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ICANN News Alert -- IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group - Fourth Face-to-Face Meeting & Public Session at ICANN 52
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 6, 2015

Feb. 6, 2015

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-02-05-en ________________________________ IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group - Fourth Face-to-Face Meeting & Public Session at ICANN 52 5 February 2015 The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) will be holding its next face-to-face meeting from Friday, 6th to Saturday, 7th February 2015 from 09:00-17:00 SGT/ 01:00-09:00 UTC in Singapore (Time zone conversions can be found here<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ICG+Working+Sessio…>). Observers are welcome to attend the session in-person. Note, however, that seating is limited. Information on remote participation and interpretation opportunities will be posted here<http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/fri-icg>. In addition, the ICG invites the community to attend a special Open Session with the ICG members and representatives from the Operational Communities on Monday, 9 February from 10:15-13:00 SGT / 02:15-05:00 UTC (Time zone conversions can be found here<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Open+ICG+Session%3…>). More information on the session is available here<http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-icg-rfp-iana-stewardship>. To follow the ICG and learn more about the IANA Stewardship Transition visit http://icann.org/stewardship.

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ICANN News Alert -- Design Team Selected for DNS Root Zone Key-Signing-Key
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 5, 2015

Feb. 5, 2015

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-02-04-en ________________________________ Design Team Selected for DNS Root Zone Key-Signing-Key 4 February 2015 In December, ICANN solicited Statements of Interest for inclusion on a Design Team to provide expert input into the plan to change the current DNS Root Zone Key-Signing-Key. The selection of the Design Team has been made; the following people have been selected: Joe Abley, Snake Hill Labs/DyN, CA Jaap Akkerhuis, NLNetLabs, NL John Dickinson, Sinodun Internet Technologies, UK Geoff Huston, APNIC, AU Ondrej Sury, CZ.NIC, CZ Paul Wouters, No Hats/Red Hat, NL Yoshiro Yoneya, JPRS, JP The solicitation is available here: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ksk-soi-11dec14-en.pdf [PDF, 150 KB]

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ICANN News Alert -- Adiel Akplogan to Join ICANN as VP of Technical Engagement
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 5, 2015

Feb. 5, 2015

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-02-04-en ________________________________ Adiel Akplogan to Join ICANN as VP of Technical Engagement Role aimed at strengthening ties to the technical community 4 February 2015 Veteran Internet technology expert Adiel Akplogan is joining ICANN in the newly created role of Vice President for Technical Engagement. Akplogan served most recently as the Chief Executive Officer of AfriNIC, the Internet Numbers' Resource Registry for Africa, a position he has held since 2004. "I'm delighted to welcome Adiel to ICANN," said Sally Costerton, Special Advisor to the President for Global Stakeholder Engagement. "He is a highly respected contributor to the Internet community and his experienced leadership will reinforce and deepen ICANN's long term participation in the technical community of which it is a critical part." Akplogan is among the original Internet pioneers in West Africa, where he has played a critical role in setting up and managing CAFENet, one of the first private Internet Service Providers in the region. "It's my sincere hope that I can help ICANN achieve the high level of operational excellence that it is aiming for," said Adiel. "We are all striving to maintain and improve a global communication and information system that will define our future on multiple levels." In his new position, Akplogan will help ICANN conduct technical engagement and outreach. He will also provide some valuable links to the ICT community on the African continent, since he was instrumental in establishing several technical coordination bodies such as the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG), the African ccTLD Managers Association (AfTLD), AfricaCERT and the Africa Internet Summit (AIS). Akplogan will be based in Montreal, Canada and will assume his new position on March 1. To download a high-resolution photo of Adiel Akoplogan, go here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/16440900351/

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ICANN News Alert -- Overview of Africa Sessions During ICANN 52 Meeting in Singapore
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 5, 2015

