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Geographic Regions Review
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 11, 2007

March 11, 2007

Dear Community: The following presentation from the Sao Paulo meeting may be useful, especially for those who are new to ICANN. It discusses why the current review of Geographic Regions in ICANN is important and what the regions are used for. I hope you find it helpful. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011] USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 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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Re: [APAC-Discuss] [At-Large] ICANN IDN Laboratory test results online
by Siavash Shahshahani March 11, 2007

March 11, 2007

> Hong Xue ha scritto: >> >> Dear At-Large Community >> >> The positive IDN Laboratory test results that have just been posted on >> www.icann.org <http://www.icann.org/> - see directly at: >> >> http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-07mar07.htm >> >> It concludes that "during these tests, we were unable to detect any >> deviation at all in any part of the system from the normal behaviour of >> DNS systems. The addition of IDN strings seems to have had no measurable >> effect at all on the qualitative performance of the test systems. " >> >> These positive results will enable ICANN to move forward with the test >> of phase II. Phase II is currently under development but will be >> communicated as soon as possible. > > This is really a good development... I really hope that we can have full > deployment of IDNs as soon as possible. It is very important for many > parts of the world! > -- > vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- > --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <-------- > > _______________________________________________ > ALAC mailing list > ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > > www.alac.icann.org > www.icannalac.org > Could somebody describe a possible 'failure scenario' for the tests? Siavash

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An Introduction to Prof. Chang for APRALO election
by David Chen March 10, 2007

March 10, 2007

Dear all, Greeting! On behalf of ISOC Taiwan, Chair of Board, Prof. C.L. Liu, I would like to introduce a candidate from ISOC Taiwan in APRALO election, Prof. Ruay-Shiung Chang, who has deeply involved in ISOC activities with his knowledge, and best efforts. Prof. Chang is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM and a member of Japan's IEICE. From May 2004, he also serves on the Advisory Council for the www.pir.org, which manages the .ORG top-level domain name and maintains the database of all .ORG Internet addresses. In the Advisory council, Prof. Chang is in the Policy Committee, which proposes suggestions and solutions for various policy issues regarding the management of .org domain names in particular and the Internet in general. Prof. Chang also preaches the use, the freedom, and the democratization of the Internet in Taiwan. He has published numerous articles in Taiwanese newspapers about the Internet. According to http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm, Asia now has the largest number of Internet users at 398 millions. But with a population of about 3712 millions, the penetration rate is only 10.7%, far below 69.7% in North America, 53.5 in Oceania, and 38.9% in Europe. Therefore, Dr. Chang believes that one of the main missions for the APRALO is to negotiate more resources for the outreach of Internet in the Asia-Pacific region. If elected, Dr. Chang promises he will do his best to facilitate the better communication and further cooperation between APRALO, ALAC and ICANN. Dr. Chang can be reached at rschang(a)mail.ndhu.edu.tw for further questions and suggestions. Please find the attached for Prof. Chang's Resume, I thank you again for your continuous supports. Best Regards, David Chen ISOC-TW

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Nomination for APRALO
by YMYehCSIE March 9, 2007

March 9, 2007

Dear All: As the representative of ISOC-TW, as mentioned in Bali, we are looking to contribute our service for APRALO. Here we would like to nominate our member Dr. Ruay-Shiung Chang to run for the representative of ALAC. Attached you will find the resume of Dr. Ruay-Shiung Chang Sincerely yours, Yaoming Yeh ISOC-TW

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For election
by Izumi AIZU March 9, 2007

