AFRALO Monthly Teleconference

Date: Wednesday, 01 June 2011

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

Meeting Number: AL.AF/CC.0611/1

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Summary Minutes: FR

Action Items: EN, FR

Interpretation: French and English

Transcript: FR EN

Recording: English,  Francais

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A G E N D A (English) - TO BE UPDATED

Standing Issues:

1. Roll Call - 2 minutes

2. Review of the Summary Minutes of 06 April 2011  - (Fatimata, Tijani) 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 (COMPLETED)

3. Open Public Consultations - (Fatimata, Tijani, Staff) - 5 minutes

a. At-Large Policy Advice Development Schedule

b. At-Large Policy Development wiki page

c. Public Consultations on which ALAC is preparing statements:

• [Open Public Consultations|http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/]\\ \\ Public Consultations on which ALAC is preparing statements or voting: \\ ·         \[[ALAC Statement on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Working Group Proposed Final Report|https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/ALAC+Statement+on+Post-Expiration+Domain+Name+Recovery+Working+Group+Proposed+Final+Report+-+April+2011]\|\] \\ ·         \[[ALAC Statement on the WHOIS Review Team|https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/ALAC+Statement+on+the+Whois+Review+Team+-+March+2011]\|\] \\ ·         \[[ALAC Statement on the Stability, Security and Resilience of the DNS Review Team|https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/ALAC+Comments+on+the+Public+Call+by+the+Stability%2C+Security%2C+and+Resilience+of+the+DNS+Review+Team+%28SSR-RT%29+-+March+2011]\|\]

Proposed Agenda Items

4. At-Large Structure Applications (Fatimata, Tijani and Staff) - 10 mins

Regional Advice on ALS Application from FORCAS \

5. ICANN Communication - AFRALO Needs (Fatimata, Tijani and Aziz) (10 min)

• Determine current communication needs (examples include podcasts, Internet and hard-copy materials, etc.);
• Evaluate ability/capacity and interest, at present, in directly collaborating with ICANN Communications on creating the needed communication materials (for example, providing RALO members to be interviewed for podcasts, etc.); and
• Offer feedback on these topics to the ExCom by 6 May.

How to give the ExCom your feedback

A Confluence workspace has been set up on which each RALO is asked to enter its feedback for the ExCom.  This workspace can be found at [https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/RALO+Feedback+on+Communication+Need|https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/RALO+Feedback+on+Communication+Needs]s (and is linked to the \[[main wiki of Improvements WT B|https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/At-Large+Improvements+Work+Team+B]\|\] (on RALO/ALS participation). 

6. At-Large Improvements Implementation for RALOs (Fatimata and Staff) (5 mins)

a. At-Large Structures get individual wiki pages (see AFRALO ALS wiki pages)

b. Adobe Connect Room for AFRALO ALSes (Room available at: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/afraloals/)

7. ICANN Dakar: 23 to 28 October 2011 (Fatimata, Tijani) (10 minutes)

• Update on preparations required for this meeting

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

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 - (all)