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Joint Advisory Committee / Supporting Organisation Session - Monday in Mexico City
by At-Large Staff Feb. 19, 2009

Feb. 19, 2009

Dear Community Members: We are pleased to provide the information below at the request of the Chair of the ALAC --- ACSO Open Joint Sessions in Mexico Objectives and approach On the Monday of the Mexico meeting, there will be a joint meeting of the Advisory Committees and Supporting Organisations. The objective of this ³ACSO² session is to share views and perspectives on common issues in a way that will inform the discussions within those groups during the week. The format is a discussion among selected members of each of the Supporting Organisations and Advisory Committees. Each SO and AC will designate up to four people in order to represent a range of perspectives. The meeting will be held in two 90-minute sessions, separated by a 30-minute break, and with a 30-minute feedback period at the end. There will be two broad discussion topics of common interest, with specific sub-questions. They are: 14:00-15:30 -- EXPANDING THE NAME SPACE - What is the impact of the new gTLD and IDN Fast Track processes on the market structure of the Domain Name Space and ICANN¹s processes? - How should geographic names be handled and is there a blurring of ³cc² and ³g² spaces ? - What should be the cost and the pricing structure for new TLDs (both application fee and ongoing fees)? 16:00-17.30 -- IMPROVING POLICY DEVELOPMENT - What do we mean by ³policy development²? - How can technical expertise and input from stakeholders be included early in the process? - What changes, if any, could be made to ICANN¹s processes to allow for more effective policy development? These topics were chosen by the Chairs of the SOs and ACs after consultation with their members. The objective in each session is to have an open discussion rather than statements of official position, in order to foster a common understanding within the community. These sessions will not take decisions nor does the group represent a decision-making body. Sessions will be public and transcribed, but they are not a public forum. Opinion will however be sought during the discussion through the use of coloured cards to represent whether people agree or disagree with a particular comment or proposal put forward. A feedback period will follow at 1730 where members of the community will be invited to comment on any of the topics discussed in the previous two sessions. Please note that the session and its format remain experimental in an effort to improve discussion and interaction between Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees. As such, not only do we expect to learn from the session in Mexico but we will be seeking feedback from the SOs and ACs themselves after the meeting is over in order to identify improvements for ICANN¹s next meeting in Sydney in June. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Rapport Final du Groupe de travail pour la révision de l¹ALAC
by At-Large Staff Feb. 18, 2009

Feb. 18, 2009

Bonjour, Nous voulions vous informer que vous pouvez télécharger la version française du Rapport Final du Groupe de travail pour la révision de l¹ALAC sur des améliorations d¹ALAC sous http://www.icann.org/fr/reviews/alac/final-report-alac-review-28jan09-fr.pdf Cordialment, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Informe Final del Grupo de Trabajo para Revisión de ALAC
by Matthias Langenegger Feb. 18, 2009

Feb. 18, 2009

Estimados Puedan descarar la versión española del Informe Final del Grupo de Trabajo para Revisión de ALAC sobre las mejoras de ALAC mediante el siguiente enlace: http://www.icann.org/es/reviews/alac/final-report-alac-review-28jan09-es.pdf Cordialmente, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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At-Large Wiki Workspaces Down for Maintenance, Sat 7 Feb 18:00 to Sunday 8 Feb at 01:00
by At-Large Staff Feb. 6, 2009

Feb. 6, 2009

Dear Community members: The wiki workspaces in At-Large will be unavailable for maintenance tomorrow, as shown above. The update will implement a new indexing scheme to improve performance. As many of you have commented, page load can be slow at times. We hope that the update will improve this situation. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Heidi Ullrich, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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The At-Large Summit Needs Meeting Facilitators and Rapporteurs
by At-Large Staff Feb. 4, 2009

Feb. 4, 2009

The At-Large Summit Needs You! Are you someone who has past experience facilitating meetings? Do you know someone who does that¹s coming to the At-Large Summit? The draft programme of the first-ever At-Large Summit is almost finished! Besides the 5 subject-based working groups , the agenda is chock full of briefings, sessions, a social event, and much more. Several members of the ALAC and RALO community have already offered to prepare and conduct these sessions for the Summit, but the success of the Summit is in large part going to hinge not only on programme design but on execution. The weak link in each working group, workshop, and panel is going to be how it is *facilitated*. Chairing a meeting is a different skill than facilitating a working group or workshop. Dharma Dailey of NARALO emphasised this and made four suggestions: 1. Identify any topics, workshops, or sessions that are likely to be contentious or require care to get people working smoothly. 2. Ensure that each of those sessions which may be challenging are facilitated by someone who has a PROVEN track-record of successfully shepherding people through such sessions to positive outcomes. 3. Identify all facilitators of sessions in advance - create ground rules for facilitation, chairing - "Here is what we are expecting you to do: ² 4. Ensure that facilitation ground rules / expectations are covered right off the bat at the conference. The Summit programme sessions will be conducted by: · (one or two or more) people who have expertise in the subject, concentrating on the content. · a *facilitator* of each session to moderate the proceedings in an inclusive manner (assuming a heterogeneous composition of participants) and ³successfully shepherd people through to positive outcomes². · one or two rapporteurs for notes and summaries and reporting back. If you know any people in your RALOs and among your ALSes who have skill and experience in facilitating meetings, forums, workshops etc., please send a note to staff(a)atlarge.icann.org, or ask them to! We¹ll then get back to them and help them find a home¹ in the programme. Thanks for your support identifying this rare subspecies of humans for us! -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Heidi Ullrich, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Audio Recording of the discussion on Improving Institutional Confidence
by At-Large Staff Jan. 26, 2009

