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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Apologies: Shaarawy Abd Elbaky

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Standing Issues:

1. Roll Call - 2 minutes

2. Review of the Summary Minutes of 04 May 2011  - (Fatimata, Tijani) 5 minutes

AI: FORCAS Application: Tijani will send an email to the AFRALO list for Regional Advice on the Application. 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:*POLICY COMMENTS ALAC IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON:*23 May 2011 -  ALAC Statement on Proposed ICANN Process for Handling Requests for Removal of Cross-Ownership Restrictions for Existing gTLDs

RECENT POLICY COMMENTS BY ALAC:

19 May 2011 - ALAC Statement on the Academia Representation on NomCom 

19 May 2011 - ALAC Statement on the eG8 Forum

../../../../../../../../../../display/alacpolicydev/ALAC+Statement+on+the+eG8+Forum11 May 2011 - ALAC Statement on Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement

../../../../../../../../../../display/alacpolicydev/ALAC+Statement+on+Proposal+for+Renewal+of+the+.NET+Registry+Agreement07 May 2011 - ALAC comments on JAS WG's Second Milestone Report

4. At-Large Structure Applications (Fatimata, Tijani and Staff) - 5 mins

Rejection of ALS Application from FORCAS

5. ICANN Communication - Review of AFRALO feedback (Fatimata, Tijani and Aziz) (5 min)

• *FEEDBACK* provided at:&nbsp;<span style="color: #326ca6">[</span><span style="color: #326ca6"><span class="nobr"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/RALO+Feedback+on+Communication+Need" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/RALO+Feedback+on+Communication+Need<sup><img class="rendericon" src="/images/icons/linkext7.gif" height="7" width="7" align="absmiddle" alt="" border="0"/></sup></a></span></span>\|https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/RALO+Feedback+on+Communication+Needs\]s&nbsp;(and is linked to the&nbsp;\[\[main wiki of&nbsp;Improvements WT B\|https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/At-Large+Improvements+Work+Team+B\]\|\]&nbsp;(on RALO/ALS participation).

6. FY12 AFRALO Budget

• Funding of Capacity Building program in Dakar rejected. 6 Additional members granted travel support instead.
• Funding of the IGF Nairobi Workshop in September was rejected.

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)