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Welcome Dr. Heidi Ullrich to the ICANN At-Large Staff!
by Nick Ashton-Hart Dec. 11, 2008

Dec. 11, 2008

I am very pleased to announce that Heidi Ullrich has joined ICANN¹s Policy Department as the Manager for At-Large Regional Affairs. Heidi will be responsible for supporting the activities of the community of individual Internet Users (³At-Large²) participating in ICANN at the regional level. Prior to joining ICANN, she worked with international non-governmental organizations in program management and policy coordination positions strengthening the participation of stakeholder groups in negotiations at the domestic, regional, and international levels. Heidi served as a Program Officer in Trade in Services at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development where she helped to manage multiple international projects on trade in services and sustainable development. At Consumers International, she served as the Global Trade Program Coordinator responsible for the implementation of a multi-million dollar global trade and poverty alleviation program, and also helped support a project surveying the credibility of the Internet from a consumer perspective. Previous to her work with non-governmental organizations, Heidi lectured at the University of Southampton and the London School of Economics, where she also received her PhD. She taught such courses as economic diplomacy and international relations, and has participated in various international research projects, including a study on civil society and accountable global governance. Heidi is based at ICANN¹s headquarters in Marina del Rey, California and reports to the Director for At-Large, Nick Ashton-Hart. Heidi can be reached at <heidi.ullrich(a)icann.org>. As always, please send any administrative or informational request related to At-Large to staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director for At-Large Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA DD: +1 (310) 578-8637 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Letter from ALAC to the Board of ICANN
by At-Large Staff Dec. 11, 2008

