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@earthlink.net" , "Thompson, Darlene" , Wolf Ludwig , "Oksana Prykhodko (sana.pryhod@gmail.com)" , "Charles Mok (gmail)" , Pavan Budhrani , Fouad Bajwa , Holly Raiche , "sylvia@internautabrasil.org" , José Francisco Arce , "Fatimata Seye Sylla (fsylla@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@earthlink.net; Thompson, Darlene; Wolf Ludwig; Oksana Prykhodko (sana.pryhod@gmail.com); Charles Mok (gmail); Pavan Budhrani; Fouad Bajwa; Holly Raiche; sylvia@internautabrasil.org; José Francisco Arce; Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla@gmail.com> (fsylla@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