[ALAC] At-Large Engagement in RIR Policy Development - Issue Raised in Board Meeting with NRO/ASO today

Rinalia Abdul Rahim rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 16:04:24 UTC 2014


Thanks, Carlton.

Enhancing support across ICANN structures at the working level to enhance
community effectiveness is important for the Board.

Nothing stopping the At-Large from requesting for support, especially to
support RALO/ALS engagement in policy development under ICANN’s remit.

Rinalia
 On Jun 25, 2014 4:50 PM, "Carlton Samuels" <carlton.samuels at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Rinalia:
> Good ear being displayed here.
>
> We fully endorse more engagement from the edge in Numbers policy making
> and some of us have been straddling the two streams.  But it takes a lot of
> volunteer cycles on top of those committed to Names already.  What we need
> is more capacity - in quantity and enabled for effective engagement - and
> improvements in the modalities to participate.  And that is a long slog.
>
> -Carlton
>
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Rinalia Abdul Rahim <
> rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ALAC and RALO Chairs,
>>
>> This morning the Board had a meeting with the NRO/ASO.  The importance of
>> At-Large community engagement in the policy development process of the
>> Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) was raised and discussed.
>>
>> Context: ICANN's remit covers Names and Numbers.  The policy development
>> process for Names takes place at ICANN while the policy development
>> process
>> for Numbers takes places place at the RIRs.  It is important to have end
>> user engagement in both.
>>
>> The existence of RALO-RIR MOUs is noted, but concrete engagement needs to
>> follow-through.
>>
>> Issues raised:
>> 1. Co-location of face-to-face meetings (i.e., RALO meeting in conjunction
>> with RIR meeting) and need for ICANN funding to supplement RIR Fellowship
>> funding.
>> 2. Pre-meeting orientation program for ALSes to help them understand the
>> structure and processes of the RIR before participating in the RIR meeting
>> (face-to-face or remotely)
>> 3. Focused participation in the Policy Development Track at RIR meetings
>>  +
>> remote participation for those that cannot be on site
>> 4. Participation in RIR Policy Development mailing-list (substance of RIR
>> policy development is discussed via mailing-lists)
>> - suggestion: RIR notification/alerts on Policy Development to be sent to
>> RALO mailing lists so ALSes can prepare for engagement.
>>
>> My suggestion on follow-up: Leverage on the momentum created by the
>> board's
>> discussion with the NRO
>> - RALO Chairs can follow-up with RIR Chairs respectively
>> - RALO Chairs can discuss within RALOs on whether groups need to be formed
>> to focus on numbers policy among ALSes
>> - ALAC Chair can facilitate RALO interface with ICANN on funding issue
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Rinalia
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