[NA-Discuss] Prague - Regional Secretariats meeting Agenda- Kindly review

Wed May 23 19:25:16 UTC 2012

   I have a couple of questions/observations -- my apologies for not attending
   the conference call and making them there.

   1. What is the status of the NARALO budget request for the Toronto meeting?
   As chairman of the region, I would like to be made aware of this (apologies
   if I have missed the note) before I agree to discuss the possibility of
   spending $90K on an IGF meeting in Azerbaijan. As of today, I am told NARALO
   has been directed to approach CIRA for a $1,000 handout to hold a small
   outreach event in Toronto. That leads me to believe that the NARALO budget
   request for Toronto has been denied. Is this the case?

   In my opinion, the at-large community should be funding outreach at its own
   events, or planning another at-large summit, rather than spending a sizable
   amount  of  money  attending  a  meeting among a group that have been,
   traditionally,  somewhat hostile to the at-large. Could the interested
   participants be compelled to write papers to be presented at the IGF on
   major, serious policy issues affecting end-users, such as the URS problem,
   WHOIS, questions raised by the execution of the new gTLD program or some
   other such topic? Are there going to be performance metrics attached? What
   kinds of outreach will be done in Azerbaijan? What audiences will we be
   attempting to reach at IGF that are not already integrally woven into the
   ICANN community? Is there any grant-funding available?

   Indeed, I understand we are talking about two different budget cycles. But I
   don't see how we can justify spending $90K for APRALO and AFRALO to attend
   an IGF meeting with other more convenient opportunities for outreach going
   unfunded.

   2.  Again, the non-performing ALS topic leads the agenda. Why? Can the
   remaining issues on this topic be solved by an internal, small group? Why do
   we have to spend valuable time in Prague discussing this topic again?

     -----Original Message-----
     From: Silvia Vivanco
     Sent: May 23, 2012 12:26 PM
     To: "beaubrendler at earthlink.net" , "Thompson, Darlene" , Wolf Ludwig ,
     "Oksana Prykhodko (sana.pryhod at gmail.com)" , "Charles Mok (gmail)" , Pavan
     Budhrani , Fouad Bajwa , Holly Raiche , "sylvia at internautabrasil.org" ,
     JosÃ© Francisco Arce , "Fatimata Seye Sylla (fsylla at gmail.com)" , Tijani
     BEN JEMAA
     Cc: ICANN At-Large Staff
     Subject: RE: Prague - Regional Secretariats meeting Agenda- Kindly review

   Dear RALO Secretariats,

   We would like to know if you would like to add the following item to the
   Agenda:

   -          1) Planning of the IGF July Azerbaijan meeting.

   Please be so kind to provide your comments/edits to the proposed agenda
   below by COB today so that the Agenda can be sent to translation services.

   Thank you very much!

   Kind regards,

   Silvia

   Silvia Vivanco

   Manager, At-Large Regional Affairs

   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

   Telephone: + 1 (202) 570-7119

   Fax: +1 (202) 789-0104

   Cell/Mobile: +1 (202) 735-7011

   From: Silvia Vivanco
   Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 10:57 AM
   To: beaubrendler at earthlink.net; Thompson, Darlene; Wolf Ludwig; Oksana
   Prykhodko (sana.pryhod at gmail.com); Charles Mok (gmail); Pavan Budhrani;
   Fouad Bajwa; Holly Raiche; sylvia at internautabrasil.org; JosÃ© Francisco
   Arce; Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla at gmail.com> (fsylla at gmail.com); Tijani BEN
   JEMAA
   Cc: ICANN At-Large Staff
   Subject: Prague - Regional Secretariats meeting Agenda
   Importance: High

   Dear RALO Secretariats,

   Please see below the Draft Agenda prepared by Wolf Ludwig  for the Regional
   Leadership Meeting in Prague (10:11:30 am).

   Be so kind to review it and let Wolf and Staff know of any comments by
   Wednesday 23 May so that the Agenda can be sent to translation services in a
   timely manner.

   Thank you !

   Draft Agenda:

   1.       - Roll call (2 min) â Staff

   2.       - Adoption of the Agenda (3 min) - Wolf Ludwig

   3. - Inactive/non-quorate ALSes:  Review of Framework for dealing with
   Inactive ALSes (15-20 min max.) - Wolf (with Tijani and Beau)

   See: At-Large Framework for non-Quorate ALSes Workspace. Criteria to measure
   involvement in RALO/ALAC and decertification See ICANN Bylaws XI 4 i (6-8)

   4. - Development of Criteria for Recall of ALAC Members (10 min) - Darlene
   Thompson

   5. - Individual Membership within the RALOs - (15 min) - Wolf Ludwig

   6. - Projects which need RALO Input

   a) ROP Working Group - Cheryl Langdon Orr

   b) Metrics Working Group: Should do list of actions  - Tijani (10 min)

   [1]https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALS+Metrics+Should+Do+Activit
   ies

           7. - Cross RALO ALs (15 min)

           8. Recruitment of new ALSs/people into the tent. And how ICANN is
   going to help. (Beau Brendler) (15 min)

           9.- AOB

   Kind regards,

   Silvia

   Silvia Vivanco

   Manager, At-Large Regional Affairs

   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

   Telephone: + 1 (202) 570-7119

   Fax: +1 (202) 789-0104

   Cell/Mobile: +1 (202) 735-7011

References

   1. https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALS+Metrics+Should+Do+Activities