Dec. 11, 2008

Dear Community: Today the following was transmitted to the ALAC Board Liaison, Wendy Seltzer, for communication to the Board of ICANN by the At-Large Advisory Committee. The text is reproduced directly below in order to faciliate machine translation of the text into Spanish. You may review the text online and retrieve a PDF at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?letter_to_the_board_on_public_participat ion. -- From: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Chair of the ALAC Thursday, December 11, 2008 To: Chairman of the ICANN Board, Mr. Peter Dengate-Thrush Transmitted via email through the ALAC Liaison to the Board. Dear Peter, I write to you today at the request of the At-Large Advisory Committee to convey the disappointment that they and the wider At-Large community have with the way in which the public forum in Cairo was organised in particular, and to express our concern with other elements of the Cairo meeting in general. Perhaps it is most descriptive to give the Board some sense of the mood and reaction to this part of the Cairo meeting, if I quote one commentator - ³For a public forum to be organised in a way that lurches from unacceptable change to unacceptable change during the meeting itself in a way that allows grandees sufficient time to make speeches, yet disenfranchises the community by providing almost no time whatever for its concerns to be aired speaks to a fundamental lack of understanding of the purpose of ICANN¹s meetings on the part of those responsible.² In more general terms what I have heard is that, the public forum is not a time for canned speeches it is a time for the ICANN community of volunteers to air their concerns to the Board, the Staff, and one another, with sufficient time for those concerns to be heard and to be addressed and discussed.¹ (Paraphrased from several people¹s statements at or after Cairo meeting). The At-Large Community is most concerned that those organising the meetings fail to understand this fundamental principle and we trust that this concerns you and the rest of the Board as much as it does us. The At-Large community joins those others who have written to you in expecting the Board taking decisive action to ensure that the debacle we experienced in Cairo never reoccurs. This is especially important given the fact that the Public Forum in Paris was mismanaged. The idea that a snap survey¹, conducted at the last minute, should govern the organisation of that public forum is ludicrous and the fact that only a handful of people responded (given the short timeframe little else can be expected) should have ensured that the idea of allowing such a small sample of the community to dictate the organisation of something as important as the public forum would be abandoned. Unfortunately it seems that basic common sense eluded the people responsible on that occasion just as it did again in Cairo. ICANN¹s constituents are volunteers a point that seems lost upon those who are in charge of organising its meetings. We don¹t fly across the world at our own expense, for many of those not fortunate enough to receive travel support - to listen to canned speeches, or to watch our few opportunities for genuine public interaction with the Board and other communities vanish almost in front of our eyes based upon the poor judgment of those responsible. Further, the provisions for remote participation in ICANN meetings which is vital for the involvement of our At-Large Community is far from satisfactory and have been so for years, and those responsible seem to be allowed to endlessly continue to get away with not fixing the problem. Our community asks (again paraphrased) Why do the repeated calls for remote participation that works get ignored, and why does the Board continue to allow this obvious failure to remain unaddressed?¹ To be clear, issues such as the following are unacceptable: · Main meeting agendas with mistakes (including meeting records on the public schedule showing the same meetings taking place at the same time, going uncorrected for days; · Very poor quality chat interfaces attached to meetings which are unmonitored by staff so that these chat sessions are not acknowledged or their input aired to the main meeting; · Lack of telephonic participation options for meetings that work reliably. After six meetings of technically hopeless telephonic participation facilities for At-Large¹s meetings, in Cairo we didn¹t even bother to try. http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann.org/20 08q4/004925.html · Receiving very large documents in English-only on the eve of a meeting¹s start, and then expecting attendees to comment and participate in sessions related to these texts. The New GTLDs documents are just the latest example of this problem. This is a totally unreasonable burden on volunteers and reinforces an imbalance between those who make money from registration who will read things no matter when they are released because their business depends on them and everyone else. If substantive documents cannot be made available at least two weeks before a meeting in multiple language versions don¹t bother arranging sessions to talk about them at the meeting and don¹t start consultations on them until well after the meeting is over. ICANN spends a lot of registrant-derived funds on its meetings and on participation mechanisms. They should be run to a far more professional standard than they currently are. It also should be approaching the entire idea of participation in a far more significant and serious way than has been done in the past. We hope that the board-level discussions on participation provide a venue for that discussion, but we wish to make it clear that a lot of talk is not what¹s required. The community needs and deserves for its participation to be taken seriously and for those responsible in ICANN to be held to account for the (currently completely inadequate and often unprofessional) job they do with respect to meetings and participation enhancement systems. We expect that the board will take action to remind those responsible of their obligations and call them to account for their performance. We would like to suggest the creation of an organization meeting committee with one participant from each SO/AC helping on building a better (more useful) meeting. There is also a point of personal concern I wish to raise as Chair of the ALAC, the matter of the reasons for the compressed time¹ remaining for the public forum in Cairo... It has been reported back to me from the rumour mill¹ to be in some way related to the new activity of the Joint AC and SO parts of the planned and advertised Cairo Agenda... To designate this as ridiculous and erroneous is the very least I can say, and indeed to say it is destructive and malicious is more accurate. I urge the Board to ensure this rumour is countermanded strongly and effectively as soon as is possible. Finally and most importantly on a positive note, the ALAC notes and wishes to recognise the efforts being made by the Board to remedy and improve public participation with its newly established Public Participation Committee of the Board (PPBC). Perhaps this is an ideal opportunity for the Chair and others from this committee to join us in a single topic discussion that we could arrange for one of our regular (at least) monthly briefing calls. This would also allow Kieren to be involved, as is quite proper and indeed is something he offered both in Cairo (in conversation with me) and since via email ³I will be more than happy to go through everything from my side and to talk them through what happened and why, what changes are afoot and so on.² (Dec 9th 2008). To this end the ALAC ExCom would be more than happy to plan such a call (as it will be most timely before our At-Large Summit in Mexico) in the week starting January 12th 2009 and will ask our staff to see what can be arranged, set up a doodle for best times and dates, and of course liaise with Kieren on this matter. If the new PPBC desires to be involved in this activity (or some future alternate) then this would be most welcome, and the PPBC Chair need only let us know their availability or plans. Our community recognizes and appreciates that genuine efforts are being made to improve meetings and remote participation, for future meetings and indeed that new line up in the Meetings Team along with Paul Levins and of course Kieren will with the input of the PPBC make significant changes, but our At-Large Community and specifically those who are not on site at ICANN Meetings but rely in remote participation methods and archived materials to interact have made it clear to our Committee that our concerns need to formally registered. (Signed on behalf of the ALAC) Cheryl Langdon-Orr ALAC Chair 2007-2009 -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Heidi Ullrich, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Summary Minutes ALAC meeting 09 December 2008
by At-Large Staff Dec. 10, 2008

