NARALO Monthly Teleconference 

Date: Monday, 16 March 2020

Time: 19:00 - 20:00 UTC (for the time in various time zones click here)  

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AGENDA *****TO BE UPDATED*****

1. Attendance (XX/53 - XX%)

This section is to record the meeting attendance.

ALS (Total 24 ::11CA/13US) - Attendance (XX/24 - XX%) 

For updates please contact Evin Erdoğdu, At-Large Staff.

*P=Present

RED = Under decertification

Unaffiliated (Total 27 :: 6CA/23US) Attendance (XX/29 - XX%) 

For updates please contact Evin Erdoğdu, At-Large Staff.

2. Roll Call and Approval of the Agenda/Discussion Order 

This section is to do the roll call and record the approval of this meeting agenda and its discussion order. (00:02/00:02)

3. Meeting Discussion Order 

*(allowed time/running time)

4. Current Discussion Topics

This section is for discussion topics details that have been carried forward to this meeting

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

→ 12 February 2018 [Recording: 42]  Report given. Please refer to recording/transcript fro more details. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting

→ 14 March [Recording: 50:00]  Update given. Talked about strategic plan. Various testimonials given about outreach efforts. Example given: ICANN read outs, ARIN meetings and IGF Geneva. No action Topic generated. [Decision]:  Carry forward to next meeting

→ 09 april [Recording: 29 & 50 ]  William suggested that we put forward an effort to reach out to what are called HBCU, historically black colleges and universities, starting at Howard University in Washington DC. (see more details Page 16 in the transcript). Glenn provided and updated report on outreach efforts during ICANN 61 in Puerto Rico. please refer to page 25 in the transcript for more details. [Decision]: Chris Mondini and William to get on the phone or meet in DC to continue this discussion. 

→ 14 May [Recording: --]   Not in agenda for this meeting. [Decision]:  Carry forward to next meeting

→ 11June [Recording: 40:25]  Glenn reported. Please read specifics in the transcript page 22. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting

→ 10 September [Recording: 36:00] Report given. Transcript excerpt:"So, again, we have two tools. We have CROP which is three trips that ICANN has been generous enough to support. Plus we have discretionary funding." Check transcript starting in page #21 for more details. [Decision]:  Carry Forward to next meeting. 

→ 8 October [Recording: 23:00]: Mentioned IGF coming up and three CROPs for 2019 - 1. ARIN 43 Bridgetown, Barbados 7-10 April 2019, 2. Digital Inclusion Charlotte, North Carolina 1-3 April 2019 3. NTC19 Portland, Oregon 13-15 March 2019

→ 12 November [Recording: 13:50]: Mentioned outreach boot in the current IGF in Paris, France. Reiterated CROP trips and the deadlines for applying. Check transcript starting in page #10 for more details.

→ 10 December [Recording: 18:50]: Reported on outreach table at the main IGF event. Check transcript starting in page #12 for more details.

→ 14 January  [Recording: 04:00]: Glennn provided a report and Judith added. Susannah requested information about the procedure used to select people to these event. Please check transcript  starting in page #2 for more details.

→ 11 February: Reports given by Marita Moll (speak to a class at Carlton University), Greg Shatan (event at the United Nations and NYC Civil Hall), Alfredo Calderon (going to Digital Inclusion) and Judith Hellerstein (going to NTC - not for profit technical conference). Please check transcript  starting in page #9 for more details.

→ 8 April  [Recording:26:22]: Glenn provided a summary report. CROP trip reports will be re-scheduled for our next meeting.

→ 13 May : Judith made  her report (see transcript : page 9). Action items: (1) to coordinate with GSE to have an ICANN table in the NTCP event. (2) apply for a speaking slot since it reduces the cost of participation.  Several thousands attend this event. Alfredo Calderon made his report (see transcript : page 14). Action items: (1) apply for a lighting round sessions in advance, (2) Affiliate to the organization. F/U- Outreach lady from NY which lives in New Orleans.

→ 10 June: Marita Moll reported on the Pre ICANN 65  Marrakesh Readout in Ottawa. Others reported as well. Evan shared a comment regarding CROPS and similar instances. Check the transcript page #12.

→ 15 July: Michael Casadevall provided a report for his trip to ARIN 43 Bridgetown, Barbados 7-10 April 2019. Other details are in transcript page 18.