Jan. 26, 2009

Dear all, We were asked to provide an extract of the recording on the discussion on At-Large¹s involvement in the Improving Institutional Confidence process launched by the President¹s Strategy Committee (PSC). The discussion was held during the December ALAC meeting, with the participation of Pierre Dandjinou and Marilyn Cade from the PSC. Please follow the below URL to listen to the discussion: English: http://media1.icann.org/ramgen/ALAC/PSC-Discussion-09-12-2008-EN.mp3 French: http://media1.icann.org/ramgen/ALAC/PSC-Discussion-09-12-2008-FR.mp3 Spanish: http://media1.icann.org/ramgen/ALAC/PSC-Discussion-09-12-2008-ES.mp3 Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Initial Report on Fast Flux Hosting Open for Public Comment
by At-Large Staff Jan. 26, 2009

Jan. 26, 2009

Public Comment: Initial Report on Fast Flux Hosting 26 January 2009 A public comment period opens today for 20 days on an Initial Report on Fast Flux Hosting. In May 2008, the GNSO Council initiated a Policy Development Process (PDP) and called for the creation of a working group on fast flux. The working group was asked to consider the following questions: * Who benefits from fast flux, and who is harmed? * Who would benefit from cessation of the practice and who would be harmed? * Are registry operators involved, or could they be, in fast flux hosting activities? If so, how? * Are registrars involved in fast flux hosting activities? If so, how? * How are registrants affected by fast flux hosting? * How are Internet users affected by fast flux hosting? * What technical (e.g. changes to the way in which DNS updates operate) and policy (e.g. changes to registry/registrar agreements or rules governing permissible registrant behavior) measures could be implemented by registries and registrars to mitigate the negative effects of fast flux? * What would be the impact (positive or negative) of establishing limitations, guidelines, or restrictions on registrants, registrars and/or registries with respect to practices that enable or facilitate fast flux hosting? * What would be the impact of these limitations, guidelines, or restrictions to product and service innovation? * What are some of the best practices available with regard to protection from fast flux? The Group was also tasked to obtain expert opinion, as appropriate, on which areas of fast flux are in scope and out of scope for GNSO policy making. The Fast Flux Working Group started its deliberations in June 2008 and has now published an Initial Report. In this report, the Working Group has provided initial answers to the charter questions, has drawn interim conclusions and has provided a number of ideas for next steps for discussion and feedback during the public comment period. It should be noted that at this stage the Working Group has not reached consensus on any of the ideas for next steps outlined in the report. The objective of the Working Group will be to review the input received during the public comment period and determine which, if any, of the proposed next steps receive the support of the Working Group for inclusion in the final report. As stated in the ICANN Bylaws, the Initial Report ( http://gnso.icann.org/issues/fast-flux-hosting/fast-flux-initial-report-26ja n09.pdf ) is posted for public comment for 20 days. The comments received will be analyzed for redrafting of the Initial Report into a Final Report to be considered by the GNSO Council for further action. The Working Group would like to encourage everyone to review the complete Initial Report [PDF, 1,210K] before submitting comments. Comments on the Initial Report should be sent to fast-flux-initial-report(a)icann.org. Public comments received can be accessed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/fast-flux-initial-report/. The deadline for submission of comments is 15 February 2009. Related links: Fast Flux Hosting Issues Report: http://gnso.icann.org/issues/fast-flux-hosting/gnso-issues-report-fast-flux- 25mar08.pdf [PDF, 62K] -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Heidi Ullrich, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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RESEND: Current GNSO Whois study ranking
by Alan Greenberg Jan. 22, 2009

Jan. 22, 2009

Sorry - my e-mail program seems to have mangled the attachment. Let's try this. ------------------------- In preparation for the Whois discussion, it may be useful to see how the GNSO constituencies have ranked the studies (excluding the Registrar Constituency and NCUC who have intentionally not submitted rankings). The studies are sorted in priority order, and the tentative motion going to the GNSO will recommend the first 6 groups - that is, those with an overall rating of 2.5 or more. Alan

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Current GNSO Whois study ranking
by Alan Greenberg Jan. 22, 2009

Jan. 22, 2009

In preparation for the Whois discussion, it may be useful to see how the GNSO constituencies have ranked the studies (excluding the Registrar Constituency and NCUC who have intentionally not submitted rankings). The studies are sorted in priority order, and the tentative motion going to the GNSO will recommend the first 6 groups - that is, those with an overall rating of 2.5 or more. Alan

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Adobe Connect Room for WHOIS meeting
by At-Large Staff Jan. 22, 2009

Jan. 22, 2009

Dear all, There will be an Adobe Connect meeting room for today¹s discussion on WHOIS, which will start at 2030 UTC: http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/r35205777/ You can find the relevant documents for this meeting under: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?alac_whois_discussion_13_january_2009 For participation instructions, please visit: https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?how_can_i_participate_in_this_meeti ng Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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