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ALAC E-mail Guide - for review
by Alan Greenberg July 24, 2013

July 24, 2013

You will recall that one of the documents referred to by our new Rules of Procedure is the ALAC E-mail Guide. This documents describes our basic e-mail lists and also says which lists (or other means of communications) are to be used in relation to selection processes as well as removal/recall processes. Please review the attached document. My intent was, like the various Adjunct Documents, to have it mirror our current practices. Changes may well be needed, but that can be done once we have all of the documents and the new Rules of Procedure in place. In our earlier discussions, the intent was to not include the RALO Discuss lists here, but since staff must subscribe people to them at critical times, I would suggest that we include them here to allow us to capture all mandatory subscription rules in one place. Once any errors are corrected, I will move that it be adopted. Alan

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MoU with RIRs
by Holly Raiche July 24, 2013

July 24, 2013

Hi Everyone I had a brief conversation with Paul Wilson, Chair of the NRO (and Director Generao of ApNIC) and the APNIC External Relations Program Director - who was keen to follow up on the meeting with RIRs - and something more concrete in the way of a relationship between APNIC and APRALO. So while I will follow up with him, I'd like examples of other RIR/RALO relationships - particularly the LACRALO MoU - what does it provide? AAny and all information is welcome so that I can provide the sort of examples that will put the APNIC/APRALO relationship on a better footing Holly

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Call for Volunteers: GNSO Policy & Implementation Working Group
by Alan Greenberg July 18, 2013

July 18, 2013

<http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-18jul13-en.htm>http://gnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-18jul13-en.htm Call for Volunteers: GNSO Policy & Implementation Working Group In brief The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council seeks volunteers to serve on a Working Team that has been tasked to address a number of issues that have been raised in the context of the recent discussions on policy & implementation that affect the GNSO. What This Working Group Will Do The Working Group is tasked to provide the GNSO Council with a set of recommendations on: 1. A set of principles that would underpin any GNSO policy and implementation related discussions, taking into account existing GNSO Operating Procedures. 2. A process for developing gTLD policy, perhaps in the form of "Policy Guidance", including criteria for when it would be appropriate to use such a process (for developing policy other than "Consensus Policy") instead of a GNSO Policy Development Process; 3. A framework for implementation related discussions associated with GNSO Policy Recommendations; 4. Criteria to be used to determine when an action should be addressed by a policy process and when it should be considered implementation, and; 5. Further guidance on how GNSO Implementation Review Teams, as defined in the PDP Manual, are expected to function and operate. For further details on the charter, please see <http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/policy-implementation-charter-04jul13-en.pdf>http://gnso.icann.org/en/drafts/policy-implementation-charter-04jul13-en.pdf. How This Working Group Will Work ICANN Working Groups use transparent, open processes. The meetings of this WG will be recorded, and the recordings will be available to the public. The mailing list for the Working Group will be archived publicly. Working Group members are expected to submit Statements of Interest (SOI). The group will collaborate using a public workspace. The Working Group is expected to follow the <http://gnso.icann.org/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf>GNSO Working Group Guidelines. How to Join The GNSO Council invites all interested parties to put forward their names so they can be added to the WG mailing list. The WG will be open to anyone interested to join. Community members who wish to be invited to join the group should contact the <mailto:gnso.secretariat@icann.org?subject=Application%20to%20Join%20Policy%20and%20Implementation%20WG>GNSO secretariat (<mailto:gnso.secretariat@icann.org>gnso.secretariat(a)icann.org) Background Mainly as a result of discussions stemming from implementation related issues of the new gTLD program, there is increased focus on which topics call for policy and which call for implementation work, including which processes should be used, at what time and how diverging opinions should be acted upon. In order to facilitate these discussions, ICANN Staff developed a draft framework for community discussion that identifies a number of steps and criteria that might facilitate dealing with similar questions in the future. The paper identifies a number of questions that the community may want to consider further in this context, as well as a couple of suggested improvements that could be considered in the short term. While developing a bright-line rule as to what is policy or implementation may not be possible, the hope is that by developing clear processes and identifying clear roles and responsibilities for the different stakeholders, it will become easier to deal with these issues going forward and allow for broad participation and involvement. Following several discussions by the GNSO Council on this topic, the GNSO Council has now formed a Working Group which has been tasked to provide concrete recommendations on how to address some of these issues from a GNSO perspective.

