Participants:
EN: Glenn McKnight, Greg Shatan, Howard Deane, Javier Rua-Jovet, John More, Judith Hellerstein, Karen Mulberry, Kristin Doan, Loris Taylor, Melissa Begay, Ron de Silva, Susannah Gray, William Michael Cunningham, Bill Jouris, Chris Mondini, Dustin Philips, Matthew Rantanen, Allan Skuce, Evan Leibovitch, Tom Lowenhaupt, Adrian Schmidt, Alfredo Calderon, Jennifer Cordero, Jonathan Zuck, Alan Greenberg
Apologies: Marita Moll, Dana Perry, Eve Edelson
Staff: Heidi Ulrich, Silvia Vivanco, Andrea Glandon, Evin Erdoğdu, Claudia Ruiz
Call Management: Andrea Glandon
Transcript: EN
This section is to record the meeting attendance. Colors are to identify the corresponding attendance state: Green=Present, Yellow=Apology, Red=Not Present,
# | ALS | REP | ALT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pacific Community Networks Association/CA | Allan Skuce (P) | Bev Collins |
| 2 | Nova Scotia Community Access Program/CA | Dana Perry | Erick Stackhouse |
| 3 | ISOC DC/US | Dustin Phillips (P) | John More (P) |
| 4 | ISOC PR/PR | Eduardo Díaz | Alfredo Calderón |
| 5 | Canadian Association for Open Source (CLUE)/CA | Evan Leibovitch (P) | Mathew Rice |
| 6 | Foundation For Build. Sustainable Communities/CA | Glenn McKnight (P) | Robert T Bell |
| 7 | Greater Toronto Area Linux User Group/CA | Gordon Chillcott | Scott Sullivan |
| 8 | Knujon/US | Grath Bruen | - |
| 9 | Association of Internet Users/US :: ALAC 2017-19 | John LaPrise | Cristina Willlard |
| 10 | ISOC NY/US | Joly McFie | Greg Shatan (P) |
| 11 | Capital Area Globetrotters/US | Judith Hellerstein (P) | Le-Marie Thompson |
| 12 | Consumers Council of Canada/CA | Kenneth L. Whitehurst | Howard Dean (P) |
| 13 | ISOC CO/US | Karen Mulberry (P) | - |
| 14 | ISOC SF/US | Leah Sykmekher | Susannah Gray (P) |
| 16 | Native Public Media/US | Loris Taylor (P) | Elyse Dempsey |
| 17 | Telecommunities Canada/CA | Marita Moll | Garth Graham |
| 18 | Communautique/CA | Monique Chartrand | - |
| 19 | The IP/Tech. Section of the HI State Bar Assoc./US | Seth Reiss | Tracey Ohta |
| 20 | ISOC Quebec/CA | Destiny Tchehouali | Robert Castonguay |
| 21 | ISOC Canada/CA | Shelley Robinson | Murray McKercher |
| 22 | Connecting.nyc Inc./US | Thomas Lowenhaupt | Robert Pollard |
| 23 | Hispanic Educational Tech. Services (HETS)/PR | Yubelkys Montalvo | Yelixa Castro |
For updates please contact Evin Erdoğdu, At-Large Staff.
*P=Present
# | Name | Region |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adrian Schmidt (P) | CA |
| 2 | Alan Greenberg (P) | CA |
| 3 | Daniel Wright | US |
| 4 | David Allnut | US |
| 5 | Edward Hasbrouck | CA |
| 6 | Endrias Zewde | US |
| 7 | Javier Rúa Jovet (P) | PR |
| 8 | Jean Armour Polly | US |
| 9 | Jeongwon Ryu | US |
| 10 | John Levine - 2017 Rep.* | US |
| 11 | Jonathan Zuck (P) | US |
| 12 | Kristian Stout | US |
| 13 | Linda Kaiser | US |
| 14 | Michelangelo De Simone | US |
| 15 | Philip Righter | US |
| 16 | Roberto Guerra | CA |
| 17 | Roland Yarbrough | US |
| 18 | Thomas Struett | US |
| 19 | Thomas W Campbell | US |
| 20 | Wendy Seltzer | US |
| 21 | Wes Boudville | US |
| 22 | William Cunningham (P) | US |
<<For updates please contact Evin Erdoğdu, At-Large Staff.