Feb. 5, 2015

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-02-03-en ________________________________ Overview of Africa Sessions During ICANN 52 Meeting in Singapore 3 February 2015 ICANN's 52nd Public Meeting is taking place in Singapore from 8 -12 February at the Raffles City Convention Centre. This meeting comes at a critical time especially with the recent developments since the historic NTIA announcement<http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2014/ntia-announces-intent-transition…> to transition stewardship of the IANA functions to the multistakeholder community last March 4, 2014. During this meeting, the ICANN Africa team will be hosting two critical meetings namely: 1. The Africa Strategy 2016 - 2020 Meeting Tue, 10 February 2015 - 11:15 to 12:45 SGT<http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-africa-strategy> In November 2014<https://www.icann.org/news/blog/taking-stock-of-our-africa-strategy>, and as a response to requests from the African community to further review and evolve the Africa Strategy to make it more responsive to Africa while aligning it to the new ICANN 2016 - 2020 Strategic Plan, the ICANN African team convened a special consultative session with the community during AFRINIC 21<http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/news/1187> in Mauritius. This meeting was attended by representatives from SO / AC leaders, AFNOG, AFRINIC, AFTLD, GAC, AFRALO, AFICTA, NEPAD and African Registrars associations resulting with a reviewed draft 0 of the Africa Strategic Plan ver 2.0 (2016 - 2020). This draft is currently under public comment the scheduled session will be used to present the new plan for final inputs before approval and adoption by the community. For remote participation follow here: http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-africa-strategy 2. Enhanced Engagement With Africa Wed, 11 February 2015 - 10:30 to 11:45 SGT<http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-africa-engagement> One of the outstanding challenges observed by the community is the limited meaningful and consistent participation of the African community in most Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees in ICANN and the wider IG ecosystem especially by governments. Africa is yet to make her voice and influence heard in the global policy making processes on issues affecting the Internet and there is need to proactively and progressively change this scenario. Consequently, the Africa Strategy Review team alongside the AFRINIC 21 meeting deliberated and came up with a list of four projects expected to enhance ICANN's Engagement in Africa leading to the ICANN 55 meeting in Marrakech Morocco next year. These special projects focusing on reaching out mainly to African governments and regulators include: * Active participation in African regional and continental ICT ministerial meetings * ICANN High Level Governmental Meeting (HLGM), During ICANN 55 * NewGen Program during ICANN 55 * Workshop for Africa Telecom regulators during ICANN 55 This briefing session scheduled will share with you details of these projects and seek your further input. For Remote participation, please follow here: http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-africa-engagement We take this opportunity to welcome you, our community, to these two Africa sessions as we endeavor to deliver collectively on the Africa Strategy. We shall also share recordings of both sessions after the meeting using the same links.

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ICANN News Alert -- Generation Panel for the Armenian Script ?Root Zone? Label Generation Rules (LGR) Seated????
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 5, 2015

Feb. 5, 2015

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-02-03-en ________________________________ Generation Panel for the Armenian Script ?Root Zone? Label Generation Rules (LGR) Seated???? 3 February 2015 ICANN is pleased to announce that the Generation Panel for the Armenian Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR) has been seated. Following the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en> published on 11 July 2013, the Armenian script community has developed and submitted to ICANN, on 27 January 2015, the Proposal for the Generation Panel for the Armenian Script Label Generation Ruleset for the Root Zone. ICANN staff has reviewed the proposal including panel composition and scope, to ensure that requirements set forth in the LGR Procedure<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf>, and in particular the criteria set forth in the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en>, are fulfilled. On behalf of ICANN, we would like to use this opportunity to thank each of the members for offering their time and expertise to volunteer for the Armenian Script Generation Panel. With composition and work plan approved, the Armenian Script Generation Panel will start its work on the label generation rules. According to the LGR Procedure<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf>, the starting point of any Generation Panel's work is the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR), with it's first version (MSR-1<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-06-20-en>) released on 20 June 2014 and the second version (MSR-2<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/msr-2014-12-15-en>) currently under community review. The full specification of Generation Panel's tasks can be found in the LGR Procedure<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf> in particular, Section B.3 "Variant Rule Generation Procedure". ICANN will provide a central public location workspace on the project website<https://community.icann.org/display/croscomlgrprocedure/Armenian+Script+GP>, where Armenian Script Generation Panel proposal, composition, work plan updates, public reports, contact details, and any other relevant information will be included. As a reminder, and to highlight the importance of script community involvement required in the development of the IDN Root Zone LGR, we would like to reiterate the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en>. A successful development of the IDN Root Zone LGR depends on having Generation Panels for each script represented in the Root Zone. In the IDN Root Zone LGR development, in addition to ongoing efforts with the Arabic, Armenian and Chinese scripts, Generation Panel formation is expected to cover other scripts including Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai and Tibetan. For further information on how to form a Generation Panel or to express individual or group statements of interest for the establishment of a Generation Panel, please refer to the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-07-11-en> and to the additional supporting documentation provided on the Root Zone LGR Project website<https://community.icann.org/display/croscomlgrprocedure/Root+Zone+LGR+Proje…>.

