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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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List of Travellers to the At-Large Summit receiving travel support
by At-Large Staff Jan. 22, 2009

Jan. 22, 2009

Dear Community: As requested by various At-Large community members recently, and in the interests of accountability and transparency of operations, we have established a page where you may see the list of travellers authorised to receive travel support. Note that some travellers who were originally authorised are not on the list as they have let us know that they will be unable to attend the Summit. The URL is: https://st.icann.org/summit-wg/index.cgi?summit_participants Note that in due course this information will migrate to the special session for the At-Large Summit on http://www.atlarge.icann.org. Stay tuned :) -- 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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INVITATION: WHOIS BRIEFING BY LIZ GASSTER TODAY, 22 JAN 20:30-21:30 UTC
by At-Large Staff Jan. 22, 2009

Jan. 22, 2009

Dear All, Liz Gasster, Senior Policy Counselor for the GNSO, has offered to participate in a teleconference on WHOIS. The results of the doodle in which 6 out of 7 people voted indicated that Thursday, 22 January at 20:30-21:30 UTC would be the best time. Please find participation instructions under: https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?how_can_i_participate_in_this_meeti ng. If there is interest for French or Spanish interpretation for this meeting, please contact us as soon as possible. Please note, however, that we can not guarantee interpretation for this meeting due to time constraints. As a reminder, participants will be asked to engage in a discussion to rank the WHOIS issues that were presented at the last ALAC meeting by priorities. Please find further information on the WHOIS priority issues under: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?alac_whois_discussion_13_january_2009 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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DOODLE for WHOIS Meeting this week
by At-Large Staff Jan. 20, 2009

Jan. 20, 2009

Dear all, Liz Gasster, Senior Policy Counselor for the GNSO, offered to participate in a teleconference on WHOIS this Thursday or Friday. Participants are asked to engage in a discussion to rank the WHOIS issues that were presented at the last ALAC meeting by priorities. Please find further information on the WHOIS priority issues under: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?alac_whois_discussion_13_january_2009 In order to help us plan this meeting, please use the below link to an online meeting planer and flag all your available times: http://www.doodle.com/wvmyu8y2nt93e4fv Liz would be available on either Thursday, 22 January or Friday, 23 January at 2030 UTC or 2100 UTC. The call will be scheduled for 60 minutes. Time zone support has been activated for this poll. Please make sure you are using the correct time zone. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Finalised Results of At-Large Summit Survey - Topics for Five Workshops Chosen by Community
by At-Large Staff Jan. 19, 2009

Jan. 19, 2009

Dear All: We are pleased to provide below the listing of subjects which the five working groups of the At-Large Summit will address. As you may know, the At-Large Summit has as a core element five working groups that will deliberate upon and agree final statements on areas of policy of importance to the At-Large community and the ICANN community as a whole. In order to determine what the five subjects should be, At-Large Structures were surveyed in late December 2008 to early January 2009 and provided with 13 topics to choose from; they were also able to write-in additional subjects, which could then be ranked by those respondents who filled in the survey subsequently. The results as reproduced below may be independently verified at the following URL: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=NbehmmLKWssBgvENq6SN Selection of Working Group Topics 1 At-Large engagement in ICANN (Including goals, organization (ALS, RALO, ALAC), reviews, strategic planning, Individual Internet users participation, etc.) 2 The Future Structure and Governance of ICANN (the Improving Institutional Confidence process) 3 New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) including IDN gTLDs 4 ICANN Transparency and Accountability 5 DNS Security Issues within ICANN¹s Remit As requested at the last Summit Working Group meeting, the Staff have combined two categories the original topic ³The Future Structure and Governance of ICANN² with the topic added-in by a respondent: ³ICANN¹s Relationship with Governments, the UN and the ITU². Those Summit attendees who have yet to respond will be invited to choose from amongst the above topics so that they may be assigned to the working group most of interest to them whilst retaining a balance of participants across working groups and regions. The working groups will then be convened telephonically by their interim co-chairs in the very near future to begin their work. -- 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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MP3 recording of the Council discussion on new gTLDS
by At-Large Staff Jan. 16, 2009

Jan. 16, 2009

Message forwarded from the GNSO Secretariat *************************************** Please find the MP3 recording of the Council discussion on new gTLDS at: http://audio.icann.org/gnso/gnso-council-newgtlds-20090115.mp3 posted on page http://gnso.icann.org/calendar/#jan Participants present on the call Council ======== Avri Doria - GNSO Council chair Chuck Gomes - Registries GNSO Council vice chair Edmon Chung - Registries Jordi Iparraguirre - Registries Kristina Rosette - IPC Ute Decker - IPC Stéphane van Gelder - Registrar Olga Cavalli - NCA Zahid Jamil - CBUC Tony Holmes - ISP Tony Harris - ISP Greg Ruth - ISP Mary Wong - NCUC William Drake - NCUC Carlos Souza - NCUC Terry Davis - NCA Olga Cavalli - NCA Alan Greenberg - ALAC liaison Pierre Bonis - ccNSO observer Absent apologies Adrian Kinderis Tim Ruiz Observers ========== Ken Stubbs - Ry Vanda Scartizini - ALAC Nick Wood - IPC Danny Younger Heike Jensen - ALS Terre des Femmes Michael Palage Ronald N. Andruff - RNA Partners, Inc. CBUC Steve Delbianco - CBUC Cheryl Langdon Orr - ALAC Chair Mike O'Connor - CBUC Jeff Neuman - Ryc Neustar Dirk Krischenowski - dotBerlin Caroline Greer - dotMobi J. Scott Evans - IPC Sébastien Bachollet - ALAC Paul Diaz - Registrar Jose Arce Carlos Aguirre Staff ====== Denise Michel Kurt Pritz John Jeffrey Dan Halloran Olof Nordling Patrick Jones Marika Konings Craig Schwartz Liz Gasster Karen Lentz Karla Valente Glen de Saint Gery Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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