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NOW OPEN: ALAC Vote on ALAC Statement to the ICANN Board on the RAA Negotiations
by ICANN At-Large Staff May 13, 2011

May 13, 2011

Dear All, The Chair of the ALAC, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, has requested the Staff to start a four-day ALAC vote on the ALAC Statement to the ICANN Board on the RAA Negotiations. Members of the ALAC received an email with their voting credentials a couple of minutes ago. The question to be put will be the following: ***** Do you support the ratification of the ALAC Statement to the ICANN Board on the RAA Negotiations for communication to the relevant Public Comment process? With possible answers: Yes No Abstain ***** You can review the ALAC Statement to the ICANN Board on the RAA Negotiations: https://community.icann.org/x/zYbT The Vote will remain open until Wednesday 18 May 2011, 23:59 UTC. After you have submitted your vote online, you should receive an email confirmation. Please inform staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> if you do not receive a confirmation so that we can check whether your vote has been recorded. Also, if you are experiencing technical problems and are unable to vote online, you can send us an email. As long as you send us your votes before the close of the vote, we can add them as paper ballot votes. There is a link entitled 'See who voted' at the bottom of the voting page, which allows you to see who has voted so far. All currently open ALAC votes are linked to a single menu page under: https://www.bigpulse.com/m6962 The results of closed ALAC votes may be reviewed under: https://www.bigpulse.com/m7097 Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon ICANN At-Large Staff

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CORRECTION: Call for comments -- ALAC Statement on the Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement
by ICANN At-Large Staff May 11, 2011

May 11, 2011

Dear all, On behalf of Olivier Crépin-Leblond, ALAC Chair, please find the draft "ALAC Statement on the Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement" (actually, at this point, this draft is in the form of two e-mails) at the following link: https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/ALAC+Statement+on+Proposa…<https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALAC+comments+on+JAS+WG%27s+Sec…>. At-Large members are asked to review this draft and, using the "Add Comment" function at the bottom of the same wiki page, to leave their comments. The deadline for comments from At-Large members is Sunday, 15 May, at 23:59 UTC. An ALAC ratification vote will begin shortly thereafter. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, and Marilyn Vernon ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org

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Call for comments: ALAC Statement on the Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement
by ICANN At-Large Staff May 11, 2011

May 11, 2011

Dear all, On behalf of Olivier Crépin-Leblond, ALAC Chair, please find the draft "ALAC Statement on the Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement" (actually, at this point, this draft is in the form of two e-mails) at the following link: https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALAC+comments+on+JAS+WG%27s+Sec…. At-Large members are asked to review this draft and, using the "Add Comment" function at the bottom of the same wiki page, to leave their comments. The deadline for comments from At-Large members is Sunday, 15 May, at 23:59 UTC. An ALAC ratification vote will begin shortly thereafter. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, and Marilyn Vernon ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org

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RESULT: Vote on ALAC Statement on the GAC New gTLD Scorecard
by ICANN At-Large Staff May 8, 2011

May 8, 2011

Dear all, With 11 out of 15 ALAC Members having voted in the recent vote on the ALAC Statement on the GAC New gTLD Scorecard, we can confirm that the result is quorate. ******************** Motion: Do you support the ratification of the ALAC Statement on the GAC New gTLD Scorecard for communication to the relevant Public Comment process? Yes: 10 (90.91%) Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Carlton Samuels, Sandra Hoferichter, Evan Leibovitch, Sylvia Leite, Sergio Salinas Porto, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Dewandranath Kissoondoyal, Gareth Shearman, Tijani Ben Jemaa No: 0 (0.00%) Abstain: 1 (9.09%) Jean-Jacques Subrenat ******************** You may verify the results independently under: http://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=1655NwML9VDsKE5CjKnz44r4 We can confirm that the following ALAC members did not participate in the balloting: James Seng Edmon Chung Mohammed El Bashir Marc Rotenberg You can find the results of all closed ALAC votes under: https://www.bigpulse.com/m7097 Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon ICANN At-Large Staff

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JAS WG Second Milestone Report - Call for At-Large comments
by ICANN At-Large Staff May 8, 2011

May 8, 2011

Dear all, On behalf of Olivier Crépin-Leblond, ALAC Chair, please find the draft "Second Milestone Report of the Joint Applicant Support Working Group (JAS-WG)" at the following link: https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALAC+comments+on+JAS+WG%27s+Sec…. At-Large members are asked to review this Report and, using the "Add Comment" function at the bottom of the same wiki page, to leave their comments. The deadline for comments from At-Large members is Monday, 9 May, at 22:59 UTC. An ALAC ratification vote will begin shortly thereafter. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, and Marilyn Vernon ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org

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Formal vote of thanks to Staff for Confluence Wiki Guide
by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond May 5, 2011

May 5, 2011

Dear all, further to the ALAC monthly conference call in which this was discussed, please find a formal vote of thanks to Staff for the Confluence Wiki Guide which you can find on: https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At+Large+Wiki+Training+Guides This vote of thanks will be transmitted to the relevant staff and to the Board Secretary. * *--- cut here --- * Formal vote of thanks to Staff for* *Confluence Wiki Guide* The At-Large Advisory Committee would like to thank ICANN Staff for the hard work it has undertaken in writing the Confluence Wiki Guide and having it translated in the 6 official UN languages. Understanding Web 2.0 resources offered by ICANN At-Large is an important part of the ALAC's policy to enable at-Large Structures to involve themselves more effectively in the grass roots-based, bottom-up consensus process leading to ALAC actions. The multi-language guide is therefore very valuable as a primer to getting involved in At-Large policy and the credit for making it so clear and useful goes to the ICANN Staff members who produced it under such tight deadlines. Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair

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ALAC Statement to the ICANN Board on the RAA Negotiations - Call for Comments
by ICANN At-Large Staff May 4, 2011

May 4, 2011

Dear All, On behalf of Olivier Crépin-Leblond, ALAC Chairman, please find a draft ALAC Statement to the ICANN Board on the RAA Negotiations drafted by Olivier: URL: https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/ALAC+Statement++to+the+ICA NN+Board+on+the+RAA+Negotiations+-+April+2011?focusedCommentId=13862676#comm ent-13862676 Short URL: https://community.icann.org/x/zYbT The statement will be discussed during the ALAC Meeting of Tuesday, 26 April. However, comments and suggestions are welcome through 23:59 UTC on Friday, 29 April. Please add your comments directly to the wiki page above or send At-Large staff an e-mail at staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. An ALAC vote will begin shortly thereafter. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, ICANN At-Large Staff

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Call for Community Volunteers for IDN Variant TLD Case Study Teams
by ICANN At-Large Staff April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

Dear All, Please see below a message sent on behalf of the ICANN IDN Variant Issues Project Team calling for community volunteers for IDN Variant TLD Case Study Teams. The deadline for applications is 19 May. ** Dear Members of the Community, The delegation and management of variant TLDs remains an important issue. The ICANN community seeks to develop solutions to enable the delegation of Variant TLDs for the benefit of users around the world. After consultation with the community, ICANN outlines its approach to move forward by publishing the Final Proposal for the IDN Variant TLDs Issues Project ( http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-delegation-20apr11 -en.pdf) and the Call for Volunteers ( http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variant-tlds-call-for-volunteer s-case-study-teams-20apr11-en.pdf) The Project will undertake work to identify issues associated with the beneficial and safe delegation of IDN variant TLDs through six case studies include the following scripts: Arabic, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, and Latin. Each team will be comprised of the following: team coordinator, community representatives, linguistic experts, DNS and IDNA experts, security & scalability experts, policy experts, and registry/registrar operations experts. The call for volunteer document describes the details of expertise needed, as well as the volunteer selection process. Successful completion of the project depends on having team members with the right skills in each of the six case studies to perform the substantive work. Therefore ICANN, through its supporting organizations and advisory committees, and through its contacts with the international Internet community, is soliciting the participation of community volunteers in each of the six case study teams. Interested experts are invited to submit their résumé and an expression of interest statement demonstrating how they meet the qualifications for one or other of the expertise areas in a specific case study. Applications should be sent to idnvarianttlds(a)icann.org no later than 19 May 2011. Additionally, ICANN would welcome proposals from organizations interested in volunteering to provide local host facilities to each of the six IDN Variant Issues Project case study teams. Local host organizations are expected to provide meeting and other facilities to support the case studies work. However, it should be emphasized that it is not necessary to have a local host organization for a case study to proceed. Interested organizations should send an expression of interest to idnvarianttlds(a)icann.org no later than 19 May 2011. Warm regards, ICANN IDN Variant Issues Project Team P.S. The announcement is also available at: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20apr11-en.htm. ** Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, ICANN At-Large Staff

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ALAC AIs from Tue, 26 April 2011
by ICANN At-Large Staff April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

Hello, ALAC members, The action items from the 26 April 2011 ALAC meeting are posted on the meeting page at https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ALAC+Meeting+26.04.2011+Action+…. Thanks very much. -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org

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Current State of the UDRP Webinar Announcement
by ICANN At-Large Staff April 26, 2011

April 26, 2011

* Sent on behalf of the GNSO Secretariat* Current State of the UDRP Webinar Announcement http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-21apr11-en.htm In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org<mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org>) to receive the call details. 21 April 2011 You are invited to participate in a webinar on the current state of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The ICANN Policy Staff is holding this Webinar on Tuesday 10 May at 15:00 UTC. The webinar will explore the current state of the UDRP. Attendees will hear the viewpoints from experts in the field on the effectiveness of the UDRP, and whether it should be modified or amended. This webinar is designed to solicit current information and data on the UDRP for reference in an Issue Report to be published by Staff. UDRP providers, panelists, attorneys and other observers of the UDRP process will be invited to share their perspective on this key ICANN policy. The UDRP has not been reviewed by the GNSO Council since its adoption. The Issue Report will speak to how t he UDRP has addressed the problem of cybersquatting to date, and explore any insufficiencies or inequalities associated with the process. This Issue Report will then be considered by the GNSO Council as it decides whether to commence a new policy development process (PDP) on the UDRP. The webinar is scheduled to run for 120 minutes, will be conducted in English only. The meeting will be run in Adobe Connect with a slide presentation along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio. Participants will have opportunity to ask questions at the end of the presentations. During the course of the webinar, questions may be submitted using the chat function of Adobe Connect. If you are not able to participate in the live session, the slides and MP3 will be made available shortly after the meeting. In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org<mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org>) to receive the call details. We will send you an e-mail reminder before the event with log-in and dial-in details. Please DO NOT RSVP to any other ICANN staff members e-mail address.

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