*Please note John Levine resigned as an Individual Member of NARALO in March 2018.
This section is to record if there is quorum for decisions that requires a consensus call or formal vote.
--→ 09 april [Recording: --] [Decision]: Yes, there was Quorum
This section is to record the approval of this meeting agenda and its discussion order.
--→ 09 april [Recording: 1:53 ] Agenda mentioned but could not be shown in WebE [Decision]: No objection
This section is to approve moving to their respective archive locations the discussions that have been closed or made dormant in the previous meeting.
--→ 09 april [Recording: --] [Decision]: Not recorded
LEAD: Matthew and Geoffrey
OPEN:14 March 2018, CLOSED: 14 March 2018
TYPE: [Outreach]
DESCRIPTION: Program Update
--→ 14 March [Recording: 12:20] Update given. Testimonial given by Mathew about his experience with the program. Testimonials given by Michelle from Canada and Lillian from Colombia. [Decision]: Recommend to close.
Good suggestion son what to do
OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED:Dormant @ 12/11/17
TYPE: General
DESCRIPTION: Designate CROP Program Coordinators (PCs) for NARALO.
20 November 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. Action required: NARALO Secretary in coordination with staff to inform 2018 designations to the CROP manager and update CROP page HERE.Glenn and Judith are the current PCs. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
--->11 December 2017: [Recording: 33:50] Status quo, depending on ALAC's decision and when positions are open. ALAC to discuss this sometime after January 2018. NARALO will act accordingly. In the meantime Judith and Glenn will remain in their current positions.[Decision]: This discussion is to be put on a dormant state until ALAC discuss this.
--→ 14 March [Recording: 20:50] Program is being put on hold so there was no to much to say. [Decision]: Recommend to put in dormant state until final decision is made about the program.
Discussion | Lead | Item # | Allotted Time/Running Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | NARALO ALAC members Update Reports | Javier John Alan | 026 | (00:05 /00:15) |
| 2 | NARALO Elections | Eduardo | 023 | (00:05 /00:10) |
| 3 | 2018 Individual member representative - Elections | Eduardo | 002 | (00:100 /00:20) |
| 4 | CROP Trips for FY18- ARIN, Digital Inclusion and RightsCon | Glenn | 025 | (00:20 /00:25) |
| 5 | NARALO Public Policy Group Update Report | Jonathan | 028 | (00:25 /00:35) |
| 6 | NARALO Education Group Update Report | Alfredo (P) | 029 | (00:25 /00:40) |
| 7 | NARALO Outreach Group Update Report | Glenn | 017 | (00:40 /00:50) |
| 8 | NomCom update report | Leah | 005 | (00:50 /00:55) |
| 9 | Jonathan | 009 | (00:55 /00:59) | |
| 9A | ccTLD Update - Dot NYC | Tom | 030 | New Discussion |
| 10 | Individual Members Certification Criteria | Glenn | 014 | - |
| 11 | Any Other Business (AOB) | All | - | (00:59 /00:60) |
| 12 | Next meeting: 8 May 2018 @19:00 UTC | - | - | - |
*(allowed time/running time)
This section is for discussions that have been carried forward to this meeting.
LEAD: Glenn McKnight
OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED:
TYPE: General
DESCRIPTION: This item is created to execute the following: Paragraph 3.3 of the 2017 approved NARALO Rules and Procedures state that “Appointment of a new voting representative and alternate(s) of the Individual Members shall take place as soon as practical after each ICANN Annual General Meeting”.
20 November 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. Action to take: NARALO secretary to coordinate with staff and Independent Members the selection of the 2018 representative [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
11 December 2017: [Recording: 21:52] Lead to be changed to Glenn McKnight. Current rep is John Levine which is not interested in continuing in that role. Glenn to coordinate with staff to check which unaffiliated members want to continue their participation in NARALO and which ones have been active in the monthly calls. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
08 January 2018: [Recording: --] Item not discussed. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
12 February [Recording: --] Need to clarify who is the current rep and how to move forward with selecting the new rep for 2018. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
14 March [Recording: 47:00] Briefly talked about these issues. No action items generated [Decision]: Carry froward to next meeting.