→ 09 September: Report provided. See transcript page 14 for more details.

→ 21 October: → Report provided. Heidi added the following reminders: "However, all of this should be in your RALO’s annual fiscal year outreach and engagement plan that you’ve established and hopefully that’s passed and that’s a requirement for your CROP trip and it should guide you in your activities which events you’re going to go to and also who should be going to best represent NARALO. Also, keep in mind that this year for the additional budget request, the RALO discretionary funding, that is going to require a report at the end of the fiscal year. So, it’s important that you select the people that are going to deliver and have the most success in outreach and engagement activities." See transcript page 28 for more details.

→ 18 November: See discussion detail starting on transcript page #30

→ 09 Deember: See discussion detail starting on transcript page #21

→ 13 January 2020: See discussion detail starting on transcript page #11.

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.

→ 09 april [Recording: 3:00 ]  Javier Rúa gave a summary of the Work Track 5” of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group. Alan mentioned statements already put out by ALAC fro GDPR Implementation, Fellowship Program and KSK Rollover. ALAC is currently looking for input on a proposal model made by the Intellectual Property Constituency (IP) and Business Constituency for accreditation and authorization on WhoIs data and on the replenishment of the ICANN financial reserve. Please check out the Policy Page in the links provided below. [Decision]: Action Topic for staff: Summarize what the policy issues are and send it out to the list as quickly as possible.

→ 14 May [Recording: 12:04 ]  Alan provided a brief report about GDPR , NomCom Review, CCWG on Accountability Work Stream #2 (coming up)  and GNSO on New gTLD (coming up) [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

11June [Recording: 29:42] No reports given. [Decision]: Carry Forward to next meeting

→ 13 August [Recording: 17:00]: Reports provided by Alan  and Javier. See transcript page 10 and 15 to see details. [Decision]: Carry Forward to next meeting

→ 10 September [Recording: 46:50]  Report given by John Laprise. Transcript excerpt : "As was mentioned, the KSK rollover is moving ahead, so that will happen before the next ICANN meeting. In addition, the Policy Working Group is getting up and running. Jonathan Zuck [inaudible] there. We’ve got review implementation which is also kicking off as well as ongoing work with new gTLDs and GDPR. The accelerated technical specs that are being under review which is another area of a lot of concern and conversation." Check transcript starting in page #26 for more details. [Decision]:  Carry Forward to next meeting.

→ 10 December [Recording: 30:40]: John reported. Judith added (from transcript) : "we don't only have the auction proceeds closing tomorrow, but we also have policy comments closing on Wednesday as well. And then some policy comments closing in December and then other ones closing in the beginning of January. So it's a very active policy discussion period. And so it’s a chance for everyone to read them and make your comments known. And the other gTLD one is closing, I think, on Wednesday." Heidi mentioned the new At-Large Gateway wiki page as the main entry point to find information about At-Large. Check transcript starting in page #20 for more details

→ 14 January  [Recording: 41:00]: Marita provided a very detailed report.  Some excerpts from the transcript: "...did comment in for the sub-pro Work Track 1 to 4, which was a lot about asking questions about auctions. - ...you will be interested to perhaps read an article on domain insight about Vickrey auctions, which is something that At-Large suggested would be a better way of maybe resolving some of the contention issues around domain names in further rounds. - ... we’re working on right now is the geonames issue where’s a prep for comment open, very deep and long, and detailed about how another round of Top-Level gTLDs should deal with geographic names. - ...We are working on programs for Kobe. We want to make it more of a policy discussion this time."  Check transcript starting in page #20 for more details

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

→ 09 april [Recording: 51] This group is looking for volunteers. Jonathan suggested to focus in the following topics: Disposition of Action Funds, Universal Acceptance and Name Collisions. Please refer to page 26 of the transcript for more details about these.  [Decision]: ACTION Topic: Ask for volunteers for this group. Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 14 May [Recording: --]   Not in agenda for this meeting. [Decision]:  Carry forward to next meeting

→ 11June [Recording: 43:03] Mentioned that the biggest think is that Subsequent Procedures Working Group is going to be delivering its interim report shortly after Panama. Also discussions about charitable outcome associated with O.com and finally GDPR. More specifics on page 23 in the transcript. [Decision]: Carry Forward to next meeting

