ALAC ExCom Friday 30 March 2012
Participants: Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Evan Leibovitch, Tijani Ben Jemaa, Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Alan Greenberg, Carlton Samuels
Apologies:
Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Matt Ashtiani, and Gisella Gruber
Summary Notes and Action Items:
1. Roll call and apologies
2. Review of AIs from Executive Committee meeting of ALAC meeting of 24 January 2012 and ExCom Meeting of 26 January 2012
-The various AIs were reviewed and updated as necessary
3. Policy Advice Development Calendar -- Tijani, Olivier (20 min)
-The various status of the Public Comments were discussed and confirmed.
- The status of each Statement can be found here - https://community.icann.org/x/bwFO
4. Discussion of whether the ALAC should add the topics suggested by Evan to the ALAC Board meeting agenda (10 min)
a. Red Cros/Olympics: Alan Greenberg gave an update on this topic. It was decided, after discussion amongst the ExCom, that the topic would not be on the official ICANN Board-ALAC Agenda.
b. Scope out the Board's taste for an Internet Users' Bill of Rights embedded into ICANN practise. (including its contracts such as RAAs going forward)
- OCL: We should build something up so we can ask this question in Prague.
5. Discussion of what Subjects to ask Steve Crocker to Raise (5 min)/6. Discussion of what Subjects the ALAC Chair should take to the CEO-SO/AC Chairs meeting (10 min)/7. Discussion on what subjects the ALAC Chair should take to the proposed meeting with the Board Chair (5 min)
"Various topics were discussed. OCL presented teh following questions:
ICANN Academy and its benefit to get ICANN volunteers to work smarter.- How is ICANN changing, given the new Board Chair and CEO changes?- Now that the big challenge of getting the gTLD program on track is out of the way, what are ICANN's next big challenges? What are the ICANN Chair's priorities going to be now?- Following up on the Applicant Support Program -- what are its outcomes?- Talking about accountability & transparency is not enough. How will the ICANN Chair instil the multi-stakeholder model and more openness into ICANN's processes?- Opening the door to work on user rights (an expansion of "consumer choice") would be welcome too, bearing in mind the ALAC has an issue with the Board's definition of "consumer" since our community strives to bring the voice of the end user into ICANN, whether they are consumers or non consumers of domain names; they are Internet users."
OCL: We don't want to appear to have just
Conflict of Interests Statement was discussed.
8. San Jose, Costa Rica - Agenda Development (5 min) - Olivier
9. Review of the 28 February ALAC Meeting (10 min)
10. Any other Business -- Olivier (5 min)
-Current ALS application were disucssed, particularly those where the regional advice was to NOT accredit the applicant.