August 2014 - ALAC-Announce

VOTE ANNOUNCEMENT (205) ISOC Mauritius
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 4, 2014

Aug. 4, 2014

Dear All, The regional advice from AFRALO regarding ALS Applicant (205) ISOC Mauritius has been received. The ALAC has decided to conduct a vote on whether to accept the regional advice. The following question has been posed to the ALAC: ***** Question: Should the regional advice from AFRALO for ALS Applicant (205) ISOC Mauritius be accepted? The regional advice was to accept the application. ***** Please note that this vote will be open from 04 August 23:59 UTC until 11 August 2013 23:59 UTC. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullrich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gruber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Staff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>

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VOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: (204) ISOC Chad
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 4, 2014

Aug. 4, 2014

Dear All, The regional advice from AFRALO regarding ALS Applicant (204) ISOC Chad has been received. The ALAC has decided to conduct a vote on whether to accept the regional advice. The following question has been posed to the ALAC: ***** Question: Should the regional advice from AFRALO for ALS Applicant (204) ISOC Chad be accepted? The regional advice was to accept the application. ***** Please note that this vote will be open from 04 August 23:59 UTC until 11 August 2013 23:59 UTC. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullrich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gruber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Staff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>

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VOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: (203) Open Source Foundation for Nigeria (OSFON)
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 4, 2014

Aug. 4, 2014

Dear All, The regional advice from AFRALO regarding ALS Applicant (203) Open Source Foundation for Nigeria (OSFON) has been received. The ALAC has decided to conduct a vote on whether to accept the regional advice. The following question has been posed to the ALAC: ***** Question: Should the regional advice from AFRALO for ALS Applicant (203) Open Source Foundation for Nigeria (OSFON) be accepted? The regional advice was to accept the application. ***** Please note that this vote will be open from 04 August 23:59 UTC until 11 August 2013 23:59 UTC. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge

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ICANN News Alert -- ICANN Approves Investment Policy Statement Update for 2014
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 4, 2014

Aug. 4, 2014

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-01-en ________________________________ ICANN Approves Investment Policy Statement Update for 2014 30 July 2014 As part of ICANN's responsibility to perform periodic reviews of the ICANN Investment Policy Statement, a revised policy has been approved by ICANN's Board of Directors implementing a number of minor changes. These updates have been made to provide additional clarity for the investment objectives including risk tolerance, credit quality requirements, liquidity needs, and an appropriate diversification of assets with the current investment environment in mind. The new Investment Policy Statement can be found at: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/investment-policy-2014-07-30-en

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ICANN News Alert -- ICANN Tells U.S. Court That ccTLDs Are Not "Property" | Files Motion to Quash in U.S. Legal Action Aimed at Seizing Top-Level Domains
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 3, 2014

Aug. 3, 2014

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/resources/press-material/release-2014-07-30-en ________________________________ ICANN Tells U.S. Court That ccTLDs Are Not "Property" Files Motion to Quash in U.S. Legal Action Aimed at Seizing Top-Level Domains 30 July 2014 Washington, DC... The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that a country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) cannot be considered "property," and thus cannot be attached by plaintiffs in a lawsuit, who are trying to obtain the assets of countries that they argued have supported terrorism. "We filed a Motion to Quash in the US federal court today, to ensure that the court has the essential information about how the Internet's domain name system (DNS) works. While we sympathize with what plaintiffs may have endured, ICANN's role in the domain name system has nothing to do with any property of the countries involved", said John Jeffrey, ICANN's General Counsel and Secretary. "We explained in our Motion to Quash, that country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLD) are part of a single, global interoperable Internet which ICANN serves to help maintain." Jeffrey further explained that "ccTLD's are not property, and are not 'owned' or 'possessed' by anyone including ICANN, and therefore cannot be seized in a lawsuit." ICANN's arguments were put forth when the victims of terrorism who had successfully won lawsuits against Iran, Syria and North Korea, sought to collect on those civil judgments. In their attempt to recover assets from these countries, the plaintiffs served ICANN with "writs of attachment" and subpoenas seeking information to help them seize the ccTLDs of those nations. The ccTLDs (and related IP addresses) targeted by the plaintiffs include; .IR (Iran), .SY (Syria) and .KP (North Korea), as well as internationalized top-level domains in non-ASCII characters for Iran and Syria. ## To read ICANN's legal filings, go here: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/icann-various-2014-07-30-en<http://www.icann.org/resources/pages/icann-various-2014-07-30-en> To read the original "Writs of Attachment," go here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_dOI5puxRA9M3hweE9Eel9mVTQ/edit?pli=1 Media Contacts Brad White Director of North American Communications Washington, D.C. Tel: +1.202.570.7118 Email: brad.white(a)icann.org<mailto:brad.white@icann.org> James Cole Global Media Coordinator Washington, D.C. Tel: +1.202.570.7139 Email: james.cole(a)icann.org<mailto:james.cole@icann.org> About ICANN ICANN's mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers. ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit: www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/>.

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UPDATED GNSO and At-Large calls - week of 04 August 2014
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 1, 2014

Aug. 1, 2014

Dear all, Please find below the list of At-Large and GNSO WG meetings in which At-Large members are participants for the week of the 04 August 2014. Updates will follow as Doodles close. Updated: LACRALO Governance meeting Monday 04 August LACRALO ccTLD WG call Thursday 07 August Monday 04 August 22:00 UTC: LACRALO Governance: https://community.icann.org/x/U7-hAg Tuesday 05 August 14:00 UTC: GNSO PPSAI WG https://community.icann.org/x/9iCfAg 19:00 UTC: GNSO Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting (SCI) https://community.icann.org/x/5ILT 20:00 UTC: GNSO non-PDP Data & Metrics for Policy Making Working Group (DPMP) https://community.icann.org/x/myt-Ag Wednesday 06 August 19:00 UTC: GNSO Policy and Implementation WG https://community.icann.org/x/y1V-Ag Thursday 07 August 12:00 UTC: GNSO Working Group Newcomer Open House 14:00 UTC: GNSO Review Working Party: https://community.icann.org/x/X5LhAg 22:00 UTC: LACRALO ccTLD WG call: https://community.icann.org/x/cb-hAg Friday 08 August None at this time Please confirm your dial-out requests For GNSO calls: GNSO Secretariats gnso-secs(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org> For At-Large calls: At-Large Staff : staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Kind regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullrich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gruber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Staff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>

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GNSO and At-Large calls - week of 04 August 2014
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 1, 2014

Aug. 1, 2014

Dear all, Please find below the list of At-Large and GNSO WG meetings in which At-Large members are participants for the week of the 04 August 2014. Updates will follow as Doodles close. Monday 04 August none Tuesday 05 August 14:00 UTC: GNSO PPSAI WG https://community.icann.org/x/9iCfAg 19:00 UTC: GNSO Standing Committee on Improvements Implementation meeting (SCI) https://community.icann.org/x/5ILT 20:00 UTC: GNSO non-PDP Data & Metrics for Policy Making Working Group (DPMP) https://community.icann.org/x/myt-Ag Wednesday 06 August 19:00 UTC: GNSO Policy and Implementation WG https://community.icann.org/x/y1V-Ag Thursday 07 August 12:00 UTC: GNSO Working Group Newcomer Open House 14:00 UTC: GNSO Review Working Party: https://community.icann.org/x/X5LhAg Friday 08 August None at this time Please confirm your dial-out requests For GNSO calls: GNSO Secretariats gnso-secs(a)icann.org<mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org> For At-Large calls: At-Large Staff : staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Kind regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullrich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gruber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Staff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>

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