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Prague Schedule / Tuesday 16 October 2012
by At-Large Staff July 17, 2013

July 17, 2013

Dear All, Please find hereafter the At-Large schedule for tomorrow, Tuesday 16 October 2012 with all remote participation details listed on the ICANN Schedule: Wiki Agenda page: http://tinyurl.com/9h95fo6 ICANN Schedule: http://toronto45.icann.org/full-schedule Meeting Room Map: http://toronto45.icann.org/files/meetings/toronto2012/45-Toronto-VenueMap-3O ct12.png * 07:00 - 08:00 NARALO Capacity Building Session 2 Regatta Room http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34285 * 08:00 - 09:00 Joint NARALO / Fellows Meeting 2 Frontenac http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34283 * 08:30 09:30: Meeting with ICANN Board Metro East http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34289 * 10:00 - 11:00: At-Large Capacity Building: Next Steps Regatta http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34307 * 11:00 13:00: ALAC Policy Discussion Part 1 Regatta http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34313 13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH break * 14:00 16:00: ALAC Policy Discussion Part 2 Regatta http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34327 * 16:00 - 17:00: Registrant Rights and Responsibilities Working Group Regatta http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34353 * 17:00 18:00: At-Large Outreach Sub-Committee Meeting Regatta http://toronto45.icann.org/node/34361 General Meetings: Please refer to full Schedule: http://prague44.icann.org/full-schedule Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber, and Nathalie Peregrine ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Fwd: [gnso-igo-ingo] ICRC/IFRC Letter to ICANN Board
by Alan Greenberg July 15, 2013

July 15, 2013

FYI, A letter from the International Committee of the Red Cross was sent to the ICANN Board and senior staff. <http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/daccord-gelata-to-atallah-et-al…>http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/daccord-gelata-to-atallah-et-al… The letter is asking the Board for permanent protection (instead of what the Board has done to date, provide protection pending the completion of the GNSO PDP) and adds the names of 189 national societies (in English and their official natural languages). They are also re-surfacing the strings-contained(RedCross-tsunami) and confusingly similar (RedKross) at both the top level (controversial but easy to implement) and 2nd level (almost impossible to implement). Alan

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At-Large Multistakeholder Policy Roundtable in Durban @ ICANN 47
by Rinalia Abdul Rahim July 9, 2013

July 9, 2013

Dear Members of the At-Large Community, Please join us for the upcoming At-Large Multistakeholder Policy Roundtable in Durban (on site or via remote participation). Program information is indicated below and attached. Best regards, Rinalia *AT-LARGE MULTISTAKEHOLDER POLICY ROUNDTABLE * *@ ICANN 47 [Durban, South Africa]* Date: 15 July 2013 (Monday) Time: 14:00-16:00 Meeting Room: Hall 2AB http://durban47.icann.org/node/39645 * **New gTLDs: Addressing Consumer and Public Interest Concerns* ICANN’s new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Program will dramatically expand the Top Level Domain Space. The program carries benefits for end users and registrants in terms of increasing choice and competition, but it also raises a range of consumer and public interest concerns. These concerns include consumer safety and trust, multilingual access to gTLDs via internationalized scripts, rights issues related to the protection of trademarks, non-registered marks and geographic names, as well as barriers to program participation for stakeholders in the developing world. The At-Large Multistakeholder Policy Roundtable will highlight these issues and explore the adequacy of policies and mechanisms meant to address them. Discussion Questions: 1. What are the consumer and public interest concerns in relation to the new gTLD program? 2. Are the policies and mechanisms that have been developed to address these concerns adequate? 3. What more needs to be done to address these concerns effectively? Co-Chair: · Olivier Crepin-Leblond (Chair, At-Large Advisory Committee) · Rinalia Abdul Rahim (Executive Committee Member, At-Large Advisory Committee & Convenor, At-Large Multistakeholder Policy Roundtable) * * *Lead Discussants* Consumer Perspective – Holly Raiche (Chair, At-Large Registrant Rights and Responsibilities Working Group & Board Member, Australian Communications Consumers Action Network) * * Public Interest and Government Perspective – Peter Nettlefold (Vice Chair, ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee & GAC Lead on New gTLDs) Business Users Perspective – Zahid Jamil (Executive Committee Member, ICANN Business Constituency & Member, GNSO Council) Consumer Trust, Choice and Competition Perspective – Steve DelBianco (Executive Director, NetChoice & Vice-Chair for Policy Coordination, ICANN Business Constituency) Intellectual Property Rights & IDN Perspective – Hong Xue (Director, Institute for Internet Policy and Law, Beijing Normal University & Member, ccNSO Council) Community - Indigenous Groups’ Perspective - Karaitiana Taiuru (Chair, New Zealand Maori Internet Society) * * Community - Geographic Names Perspective – Olga Cavalli (Representative of Argentina to the Governmental Advisory Committee & Director, South School on Internet Governance) Developing Country Perspective – Tijani Ben Jemaa (Executive Committee Member, At-Large Advisory Committee & Vice-Chair, African Regional At-Large Organization) * * ICANN Compliance Perspective - Maguy Serad (Vice-President, Contractual Compliance Services, ICANN) Participation: This roundtable is open. Members of the following ICANN community are especially invited to attend - ICANN At-Large community, ICANN Advisory Committees, ICANN Supporting Organizations, ICANN Board and ICANN Staff. * * END* *

