[alac] Summary of action points from Luxembourg

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I am posting my annotated agenda from Luxembourg, including action 
points agreed there. Please take due notice of each of them!


1. Reports
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a. Reports from liaisons


2. ALS
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a. Revision of the ALS accreditation process
ACTION: Denise will write to members who are not here to solicit votes 
ACTION: Vittorio will make proposal for Bylaws edit etc.

b. Pending ALS applications
ACTION: Pierre and Sebastian will report asap on applications from their 
Regions

c. Outreach/RALO process
ACTION: Vittorio-Roberto-Annette to work on principles paper for EURALO


3. Internal
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a. ALAC self-review
ACTION: Sebastian to prepare a timetable for completion of the 
self-review process (by end July)
ACTION: Sebastian to prepare a draft self-review document (by end August)

b. Terms of initial members
ACTION: Vittorio to propose Bylaws edits on minimum requirements for 
participation
ACTION: Denise to write to remaining initial members and ask whether 
they would like to collectively resign [after self-review is completed 
at least in draft form, tentatively in September]

c. Rules of order
General agreement on keeping them informal. What about joint statements?
Internal operations (conference call plan etc.)
ACTION: Start to have one monthly conf call again, first week of each 
month, alternating Tuesday and Thursday, alternating times 22:00 UTC and 
14:00 UTC â First one Tue Aug 2nd, 22:00 UTC - Denise will send a calendar
ACTION: From now on, all meetings and conf call minutes will be posted 
to the private list, with seven days for members to request edits or 
propose to keep some parts confidential. After that, they will be made 
public.

d. Review of internal positions for 2006
ACTION: Vittorio will prepare document on role description and options â 
then we agree/adopt it and discuss procedures for filling the positions 
by Vancouver

e. Mission/Vision statements
ACTION: Bret will lead discussion on public list

f. New website
ACTION: Denise will take care of contractual agreements
ACTION: Jean will take the lead for finalizing and launching the 
website, defining posting policies in the different areas, etc.; 
Sebastian-Vittorio-others will help (discussion will happen on alac 
administrative list)

g. Communications
ACTION: Sebastian-Izumi? to make proposals on packaging/marketing our 
messages

4. Issues
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a. Whois (constituency position due July 21)
ACTION: On-list discussion

b. New gTLD strategy/process (comments due Aug 1)
ACTION: Comments to be provided to Bret by July 21. Bret will prepare a 
draft asap and we will put it out for public comment.
ACTION: Denise will prepare an introductory message to be sent to ALSes 
asap.
ACTION: Release joint statement w/NCUC (done)

c. IDN
ACTION: Vittorio, in due time, will revive the draft statement discussed 
in the past

d. .net

e. Registry services

f. Registrar auctions


5. ICANN
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a. WSIS/WGIG and future ICANN reforms

b. Statement on transparency
ACTION: Release statement (done)

c. Operational plan

d. ALAC Budget / ICANN Budget
ACTION: Release statement (done)
ACTION: Vittorio to write to Twomey and ask about expenditure report

e. Feedback to NomCom


6. Wrap-up
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a. Review of meetings

b. Vancouver
ACTION: Consider setting up town hall meeting with the Board
ACTION: Identify someone (among "local" members?) to take care of 
meeting organization
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