→ 13 August [Recording: 22:00]:  from the transcript page 14 : "we identify the issues, we’re trying as a group to identify what matters to end users and also what we think our position should be. But at that point, we’ll then need people to participate in drafting that section of our response. So we are interested in more people being engaged to do some writing on a particular question because there are so many questions to answer"  [Decision]:Carry Forward to next meeting

→ 11 February: Presentation given. From transcript :"The big things that have been dominating the discussions in the CPWG of late are the GDPR and privacy generally, subsequent procedures"  Check transcript starting in page #21 for more details

→ 8 April [Recording: 34:00]: Report was provided. Please watch the AC recording starting at 34:00 to view the actual slide deck presentation. Participation in the CPWG was prompted during the meeting.

→ 13 May: Report was provided.See transcript page 26 for more details. The CPWG is the ALAC central funnel related to policy. It’s where the first conversations happen, and then recommendations are made from there to the ALAC for their support and vote. There will be a list fo Hot Topics that will be issued by the CPWG for RALOSs to use in their regions.

→ 10 June: Report was provided.See transcript page 29 for more details.

→ 15 July: See transcript page 30 for more details.

→ 09 September: Looking at the charter and process for the CPWG to figure out what the process is for taking in issues and how to do an exploration of whether or not it’s a good issue for the CPWG to take on and to refer it to others if it’s not. Ongoing discussions related to the Subsequent Procedures. This is an ongoing effort and ALAC have particular concerns over making sure the communities and underserved regions are better served by a new round and so we continue to work on those issues. Working on issues related to the new GDPR Regulation in Europe and continue to get updates from Alan and Hadia about what’s going on there because right now they’re trying to explore scenarios that might occur in terms of who might be trying to get Registrant Data and for what reasons and how the system can accommodate that. Ongoing discussions about the Evolution of the MultiStakeholder Model, an effort launched by the Board and shepherded by Brian Cute and we are engaged in conversations about how the MultiStakeholder Model evolves and how to best position At-Large in the interests of individual end users in that evolution. More details in page 12 of the transcript.

→ 21 October: Marita Moll reported on the policy work that she has been working into the evolution of the multi-stakeholder model in ICANN. See transcript page #24 from more details on her report. Adan reported on the EPDP. See transcript page #29 for its report.

→ 18 November: Marita reported on WT5 and MultiStakeholder System in ICANN. Read transcript starting in page #20.

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.

→ 09 april [Recording: --]  For the May meeting, Jonathan Zuck will discuss "Universal Acceptance" as part of the SWebinar series. Future topics must align with ICANN's mission, therefore, the Policy & Hot Topics must be reviewed if a SWebinar is to be organized. It seems reasonable to consider Pollicy Comments as a point of reference. We are aware that in some instances the timeframe will be a limitation when Public comments before our monthly meetings. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 14 May [Recording: 45:00 ]   Presentation given by Jonathan on Intelectual Property Constituency (IPC) / Business Constituency (BC) Accreditation & Access Model for Non-Public Data. Please see details in transcript starting on page #30. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 11June [Recording: 47:05]  No report given. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 9 July:  Jonathan Zuck will discuss "Universal Acceptance" as part of the SWebinar series. Basic information available here. Seeking volunteers to do SWebinars for upcomming meetings. Topics must be related to ICANN's mission and pressing issues that might entice commenting by the  RALO.

→ 10 September [Recording: 44:00] Report given. Transcript excerpt : "I sent out an e-mail through the education group to gather topics that we feel that we should have a short webinar in the coming meetings, keeping in mind that if they are really related with some policy that is out there for comment and it’s time-sensitive, we’re going to give priority to those." Check transcript starting in page #25 for more details. [Decision]:  Carry Forward to next meeting.

→ 10 December [Recording: 51:00]: Report  given (from transcript) :"...I would like to have is people from this community suggesting speakers that we could invite for the upcoming meeting for next year. And you can send them through the email that I posted on the chat, so we can start planning for next year." Check transcript starting in page #32 for more details

Topic 041: Introductory Remarks by NARALO Chair

LEAD: Eduardo Díaz

OPEN: 10 September 2018, CLOSED:

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: To put the meeting in perspective  and bring-up anything of general interest to the membership.

