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Urgent: Non-Com
by Pavan Budhrani July 18, 2011

July 18, 2011

Dear All, The At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) appoints, in consultation with APRALO, a representative from APRALO to serve on the ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom ; *http://nomcom.icann.org/*). Such representatives of the NomCom are appointed for a one year term, and may be re-appointed for a further term of one year subject to the requirement under the ICANN By Laws that a such a representative may only serve a maximum of two consecutive years. While APRALO does not formally elect a representative to the NomCom, APRALO has to submit to ALAC a list of all accepted regional nominations for the NomCom position and may also make (as usual) a recommendation of a preferred candidate to the ALAC. The representative from Asia Pacific to the NomCom was Vivek Vivekandan. He is eligible for re-election. Any representative from an accredited ALS can be a delegate and needs to understand the obligations and requirements for Nominating Committee members: * https://community.icann.org/x/gIMi* The deadline for the submission of nominations to be considered as a delegate from APRALO to the Nominating Committee is July 25, 2011. If there are more than one accepted nomination after the deadline, then an electronic vote would be held to select a preferred APRALO delegate to the Nominating Committee. Pavan Budhrani Director of Business Development DotAsia Organisation

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Action Items from Singapore meeting
by Pavan Budhrani July 8, 2011

July 8, 2011

Hi all, Here are the action items and minutes from the Singapore meeting https://community.icann.org/display/APRALO/APRALO+21.06.2011+Teleconference -- Pavan Budhrani Director of Business Development DotAsia Organisation

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ICANN Publishes Registrant Rights and Responsibilities Webpage
by ICANN At-Large Staff June 28, 2011

June 28, 2011

Dear All, ICANN has published a document that identifies available registrant rights and responsibilities under the 2009 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), on a webpage that summarizes available registrant rights and responsibilities including those that arise under ICANN Consensus Policies and specifications, as they are incorporated in the RAA: http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/registrant-rights-responsibilities-en.htm . The document, translated into several languages, is available at: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-27jun11-en.htm. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, ICANN At-Large Staff

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APRALO Report at ICANN 41 Singapore
by Charles Mok (gmail) June 27, 2011

