January 2018 Report
Certification of Norway Chapter of the Internet Society as an EURALO At-Large Structure (ALS)
The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) voted by accepting the Norway Chapter of the Internet Society application as an At-Large Structure of EURALO.
The ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you that Norway Chapter of the Internet Society has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS). The ALAC greatly appreciates your group's interest in involving individual users in EURALO and ICANN and looks forward to working with you and your colleagues.
EURALO Board Call, 18/01/2018 at 19:00 UTC
The EURALO Board call was held on 18 January 2018 had some of the newly elected Board members in attendance. Some matters were discussed and agreed on include, the suggested proposals during the brainstorming session at the joint ICANN/ISOC dinner at the IGF, Geneva 2017.
The proposals are:
Proposal 1: Set up a Webinar on GDPR with Euro-specific approach
Proposal 2: GDPR Continuation - Set up a Webinar on the Framework of Interpretation
Proposal 3: The Registration Directory Services (RDS) and Security & Stability Review Team #2 (SSR2-RT)
Proposal 4: Improvement of EURALO Communication channels for, regional project development and ICANN processes.
Jean-Jacques Subrenat (JJS) moved a motion by supporting the proposals and others were in support of that. That is, all the 4 proposals are accepted by the Board members.
JJS volunteers to coordinate the proposal 4; improvement of the EURALO communication channels. Yrjö Länsipuro (YL) remarked that it would be more efficient to include Proposal 4 in the already existing framework of ALS Engagement, and JJS concurred.
Proposal 1: Set up a Webinar on GDPR with the Euro-specific approach. The proposed panelists/speakers are Thomas Rickert – Rickert.net, Michele Neylon – Blacknight Internet Solutions, Chris Buckridge- RIPE and Pierre Bonis - AFNIC.
EURALO chair, Olivier Crépin-Leblond (OCL) to take the lead on the coordination of the Webinar. EURALO Board member agreed that Webinar should take place in the week of 5 Feb 2018 and a second Webinar in early April 2018. Yrjo volunteers to coordinate the second GDPR webinar.
Proposal 2: Set-up a Webinar on the Framework of Interpretation of GDPR, develop a checklist for human rights impact assessment. Tentatively, Annette to lead on the Human rights impact assessment. The proposed date for the Webinar is 9 April 2018.
Proposal 3: Registration Directory Services and Security & Stability Review Team2. Discussions would focus on the security aspect: privacy vs. security. Practical issues linked to security to be accessed with the help of SSAC team, where possible.
EURALO Board members reached a consensus that a Wiki page be open to initiate the discussions.
Proposal 4: Improvement of EURALO communication channels. Including publish results of EURALO project successes and publishing them on social websites:
o Link Twitter feed to Facebook page
o Link blog feed to Facebook page
o Tell members to post to the Facebook channel https://www.facebook.com/EURALO/
o Need to find a Curator for Facebook Page.
EURALO Secretary, Wale Bakare volunteers to update EURALO Facebook page.
EURALO Community Regional Outreach Program (CROP) Requests
The CROP requests need to be filed 6 to 8 weeks ahead of an event. Forecasting of CROP requests is therefore very important. The EURALO Board agreed to propose the following use of CROP slots for this Financial Year, ending 30th June 2018:
- Re:publica takes place in Berlin, Germany, from 2 - 4 May, 2018. There is a 1 CROP slot. This will be in coordination with German ALS in Berlin
- RIPE 76 will take place at Palais du Pharo in Marseille, France from 14-18 May 2018.
One CROP slot might be used there if an offer cannot be struck with RIPE based on the EURALO-RIPE MoU.
- EuroDig 2018 to take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 5 – 6 June 2018. There are 2 CROP slots for EuroDIG
EURALO Outreach Calendar
- The calendar needs to be populated
- The question on how to populate the calendar will be placed to the EURALO ALS Engagement Taskforce in coordination with communications team.