Dec. 10, 2008

Dear all, The summary minutes, action items and the English recording of yesterday¹s meeting can now be found on the meeting page: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?09_december_2008 The summary minutes are also attached below. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms, Heidi Ullrich ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org **************** Participants ALAC: P Vanda Walle, S Bachollet, V Scartezini, C Langdon-Orr , C Aguirre, A Greensberg, A Peake, H Diakite Apologies: V Vivekandan, TH Nguyen, B Brendler, F Seye Sylla, J Ovidio Salgueiro, W Ludwig Absent: M El Bashir, R Guerra Liaisons: R Vansnick (ccTLD council), W Seltzer (Board), A Piazza (dotMOBI) Guests: D Younger, P Dandjinou (PSC), M Cade (PSC) Staff: M Langenegger, N Ashton-Hart, MH Bouchoms, H Ullrich The Chair opened the session by thanking H Diakite for her contribution to the last IGF meeting. The staff introduced to ALAC, Dr. Heidi Ulrich, the new Manager for At Large affairs. She will be based in the Los Angeles office. A bio will circulate shortly to the lists. A Greenberg said that, to his view, each group that wants to participate in the gTLDs should participate in the GNSO. He said he found the business definition of commercial¹ was too restrictive for people who did business occasionally D Younger agreed that the division between commercial and non-commercial was an artificial construct. A non-incumbent party could be put together. Adoption of past summary minutes S Bachollet moved to adopt the meeting minutes of the 25 November 2008. Against: none Abstention: none In favour: P Vanda Walle, S Bachollet, V Scartezini, C Langdon-Orr , C Aguirre, A Greensberg, H Diakite, A Peake The motion was carried. A Greensberg moved, seconded by P Vade Walle, to adopt the Cairo meeting minutes. Against: none Abstention: A Peake abstained due to the fact that he was not yet an ALAC member at the time of the Cairo summit. In favour: P Vanda Walle, S Bachollet, V Scartezini, C Langdon-Orr , C Aguirre, A Greensberg, H Diakite The motion was carried. At-Large¹s involvement in the President¹s Strategy Committee P Dandjinou and M Cade then joined the conversation. M Cade thanked the ALAC for the invitation and noted that she could be reached at marilynscade(a)hotmail.com. She stressed that she was a chief advocate of the ICANN model and would welcome any comment, also those made individually. She added that the strategical advisory to the Board was PSC main task. The Board Chair P Dengate-Thrush had tasked the PSC to undertake the outreach to the community about their specific interests. The transition from the JPA with the DOC emerged as the chief topic. Another item of concern to the PSC was ICANN¹s accountability. M Cade noted that the PSC had was a messenger within ICANN but could not determine ICANN¹s strategy in any way. P Dandjinou introduced himself to the ALAC and noted that he had been chosen to the board because he could provide a view from the different regions. The PSC was, he reminded, interested in what must be the next steps according to the community and At-Large feedback on this. External or internal capture, accountability, internationalization, ICANN financial stability were also key issues for the PSC. Pierre promised he would keep ALAC posted on the PSC timetable in the future. M Cade said that a further key issue was the reinforcement of the bottom-up multi-stakeholder ICANN participatory model, using the broad definition of the private sector for that. Currently, the original ICANN model had been under attack and reinforcement for the original concept of the white paper was needed. Easy to understand documents and multilanguage efforts were important to get the whole community to effectively participate and she vigorously asked ALAC to let her know about the barriers met in that respect so that she could mention these to the ICANN Board. D Younger asked the PSC members to provide red line documents of its publication. He expressed concerns about the capture of some constituencies and that they should be measures to deal with the internal capture issue. With regards to capture, M Cade noted that she always maintained the view that Governments needed an important role in the process and that presently their participation needed to be enhanced for the important government involvement was a means against capture. However she, personally, was against any change to their purely advisory function. She agreed that ICANN was captured by the interests of the contracted parties but