfgang is the Regional Candidate recommended to the ALAC. The ALAC will select the final ALAC Delegates.

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 Action Items

        ·   EURALO to consider a panel or talk to participate in "Re:publica" in 2019 and add this to EURALO's strategic plan.

• Olivier Crepin-Leblond and Wale Bakare to start populating the EURALO event calendar with regional events.