[NA-Discuss] Today's ALAC Meeting

[Jacqueline A. Morris]

Thanks Danny for this very rapid summary! The meeting must have just 
ended! :)
My last ccNSO report was posted after Cairo. The new ccNSO liaison has 
only been in office a couple weeks, and no ccNSO meeting has been held 
yet, AFAIK, as their schedules do not coincide with ALAC meeting schedules.

Jacqueline
Danny Younger wrote:
> 1.  Two of the North American elected reps were not in attendance (Beau and Robert).  Beau sent through his apologies in advance of the meeting.
> 2.  Having neither seen apologies from Robert nor his monthly SSAC liaison report (as far as I know the last one he submitted was in May), the NARALO needs to decide on an appropriate course of action.
> 3.  The ALAC heard from Pierre Dandjinou and Marilyn Cade of the PSC.
> 4.  Staff failed to organize a briefing session on the RAA amendments as requested.
> 5.  No NCUC nor ccTLD liaison report was provided.
> 6.  No RALO reports were provided.
> 7.  No Working Group reports were provided
> 8.  No ad-hoc committee reports were provided
> 9.  No issues were raised for the ICANN Board meeting
> 10.  The process for putting items on the ALAC agenda was not discussed
> 11.  As no ALAC members are willing to discuss whether the proposed RAA amendment package should be approved by the GNSO, the topic will be put up as a poll to ALAC members (who can click on a choice without having to otherwise express their views).  Alan Greenberg continued to press forward with his opinion that the RAA amendements package (unacceptable to most of us as a whole) should be accepted as a complete package.  
> 12.  The other topics on the agenda that could not be discussed will in similar fashion be taken to a polling process and once again we will not hear any ALAC member discussion of these topics nor will we likely see any on-line discussion.
> 13.  Vanda Scartezini was nominated to serve on the GNSO's Operational Steering Committee (OSC) Working Group
> 14.  The ALAC continues to pretend that there is a process in place for receipt of local and regional comments on new gTLDs, and will collect these non-existent ALS comments and will produce yet another Statement reflecting the views of one or two people by the end of the extended comment period.
> 15.  Once again the ALAC was barely quorate with almost half of their members not attending the meeting.
> 16.  The newly ratified ALAC Executive Committee put forward no report.
> 17.  The ALAC Letter to the Board on Public Participation was finally posted today.  Of course, it failed to include a request to hear from the newly established Board Committee on Public Participation.
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