--→ 09 april [Recording: 20 ] Alan provided a summary of this. The position of representative is not currently filled. in the process of essentially refreshing the individual membership to make sure the people we have are still alive and active and interested in being involved which is going to happen before the end of May. At that time, we will then have a selection process for selecting the individual representative [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
LEAD: Leah Sykmekher
OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED:
TYPE: General
DESCRIPTION: Brief report by our 2018 NomCom representative.
20 November 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
11 December 2017: [Recording: 52:05] Report given. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
08 January 2018: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting Off-Line Report: The 2018 NOMCOM is tasked with filling 9 open leadership positions on the ICANN board. The team kicked off with meetings at ICANN 60 in Abudhabi where we got right into the preparatory phase of our work that focused on detailed planning for responsibilities in the coming year. We achieved the following: - Defined operating procedures - Outlined 2018 NOMCOM timelines, goals and strategies - Formed 8 subcommittees each focused on specific tasks. Outreach: We are currently in the candidate recruitment phase of our annual process where outreach to the community plays a significant role. NOMCOM delegates attending IGF 2017 in Geneva began our outreach efforts with more to come at ICANN 61 and at /through other appropriate channels. We welcome NARALO to encourage suitable candidates to apply for these open seats: ICANN Board of Directors 3 Seats, GNSO 1 seat, ALAC 2 seats (Europe & North America) & ccNSO 2 seats.Resources: For more information on NOMCOM 2018 and to be continually updated on our activities please use the following resources: 2018 NOMCOM website as a resource for information: https://www.icann.org/nomcom2018, 2018 NOMCOM wiki for candidate applications (will be up soon), 2018 NOMCOM Update (will be available soon [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
12 February2018 [Recording: --] Off-Line Report: Leah Symekher - SFBayISOC/ICANN Nomcom: Thx Glenn direct people to my summary, the website and let all know that we are in the recruiting phase so direct intersted candidates to website.Leah Symekher - SFBayISOC/ICANN Nomcom: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_nomcom2018&d=DwIFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=EIZsRD5HkaWrY-IOAapEBdyRwuZLXAVNnDN6t_SaXlQ&m=LoyptWQlLta7X6urla8s8czYKAbKLpE34DWYYaD8cT8&s=ItzuWIsGbi9giVEtYtMrO_2Jf3cSt88Eqel06PYGpuo&e= [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
14 March [Recording: --] No report given. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
--→ 09 april [Recording: --] No report given. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
LEAD: John Laprice / Policy Group
OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED: 9 April 2017
TYPE: Policy
DESCRIPTION: Seven (7) NARALO hot topics (HTs) were identified during the General Assembly (GA) held in New Orleans in April 2017. These are as follows: Privacy, Trust, Surveillance, Net Neutrality, Digital Literacy, Universal Internet Access and Cybersecurity. You can see a summary of these HERE. The original discussion that occurred during the GA is located HERE. Volunteers have been assigned lead roles to f/u on the HTs. We need to re-confirm them. In addition, each HTs needs to be clearly defined indicating what is the specific issue(s) that affects our region and what outcome we want to see after discussing them.
20 November 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. Action required: Public WG to define these and include in their work flow. Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
11 December 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
08 January 2018: [Recording: --] There was no one from the Policy Group to discuss this item. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
12 February 2018 [Recording: 42] There was no one from the Policy Group to discuss this item. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
--→ 14 March [Recording: 22:17]: Mentioned three groups that have been created to tackle hot topics and bringing new blood into the region. These are: Policy, Education and Outreach. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
--→ 09 april [Recording: 51] This item was discussed as part of the Policy group. [Decision]: Recommend to close and fuse into into the Policy group.
LEAD: Glenn McKnight
OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED:
TYPE: General
DESCRIPTION: The process for certification of new Individual members should be revised to assure that they are to follow NARALO Rules and Procedures and any other NARALO approved governance document. An on-line form should be created to manage new applications. Current criteria and process are located HERE.