June 27, 2011

*The following is an expanded report from me as APRALO Chair in the Wrap-up meeting this morning at ICANN 41 Singapore. (Because of time I was only able to give a brief verbal summary of the following in the meeting.)* I will make a brief report for APRALO about our work in the last several months as well as during this ICANN meeting. We had an election held with voting conducted between May 11-19, 2011, and the result that I (Charles Mok, of Internet Society Hong Kong) elected as Chair, Holly Raiche (of Internet Society Australia) elected as Vice Chair, and Internet Society Hong Kong (represented by Pavan Badhrani) elected as Secretariat, with the term until Jun 30, 2013. Our other Vice Chair remains to be Fauod Bajwa (of Pakistan ICT Policy Monitor), with his term until Jun 30, 2012. I am the third chair in one calendar year before my election, succeeding Hong Xue, our last APRALO Chair, and certainly someone who leaves a big shoe for me to fill. It was unfortunate for APRALO that Hong cannot continue her service as Chair for us, but we know she will continue to contribute greatly to our community. The biggest issues we face in our Asia, Australiasia and Pacific Islands community are continuity, stability, outreach, and policy work. Currently we have twenty-one ALS member organizations, in a region with more than seventy countries/regions. Some countries/regions in fact have more than one ALS members in APRALO, such as India, Pakistan and Hong Kong, so we have a long way to go. We are continually challenged by our large and wide geography, diverse language and cultural differences, and relatively little participation from the Arabic world, Central Asia, etc. In the past, under Hong's leadership, we developed a system dividing the leadership duties of our two vice chairs into outreach and policy works. It was unfortunate that our two vice chairs cannot join our meeting this time, even though it was held within our region. Yet, it is clear that outreach and policy works are closely related -- no good policy comments can be made without wide and deep participation from our ALS members, hence we need good inreach effort in addition to outreach. It is always a worry on my mind that we lack substantive inputs from ALS members for ICANN policy comments we are to make, hence the responses may not be as representative of all views as APRALO likes them to be. I would also take this opportunity to report that, since the last ICANN meeting in San Francisco in early 2011, APRALO responded in March to the Draft Proposal for the Study of Issues Related to the Delegation of IDN Variants TLDs. We urged ICANN's recognition on the work done by the Asia Pacific community on various related major Asian languages such as the Arabic, Indic and Chinese languages. We also urged ICANN to adopt the bottom-up-developed IDN Variant policies, and to consult APRALO to identify members for the case study team. In the months preceding this ICANN meeting, we also made a budget proposal to ICANN, requesting funding support for holding a much-needed face-to-face general assembly, and other plans for outreach and promotion. Unfortunately, we did not receive any funding alloted to APRALO, as the ICANN Finance Team explained that since this current ICANN meeting is held in Asia (Singapore), they considered this already an opportunity for us to have a regional summit. However, judging by the number of ALS members of APRALO who are present here, this was clearly not the case. I have made clear our strong comment of disapproval to the ICANN Finance team, and to the ALAC community. On the other hand, I am happy to report that the two new ALS applications from our region have been approved by ALAC in this meeting, and they are Internet Society India Kolkata Chapter (of India) and NetMission.Asia (of Hong Kong). In fact, supported by DotAsia Organization, over ten young representatives of NetMission.Asia -- the youngest of age 14 -- are present in this ICANN meeting and have joined our APRALO activities here and some of the ALAC meetings. Their number may have set a new record of the number of attendees from one ALS in Asia. Going forward, NetMission.Asia will report back on its participation in ICANN in Hong Kong, elevating the level of awareness. On the other hand, APRALO will continue to encourage more youth participation and volunteering. Back on the topic of outreach and inreach, we made efforts to warm old ties and build new ones at various regional events, in order to promote APRALO and recruit new ALS members, for instance, in APRICOT-APAN 2011 held in Hong Kong in February, where more than 1,500 people attended, and the Internet Society Regional Workshop in April in Colombo, Sri Lanka. We renewed ties with ALS members from Taiwan, Pakistan, Pacific Islands, etc. and build links to potential new ALS. I would also like to report that our APRALO Showcase was held successful on Monday afternoon here in Singapore. It was unfortunate that at the very last minute we were informed that ICANN scheduled a briefing on new gTLD at the same time as our event, which has caused the attendance in the Showcase to be less than my expectation. However, all who attended agreed that it was a great event, with keynotes from Rajnesh Singh (the first APRALO chair) and Dr Peng-hwa Ang (well-recognized Internet leader in Singapore). We also have received attention from many remote participants over the audiocast. I would like to thank the Working Group members who have worked hard in the last couple months putting this event together remotely, with participate gratitude to ICANN staff and Pavan, who was my co-chair for the working group. Looking to the future, in order to strategically improve our outreach and policy comment works, we will focus on driving volunteers participation, raising APRALO and ICANN awareness, etc. In fact, with the new gTLD program,. we will face more attention as well as challenges and opportunities. We will start to do that in Hong Kong, regardless of the support from ICANN. We will encourage the newly-formed Internet Society Singapore chapter to join as an ALS, and I will also propose to target specific major Asian Internet economies, such as Malaysia, Philippines -- to join. Thank you for your attention and support. Charles Mok Chair Internet Society Hong Kong

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ALAC Chair's Report at ICANN 41 Singapore meeting
by Charles Mok (gmail) June 27, 2011

June 27, 2011

Dear Members, The ICANN 41 Singapore meeting has ended on Friday and it is a truly historic event with the approval by the board of the New gTLD program. There are also a lot of work and discussion by the At-Large community and it is summarized in the ALAC Chair's report below: ALAC Chair's Report at Singapore Meeting - June 2011 Report *from the Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee to the 41st* *Meeting of ICANN in Singapore (**PDF<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/17465713/Singapore_ALAC+Ch…> **)**Slides of the Chair's Report to the 41st* *Meeting of ICANN in Singapore (**PDF<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/17465713/Singapore_ALAC+Ch…> **;* *PPT<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/17465713/Singapore_ALAC+Ch…> **)* Of course, we also had a great event with APRALO Showcase for our outreach and promotion, and you can find the pictures in: http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesmok/sets/72157627010635218/ Thanks and regards, Charles Mok APRALO

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Thank you from APRALO Showcase!
by Charles Mok (gmail) June 22, 2011

June 22, 2011

Dear all fellow APRALO'ers, I would like to give my big thank you to all of you who attended yesterday's APRALO showcase, especially of course our two great keynote speakers, Raj and Peng Hwa, as well as others including Olivier, Sebatian, James, and our ALS members presenting their organizations....Hong, Kuo Wei, Siva, Andrew, Kuo-Wei, Richard, etc -- sorry if I missed anyone! Also, last but not least, the great support from ICANN staff and our own secretariat -- Gisella, Seth and Matt, and also Pavan (who also co-chair our WG for the showcase!), and Ping for taking the pictures of the event!! Thanks again and here are the pictures I put on my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesmok/sets/72157627010635218/ See if others may have more to share! Thanks, Charles