Collaboration with RIPE and Next Steps
EURALO Chair, OCL to get in touch with Chris Buckridge of RIPE to inquire about the upcoming meeting in Marseille, France.
OCL to explore collaboration with CENTR with the goal to sign an MOU in Barcelona, Spain during ICANN63 meeting.
EURALO Monthly Call
The call started with a review of ICANN Policy Consultations currently in place.
Of particular importance was the Data Protection and Privacy Update - Community Feedback on Proposed Compliance Models , which described ICANN’s options for all round compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) adopted by the European Commission and due to be enforced in May 2018. EURALO members were asked to contribute actively to this very short turnaround consultation from the ICANN CEO.
Agenda Items for this call included a review of the Global IGF Geneva Activities – these are listed in further detail on https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Outreach+activities+at+IGF+2017+Geneva
The group also discussed the EURALO Board call described above.
FY19 Additional Budget Requests (ABR) from EURALO were discussed and agreed:
- Diversity in ICANN Leadership Bodies
- Internet-of-Things (IoT) and the Increasing Governance Challenge Ahead IGF 2018 Workshop
- Support participation of individual users in EURALO
- Joint NCUC-EURALO Town Hall Event at ICANN 63 in Barcelona
It was decided that this year, due to a lack of success in previous years, no ABR request would be made for attendance at ICANN Studienkreis. A CROP request would likely be used for that activity.
It was also mentioned that due to ICANN Global Budget consolidation, it was likely that the total ABR envelope would be reduced, year on year, thus it was a challenging year for ABRs.
All ALAC and RALO Additional Budget Requests can be found on: https://community.icann.org/x/mwhyB
EURALO February 2018 Report
EURALO Taskforce on ALS Engagement Call 6 February 2018 at 17:00 UTC
The EURALO ALS expertise table to be updated. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QjrOsGLQCCuMYJhVaLIVtYw-ifDSeNX2BXGUtyayZNA/edit?ts=58a1d594#-gid=809962045. At-Large staff to send a reminder to all ALSes to update the expertise table (google document) and to the EURALO individual Association to include individual names to the table.
EURALO Chair, Olivier Crépin-Leblond (OCL) suggested the inclusion of the ISOC Norway Chapter that has just joined EURALO to the ALS expertise table.
The EURALO Taskforce on ALS coordinator, Yrjö Länsipuro (YL) to send an email to ISOC Norway explaining the objectives of updating the expertise table.
The EURALO Facebook group; named EURALO-ICANN At-Large Facebook group has been created. EURALO Secretary, Wale Bakare (WB) granted (by EURALO Chair) admin privilege rights to allow him to post on, update the EURALO-ICANN At-Large Facebook group.
YL, EURALO Taskforce on ALS Coordinator sent an email to WB with an appropriate message posted on EURALO Facebook group informing the ALSes to become more active in Social media channels.
The At-large Twitter account - @ICANNAtlarge. Hiedi suggests we need to identify who’s managing the At-Large Twitter account.
EURALO GDPR Webinar, 19 February 2018
The EURALO GDPR webinar offers the opportunity to increase the understanding of practical implementation of GDPR both from a Registrar, a Registry and a Registrant perspective.
The Webinar’s panelists are:
- Thomas Rickert (ECO Internet Industry Association) - GDPR from a Registrant or Organisation point of view.
- Pierre Bonis (AFNIC .FR Registry) - GDPR from a European Country Code Top Level Domain operator's point of view.
- Michele Neylon (Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains) - GDPR from a European Registrar and business point of view.
- Athina Fragkouli (RIPE NCC) - GDPR from the Regional Internet Registry of IP addresses point of view.
Moderator: Olivier Crépin-Leblond
The full presentation - EURALO Webinar on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
EURALO February Call 20, 2018
EURALO CROP
Heidi Ullrich (HU) commented that “under the CROP Procedures & Guidelines, a proposal must be approved by the CROP RT and the applicable regional GSE VP a minimum of 6 weeks prior to the proposed travel date. Therefore, to allow sufficient time for CROP RT and regional GSE VP to review, and for RALOs to update proposals based on comments received, proposals should be submitted to the CROP RT list 8 weeks prior to the proposed travel date”.