20 November 2017: [Recording: XX]. This item was not discussed during the meeting. Action required: Revise certification process for individual members [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
11 December 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting.. Glenn to lead this item. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
08 January 2018: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
12 February 2018 [Recording: --] Off Line Report: [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
14 March [Recording: 47:00] Briefly talked about these issues. No action items generated [Decision]: Carry froward to next meeting.
--→ 09 april [Recording: 48] Silvia explain that the individual members of at-large are the NARALO has a criteria, which is number one, to be a permanent resident of one of the countries or territories in the North American region as defined by ICANN. Not be a member of an accredited ALs, be subscribed to the mailing list of NARALO, this is a very simple criteria and the email requesting membership must be sent to at-large staff, then we coordinate with NARALO leadership and the individual who wishes to become an affiliated member is certified. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
ITEM 017: NARALO Outreach Group Update Report
LEAD: Glenn McKnight
OPEN: 20 Nov 2017, CLOSED:
TYPE: General
DESCRIPTION: This item is for discussing the NARALO Outreach Group efforts.
20 November 2017: [Recording: XX] This item was not discussed during the meeting. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
11 December 2017: [Recording: --] This item was not discussed during the meeting. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
08 January 2018: [Recording: --] Report given [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
12 February 2018 [Recording: 42] Report given. Please refer to recording/transcript fro more details. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
14 March [Recording: 50:00] Update given. Talked about strategic plan. Various testimonials given about outreach efforts. Example given: ICANN read outs, ARIN meetings and IGF Geneva. No action item generated. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting
--→ 09 april [Recording: 29 & 50 ] William suggested that we put forward an effort to reach out to what are called HBCU, historically black colleges and universities, starting at Howard University in Washington DC. (see more details Page 16 in the transcript). Glenn provided and updated report on outreach efforts during ICANN 61 in Puerto Rico. please refer to page 25 in the transcript for more details. [Decision]: Chris Mondini and William to get on the phone or meet in DC to continue this discussion.
LEAD: Glenn Mcknight
OPEN: 12 February 2018, CLOSED:
TYPE: General
DESCRIPTION: 2018 NARALO Election Timeline
Date | Event |
|---|---|
23 April 2018 | Nominations* open for four positions: Chair, Secretariat, ALAC Representative and NomCom Delegate. ROP 6.1.2: "Candidates for office may be an Individual Member or a member of an ALS Member, and must be resident in North America." |
4 May 2018 | Nominations Close. ROP 6.4.1: "The nomination period shall be no fewer than ten (10) working days." |
11 May 2018 | Deadline for Nomination Acceptance. ROP 6.4.2: "Nominations other than self-nominations must be accepted within 7 days of the close of the nomination period." |
May 14, 2018 | NARALO Special Purpose Call on NARALO 2018 Elections: "Get to Know the Candidates" - 14 May 2018 ←NOTE: Need link to this page |
| 14 May 2018 | Elections, if required, open. |
18 May 2018 | Elections, if required, end. |
| 18 May 2018 | Elections results are published. |
| AGM (ICANN 63) | Newly elected ALAC Members and RALOs Leaders shall be seated at the ALAC Wrap Up Session during the 2018 AGM. |
OPEN POSITIONS
NARALO Chair: Currently held by Eduardo Díaz. Eduardo is not term limited. Current term ends at the end of the 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM).
NARALO Secretariat: Currently held by Glenn McKnight. Glenn is not term limited. Current term lasts until the end of the 2018 AGM.
ALAC Representative: Currently held by Alan Greenberg. Alan is not term limited. Current term lasts until the end of the 2018 AGM.
NARALO NomCom Delegate: The current NA delegate to the 2018 NomCom is Leah Symekher. Leah is not term limited. Current term last until the end of the 2018 AGM.
12 February 2018: [Recording: 51] Heidi mentioned that the dates presented in the DRAFT may change since staff is synchronizing all RALO elections two run simultaneously. [Decision]: Carry froward to next meeting
14 March [Recording: --] No discussed. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
--→ 09 april [Recording: 16:00] Heidi provided a detail account of the election time line. Refer to recording/transcript (page8) for more details. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
LEAD: Glenn Mcknight
OPEN: 12 February 2018, CLOSED:
TYPE: [Outreach]
DESCRIPTION: There are currently two trips available under this program. These need to be requested before 4 May, 2018 deadline.