→ 11 February :  Overview given. Check transcript starting in page #1 for more details

→ 8 April: Overview given. Check recording starting at 1:02 for more details

→ 10 June: Overview given. Check transcript page #1 for more details 

→ 15 July: Overview given. Check recording starting at 1:09 for more details

→ 09 September: Overview given

→ 21 October: Overview given. More details on transcript page #1

→ 18 November: Overview given. 

→ 09 December: Overview given. More details on transcript page #1

→ 13 January 2020: Overview given. More details on transcript page #1

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

→ 10 September [Recording: 16:31]  Report given. Transcript excerpt: "We are also working with two universities, the University of California in Los Angeles and also Arizona State University and also the University of Colorado, to work on ways that we could possibly exchange academic credit for students who participate in policy development processes or have some other ICANN policy development advancing role. So we are talking to them actively." Yubelkys Montalvo from HETS was very interesting in helping with this effort. Check transcript starting in page #10 for more details. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 8 October [Recording: 30:50]: DC office hosted 12 members from Indonesia to talk about organization and policy of private sector corporations such as ICANN. This was in conjunction with the State Department and done about twice a year. Also, coordinate UN meeting for the ICANN Government  Engagement team. Finally held a sucessful meeting with the US Chamber of Commerce. Main theme was GDPR. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 10 December [Recording: 30:20]: No representatives were present. Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 11 February: Report given. Check transcript starting in page #15 for more details. Judith request (from transcript): "we would be interested in events that are held in DC for other constituencies or other groups. We find out late to the event, and it would be great if you could give us a heads up so maybe some of our ALS's or individual members could attend. I know there was an event in DC focused on nonprofits and some other one at the ICANN office, but we didn't know about it until we just got a review who are on the GNSO's mailing list about the event. And I know the same thing happens in New York and California, and other places, so it would be helpful if we could get a heads up on some of these events, that we might be interested in attending."

→ 10 June: Joe provided a short and to the point report. See transcript page # 28.

→ 09 September: Main engagement activity that’s going on in the region right now sort of a pre-ICANN66 event, something to wet the appetite for the Montreal Community. IN other words, a preview for people to get ICANN on the radar as we get ready for the meeting which will happen in November. 7^th of October from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. local time. See transcript page # 17 for more details.

→ 09 December: Joe Catapano provided a brief report. See transcript page# 27.

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

→ 8 October [Recording: 27:00] : Two schools identified. Arizona State University, Phoenix - Responded enthusiastically. Best approach to use research clusters. These  are groups of 4-5 student that choose a topic and work on it for a year under a direction of a University professor. At the end they produce a paper and present their findings. Most probably will start in fall '19. The other institutionalization is University of Colorado Boulder. Not moving forward at the moment but talks are open. Will follow-up with them in the future. programs. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.

→ 12 November [Recording: 16:55]: There has not been much progress since the last call. From transcript: "Our next step is that we’re talking with our policy development support team, and also people that run reviews, and we’re asking them if we get these students for a six-month period or a nine-month period or a 12-month period, what is the way that we could deploy them to further ICANN’s work?" . Check transcript starting in page #13 for more details.

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

→ 12 November [Recording: 22:00]: A couple of suggestion given during this discussion. From Heidi Ullrich: " a grad student, who’s often the teacher’s assistant [to lead the classes,] so the undergrad, could then work with on the case study with these undergrads. And that might be a significant part of their grade. So just a possibility there that you can combine grad and undergrad students here". From George Kirikos: " there are independent study programs for undergraduate students as well as graduate students, so doesn’t necessarily have to be graduate students only. And also, ICANN did announce their open data initiative several months ago, so perhaps the credit could be kind of tied into that program, because that would obviously allow for various research or studies from students, either analyzing that data, or perhaps even better, creating some of that open data for other researchers". Check transcript starting in page #15 for more details.

→ 10 December [Recording: 39:30]: Check transcript starting in page #25 for more details.

→ 14 January  [Recording: 27:00]:  Nothing to report. Apologies provided.

→ July 15: Apologies received by David Morar. Will report next time.

→ 09 September: Reps were not present in the call. No report was received.

Topic 052: EPDP on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data 

LEAD: Alan Greensberg

OPEN: 10 December 2018, CLOSED:

TYPE: Policy

DESCRIPTION: To provide an update report on this effort

→ July 15: From transcript page 25 :: "All right. Thank you very much. On the EPDP, we are in the process right now of looking at a number of sample use cases for under what conditions would third parties get access to the confidential data. The use cases we’re looking at are selection that is being provided by a number of members. They’re not meant to be exhaustive but will hopefully give us a feel for the kinds of things we need to consider in building the general case.". More details in the transcript.