thought that it could be overcome. M Cade insisted that a successful transition was not possible without a clear understanding by the GAC, ALAC and other ICANN bodies about the policy issues being discussed. The various groups should be empowered by a clear understanding of the policy issues and processes. An initial neutral briefing should be provided on any policy issue. V Scartezini said that she felt that the governments were going too fast, compared to the other stakeholders, in their claim for power. A more balanced approach was needed as well as the whole community understanding of the policies at issue and the process at stake. P Dandjinou added that he believed capacity building was a key to successful transition. A Peake noted the similar interests between the ALAC and the GAC regarding translation and briefings needs. People should look at the ICANN¹s bylaws to be reminded that their opinions mattered. S Bachollet noted that the Mexico summit was an opportunity to introduce the broader At-Large community to discuss the transition and the broader ICANN¹s mandate. M Cade suggested inviting the PSC to the summit to do outreach directly to the ALSes and discuss the issue further. She said that building a bridge between ALAC and regional business communities around the world was important to identify the things they agreed on and to strengthen ICANN together. ICANN was a multi-dimensional diamond of dependency that called for new interactions. D Younger wanted to follow up on A Peake¹s point and noted that ICANN was giving excess power to some constituencies. M Cade agreed and noted that one way to address this was to give the opportunity to all communities to reject decisions by the Board. C Langdon-Orr thanked P Dandjinou and M Cade for their time and effort. The Staff will extract the recording of the PSC discussion and distribute it to the regions for further discussions. ALAC position on whether the proposed RAA amendment package should be approved by the GNSO. A Greenberg said that ALAC did not have a vote on the issue and gave a short overview of the current RAA amendments. He said that the GNSO did not need to go to a PDP process as currently defined but just needed to decide on the amendment package. He noted that many thought the RAA Amendements to be insufficient but some contractual terms could not come out of a PDP process. In Alan¹s view - there was a general agreement among the ALAC in Cairo to accept the current RAA Amendments if it was a binary decision. (See : raa the way forward) D Younger expressed the opinion that given the fact that there was no briefing and no discussion was held on the issue within the community, it was preferable not to move until a briefing was made. M Cade suggested that ALAC could express its concerns and state that they had not received the briefings they asked for in order to vote. As a PSC member, she said she understood their objections. A Greenberg said that he stipulated that a briefing was held on the voting format not the content of the RAA itself. A Greenberg said they could support, reject or defer and asked for a roll call to know about how to instruct the GNSO liaison but he feared there was no longer time to await a briefing. S Bachollet suggested that the issue would be put to an online vote with some descriptions. The question was then put to the participants: (the elaboration of the final questions is still under process at the time of this summary minute) 1) Recommend the GNSO to defer because the briefing is required to understand the context 2) Recommend the GNSO to accept the current package, with the possibility of further work on amendments on issues remaining continues 3) Recommend the GNSO to reject the amendments package and start from square one, but the ICANN Board would probably not accept it. A Greenberg moved that V Scartezini replace C Langdon-Orr in the OSC working group. The motion was seconded by C Langdon-Orr. Against: none Abstention: none In favour: P Vanda Walle, S Bachollet, V Scartezini, C Langdon-Orr , C Aguirre, A Greensberg, A Peake, H Diakite The motion was carried unanimously by the present attendees and Staff will put up an online vote for the ALAC members on this issue. Staff will organise a single purpose call on new gTLD's set up with enough time for community feedback to be prepared and sent in. A Greenberg said he volunteered to work on gTLD¹s comments and the staff added that Beau Brendler also worked on them. Next call The next meeting will be on 13 January at 1230 UTC. The meeting was then concluded.