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Mention on CircleID
by Carlton Samuels July 9, 2013

July 9, 2013

Our friend Stephane van Gelder has commented on our gripe to the Board re the response -or lack thereof - to specific SSAC Advisories pertaining Security and Stability; SAC046, SAC053, SAC057 advisory. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130709_technical_impact_of_new_gtlds_are_we… -Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================

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First draft of comments on the IGO-INGO name protection WG report
by Alan Greenberg July 9, 2013

July 9, 2013

The first draft of a general comment and answers to the questions posed by the PDP WG has been posted to the Wiki at https://community.icann.org/x/hTR-Ag. I worked on this with Evan, so he should be in agreement, but he has not yet gotten back to me with a formal "all ok" due to other issues and travel preparation. The statement is generally in line with previous ALAC statements on the issues, although the tone is a bit softer on the issue of top-level protection of names (but not acronyms), where we do not see the need for blocking protection, but in most cases, it would not cause harm either (with the exceptions clearly noted). To fully understand the answers, you need to at least look at the full form of the questions at http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/igo-ingo-initial-response-form-20jun13-en.d… and preferably the entire report at http://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/igo-ingo-initial-14jun13-en.pdf. The comment period closes on 17 July. Alan

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Fwd: Creating a New ICANN 5-Year Strategic Plan - Durban Monday 10:30 - 12:00 Hall 6
by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond July 7, 2013

July 7, 2013

Dear all, please be so kind to find the announcement of the session below in Durban. The community is being solicited to take part in this new process, which is a brand new start, in contrast to previous processes. This is of course brought about by the new Team so I hope that we will be able to take part fully in this, although I am aware that this clashes partly with the At-Large Regulatory Issues Group (Registrant Rights and WHOIS Groups). So we'll have to split into (at least) two groups at the time. Kind regards, Olivier -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Creating a New ICANN 5-Year Strategic Plan - Durban Monday 10:30 - 12:00 Hall 6 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:36:59 -0700 From: Denise Michel <denise.michel(a)icann.org> Reply-To: denise.michel(a)icann.org To: ocl(a)gih.com CC: Sebastien Bachollet <sebastien.bachollet(a)icann.org>, Heidi Ullrich <Heidi.Ullrich(a)icann.org>, David Olive <david.olive(a)icann.org> Dear Olivier & At-Large Community Members: Attached is information on the Durban session on *"Creating a New ICANN 5-Year Strategic Plan," scheduled for Monday, 15 July from 10:30 - 12:00* *in Hall 6*. We look forward to seeing you there and would appreciate you sharing this note broadly. This special community event will follow the ICANN President's Opening Session to help build ICANN's new, overarching vision and five-year strategic plan. Xplane, professional facilitators who have worked with the ICANN Board, staff and some community groups, will help us run a cross-constituency brainstorming and discussion session to yield focused input for ICANN's new strategic plan. This session also is intended to help prompt more strategic conversations throughout the community during our week in Durban and beyond. Building on previous discussions about how to help prepare ICANN for an increasingly complex world, this session will solicit input on eight key areas of consideration for the new strategic plan: * Role clarity for ICANN * ICANN Community * Users * Internationalization & Regional Development * Internet Governance * Security and stability * Operational Excellence * Domain Name Industry Engagement. We look forward to seeing you there. Regards, Denise Denise Michel VP Strategic Initiatives & Advisor to the President ICANN

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Fwd: NGPC Progress on Addressing GAC Beijing Advice on New gTLDs
by Carlton Samuels July 4, 2013