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New Public Comment: Draft Report: Rights Protection Mechanisms Review
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 5, 2015

Feb. 5, 2015

Hello All, Kindly note that the At-Large Workspace for the following public comment request has been created: Draft Report: Rights Protection Mechanisms Review<https://community.icann.org/x/HQInAw> 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<mailto: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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ICANN News Alert -- RSSAC Elects Tripti Sinha as Co-Chair
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 3, 2015

Feb. 3, 2015

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-02-02-en ________________________________ RSSAC Elects Tripti Sinha as Co-Chair 2 February 2015 The Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) has elected Tripti Sinha, Assistant Vice President and Deputy CIO for the Division of Information Technology at the University of Maryland, as co-chair effective 1 January 2015. Sinha will serve in this leadership capacity for two years. The ICANN Board of Directors appointed Sinha, who brings 25 years of technology experience, to the RSSAC in 2014 as the D-Root Server Operator representative on behalf of the University of Maryland. Sinha joins Lars-Johan Liman, Senior Systems Specialist at Netnod, the I-Root Server Operator, as co-chair for 2015. Together, Liman and Sinha will lead the RSSAC in its important mission of advising the ICANN Board of Directors and stakeholder community on matters relating to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the Internet's Root Server System. The RSSAC is one of four advisory committees and three supporting organizations that comprise ICANN's global, bottom-up, multistakeholder policy development community. With Sinha's election, Dr. Jun Murai, Founder of The WIDE Project, ends his fifteen-year tenure leading the RSSAC. Professor Murai was the first RSSAC Chair and one of the original nine ICANN Directors. He subsequently led RSSAC through the growth and development of the root server system as well as internal reviews. Dr. Murai was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 for his many career achievements and significant contributions-spanning technical and academic work-in Japan, the Asia Pacific region, and the broader global Internet community. He will remain on the RSSAC as the appointed representative for The WIDE Project, the M-Root Server Operator. To learn more about the RSSAC, please visit rssac.icann.org<http://rssac.icann.org>.

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ICANN News Alert -- IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Announcement Regarding Community Comments
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 3, 2015

Feb. 3, 2015

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-02-02-en ________________________________ IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group - Announcement Regarding Community Comments 2 February 2015 The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG)'s Request for Proposals<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rfp-iana-stewardship-08sep14-en…> [PDF, 84 KB] from the operational communities noted the following: "While the ICG is requesting complete formal proposals through processes convened by each of the operational communities, and that all interested parties get involved as early as possible in the relevant community processes, some parties may choose to provide comments directly to the ICG about specific aspects of particular proposals, about the community processes, or about the ICG's own processes. Comments may be directly submitted to the ICG any time via email to icg-forum(a)icann.org<mailto:icg-forum@icann.org>." The ICG will next be discussing the protocol parameters and numbers proposals on February 6. As such, the ICG requests that community comments concerning those two proposals or the processes used to create them be received by February 4 at 23:59 UTC. Comments received after that time will not be considered as part of Step I of the ICG's Proposal Assembly and Finalization Process<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-transition-assembly-finali…> [PDF, 89 KB] for the protocol parameters and numbering proposals.