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MP3 recording New gTLD Q&A teleconferencge 8 December 2008
by At-Large Staff Dec. 9, 2008

Dec. 9, 2008

Message forwarded from the GNSO Secretariat: ******************************************** Please find the MP3 recording of the New gTLD Q&A teleconference, held on 8 December, 2008 at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-new-gtld-qa-2008122608.mp3 http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#dec A transcript as well will be posted within the next few days. Happy listening!

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REMINDER: ALAC Teleconference 09 December 1230 UTC
by At-Large Staff Dec. 8, 2008

Dec. 8, 2008

Dear all, This is to remind you about the next ALAC teleconference scheduled this coming Tuesday at 1230 UTC. Please note that this is one hour earlier than during previous months. A draft agenda and further details have been posted under: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?09_december_2008 Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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REMINDER: 2nd Q&A on the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook Monday, 08 December 1900 UTC
by At-Large Staff Dec. 5, 2008

Dec. 5, 2008

Message forwarded from the GNSO Secretariat. Please note that this teleconference is being organized by the GNSO Secretariat and dial-out requests need to be sent to gnso.secretariat(a)icann.org ******************************************* REMINDER A second New gTLD Question and Answer teleconference is scheduled for Monday 8 December at 19:00 UTC. Attached please find the detailed procedure the call will follow. The modules that will be specifically referenced are: Module 5 http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/transition-24oct08-en.pdf Module 6 http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/terms-24oct08-en.pdf Please submit questions to <gtld-guide(a)icann.org> Please organize your questions by module. The call is open to all Council and constituency members and anyone who has submitted a question. The call will be recorded and transcribed, so please state your name when speaking. Please RSVP to gnso.secretariat(a)icann.org to make sure that we have enough lines available. The dial-in details and times are attached at the end of the email. Thank you. Glen Dial-in details: PARTICIPANT PASSCODE: GTLD For security reasons, the passcode will be required to join the call. Country Toll Numbers Freephone/Toll Free Number ARGENTINA 0800-777-0494 AUSTRALIA ADELAIDE: 61-8-8121-4862 1-800-880-485 AUSTRALIA BRISBANE: 61-7-3102-0964 1-800-880-485 AUSTRALIA CANBERRA: 61-2-6100-1964 1-800-880-485 AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE: 61-3-9010-7733 1-800-880-485 AUSTRALIA PERTH: 61-8-9467-5243 1-800-880-485 AUSTRALIA SYDNEY: 61-2-8211-1386 1-800-880-485 AUSTRIA 43-1-92-89-654 0800-999-636 BELGIUM 32-2-402-2432 0800-4-8360 BRAZIL 0800-8912038 CHILE 1230-020-0281 CHINA* 86-400-810-4760 10800-712-1193 10800-120-1193 COLOMBIA 01800-9-156463 CZECH REPUBLIC 420-2-25-98-56-15 800-700-167 DENMARK 45-7014-0238 8088-6075 FINLAND Land Line: 106-33-164 0-800-1-12056 FINLAND Mobile: 09-106-33-164 0-800-1-12056 FRANCE LYON: 33-4-26-69-12-75 080-511-1431 FRANCE MARSEILLE: 33-4-86-06-00-75 080-511-1431 FRANCE PARIS: 33-1-70-75-00-04 080-511-1431 GERMANY 49-69-2222-52104 0800-216-1601 GREECE 30-80-1-100-0639 00800-12-5999 HONG KONG 852-2286-5632 800-964-136 HUNGARY 06-800-15227 INDIA 000-800-852-1216 INDONESIA 001-803-011-3500 IRELAND 353-1-246-0036 1800-931-782 ISRAEL 1-80-9303048 ITALY 39-02-3600-0326 800-906-585 JAPAN OSAKA: 81-6-7739-4763 00531-12-1149 JAPAN TOKYO: 81-3-5539-5154 00531-12-1149 LUXEMBOURG 352-27-000-1314 MALAYSIA 1-800-80-8121 MEXICO 001-866-627-0541 NETHERLANDS 31-20-710-9321 0800-023-4655 NEW ZEALAND 64-9-970-4641 0800-443-793 NORWAY 47-21-59-00-14 800-11982 PANAMA 011-001-800-5072119 POLAND 00-800-1210067 PORTUGAL 8008-12179 RUSSIA 8-10-8002-9613011 SINGAPORE 65-6883-9197 800-120-4057 SLOVAK REPUBLIC 421-2-322-422-15 SOUTH AFRICA 080-09-93390 SOUTH KOREA 82-2-6744-1052 00798-14800-6323 SPAIN 34-91-414-15-44 800-099-279 SWEDEN 46-8-566-10-782 0200-887-612 SWITZERLAND 41-44-580-7718 0800-000-038 TAIWAN 886-2-2795-7346 00801-137-565 THAILAND 001-800-1206-65091 UNITED KINGDOM BIRMINGHAM: 44-121-210-9015 0800-018-0795 UNITED KINGDOM GLASGOW: 44-141-202-3215 0800-018-0795 UNITED KINGDOM LEEDS: 44-113-301-2115 0800-018-0795 UNITED KINGDOM LONDON: 44-20-7019-0812 0800-018-0795 UNITED KINGDOM MANCHESTER: 44-161-601-1415 0800-018-0795 URUGUAY 000-413-598-3439 USA 1-210-795-0472 877-818-6787 VENEZUELA 0800-1-00-3205 *Access to your conference call will be either of the numbers listed, dependent on the participants' local telecom provider. Restrictions may exist when accessing freephone/toll free numbers using a mobile telephone California, USA (PDT) UTC-8+0DST 11:00 New York/Washington DC, USA (EDT) UTC-5+0DST 14:00 Buenos Aires, Argentina UTC-3+0DST 16:00 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UTC-3+0DST 16:00 London, United Kingdom (BST) UTC+0DST 19:00 Brussels, Belgium (CEST) UTC+1+0DST 20:00 Karachi, Pakistan UTC+5+1DST 18:00 Hong Kong, China UTC+8+0DST 03:00 Singapore, Singapore UTC+8+0DST 03:00 Melbourne, Australia (EDT) UTC+10+1DST 06:00 (Thursday 27 Nov.) Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Public Comment Period on New gTLDs Applicant Guidebook Extended and Additional Memoranda Posted
by Nick Ashton-Hart Dec. 4, 2008

