Dear all, Please find the summary minutes, action items and audio recording of yesterday¹s NARALO teleconference on the meeting page. The minutes are also attached below. https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?09_june_2008 Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff@atlarge.icann.org Summary Minutes 09 June 2008 1. Roll Call As above 2. Review of the Summary Minutes 12 May 2008 N/A 3. Review of the Action Items 12 May 2008 N/A 4. NARALO -- first 12 month review: What did we do well? * Glad that this group did more to include individuals than others. * We seem to do more discussion on policy than other regions. * NARALO has had good interventions with ALAC as a whole. * NARALO has had great energy. * We made a strong statement to the ALAC. * Even though we are rather a small group of people we have been able to make strong points to ALAC. * We reacted well to the ALAC abuse of process in the joint constituency statement. * The group has been more active in the past six months than ever and as compared to other groups. * We were able to be proactive on a couple of issues. * NARALO has been most active on the Adobe Connect policy briefings. * The leadership has been good and our RALO has been very active. What did we do badly? * We didn't make nuisances of ourselves enough and we've let ICANN get away with too much. * We need those short updates on issues and hope that we see them soon. * There is still too much garbage on list but Evan has done well in trying to control this. * RAA revisions. We failed to come together and issue an appropriate statement to the JPA. We haven't done anything to prep our ALAC reps prior to meetings. * Those that are empowered in a group usually take the time to come up to speed with issues and look for solutions. Those that are not elected tend not to participate at a level that would make for valuable input. Its very time consuming to do so. Also, without going to the meetings and interacting on a personal level, its difficult to see where people are coming from. How can we improve? * More discussion on policy. * Its hard to get a handle on all of the various policies in order to provide input. * More outreach. * Develop a strong communications mechanism. * The Staff has done good work with Adobe Connect and we should continue to utilize these tools. * We need to keep a better eye on the calendar. * Better communications and to somehow get those that are not empowered to travel once in a while. * More outreach, more education, more policy discussions. 5. Outreach -- selection of strategic events We need to identify locations far ahead of time so that we can adequately plan and implement them. NTEN - Spring CES - January ICT Summit Vancouver February Consumer Groups events in Washington (there are two coming up) Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Lawyers in October Please bring up other ideas on the mailing list and we will add it to the list. 6. July meeting election of one ALAC rep, Chair and Secretariat During the July meeting we will be electing the above. This is a proper election so calls for nomination will be done. Evan, Darlene and Beau have agreed to stand in their positions. When should we do the elections? There were no preferences so we will put it to the list. 7. Priorities for June ICANN meeting Be careful in what meetings we go to in order for us to get the most bang for our buck. There will be an RAA meeting on Monday and Danny will prep some materials for us to be prepared for it. 8. Other Matters If you received an e-mail from Frederic Teboul, please respond ASAP. The more input we have, the better everyone can work together. We now have good support staff for Nick and now that these exist, we need to make better use of it. The Summit proposal is due tomorrow. Maybe we can also kick a copy of it to John (?) Nesbitt. 9. Next Meeting July 14, 2008