2018-02-20 APRALO Monthly Teleconference

Date: Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Time: 06:00 - 07:00 UTC (for the time in various timezones click here)

Meeting Number: AL.AP/CC.1217/1

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How do I participate in this meeting?

English Conference ID = 1638

Chinese Conference ID = 2038 

Adobe Connect Meeting Room: https://participate.icann.org/apralo/

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Action Items: EN

Recording: EN, ZH

Transcript: EN, ZH

AC Chat Transcript: EN

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Participants

EN: Satish Babu, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Holly Raiche, Maureen Hilyard, Lianna Galstyan, Shreedeep Rayamajhi, Tomohiro Fujisaki, Amrita Choudhury, Waleed Khaliqi, Narine Khachatryan, Amal Al-Saqqaf, Pavan Budhrani, Prateek Pathak, Suhaidi Hassan, Wintrop Yu, Lado Svanadze, Bikram Shrestha, Amir Qayyum, Aris Ignacio, Rao Naveed Bin Rais, Eranga Samararathna

ZH: None

Apologies: Justine Chew, Kaili Kan, Ali AlMeshal, Yannis Li, Fouad Bajwa, Nadira AL-Araj 

Staff: Silvia Vivanco, Jia-Rong Low, Yeşim Nazlar

ZH Interpreters: YiYi and Jessie

Call Management: Yeşim Nazlar

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Agenda

1. Roll call - Staff (2 min)

2. Welcome and Membership Matters (Satish, 3 min)

3. At-Large Review: Developments and the next Steps (Holly, 5 min)

4. ALAC Policy Update -  Holly/Maureen/Kaili  (20 min)

Reference: 2018 ALAC Policy Comments & Advice

Statements approved by the ALAC

• 1. • Proposed Incremental Changes to the ICANN Meetings Strategy
       The ALAC agrees with no change regarding the Community Forum, but recommends at least 5 days for outreach at Policy Forum and 6 days plus 1 additional for wrap up activity at the AGM.

     • Recommendations to Improve ICANN's Office of the Ombudsman (OOO)
       The ALAC recommended language diversity in Staff resource configuration, and is of the opinion policing of the Ombudsman should not be a solution to fix a performance issue.

     • Recommendations on ICANN Jurisdiction
       The ALAC fully supports the Subgroup proposal, articulating the need for a path forward for Jurisdiction concerns beyond the CCWG, developing another multistakeholder process to resolve these concerns.

     • Recommendations to Improve ICANN Staff Accountability
       The ALAC fully endorses the CCWG Accountability recommendations, noting the suggestions to deal holistically with any contentious staff accountability issues are well developed.

     • Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team – New Sections to Draft Report of Recommendations
       The ALAC overall supports Recommendations A, B, C, D and “Recommendation 5” relating to DNS Abuse.
     • Enhancing Accountability - Recommendations for Diversity
       The ALAC supports the recommendations for enhancing diversity as a whole, while emphasizing the need for language diversity and captioning/real time transcription (RTT) services, particularly for those whose first language is not English.

Statements in process - Draft, Comment or Vote

• 1. • Draft ICANN Draft FY19 Operating Plan and Budget and Five-Year Operating Plan Update 08 Mar 2018 
       Penholder(s): Alan Greenberg, Tijani Ben-Jemaa
     • Draft Plan to Restart the Root Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover Process 02 Apr 2018 
       Penholder(s): TBC

Statements that seem to be stalled

• 1. • None 

Public Comment requests to which the ALAC decided not to submit Statements

• 1. • Proposal for Korean Root Zone Label Generation Rules  
       
     • Maximal Starting Repertoire version 3 (MSR-3) for Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR)
       
     • Operating Standards for ICANN's Specific Reviews
       

New Public Comment requests to which the ALAC needs to make decisions

• 1. • Draft Procedure for Community gTLD Change Requests 02 Apr 2018 

Upcoming Public Comment Requests

February

• Process for changes to Community Top Level Domain (TLD) Registration Policies (Specification 12)
• .ASIA Registry Agreement Renewal
• .COOP Registry Agreement Renewal
  
• Proposal for Devanagari Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)
  
• Proposal for Korean Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR)
  
• Competition, Consumer Trust & Consumer Choice Review Team – Final Report
  
• International Governmental Organizations (IGO) – Red Cross Reconvened Working Group Recommendations
  

March

• • Guidelines for Second Level String Similarity Review Process
    
  • Enhancing Accountability Recommendations – Final Report
  • Proposal for Updated Supported Traveler Guidelines
    
  • Implementation of Privacy and Proxy Services Accreditation Program

5. Review of Activities APRALO (20 min)

• Preliminary results of APRALO Survey (Maureen/Satish)
• APRALO Newsletter: A brief discussion (Satish/Amrita)
• APRALO History Project: Need for a repository (Satish)
• Outreach activities at APRICOT 2018, Kathmandu (Lianna)
  
  

6. NomCom Update (5 min, Nadira/Satish)

How to Suggest and Encourage Someone to Become a Candidate

7. AOB (5 min)

• APrIGF Call for Workshop Proposals (Satish/Yannis)