March 9, 2007

Dear all, It was so nice to have very productive meeting last week in Bali. I thank you all for your great contribution and collaboration. Now, after thinking several times and also consulted with my colleagues, I would like to submit my intention to become candidates for the following position: ALAC representative from AP region. My idea is that in order to preserve some contintuity, given that Hong is not going to run and Siavash will be endig his term at the next ICANN AGM in November, I would like to serve for the position. My intention is to be selected as the shorter, one-year term (max), and aim to make as smooth transition as possible. There are several subject matters ALAC must respond to rather quickly, on the table now: Domain tasting, Registerfly, whois, IDN, new gTLD Ombudsman Report, gNSO Review/LSE Recommendation and coming ALAC External Review I am particularly interested in the area of Domain tasing, Ombudsman, gNSO review and ALAC review. Global ALAC itself is also facing the rapid transition, as new RALOs are coming up from LAC to EU to Africa, making some stability is important. Besides above policy issues, many other issues and topics will arise as ICANN enters into new fiscal year from July: ALAC/ICANN budget, IGF, GAC-ICANN relation, Stratgic Planning/Operation Plan, Board Review, etc. I am more than happy if other colleagues have strong interest for ALAC and pursue these policy issues, but frankly speaking some of them are rather complex and may require some period to get accuanted where my knowldge and experience on ALAC for such long years may help ;-). I thank you very much for your warm support and understandings and looking forward to the conference call to facilitate our mutual consensus. izumi

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[At-Large] ICANN IDN Laboratory test results online
by Hong Xue March 8, 2007

March 8, 2007

Dear At-Large Community The positive IDN Laboratory test results that have just been posted on www.icann.org - see directly at: http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-07mar07.htm It concludes that "during these tests, we were unable to detect any deviation at all in any part of the system from the normal behaviour of DNS systems. The addition of IDN strings seems to have had no measurable effect at all on the qualitative performance of the test systems." These positive results will enable ICANN to move forward with the test of phase II. Phase II is currently under development but will be communicated as soon as possible. Hong ALAC IDN Liaison

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ICANN-related News Items
by ICANN At Large Staff March 8, 2007

March 8, 2007

I thought many of you would be interested in one or more of these news snippets: 1. ICANN locks down at-risk Registerfly domains ICANN planned to sue Registerfly.com on 6 March according to Computer Business Review Online, “saying the company is putting its customers' estimated 2 million domain names at risk.” The article notes “in an unprecedented move, ICANN has persuaded the four major generic top- level domain registries to lock down all Registerfly's customers' domains for a month, so they cannot expire and then be hijacked by speculators or domain traffic monetization firms.” With a letter to Registerfly last Friday from ICANN noting “Registerfly is refusing to hand over data about its customers' domains, as required by its registrar accreditation agreement, and that it will enforce the contract in court by filing suit on Tuesday.” The article also notes that as ICANN has not been able to get its hands on the registration data, they have got VeriSign, NeuStar and Afilias “to lock all pending-expiration Registerfly domains into a ‘Server-Delete- Prohibited’ status.” http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=80D83445-B5D5-47BC- B74D-D70EA124D72B 2. When Domain Names Bite Back This story on The Motley Fool gives a background on the RegisterFly “debacle” from an investor’s point of view, looking back as far as the dot-com crash where VeriSign's Network Solutions and Register.com were Wall Street darlings”. The article claims “Before the debacle at Registerfly, the industry was coming back into favour” with investors with GoDaddy looking at going public this year. The article concludes “The Registerfly story may still have a happy ending, but the clock on existing annual registrations keeps ticking. Whether the site cleans up its act, is sold off to a rival registrar, or finds ICANN in a more hands-on role, the industry's reputation is at stake. And consumer faith is on the line. In the name of domains, let's hope this nascent industry gets it right.” http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/03/07/when-domain-names- bite-back.aspx 3. Porn Industry Against New XXX Domain The Free Speech Coalition released a news release petitioning for help in opposing the .xxx TLD proposal. The Free Speech Coalition is the adult entertainment industry’s professional organisation. Genelle Belmas, professor of communications law, who argued in her dissertation in favour of a xxx TLD says, “The side that does not like pornography argues that if you give it its own domain you're legitimizing the porn. And the pornographers don't like it because they say it 'ghettoizes' the porn." The Executive Director of the FSC is quoted as saying what the adult industry refers to as "ghettoizing," is "making adult entertainment an easy target for anti- industry extremists and government intrusion." Other concerns are the cost of registering domain names ($60/year/domain) and that the TLD could be made “mandatory and subject to trans-Internet filtering that could effectively eliminate much of the adult content currently available on the Web." http://media.www.dailytitan.com/media/storage/paper861/news/ 2007/03/06/News/Porn-Industry.Against.New.Xxx.Domain-2759677.shtml

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Expressions of interest for leadership positions
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 8, 2007

