Gisella Gruber-White:Welcome to the DSDT call on Thursday 21 February 2013 at 1900 UTC
Gisella Gruber-White:Agenda: https://community.icann.org/x/44VwAg
Heidi Ullrich:Hi All.
Nathalie Peregrine:Hello!
Yaovi Atohoun:Hello
Silvia Vivanco:Hello all
Sandra Hoferichter:Hello all there!
Heidi Ullrich:Alan, would you like anything shown in the AC?
Heidi Ullrich:Alan, has the call officially started?
Heidi Ullrich:Thanks, staff their own ROPs that must be followed :)
Nathalie Peregrine:Dev has joined the AC room
Heidi Ullrich:Does every one have scrolling rights
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:yes
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:thanks
Yaovi Atohoun:Yes please
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:I think this is appropriate to have here.
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:It is important to distinguish RALOs, ALS and leading into the ALAC is good. This makes it more accessible to the At-Large community
Heidi Ullrich:From the ICANN bylaws:
Heidi Ullrich:The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is the primary organizational home within ICANN for individual Internet users. The role of the ALAC shall be to consider and provide advice on the activities of ICANN, insofar as they relate to the interests of individual Internet users.
Olivier Crepin-Leblond:are we correcting typos here too?
Olivier Crepin-Leblond:geograpghic -> geographic
Holly Raiche:I do like the introduction as is as well as Heidi's addition
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:yes Heidi that text is the perfect sentance. to use
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:it reflects the outcomes of the review I think verbatim to the bylaws
Heidi Ullrich:@CLO - re sentence - it was developed by you - and the Improvements group ;)
Heidi Ullrich:Re AGAM, does that consist of all ALAC meetings at the AGM or only the Sunday or Thursday sessions?
Holly Raiche:In this version, it is at the end- which I am happy with
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:agree with Cheryl on putting the text before "our" definitions, possibly in the introduction
Holly Raiche:The definition of consensus is taken from our rules. If it differs from GNSO, then it should be changed in both placed
Alan Greenberg:An opinion or position reached by the group as a whole. It is generally reached by no less than 80% of the then sitting ALAC Members (see 12.1.3)
Sandra Hoferichter:Should we delete this term if it is so difficult to agree on?
Sandra Hoferichter:to define rough consensus would be easier
Olivier Crepin-Leblond:harder -- because the ALAC operated by consensus -- so it needs to be defined
Sandra Hoferichter:then we can only refer to the rule when a vote passed succesful
Olivier Crepin-Leblond:the Chair can ask for "consensus calls"
Alan Greenberg: a : general agreement : unanimity b : the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned
Yaovi Atohoun:1.72.3.1
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:indeed Alan consensus for us should indicate that a majority or vast majority if not all those sitting as ALAC agreeing to measured by general assessment, poll or vote....
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:yes Ao
Cheryl Langdon-Orr:should read yesvAlan. outlining wgat this table. does (I.e. define Capitalized terms) for the purposes of the ALAC rules
Sandra Hoferichter:thank you Holly, I understand the idea behind better now
Sandra Hoferichter:but then we have to refer to something which is mesurable
Sandra Hoferichter:like consensus is 80%
Heidi Ullrich:Alan, when should the next call be scheduled?
Heidi Ullrich:Yaovi, did you have a question?
Yaovi Atohoun:wanted to make a comment
Yaovi Atohoun:AGAM
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:definition of ALS - "grass-roots" organisation?
Yaovi Atohoun:would prefer AGM for us and IAGM whn refering to the one of ICANN
Heidi Ullrich:Thanks! bye
Yaovi Atohoun:bye
Nathalie Peregrine:bye!
Dev Anand Teelucksingh:Thanks all
Silvia Vivanco:Bye all
Sandra Hoferichter:bye bye!