→ 09 September: No report given.

→ 21 October: Report given. See page #29 for details for the report.

→ 18 November: Alan report starts on transcript page #25.

Topic 059: RIR Outreach

LEAD: Judith Hellerstein

OPEN: 14 January 2019, CLOSED: 

TYPE: Outreach

DESCRIPTION: to provide a report on RIR outreach efforts

→ 14 January  [Recording: 38:45] Report provided. From transcript: "Many RIRs have grant programs and other community programs. ARIN is the only RIR that does not have any of those programs, so we have to think of different ways of trying to work with them. We had originally thought of an idea several years ago to do a liaison position with them, but they had turned that down then, thinking that they were afraid of favoritism. But we are going to try to reintroduce the idea again, but also trying to figure out our topic so that we can get the RIRs to know us more and us to know what they are doing." Check transcript starting in page #23 for more details.

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

• FY20 steps to apply (WIki page HERE):

1. A request form needs to be completed to initiate the process.
2. The request needs to be reviewed and approved by Regional Leadership prior to sending to ICANN org staff* 
3. The request must be sent to Silvia Vivanco and Heidi Ullrich at least three weeks prior to the planned activity. 
4. Approval (or not) will be informed via email to the organization representative that made the request.

* is an additional step that have been implemented for FY20 and future years

→ 15 July: See transcript page 14 for more details.

→ 09 September: A reminder of the availability of this $$ was given to the region. See transcript page 11 for more details.

→ 21 Octobre: A reminder of the availability of this $$ was given to the region. See transcript page 23 for more details.

→ 18 November: Report provided by Judith. See transcript page #17.

→ 09 December: Report provided by Judith. See transcript page #11.

→ 13 January 2020: Overview given. More details on transcript page #12.

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

→ 15 July: Heidi covered this item. See transcript page 17  for more details.

→ 18 November: Read transcript page #26 to see more details about this topic.

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

• New members: 
  • Zak Muscovitch

→ 12  August: Bill and Denise introduced themselves

→ 09 September: Time was put on dormant state while creating the new agenda.

→ 09 December: re-activated to introduce Zak Muscovitch which was done. See transcript page #3.

→ 13 January 2020: Introductions made by Jeffrey Reberry - See transcript page #11 for details.

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

→ 12 August: Group created: Denise (lead), Judith and Michael.

→ 09 September: Please refer to transcript page 7 for more details. Denise will coordinate a presentation for our next call

→ 21 October: Presentation was given. It starts on transcript page #3. 

→ 18 November: Presenter excused.

→ 09 December: No report provided.

→ 13 January 2020: Report given. See transcript page#3 for more details.

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

→ 18 November: Open today. NASIG 2020 :: Washington , DC, NASIG 2021 :: Seatle, WA and NASIG 2022 :: San Juan, PR. Check transcript page #11 for more details.

→ 09 December: Changed discussion topics title. Dustin provided a brief report on what he is planning for NASIG in 2020. See transcript page #7.

→ 13 January 2020: Posible dates 23-24 September 2020 in Washington DC in a University (not determined yet). See transcript page#9 for more details.

Topic 073: 2022 NARALO General Assembly (NGA 2022)

LEAD: Eduardo Díaz

OPEN: 18 November 2019, CLOSED:

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: To provide an update on efforts regarding the 2022 NARALO General Assembly

→ 18 November: Open today. Previous plan was to have the NGA during ICANN 72 in Seattle. Various views presented. There is time to decide this. 

→ 09 December: Report given. No decisions yet. See transcript page#10.

Topic 074: 2020 NomCom Updates

LEAD: Glenn McKnight

OPEN: 18 November 2019, CLOSED:

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: To provide an update report from the 2020 NomCom

→ 18 November: Open today. Two positions from North America for the Board and 1 position for ALAC. Open  Mid  December, Closes  10th of February.

→ 09 December: Glenn provided a brief report. See transcript page #30.

→ 13 January 2020: Deadline for applications is 18 February 2020. See transcript page #19 for other details.