Re:publica 2-4 May 2018: Annette Mühlberg (AM), Oliver Passek(OP) and Wolf Ludwig (WL) to coordinate and work with EURALO CROP funded candidate. EURALO members agreed that Matthias Markus Hudobnik will represent EURALO at Re:publica.
OCL to follow up on the EURALO mailing list on the suggestion from Oksana for EURALO support the petition against the reduction of the ICANN fellowship as well as to write an EURALO statement against the CROP elimination.
Security, Stability & Resilience of the DNS Review Team (SSR2)
OCL has emailed Lutz Donnerhacke asking him whether he would be interested in participating in the SSR2, as an EURALO representative to the Review Team2.
EURALO March 2018 Report
San Juan ICANN61: RALO Leadership meeting – Sunday 11, March 2018
Individual users
The RALO leadership meeting was focused on the individual users, progress as well as the process of certification.
Humberto Carrasco (HC) suggested a working group for individual users, the discussion about voting power. Alan Greenberg (AG) mentioned the difference between EURALO and other RALOs regarding the progress of individual users.
Eduardo Diaz (ED) talked about the process of decertification of individual members. He (ED) sighted the APRALO, as an example, where few members not necessary to have participation, awareness is sufficient for them.
Roberto Gaetano (RG) who stood in for EURALO Secretary, Wale Bakare (not present in person) explained how the EURALO Individual Users’ Association works. He also talked about the participation of individual users in At-Large activities. And he (RG) proposed that the meeting in Panama of individuals.
HC agrees with Roberto on the standardized method of certifying the individual’s participation or not? HC also supported the suggestion of having a meeting in Panama.
Olivier Crepin-Leblond (OCL) commented that ALSes supports is helpful. Then he (OCL) supported having a meeting in Panama, but suggested a preparation for the meeting, inform of “good practices” documents.
AG suggested that having an association for individual members without being an ALS.
Satish Babu (SB) commented that the implementation of the ALAC review is important for the discussion of individual membership - different categories of members - need basic guidelines, not uniformity.
Glenn McKnight (GM) mentioned of the active members in the NARALO, then said there are more applications for individuals than for ALSes.
ED calls for the meeting conclusion and directed At-Large staff to prepare the session in Panama, for continue discussions.
Hot topics
ED mentioned as an example, the Net Neutrality, asked whether it is important for ICANN per its core operation. He further stressed that what is important is how the Net Neutrality affects users.
HC said will ask LACRALO what themes are more important for the people and which have more impacts, and in every monthly teleconference, these themes are discussed.
Tijani Benjemaa (TB) commented that the hot topic for Africa is electricity, not Net Neutrality - not within ICANN’s mandate. The topics to be discussed must be relevant for ICANN and better if related to the policy being in the making.
Alfredo Calderon (AC) suggested a working group on education - is it important, does it affect the user, does it impact ICANN - when organizing webinars need also an “entry level” for beginners. He said that APRALO informing individual users should be two-way communication – tell them about ICANN and listen to people.
OCL commented that there is need to know what is interesting for the users (ALSes) because that tells us when a hot topic comes up which users (ALSes) are best to work on it. As an example, he (OCL) mentioned the EURALO hot-topic table for this purpose.
Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar (HAM) commented that - good to know what topics are interesting for ALSes, but topics for discussion must be related to ICANN.
GM said that NARALO followed the same approach that Olivier described
AG suggested that - we need a way to address unusual topics for which no “expert” has been identified.
SB commented that sometimes activities that ALSes are involved in become relevant for ICANN
OCL suggested that it does not hurt to have in the list topics that are outside of ICANN’s remit but that of course only topics that are relevant to ICANN would be of use to the RALO. Furthermore, if on a specific topic there is no expertise in the RALO, then the RALO would remain silent. This is the reason why EURALO does not comment on all topics.
