The recent lack of AFRALO participants causes concern. It is hard for F Seye Sylla and H Diakite to make time for the teleconferences. M El Bashir will be able to attend the next calls. The Chair suggests working at the regional level to encourage optimal selection of candidates who could make their commitments at the times required and to contemplate the possibility of having alternates. Regarding the Rules of Procedure, they should include other ways of contributing such as an Adobe connects room. Technically speaking, the participants should have access to a full, relatively wide, internet band.
H Ullrich will have an informal chat about the attendance issue with AFRALO.
The Chair of the NonCom nominees wishes to meet with the ALAC or the ALAC ExCom before the next ExCom meeting. A NonCom English speaker for the AFRALO would be welcome as the English speakers are underrepresented in AFRALO.
The issue of the obligations is still not understood by all the ALAC members. Some regional leaders complained that not all the members contribute to the same extent.
A Greenberg would like to have a more effective reminder system to flag the to-do tasks and start working on them before the monthly meetings. He complained that the Skype vehicle has become a source of distraction because of its heavy traffic. General access versus dedicated channels needs to be considered.
ALAC must ask for additional resources, recruits and trainings if the ALAC review recommendations are passed. Especially, there is a need for substantial recruiting drive in order to cover all the issues raised by ICANN.
ALAC statement on FY10 ICANN budget
S Bachollet signalled that EURALO had set up its own budget and asked whether they should send it directly to the ICANN budget officers or incorporate their budget into a global ALAC proposal. Participants agreed that a global response would outline the unity of the community.
The Chair suggests revisiting the principles previously stated by the ALAC finance and budget sub-committee and the response of D Michel.
https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?summary_minutes_29th_june_2007
https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?finance_and_budget_committee
The previous ALAC proposal could be appended to the future ALAC statement.
The Chair wishes to have at least one meeting with ALAC and possibly some RALOs on the budget. A Greenberg fears it may be a waste of time since ICANN decides it.
A single purpose meeting with the whole ALAC on FY10 budget needs to be arranged.
ALAC Travel Policy statement
The Chair will send the statement to the ICANN Board on behalf of the whole ALAC.
NCUC/NCSG
A Greenberg will gather the comments about the NCSG on the Wiki page and couple them with the comments made during the Mexico meeting.
H Ullrich will send the names for an outcome driven facilitation meeting: A Greenberg or D Younger?
LACRALO Chair election dispute
Nick is briefing the mediator for the call programmed the day after.
The context of the dispute was evoked: error when summing up the weighted votes as a proxy vote was inadvertently left out, erroneous preliminary announcement at the GA of the candidate elected.
Summit WG follow-up and next step
There will be a single purpose call on the new gTLD. S Bachollet suggested that all the WGs should have a conference call in the following week. The Chair reminded that there is ALAC gTLD WG and a summit gTLD WG. S Bachollet wants to see real end-users participating in the WG topics and not just lawyers.
Resolution about the WG statement in ALAC 24 March teleconference
The line in point ‘4’ is not exclusively indicating that the leaders of the newly formed and blended as required WGs and lists will necessarily be limited to only those that lead the WG on that topic in the summit.
S Bachollet concerns that WG2 and WG3 may not give balanced results.
N Asthon-Hart informed that the summit declarations translations would be available as of 25 and 27 March.
Next meeting time will be set up by doodle