Dec. 4, 2008

Public Comment Period on New gTLDs Applicant Guidebook Extended and Additional Memoranda Posted http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-03dec08-en.htm 3 December 2008 ICANN is extending the New gTLDs Applicant Guidebook public comment deadline until December 15. The new deadline applies to the English posting only. For the remaining languages the deadline is still January 7. (The extension is in line with recent community discussion that time during ICANN meetings (i.e., the recent Cairo meeting) should not toll comment periods.) ICANN urges the Internet community to continue providing feedback. This consultative process is key to assist ICANN to further improve the New gTLDs program. Since the posting on 23 October 2008 of the Draft Applicant Guidebook for New Generic Top-Level Domains ( http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-23oct08-en.htm) ICANN has been receiving valuable comments from the Internet community. Several of the comments and questions have been focused on the proposed gTLD base agreement. Considering the growing interest and on-going inquiries on this topic, ICANN is posting today additional background information about the proposed base agreement. The additional materials are intended to further clarify the explanatory memorandum entitled "Summary Changes to Base Agreement" posted on October 23 2008 along with the draft applicant guidebook. This posting does not signal an intention to "hold fast" to the current draft - but rather the opposite: changes to the draft are already planned and additional information will facilitate public discussion regarding the content of those changes. There are two documents being posted at this time: (1) "Expanded Summary of Changes to Base Agreement for New gTLDs" [ http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-expanded-summary-changes-02d… PDF, 246K], which is a more comprehensive version of the initially posted memo entitled "Summary Changes to Base Agreement" posted with the draft Applicant Guidebook in October (2) "Comparison between gTLD Agreements from 2005-2007 and Draft Base Registry Agreement for New gTLDs" [ http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-agreement-annotated-comparis… PDF, 191K], which is an annotated "blackline" comparison that attempts to show every difference between the 2005-2007 gTLD agreements and the proposed new base agreement. It includes 56 detailed footnotes explaining most of the additions, deletions, and modifications to the language. As indicated previously, it is important to note that the proposed draft agreement is not final and has not yet been approved by ICANN's Board of Directors. It has been set out for review and community discussion purposes, and we encourage comments and suggestions for improvement. The current draft base agreement as well as other aspects of the New gTLD Program are subject to changes based on community feedback and other considerations. ICANN is looking forward to a continuing robust dialog with the Internet community and will make all efforts to provide clarifications as needed. To submit comments on the draft registry agreement and the rest of the draft Applicant Guidebook, please continue to visit http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-en.htm. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director for At-Large Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA DD: +1 (310) 578-8637 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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2009 Nomination Period Opens For ICANN Leadership Positions
by At-Large Staff Dec. 3, 2008

