2017-05-11 ALAC Leadership Team (ALT) Mid-Monthly Call

ALAC Leadership Team (ALT) Mid-Monthly Meeting

Date: Thursday, 11 May 2017

Time: 19:30 - 21:00 UTC. For the time in various timezones click here

Meeting Number: AL.ALT/CC.0517/1

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ALT:  Alan Greenberg, Tijani Ben Jemaa,  León Sanchez, Holly Raiche, Andrei Kolesnikov

Liaisons: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Yrjö Länsipuro, Maureen Hilyard, Julie Hammer (joining late due to overlap with SSAC)

Dial-out Participants:  Tijani Ben Jemaa, León Sanchez, Holly Raiche, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Maureen Hilyard

Apologies: Olivier Crépin-Leblond

Staff: Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Gisella Gruber, Ariel Liang, Yeşim Nazlar, Evin Erdoğdu, Mario Aleman

Call Management: Mario Aleman

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AGENDA                    

Standing Agenda Items

1. Roll Call and Apologies – Staff (2 minutes)

2. Welcome and Introduction - Alan Greenberg (3 minutes)

Items for Discussion

3. ALAC Policy Development Activities - Alan Greenberg (15 minutes) 

• See: Policy Advice Page on New At-Large Website 
• See: Policy Advice Development Page
• See: ICANN Public Comment page 
  

1. 1. Statements approved by the ALAC
      • Recommendations to Improve ICANN's Transparency
      • Interim Paper Cross-Community Working Group on Use of Names of Countries and Territories as Top Level Domains
      • ICANN's Draft FY18 Operating Plan and Budget, and Five-Year Operating Plan Update
      • Draft 2016 African Domain Name System Market Study
   2. Statements in process: being drafted, in comment or in vote:
      • Proposed Fundamentals Bylaws Changes to Move the Board Governance Committee's Reconsideration Process Responsibilities to Another Board Committee (closes 10 May 2017) - Statement submitted with ratification pending; ALAC ratifying the Statement 
      • Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations for New gTLDs (closes 19 May 2017) - ALAC finalizing a Statement 
      • Deferral of Country Code Names Supporting Organization Review (closes 19 May 2017) - At-Large Community commenting on a Statement 
      • GNSO Community Comment 2 (CC2) on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (closes 22 May 2017)  - Alberto Soto, Andrei Kolesnikov, Bastiaan Goslings, Evan Leibovitch, Leon Sanchez, and Maureen Hilyard drafting a Statement 
      • Recommendations to Improve SO/AC Accountability (closes 26 May 2017)  - Alan Greenberg and Cheryl Langdon-Orr drafting a Statement
      • Proposed Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement (closes 30 May 2017)  
   3. Statements that seem to be stalled:
      • None
   4. Public Comment requests to which the ALAC decided not to submit Statements: 
      • Release of Country and Territory Names within the .PIONEER, .FUJITSU, .OBI, .SHARP, .TOYOTA, and .LEXUS TLDs (closes 20 Jun 2017) 
   5. New Public Comment requests to which the ALAC needs to make decisions: 
   • • Revised ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law: Process and Next Steps (closes 12 Jun 2017)
     • Draft Framework of Interpretation for Human Rights (closes 16 Jun 2017)

4. Updates from Liaisons - Various (10 minutes)

a. ccNSO - Maureen Hilyard

b. GAC - Yrjö Länsipuro

c. GNSO - Cheryl Langdon-Orr

d. SSAC - Julie Hammer

5. At-Large Review - Next Steps - Holly Raiche and Cheryl Langdon-Orr (10 minutes)

See: At-Large Review 2015 - 2019 (Current) Workspace 

Alan's thoughts XLSX DOCX PDF

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6. Empowered Community Approval of Board selections - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)

Bylaws and RoP

See:  Letter to the Empowered Community Administration - 2017

7. Restarting of New gTLD and Registration Issues WGs - Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

Mission - Draft (v01) PDF DOCX

At-Large New gTLDs Working Group  and At-Large Registration Issues Working Group workspaces

8. At-Large at ICANN 59 - Alan Greenberg (20 minutes)

See: ICANN 59 website and ICANN 59 - Johannesburg Meeting - June 2017 Workspace

a. Final Review of At-Large Schedule

b. Preview of AFRALO GA

c. Social events

d. Overview of Logistics

9. 2017 ALAC and Regional Elections, Selections and Appointments Update - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)

See: 2017 ALAC and RALO Elections, Selections and Appointments Workspace

10. Replacement candidate for Wafa (in camera) - Alan Greenberg (10 minutes)

11. Any other Business - Alan Greenberg (5 minutes)