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APRALO monthly meeting: 21 June 2011
by Seth Greene June 21, 2011

June 21, 2011

Hello, APRALO members, Please remember that the monthly APRALO meeting will occur on 21 June 2011 at 1:00 pm (Singapore time) -- which is 5:00 UTC. We will send around the link to the regular meeting page as soon as it is ready. For now, the agenda is attached below. Also, we will send around the remote-participation instructions, since this meeting is physically taking place in Singapore. Thanks very much, Seth _____________________________________________________________ APRALO AGENDA: 21 JUNE 2011 Standing Issues: 1. Roll Call (Staff, 2 minutes) 2. Review of Action Items from the 26 April 2011<https://community.icann.org/display/APRALO/APRALO+Action+Items+26.04.11> call (Charles, 5 min) Proposed Agenda Items: 3. Regional Policy Work (Charles, 10 min) - New GNSO Policy Development Process http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-09jun11-en.htm -WHOIS Review Team - http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-09jun11-en.htm 4. APRALO Showcase in Singapore (10 min) - Follow up on the showcase event 6. Reports and updates (Charles, Pavan, 5 min) - Chair's report and updates from the ALAC members and liaisons (Cheryl, Edmon, Vivek, James) - Announcement of new ALSes: NetMission Asia and Internet Society Kolkata Chapter (Charles, 5 min) 8. AOB (Charles, 5 min) ______ Seth Greene Interim Manager, At-Large Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Telephone: + 1 (212) 662-7723 E-mail: seth.greene(a)icann.org<mailto:seth.greene@icann.org>

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REMINDER: APRALO Teleconference - Tuesday, 21 June 05:00 UTC
by Marilyn Vernon June 20, 2011

June 20, 2011

Dear All, The next APRALO teleconference is scheduled for Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 05:00 UTC (13: 00 local Singapore time) in the VIP Lounge. Please note that this meeting will take place during ICANN's 41st International Public Meeting in Singapore. The agenda and remote participation details can be found on the Singapore schedule (listed below): Singapore Schedule - http://singapore41.icann.org/node/24533 wiki page - https://community.icann.org/x/yIAKAQ Adobe Connect Room: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/sin41-viplounge If you are unable to attend the call please send an email indicating your absence and we will note this information on the agenda. If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Gisella Gruber-White, Seth Greene, Marilyn Vernon, Matt Ashtiani ICANN At-Large Staff

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Invitation to APRALO Showcase Event 2011, Singapore ICANN (Mon Jun 20 2:30pm)
by Charles Mok (gmail) June 17, 2011

June 17, 2011

*APRALO Showcase Event 2011, Singapore ICANN* * * APRALO Cordially invites you to its Showcase Event to be held: Where? Bencoolen Foyer, Raffles City Convention Centre When? Monday, 20th June at 2:30pm for an hour We will have a keynote speech from Dr Ang, Professor and Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. We will also have speeches by Rajnesh Singh who was there when APRALO began and some presentations from ALS’es in the region. Please make your way to the place at 2:30pm, Coffee and refreshments will be served as well. Looking forward to seeing you there Charles Mok APRALO Chair

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APRALO SHOWCASE: MONDAY, 20 JUNE 2011, AT 2:30 PM
by ICANN At-Large Staff June 17, 2011

June 17, 2011

APRALO Showcase At ICANN’s 41st International Meeting in Singapore APRALO cordially invites you to its Showcase! Bencoolen Foyer (on Level 4) Raffles City Convention Centre 80 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189560 Monday, 20th June 2011 >From 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. (local time) ____________________________ Highlights will include: A keynote speech by Professor Ang Peng Hwa<http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/pages/StaffProfile.asp…>, Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre<http://www.sirc.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/default.aspx> at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University Topic: Internet Governance and the Role of APRALO A speech by Rajnesh Singh, Director of the Asian Regional Bureau of ISOC Topic: From the Start of APRALO to Now Presentations by APRALO At-Large Structures (ALSes) ____________________________ Coffee and refreshments will be served Looking forward to seeing you there! Pavan Budhrani APRALO Secretariat

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