HC advised that we must be flexible with hot topics, sighted example, the ongoing discussion of ICANN budget and operating plan.
ED said that discussions around the individual internet users show the different perspectives from different parts of the world. ED concluded that Panama meeting with individuals not expecting outcome but having the discussion.
ALAC: Subcommittee on Outreach & Engagement Meeting – 13 March 2018
Each RALO presented local and global activities participated and new ALSes in their respective region.
NACRALO – mentioned of Cuba with no presence of At-Large in the country.
OCL gave a brief activities EURALO has participated and members to attend this year local outreach and engagement within Europe.
Alagie Ceesay (AC) introduced herself as, a representative of an ISOC Gambia ALS and contact person of ISOC Gambia. She shared with RALOs update of the new ALS. The ALS is planning an outreach event/workshop on the following ICANN and Atlarge topic: 1. The Internet Governance Ecosystem 2. ICANN Ecosystem 3. Atlarge 4. What it means to be an ALS and how to get actively involved... this is the first Outreach to help ISOC Members and other stakeholders attending, understanding the basics of ICANN, Atlarge etc. She urged members at the meeting to make recommendations or suggestions on the stated outline of ISOC Gambia. She is the facilitator of the workshop with Beran Gillen and date is 25th March 2018.
EURALO March call, 27/03/2018
Summary of meeting discussions
Stephane Van Gelder: Unfortunately, Stephane van Gelder died on 26/03/2018 after a tragic motorcycle accident.
At the European At-Large Organisation (EURALO) monthly call held on 27 March 2018. A minute of silence in memory of Stéphane van Gelder, participants on the call fully supported the proposal of a motion to be made by an ALAC member.
The Registries Stakeholder Group nominated Stephane Van Gelder for the 2018 Multistakeholder Ethos Award and supported by EURALO members present at the call.
Since Stéphane was an individual member of EURALO, OCL asked those present on the call, to issue a 24H consensus call on the following motion, by Roberto Gaetano.
The Multistakeholder Ethos Award will be announced in June 2018 at ICANN62 Panama City. The Ethos Award nomination period was extended to 28 March 2018 ( https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-03-20-en )
The 2nd workshop on GDPR – Yrjö Länsipuro (YL) suggested we do the online course for ALSes. Bastiaan Goslings (BG) said he would be happy to say something regarding what his ISP is doing about GDPR.
CROP Updates
RIPE76 meeting: There are 4 EURALO members - Sébastien Bachollet (SB), Andrei Kolesnikov (AK), OCL and BG to attend the RIPE76 meeting in France between 14 and 16 May 2018.
SB will be sponsored to participate in RIPE76 by AFNIC, BG will be attending RIPE76 on behalf of his employer, and OCL as ICANN-CROP funded EURALO representative to RIPE76. It is likely AK would send his application for the RIPE fellowship award to enable him attend RIPE76 meeting https://ripe76.ripe.net/attend/ripe-fellowship/
The re:publica meeting: Matthias Markus Hudobnik (MMH) is the selected member to represent EURALO, as a CROP funded candidate to attend the re:publica in Berlin. MMH CROP application has been approved.
Action Items
Olivier Crepin-Leblond to follow up with Annette, once she is back in her office, to organize a Webinar on the topic Framework of Interpretation and to develop a checklist for human rights impact assessment.
Olivier Crepin-Leblond and Yrjo Lansipuro will coordinate the second EURALO webinar with the target date of the end of April on the topic of GDPR its impact on Whois and the impact of GDPR to end-users.
Olivier Crepin-Leblond will invite EURALO ALSes to share their experiences on what they are doing on GDPR. Yrjo Lansipuro will contact Raoul Plommer and Teemu Ropponen asking them to participate as speakers.
Olivier Crepin-Leblond to request volunteers to participate in the EURODIG 2018 meeting, considering the 6 weeks requirements to file CROP funding requests.
