ALAC SUMMARY MINUTES: 26 APRIL 2011
ALAC Participants: Carlton Samuels, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Edmon Chung, Evan Leibovitch, Gareth Shearman, James Seng, Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Tijani Ben Jemaa, Jean-Jacques Subrenat, Sergio Salinas Porto, Mohamed El Bashir, Marc Rotenberg
Guests: Alan Greenberg
Apologies: Sylvia Herlein Leite, Sandra Hoferichter, Dave Kissoondoyal,
Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon
I. STANDING AGENDA ITEMS
1. Adoption of the agenda; call for Any Other Business or other amendments – Olivier (2 min)
2. Roll call; apologies from members, if any-- Staff (Gisella) (1 min)
3. Review of Action Items from ALAC meeting of 17 March 2011-- Olivier (5 min)
a) Patrick and Lutz to develop statement on SSAC Review – Completed.
b) Alan to put together IP issue for GAC Scorecard – Completed.
c) Staff to translate Confluence Guide into other languages – Completed.
d) Add Danny Younger’s comment to ALAC agenda – Completed.
4. Review of Current ALS applications – Staff (3 min)
European Media Platform (EURALO)
The Ukrainian Internet Association (EURALO)
Netmission.Asia (APRALO)
ISOC Kalkata* *
5. Reports – Olivier (1 min)
See At-Large Reports from WGs, RALOs and Liaisons wiki page.
Note: Usually, no discussion of these reports is scheduled for this meeting; the above link is for information only. Any WG or RALO Chair/Liaison seeking to discuss his/her report or a related decision is asked (i) to edit the relevant agenda section under Items for Decision or Items for Discussion before the meeting or (ii) to raise the item when Any Other Business is called for under agenda item 1, before adoption of the agenda.
It was suggested (by Cheryl) that a more automated way of linking to these reports in our agendas, wiki pages, etc.
II. New Business
Items for Decision
6. Review and revise time-lines on Policy Advice Development Calendar -- Carlton and Olivier (10 min)
See ICANN Web site Public Comment page for all currently open public consultations.
Does the ALAC wish to comment on these open public consultations?
Proposed .MOBI Contract Amendment "Additional Equitable Allocation Options for .MOBI One and Two-Character Domains" (ends 25 May 11)
New Draft of the Applicant Guidebook for New gTLDs is Available for Public Comment (ends 15 May 11);
Proposed ICANN Bylaw Revisions Regarding the ALAC (ends 9 May 11); and
Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement (ends 10 May 11).
ALAC decided to wait on this agenda item and discuss via the ALAC mailing list, due to fact that a quorum did not exist on the call.
7. At-Large WG on Future Challenges: Next steps – Olivier and Jean-Jacques (10 min)
Discussion to include:
Charter;
Determining membership and leadership (see link above);
Determining which current WGs this new WG would consume (see At-Large WGs); and
Potential concerns: Diverting people's time, redoing work already done by past WGs (e.g., WG on At-Large Engagement in ICANN), access to past WGs' archives & information.
Any formal decisions on this agenda item was put off because of the lack of quorum, as well as because Jean-Jacques was not present on call.
Membership of WG: It was already decided that the membership would be open to all At-Large members and remain open. The membership list is not closed.
- An ideal situation would if wiki could be set up such that those wanting to be members could self-subscribe to the WG, to the mailing list, and to its subcommittees. This is true not only of the WG on Future Challenges but of all ALAC’s WGs and Subcommittees.
>> Staff to add Alan Greenberg to list of members on At-Large WG on Future Challenges – Completed.
Leadership: Suggestion of officers: (a) two Co-Chairs and (b) an ALAC Liaison.
- As of now, there are three candidates for Co-Chair. Perhaps two of them can be Co-Chairs and the other can be the ALAC Liaison. (The Liaison could report at each ALAC meeting.)
The ALAC is suggesting that the WG also have an interim Chair until actual officers are selected.
- Cheryl nominated Jean-Jacques as interim Chair; Tijani seconded the nomination.
>> Olivier and Staff to present nomination of Jean-Jacques Subrenat as interim Chair of WG on Future Challenges to the ALAC mailing list.