March 8, 2007

Along with the agenda at the wiki, I've also put in a link to a Google spreadsheet version of the helpful document produced by David Farrar outlining the expressions of interest for the various postions. It can be viewed at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc? key=pDH-2Ym3VBKfZRCLTNIV4Hw -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011] USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 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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ICANN Successfully Conducts Laboratory Tests of Internationalised Domain Names
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 7, 2007

March 7, 2007

In October, 2006, ICANN engaged Autonomica AB of Stockholm, Sweden, to develop, conduct, and report on the results of laboratory testing of internationalized top-level domains in a setting corresponding to the public root. Quoting from their report, Just Posted this morning: Autonomica AB has, under a contract with ICANN, investigated whether the addition of top level domains containing encoded internationalized characters (so called IDNs) would have any impact on the operations of the root name servers providing delegations, or the iterative mode resolvers used to look up the information. No impact at all could be detected. All involved systems behaved exactly as expected. Internationalized domain names (IDNs) are domain names containing characters other than those based on the ASCII character sets. Such non-ASCII characters include those available in right-to-left scripts (e.g., Arabic) and non-alphabetic scripts (e.g., Mandarin Chinese). ICANN is actively involved in the efforts to make these available at the top level—that is, so that an entire domain name can be rendered in local characters. The global deployment of IDNs will enhance the local Internet experience in large regions of the world by enabling people to share and access information or use services offered in their own languages. The laboratory technical test is one of the prerequisites to eventual insert internationalized top level labels in the root zone. This test is intended to determine the viability of internationalized top-level names and the effect they may have on the DNS. The work was done by replicating the root server environment. The test intentionally did not incorporate the end-user perspective or a live root test. Autonomica reported successful insertion using two major server implementations used by most root server operators: BIND and NSD. The test design was finalized in December of 2006 following a public comment period. The test procedure was published so that others can replicate the test. Details of the test setup and design can be found here. Details of the test result can be found here. [PDF, 73K] For any questions or request for additional details of the test design and result please contact Tina Dam at tina.dam(a)icann.org For further information around ICANN’s IDN Program please visit http://www.icann.org/topics/idn/ -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011] USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 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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Fwd: APAC Telcon 8th March re Election of Officers
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 7, 2007

March 7, 2007

Begin forwarded message: > From: "susie sandford smith" <sandfordsmith(a)googlemail.com> > Date: 7 March 2007 17:02:08 GMT > To: apac-als(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > Cc: "Nick Ashton-Hart" <nashton(a)spamcop.net> > Subject: APAC Telcon 8th March re Election of Officers > > > > > > > > > > > Dear APAC ALSes, > > Please find below the details for tomorrow's telephone conference > scheduled for 11AM GMT to discuss the election of your officers. > > If you would like to access the conference via our vidoe > conferencing service over the net rather than by phone please let > us know. > > Regards > ALAC Staff > > PARTICIPANT INFORMATION > > PARTICIPANT ACCESS INFORMATION > > Please join MR NICK ASHTON HART on MAR-08-2007 (Thursday) at 11:00 > AM UK TIME. > Access information is below. > > > > > AUDIO PARTICIPANT ACCESS > CALL DATE: > > MAR-08-2007 (Thursday) > > CALL TIME: > > 11:00 AM UK TIME > > DURATION: > > 1 hr > > > > > > LEADER: > > MR NICK ASHTON HART > > > > > > > DIAL-IN NUMBERS: > > Country > > > > Toll Numbers > > Freephone/ > Toll Free Number > > > > > > AUSTRALIA > > > 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 > > CHINA* > > > > 10800-712-1193 > > > > > 10800-120-1193 > > COLOMBIA > > > > 01800-9-156463 > > CZECH REPUBLIC > > > 420-2-25-98-56-15 > > > DENMARK > > > 45-7014-0238 > > 8088-6075 > > FINLAND > > > 358-106-33-164 > > 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 > > > 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 > > POLAND > > > > 00-800-1210067 > > PORTUGAL > > > > 8008-12179 > > RUSSIA > > > > 8-10-8002-9613011 > > SINGAPORE > > > 65-6883-9197 > > 800-120-4057 > > 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 > > > *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. > > > > > > PASSCODE: > > 3448509 > > >

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