AFRALO Monthly Teleconference

Date: 06 April 2011

Time: 18:00 - 19:00 UTC (For the time in various timezones click here)

Meeting Number: AL.AF/CC.0411/1

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Summary Minutes: FR

Action Items: EN, FR

Interpretation: French and English

Transcript: FR EN

Recording: English,  Francais

Adobe Connect Meeting Room: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/afralo2011

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A G E N D A (English)

Standing Issues:

1. Roll Call - 2 minutes

2. Review of the Action Items of 2 March 2011  - 5 minutes

AI: The Staff will contact FORCAS one more time to ask for clarification on the remaining issues in the application form. The candidat will be informed that the regional advice to the ALAC will be to reject the application if no response is produced in the given timeframe.

AI: Tijani will send an email to the discussion list to propose Hawa Diakité as the AFRALO representative in the ccNSO study group on use of country and territory names.

3. Open Public Consultations - 5 minutes

a. At-Large Policy Advice Development Schedule

b. Public Consultations on which ALAC is preparing statements:

• WHOIS Review Team
  (ends 17 April 11)

c. Recently submitted ALAC statements:

• Proposed Framework for the Fiscal Year 2012 (FY12) Operating Plan and Budget
  (ends 4 April 11)
• http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#op-budget-fy2012Study of Issues Related to the Delegation of IDN Variant TLDs
  (ends 6 April 11)
• The Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS Review Team Set of Issues
  (ends 6 April 2011)
• Proposed Recommendations for a Global Outreach Program
  (ends 10 April 11)
• Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Working Group Proposed Final Report (ends 7 April 11Extended to 22 April 11)

Proposed Agenda Items

4. At-Large Structure Applications (Fatimata and Staff) - 15 mins

a. Update on ALS applications

• European Media Platform (EURALO)
• The Ukrainian Internet Association (EURALO)
• Netmission.Asia (APRALO) 

b. Regional Advice on ALS Application from FORCAS 

See: Application FORCAS

5. African Position on Proposed Framework for FY 12 - (Tijani) 10 mins

See:Proposed Framework for the Fiscal Year 2012 (FY12) Operating Plan and Budget (ends 4 April 11)

6.  Feedback from the ICANN San Francisco Meeting (Tijani, Fatimata, Aziz) (10 minutes)

• AFRALO Report of activities between Cartagena and San Francisco

•  Report from the Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee to the 40^th Meeting of ICANN in San Francisco, USA ([PDF|])

• http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04feb11-en.htm
• Highlights of the ICANN San Francisco Meeting

7. Update on the Joint SO/AC (JAS) Working Group on New gTLD Applicant Support Working Group (Tijani) - 5 minutes

Background Information:

Proposed Revised ALAC JAS Charter (endorsed by the ALAC on 2 February)

8. Update on the At-Large Improvement Working Groups (Dave,Tijani, Pastor Peters, Baudouin, Yaovi, Moataz) - 5 minutes

Work Team A: Work team on ALAC’s continuing purpose (/https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/At-Large+Improvements+Work+Team+B/)

Work Team B: Work team on ALS participation (/https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/At-Large+Improvements+Work+Team+B/)

Work Team C: Work team on ALAC planning processes (/https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/At-Large+Improvements+Work+Team+C/)

Work Team D: Work team on ALAC’s policy advice development (/https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/At-Large+Improvements+Work+Team+D/)

9. Recent and Upcoming Activities of ALAC (Dave, Mohamed, Tijani) - 5 mins

10. Recent/Upcoming activities of AFRALO members (all) - 5 mins

11. Any other Business