Charter: The WG must operate under a charter. The ALAC must actually charter the WG, but can ask WG to submit a draft charter. Charter should:
- Use, as a starting point, the GNSO Guidelines.
- Charter should include WG goals (many of which members have already listed and discussed by e-mail), which should be in charter and/or mission statement.
- Contain requirements for WG (and member) performance. For example, perhaps these could take the form of clear target dates for milestones.
>> Staff to set up wiki page for use by WG on Future Challenges to develop a draft charter. (Include GNSO Guidelines and other suggestions from 26 April ALAC meeting.) – Completed.
>> Members of WG on Future Challenges to collaborate on a WG charter, using the workspace set up by Staff.
>> Cheryl to help guide the initial stages of the WG on Future Challenges, including the creation of a charter.
The WG on Future Challenges will be discussed more in Singapore, as will all of the ALAC’s standing WGs and subcommittees.
- Some of the current standing subcommittees will be consumed by the new WG on Future Challenges. One that will likely be consumed is the WG on Future Structure, Accountability and Transparency of ICANN.
Until the WG on Future Structure, Accountability and Transparency of ICANN is likely retired: Sebastien has requested that his name and WG office be removed from its Officers and Members wiki page.
>> AI: Staff to remove Sebastien’s name and WG office from the Officers and Members wiki page of the WG on Future Structure, Accountability and Transparency of ICANN – Completed.
As various ALAC Standing WGs are retired (either consumed by WG on Future Challenges or simply retired), the wiki pages of these WGs should become part of the ongoing At-Large information management process and archived.
The archiving system for such pages must allow for comments to continue to be left on the pages – in case corrections need to be made to them after they are archived.
- For example, a member of such a WG might find that he/she is not listed on the membership list. (In fact, Cheryl, a member of the WG on Future Structure, Accountability and Transparency of ICANN, is not listed on its wiki’s membership list.)
>> AI: Staff to add Cheryl’s name to the membership list on the wiki of the WG on Future Structure, Accountability and Transparency of ICANN – Completed.
8. Formal vote of thanks to Staff for Confluence Wiki Guide (available in 6 UN languages) – Olivier (5 min)
Had to be put off because meeting did not have a quorum.
II. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
*** Note: Heidi will add remaining meeting minutes into the rest of the agenda below. ***
9. Proposed ALAC Statement to the ICANN Board on the RAA Negotiations -- Olivier (5 min)
10. Board resolution on Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation -- Olivier (5 min)
Discussion to include:
Identification of cross-regional links; and
Context provided by Sebastien
11. Identification of data to be shared with registrars – Olivier (5 min)
For Information: Summary Notes and Action Items from At-Large Meeting with Registrars in San Francisco
Discussion to include:
Registrars’ to-do list:
Produce educational products for end users/consumers (by next meeting)
Develop 3--4 more education/outreach ideas (and identify who will work on them)
No need to meet with registrars in Singapore; instead, Staff-to-Staff communication.
12. Danny Younger's comment regarding cyber-squatting registrar -- Cheryl (5 min)
Comment: "For what it's worth, I would like to see the ALAC release a statement that says: We have taken note of yet another lawsuit naming an ICANN accredited registrar as a serial cybersquatter. We call upon the ICANN Compliance Department to act to eliminate the rogue registrars within our midst. For details see: http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/above-verizon.pdf."
13. Cross-Community Work Groups (C-WGs) -- Cheryl (10 min)
Geographical Regions Review WG
SO-AC New gTLD Applicant Support Working Group (JAS WG)
Joint DNS Security and Stability WG (DNSSSA WG)
Study Group on Names of Countries & Territories
Technology Evolution of WHOIS Service
ccNSO Framework of Interpretation Working Group - ALAC invited to appoint one representative.
Discussion to include:
Explanation of C-WGs with which ALAC members not familiar
Who are ALAC observers? On which C-WGs does ALAC still need observers?
Which C-WGs are just beginning? Of others, when are reports expected?
Items for Information
14. Call for Community Volunteers for IDN Variant TLD Case Study Teams -- Olivier (5 min)
15. Any Other Business – Olivier (5 min)
