[Euro-board] Follow-up on Collaboration with CENTR

[Roberto Gaetano]

<EURALO Board only>

I support Olivier’s view of going in this directon.
Incidentally, about having friends in the CENTR Board, may I note that Danko Jevtović is an active member of the EURALO Individual Users Association.
Cheers,
Roberto 

> On 23.09.2018, at 21:55, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> earlier this year the follow-up to our signing of a MoU with RIPE
> brought me to attend the RIPE meeting in Marseille. A recent action item
> from our EURALO monthly calls noted:
> 
>>  *    Olivier Crepin-Leblond to explore collaboration with CENTR  with the goal to sign an MOU in Barcelona 2018
>> 
> 
> Earlier this year, I followed up with Peter van Roste, General Manager
> of CENTR and forwarded him examples of MoUs that RALOs had signed with
> their respective local Regional Internet Registry or Country Code
> Regional Registry association. CENTR is the association of European
> Country Code Top Level Domain Registries.
> http://www.centr.org
> 
> CENTR members span the whole of Europe. https://centr.org/about/members.html
> I shared Dev Anand Teelucksingh's excellent stakeholder tool with Mr.
> van Roste ahead of a call this week and explained that EURALO's aim was
> to have at least one At-Large Structure in every country covered by
> EURALO's region. The Stakeholder tool is very useful to find out in
> which countries does EURALO not have an ALS, but also how many Fellows
> and NextGen have travelled to ICANN meetings from each of these countries.
> 
> On Thursday, Mr. van Roste, his legal counsel Polina Malaja and I had a
> 30 minute call to discuss the next steps toward a MoU.
> Mr. van Roste was interested in the proposal of signing a MoU but as a
> matter of policy CENTR does not sign MoU with any organisation that does
> not already have some relationship with CENTR. He proposed that EURALO
> signs up as an Observer member of CENTR. There are no fees to pay and
> one can attend some of the meetings remotely, but it is a good first
> step towards a MoU.
> 
> As a result, I am awaiting instructions from Mr. van Roste this week on
> filing an application with CENTR for EURALO to become an Observer member
> of CENTR. Once this is filed, Mr. van Roste does not see any problem
> coming from existing members, but suggested that I attend the CENTR AGM
> in Brussels on 10th October, to (1) support the application for Observer
> and (2) propose CENTR members that EURALO signs a MoU with CENTR. For
> your information, the current Board of CENTR has members that have
> historically been supportive of EURALO.
> https://centr.org/about/board-of-directors.html
> 
> I have therefore filed for funding to do a day trip to Brussels - costs
> in the region of $500.
> 
> Mr. van Roste then sees no barrier in being able to sign a MoU in
> Barcelona two weeks later. This would be based on the collaboration we
> have with RIPE but most specifically at helping us finding local
> organisations in countries where we have no ALSes which could qualify as
> At-Large Structure. I have spoken to Heidi Ullrich and a potentially
> suitable time for this signing could be the end of the EURALO AGM on
> Wednesday afternoon.
> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
> EURALO Chair
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