Dec. 3, 2008

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-02dec08-en.htm 2009 Nomination Period Opens For ICANN Leadership Positions 2 December 2008 ICANN's Nominating Committee invites Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations from the Internet community as it seeks qualified candidates to assist in ICANN's technical and policy coordination role. Interested individuals are invited to submit a Statement of Interest to the 2009 Committee for the following positions: * Three members of the ICANN Board of Directors * Three At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each from Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific and Latin America & Caribbean regions) * Two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) * One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) ICANN's Nominating Committee (Nom Com) is an independent committee tasked with selecting a majority of the members of ICANN's Board of Directors and other positions within ICANN's Supporting Organisations. ICANN is an internationally organised, public benefit, non-profit corporation dedicated to: preserving the operational security and stability of the Internet; promoting competition; achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and supporting the development of policies appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes. Individuals selected by the Nominating Committee will have a unique opportunity to work with accomplished colleagues from around the globe, address the Internet's intriguing technical coordination problems and policy development challenges with diverse functional, cultural, and geographic dimensions, and gain valuable insights and experience from working across boundaries of knowledge, responsibility and perspective. Those selected will gain the satisfaction of making a valuable public service contribution towards the continued function and evolution of an essential global resource. Considering the broad public interest, nominees will work to achieve the goals towards which ICANN is dedicated in order to facilitate the Internet's critically important societal functions. Current Board members who have been selected by the Nominating Committee include: Harald Tveit Alvastrand, Steve Crocker, Roberto Gaetano, Steven Goldstein, Dennis Jennings, Rajasekhar Ramaraj, Jean-Jacques Subrenat and Katim Touray (see, http://www.icann.org/en/general/board.html) Statements of Interest for the positions described above can be submitted through nomcom2009(a)icann.org. More information regarding the Nominating Committee can be found at http://nomcom.icann.org. Applications will be considered confidentially and should be received by 15 April 2009 for full consideration. Selections will be announced in early September 2009. Successful candidates will take up their positions following ICANN's Annual Meeting in October 2009. Candidate recommendations, questions or comments may also be emailed to ICANN at nomcom2009(a)icann.org. Background: The Nominating Committee is designed to function independently from the ICANN Board, Supporting Organisations, and Advisory Committees. Nominating Committee members act only on behalf of the interests of the global Internet community and within the scope of the ICANN mission and responsibilities assigned to it by the ICANN Bylaws. Nominating Committee members contribute understanding of the broad interests of the Internet community as a whole, and knowledge and experience of specific Internet constituencies who have appointed them. The challenge for the Nominating Committee is to integrate these perspectives and derive consensus in its selections. Although appointed by Supporting Organisations and other ICANN entities, individual Nominating Committee members are not accountable to their appointing constituencies. Members are, of course, accountable for adherence to the ICANN Bylaws and for compliance with the rules and procedures established by the Nominating Committee. Successful candidates are not remunerated, although direct expenses incurred in the course of duty will be reimbursed. These positions may involve significant international travel, including personal presence at periodic ICANN meetings, as well as regular telephone and Internet communications. Recent ICANN Meetings have been held in Canada, New Zealand, Morocco, Brazil, Portugal, Puerto Rico, the United States, India, France and Egypt. Meetings during 2009 are scheduled for Mexico City, Mexico, Sydney, Australia, Seoul, Korea. The diverse locations facilitate participation across the world's Internet community. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Summary of Public Comments on Including Individual Internet Users in the GNSO
by At-Large Staff Dec. 3, 2008

Dec. 3, 2008

Dear All: As you know, a public comment period was recently conducted on the role of individual Internet users in the GNSO. The summary of the comments received is available at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-users/msg00012.html -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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New gTLD Teleconference - 8th December 2008 at 1900 UTC
by At-Large Staff Dec. 3, 2008

Dec. 3, 2008

Dear All: A second New gTLD Question and Answer teleconference is scheduled for Monday 8 December at 19:00 UTC. Attached please find the detailed procedure the call will follow. The modules that will be specifically referenced are: Module 5 (Transition to Delegation) http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/transition-24oct08-en.pdf Module 6 (Terms and Conditions) http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/terms-24oct08-en.pdf Please submit questions to <gtld-guide(a)icann.org>. Please organize your questions by module. The call is open to all Council and constituency members and anyone who has submitted a question, and all At-Large community members are welcome to join. The call will be recorded and transcribed, so please state your name when speaking. Please RSVP to gnso.secretariat(a)icann.org to make sure that enough lines are available. The dial-in details and times are attached at the end of the email. Note: This call is only available in english. We are working with the relevant staff to arrange briefings which are interpreted and will reply in due course with more details. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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