Topic 075: Post ATLAS III Activities

LEAD: Eduardo Díaz

OPEN: 09 December 2019, CLOSED:

TYPE: General

DESCRIPTION: To provide an update report for post ATLAS III activities

→ 09 December: Opened today. See transcript page #5.

→ 13 January 2020: Next step is to publish a report on the feedback information  received post- ATLAS III.  See transcript page #6 for more details.

5. New Discussions

This section is for new discussions in the agenda for this meeting

Topic 076: SWebinar on DNS Abuse

LEAD: Jonathan Zuck

OPEN: 13 January 2020, CLOSED: 

TYPE: Education

DESCRIPTION: Brief presentation on the topic of DNS Abuse

• • • • • What is this?
        • Why is this important to the end-users? 
        • Overview of the ALAC recommendations sent to the Board on December 24, 2019
        • Any next steps for NARALO?

→ 13 January 2020: Mr. Zuck was not able to attend the meeting for personal reason. 

→ 10 February:

Topic 077: NARALO Newsletter Update

LEAD: Pierre-Jean Darres 

OPEN: 10 February 2020, CLOSED: 

TYPE: Education

DESCRIPTION: → to provide a brief report about the latest Newsletter content

→ 10 February:

6. Any Other Business (AOB)

This section is for any new discussions not in the agenda for this meeting.

Topic 078*: [Topic title here]

LEAD: [name]

OPEN: [open date], CLOSED:

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

DESCRIPTION: [Brief description]

*Use this format. The number shown is the next in the sequence of discussions. Update every meeting if necessary.

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Supporting Material

General:

• 2019 NARALO Elections2017 
• 2017 Rules and Procedures
• Decertification Workspace
• Individual Members Roaster
• FY18 Budget Workspace
• FY19 At-Large Additional Budget Request (ABR) Workspace
• ALAC Finance and Budget Sub-Committee (FBSC)
• ALAC and the ALAC Appointee Selection Committee (AASC)
• NARALO Newsletters
• CROP Procedures & Guidelines
• CROP-FY20

Policy:

At-Large Policy Resources

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

ALAC moving topics @ June 2019 

Please join the weekly  At-Large Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG) meeting.

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

Proposed Dates for ICANN Public Meetings 2024-2028 and Revised Dates in 2022
Executive Summary TBC:

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 At-Large believe it will be helpful to understand the rationale for moving the October meetings up by two (2) weeks, and made several other suggestions regarding ICANN meeting dates in 2022 and from 2024-2028.

Third Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT3) Draft Report
Executive Summary TBC.

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 (submitted to the ICANN Board on 31 January 2020)
Executive Summary TBC:

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”.

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

Background
Prior to ICANN66, At-Large and other community groups within ICANN identified the issue, released several reports on the topic of DNS Abuse. In advance of ICANN66, At-Large Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG) led by Co-Chairs Jonathan Zuck and Olivier Crépin-Leblond discussed recent DNS Abuse research and how DNS Abuse impacts the Internet end user community, including the erosion of trust and security. During ICANN66, At-Large organized a policy session on “DNS Abuse – End User Concerns”, with a panel presentation. Jonathan Zuck and Joanna Kulesza, ALAC Member, moderated the session and summarized how At-Large can enhance Internet end user protection against DNS Abuse. The ALAC drafted ALAC Advice on the topic during ICANN66, and finalized the draft in subsequent CPWG meetings. The ALAC Advice on DNS Abuse was submitted to the ICANN Board on 24 December 2019.

ALAC Advice
The ALAC made a series of (8) recommendations to the ICANN Board. The ALAC emphasized that community dialogue cannot delay or defer ICANN’s commitments or operations related to DNS Abuse. Their recommendations speak to the insufficiency of the status quo, and stressed their recommendations that no new round will be approved without substantial changes in the area of DNS Abuse. Please read the full advice here.

Public Comment for Decision 

Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement 14 February 2020
Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Draft Report 04 March 2020
Initial Report of the Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data Team – PHASE 2 23 Mar 2020 

Current Statements (ALAC Advice, Comment or Correspondence)

Education:

• Education WG wiki
• Outreach and Engagement WG wiki

Outreach:

FY20 NARALO Outreach

NARALO FY19 Outreach and Engagement Strategic plan

Community Regional Outreach Program (CROP)-FY18 Home

At-Large Social Media Working Group

Universal Acceptance (UA)

 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