ALAC Monthly Teleconference for November 2007

Date: 20 November 2007

Time: 1330 UTC (for the time in various timezones click here)

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Summary Minutes: Meeting Summary 20 November 2007

Action Items: Action Items 20 November 2007

Transcription: Due to call audio quality, no transcription can be prepared for this teleconference.

Recording: 11MB MP3

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A G E N D A

Agenda is in draft form until adopted by the Committee.
Documents are linked for download next to the agenda items they belong to where available.

Members are requested to refrain from inserting explanatory text next to the agenda item in the interests of readability. If you could simply create a new page and insert the link to that page next to the item in question, that would be most helpful

Standing Agenda Items

1. Adoption of the Agenda – 1 min
2. Roll Call Apologies from Members (if any) - 1 min
3. Adoption of the Minutes of the Previous Meeting - 3 mins

Note the meeting on Oct 9th could not ratify the minutes from the Sept 11th Meeting and these minutes also need Adoption now

1. Review of Action Items of the Previous Meeting - 5 mins
2. Review of Action Items from LA Meetings - 15 minutes

1. Review of current status of ALS applications

Regional Activities

In the interests of time, Members are requested to add only items relating to regional activities for which ALAC action is needed to the 'New Business' section of the agenda. Other matters of should be discussed on-list intercessionally.

Liaison & Other Reports

In the interests of time, Members are reminded of the Committee's resolution to converse on the reports of liaisons, Chair, and Staff online.

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - FYI

IGF was held in Rio de Janeiro Nov 12-15 with 1300 participants from 109 countries. Many ICANN AtLarge community members participated in various capacities and presented the views of users, including Open Forum organized by ICANN, where former Chair Jacqueline Morris gave brief presentation together with AFRALO representative.
The overall evaluation of this year's IGF was modestly positive, in that "nothing bad really happened" was the most common remarks heard. There was also a rough consensus that more value of substantive issues was found from the workshops than the main plenary sessions. IGF and its multi-stakeholder approach became well-accepted, and ICANN community members took active roles. IGF offers good opportunity in networking in general, and it could be used for AtLarge's ongoing outreach at the next IGF to be held in New Dehli, India, December 2008.

Policy Matters

Members are reminded to take note of the open public consultations. Please see http://www.icann.org/public_comment/ for the current list

We need to apply our recently adopted processes to the following:-

1. New gTLDS
2. IDNs
3. RAA Review
4. WHOIS Services
5. IPv4 Depletion - IPv6 Transition

Other Matters From Previous Meetings

1. Working Practices of the Committee
   1. Use of alac-internal and public alac lists for working

> Other aspects
>> Work Planning and identification of issues - Someone to take the lead on watching the ICANN Web site; Also mechanism for calls for ad-hoc WG's and announcements to other lists... Work plan tracking also fits in here...
>> Communication matters, (internal to ALAC and external) this matter includes review / and renewal of our Web site, including collaboration tools and to meet the needs of our identified outreach and education outcomes discussed in LA; as well as blogs; work planning, asset allocation, lead selection reporting mechanisms and job tracking

1. ICANN Los Angeles Summary of At-Large Community Activities
2. Officer and Liaison Elections / Appointments

New Business / Any Other Business

1. ALAC input into NomCom criteria

2. Constituency representation NOW and ALAC Statements (Deadline 5th December) for Domain Tasting PDP

3. New Policy Matters

i) Inter Registry Transfer Policy closes Dec 7th)

ii) single-letter domain names (closes Dec 15th)

ii)Research Opportunities for Discussion or Advisory Paper development.

> Various aspects of Domain Name Industry behaviour (as it relates to various ICANN Policies and Policies under review or being developed) could be used as a basis of Pro-Active work to be done by the At-Large Community supported or facilitated by ALAC.

Some examples of this currently would include:
>> Research on Aspects of WhoIs
>> Research on Domain Name Renewals and or Transfers.

4. Planning for New Delhi Meeting

i) Travel arrangements including Visa requirements, flights (booking EARLY) for ALAC, and accommodation 'issues'.

ii)Planning Sub Committee and Agenda preparation.

5. In-service training and review of New Web page / services and use of collaboration tools... How Who and When...

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