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ICANN Newsletter -- 30 January 2015
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 3, 2015

Feb. 3, 2015

[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> ICANN Weekly Newsletter News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers http://www.icann.org/Week ending 30 January 2015 ________________________________ Announcements This Week Selection of International Law Advisor to the Enhancing ICANN Accountability Process<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2015-01-30-en> The Accountability & Governance Public Experts Group (PEG) announces the selection of the 7th and final Advisor to the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG). 30 January 2015 ATRT2 Implementation Program Update<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-01-30-en> We are pleased to provide the second update on the implementation of recommendations from the Second Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT2). 30 January 2015 Third Face-to-Face Meeting for the Task Force on Arabic Script IDNs (TF-AIDN) to Convene in Singapore<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-30-en> Since the second Face-to-Face meeting of the TF-AIDN in Istanbul, Turkey last June, the group has been working on several fronts related to Arabic Script IDNs including scrutinizing the code point repertoire and defining variant code points for the proposal for Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR) and the Universal Acceptance of Arabic script IDNs. The third face-to-face meeting in Singapore will conclude the work covering topics such as the Arabic Script Code Point Repertoire, Code Point Variants, Variant Disposition, Whole Label Evaluation Rules and the XML Representation of the Data, all in the context of finalizing the proposal for the Arabic script for the Root Zone LGR. The group will also discuss the next steps to be taken like addressing the Universal Acceptance of Arabic script IDNs. 30 January 2015 WEBINAR: Cross Community Working Group (CWG) On IANA Naming Related Functions: Current Progress and Key Issues<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-27-en> Following the request of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for ICANN to "convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role" with regard to the IANA Functions and related root zone management, a Cross Community Working Group (CWG-Stewardship) was formed with the purpose of developing a consolidated transition proposal for the elements of the IANA Functions relating to domain names. 27 January 2015 Joint CWG-Stewardship & CCWG-Accountability Chairs' Statement<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-26-en> As both Cross Community Working Groups prepare for community engagement and work sessions at ICANN52 in Singapore, the Chairs of the CWG-Stewardship and CCWG-Accountability would like to recognize the interdependence and connected nature of the work of their respective groups, as set out by the ICANN processes and further reinforced by each working group's Charter. 26 January 2015 ________________________________ Upcoming Events [Singapore Logo]8-12 February 2015: 52nd International Public ICANN Meeting - Singapore<http://singapore52.icann.org/en/> About ICANN ICANN Bylaws<http://www.icann.org/en/general/bylaws.htm> Our bylaws are very important to us. They capture our mission of security, stability and accessibility, and compel the organization to be open and transparent. Learn more at www.ICANN.org<http://www.icann.org/>. Strategic Plan, 2012 - 2015<http://www.icann.org/en/planning/> Adopted FY15 Operating Plan and Budget<http://www.icann.org/en/financials/budget-opplan.htm>

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update 1 GNSO and At-Large calls - week of 2-6 February 2015
by ICANN At-Large Staff Feb. 2, 2015

Feb. 2, 2015

Dear all, Update 1: Tuesday: removed 14:00 UTC: RFP 4 15:00 UTC: GNSO PPSAI WG Please find below the list of At-Large and GNSO WG meetings in which At-Large members are participants for the week of 2-6 February 2015 Updates will follow as Doodles close. Monday 02 February 2015 21:00 UTC: RFP3 meeting of the CWG-Stewardship https://community.icann.org/x/ESrxAg<https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg> Tuesday 03 February 2015 12:00 UTC: CCWG on Enhancing ICANN Accountability https://community.icann.org/x/ogDxAg 14:00 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship Webinar https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg 21:00 UTC: CWG IANA Stewardship Webinar https://community.icann.org/x/37fhAg Wednesday 04 February 2015 None Thursday 05 February 2015 None Friday 06 February 2015 None 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, 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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