12 February 2018 [Recording: 38] Report given. Refer to recording/transcript for details. [Decision]: Recommend to close.
14 March [Recording: 10:00] Program was explained. There may be about $4K o discretionary money that can be used fro this next year. No action item generated. [Decision]: Recommend to keep in the agenda to inform allocation of the two last spots in this program
--→ 09 april [Recording: 25] William (WC) mentioned that his trip to the ARIN is more strategic in comparison to the GA trip to New Orleans and that he is looking forward to help out. Glenn sent to WC brochures and materials to help with the outreach. Glenn also mentioned that he is going to attend The Digital Inclusion in Cleveland and Judith the RigthsCon in Toronto where she is going to be one of panelist as the At-Large Global Indigenous Ambassador program. Read more details in the transcripts (page 12) [Decision]: ACTION ITEM: William, Glenn and Judith to prepare to work with Evin and Mario from staff to make sure that all the activities are posted on ta-large social media, Twitter, Facebook. Also, to provide short written reports to staff to start documenting all of these activities and some of the achievements.
ITEM 026: NARALO ALAC Members Update Reports
LEAD: Javier Rúa, John Laprise & Alan Greenberg
OPEN: 09 April 2018, CLOSED:
TYPE: [Policy]
DESCRIPTION: This discussion item is for providing a summary by our current NARALO representatives in ALAC of what was discussed in the last ALAC monthly meeting regarding policy and anything else that the region should be aware about.
--→ 09 april [Recording: 3:00 ] Javier Rúa gave a summary of the Work Track 5” of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group. Alan mentioned statements already put out by ALAC fro GDPR Implementation, Fellowship Program and KSK Rollover. ALAC is currently looking for input on a proposal model made by the Intellectual Property Constituency (IP) and Business Constituency for accreditation and authorization on WhoIs data and on the replenishment of the ICANN financial reserve. Please check out the Policy Page in the links provided below. [Decision]: Action item for staff: Summarize what the policy issues are and send it out to the list as quickly as possible.
ITEM 028: NARALO Policy Group Update Report
LEAD: Jonathan Zuck
OPEN: 09 April 2018, CLOSED:
TYPE: [Policy]
DESCRIPTION: This discussion item is for providing an update report by the head of the Policy Group as to the ICANN policies being discussed at the moment affecting NARALO end-users and/or interest to NARALO members in general
--→ 09 april [Recording: 51] This group is looking for volunteers. Jonathan suggested to focus in the following topics: Disposition of Action Funds, Universal Acceptance and Name Collisions. Please refer to page 26 of the transcript for more details about these. [Decision]: ACTION ITEM: Ask for volunteers for this group. Carry forward to next meeting.
LEAD: Alfredo Calderon
OPEN: 09 April 2018, CLOSED:
TYPE: [Policy]
DESCRIPTION: This discussion item is for providing an update report by the head of the Educational Group.
--→ 09 april [Recording: --] For the May meeting, Jonathan Zuck will discuss "Universal Acceptance" as part of the SWebinar series. Future topics must align with ICANN's mission, therefore, the Policy & Hot Topics must be reviewed if a SWebinar is to be organized. It seems reasonable to consider Pollicy Comments as a point of reference. We are aware that in some instances the timeframe will be a limitation when Public comments before our monthly meetings. [Decision]: Carry forward to next meeting.
This section is for new discussions in the agenda for this meeting
ITEM 030: ccTLD Update - Dot NYC
LEAD: Tom Lowenhaupt
OPEN: 09 April 2018, CLOSED: 09 April 2018
TYPE: [General]
DESCRIPTION: Presentation about city ccTLDs
--→ 09 april [Recording: 33] Presentation given. Please see details starting at page 18 in the transcript. Tom would like to know from anyone in the group how well city TLDs are serving the needs of resident of various cities. [Decision]: Recommend to close.
This section is for any new discussions not in the agenda for this meeting.
LEAD: [name]
OPEN: [open date], CLOSED:
TYPE: [General], [Policy], [Education], [Outreach]
DESCRIPTION: [Brief description]
*Use this format. The number shown is the next in the sequence of discussions. Update every meeting if necessary.
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