July 4, 2013

Grist for our Q&A mill.... -Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= ** [image: ICANN] <http://www.icann.org/> News Alert http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-03jul13-en.htm ------------------------------ NGPC Progress on Addressing GAC Beijing Advice on New gTLDs 3 July 2013 On 2 July 2013, the the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) had its seventh meeting to discuss the GAC Beijing advice on New gTLDs. The Committee took the following actions: 1. *Initial Protections for IGO Protections* In the Beijing Communiqué, the GAC reiterated previous advice that "appropriate preventative initial protection for the IGO names and acronyms on the provided list be in place before any new gTLDs would launch." In response to a number of issues raised by the Board, the GAC noted in the Beijing Communiqué that it is "mindful of outstanding implementation issues" and that it is committed to "actively working with IGOs, the Board, and ICANN Staff to find a workable and timely way forward. In a 6 June 2013 response letter to the GAC on the IGO GAC Advice, the ICANN Board Chairman proposed that a small number of NGPC members and ICANN staff begin a dialogue with the GAC on these issues At its 2 July 2013 meeting, the NGPC passed a resolution confirming that the New gTLD Registry Agreement will require operators to provide appropriate preventative initial protection for the IGO identifiers. These protections will remain in place while the GAC, NGPC, ICANN Staff and community continue to actively work through outstanding implementation issues. More specifically, registry operators will implement temporary protections for the IGO names and acronyms on the "IGO List dated 22/03/2013" until the first meeting of the NGPC following the ICANN 47 Meeting in Durban. The Resolution provides temporary protections for IGOs while respecting the ongoing work on implementation issues. The IGO List is attached to the Resolution as Annex 1. If the NGPC and GAC do not reach an agreement on outstanding implementation issues for protecting IGO names and acronyms by the first meeting of the NGPC following the ICANN 47 meeting in Durban, and subject to any matters that arise during the discussions, registry operators will be required to protect only the IGO names (and not the acronyms) identified on the GAC's IGO List. 2. *Category 1 Advice* In the Beijing Communiqué, the GAC proposed Category 1 safeguard advice, which includes recommended restrictions and consumer protections for sensitive strings and regulated markets. The Category 1 Safeguard Advice is divided into three main sections. The first section provides five (5) items of advice that apply to "strings that are linked to regulated or professional sectors." The Beijing Communiqué identified a list of strings to which this advice applies. The second section provides three (3) additional pieces of advice that should apply to a limited subset of the strings noted in the GAC's list that are "associated with market sectors which have clear and/or or regulated entry requirements (such as: financial, gambling, professional services, environmental, health and fitness, corporate identifiers, and charity) in multiple jurisdictions…." The third section includes an additional requirement for applicants for the following strings: .fail, .gripe, .sucks and .wtf. On 23 April 2013, ICANN initiated a public comment forum to solicit input on how the NGPC should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories of new gTLD strings http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/gac-safeguard-advice-23apr13-en…. The public comment forum closed on 4 June 2013. While many commenters voiced support for the Category 1 safeguard advice, many others submitting opposing comments. One overarching theme from the public comments was the need for additional clarity on the scope and intent of the Category 1 Safeguard Advice. After considering the community comments, the NGPC decided to begin a dialogue with the GAC during the ICANN Meeting in Durban to clarify the scope of the requirements provided in the Category 1 Safeguard Advice. The dialogue with the GAC on Category 1 will also include discussion of GAC's Category 2.1 Safeguard Advice regarding "Restricted Access" since that advice applies to the strings listed under Category 1. Pending the dialogue with the GAC, staff will defer moving forward with the contracting process for applicants who have applied for TLD strings listed in the GAC's Category 1 Safeguard Advice. 3. *New gTLD Registry Agreement* Finally, the NGPC considered the revised New gTLD Registry Agreement that will be entered into between ICANN and successful new gTLD applicants. The revised agreement is the result of several months of negotiations, formal community feedback (most recently during public comment forums initiated on 5 February 2013 on 29 April 2013), and meetings with various stakeholders and communities. The revisions include feedback from the ICANN community at the ICANN 46 Meeting on 7-11 April 2013 in Beijing as well as GAC advice issued in its Beijing Communiqué. After considering the comments received from the community, the NGPC determined that the revised New gTLD Registry Agreement included significant improvements in response to the concerns raised by the community. The Committee also noted that in response to the GAC's Beijing Communiqué, revisions were made to Specification 11 to implement the non-Category 1 safeguard advice (i.e., safeguards applicable to all strings and Category 2 safeguards). The revisions to Specification 11 incorporate standardized language to address the safeguard advice. Applicant-specific PICs will be included on a case-by-case basis to the extent not superseded by or inconsistent with the standard PICs included to address the GAC's Beijing Communiqué. The NGPC approved the form of the New gTLD Registry Agreement and authorized ICANN staff to take all necessary steps to implement it and to move forward with implementation of the New gTLD Program. The Agreement is attached to the Resolution as Annex 1; the complete Summary of Changes to the New gTLD Registry Agreement is attached to the Resolution as Annex 2; a redline of the current agreement as compared to the previous version dated 29 April 2013 is attached to the Resolution as Annex 3; and the Summary and Analysis of Public Comments is available at http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/report-comments-base-agreement-…, 338 KB]. All of the resolutions adopted at the 2 July 2013 NGPC meeting are posted at http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-02jul13…. A table summarizing NGPC Consideration of the GAC's Beijing Advice appears below: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-03jul13-en.htm#su…

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