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Reminder: APRALO teleconference 22 September at 05:00 UTC
by At Large Staff Sept. 20, 2009

Sept. 20, 2009

Dear All, The next APRALO teleconference is scheduled for 22 September between 05:00 - 06:00 UTC. Participation information as well as the proposed agenda can found on the following page: https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?22_september_2009. Please note that there are very important items to be discussed on this call, including the current At-Large elections, APRALO views in the At-Large community's process of selecting a voting Board member, and the development of the APRALO meeting agenda to take place in Seoul. If you require a dial-out for either call, please let us know at staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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FW: [ALAC-Announce] REMINDER / Community Call with Board Liaison Candidates / 20 September 2009 @ 1800 UTC
by Heidi Ullrich Sept. 18, 2009

Sept. 18, 2009

Dear All, At the request of Cheryl Langdon Orr, Chair of ALAC, this message is being sent to encourage all of you to join this very important Community call with the candidates for the position of Board Liaison scheduled for Sunday, 20 September at 18:00 UTC (Mumbai 23:30; Hong Kong 02:00 Monday, 21 September; Sydney 04:00 Monday, 21 September). The information on this Community Call, including how to participate, is available at: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi/index.cgi?community_call_with_board_lia…. If you need a dial-out, please let staff know at: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. Please post your questions for the Board Liaison candidates directly to the agenda page prior to the Community call. To submit your questions, please click on the red "comment" button at the top of the page. As a reminder, APRALO ALS representatives may find APRALO election information at: https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?2009_election_calls_apralo. The At-Large Election Call wiki is available in at: https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?at_large_elections_2009. We very much look forward to your participation on the call. Kind regards, Heidi -----Original Message----- From: alac-announce-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-announce-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of At-Large Staff Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 7:06 AM To: alac-announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: [ALAC-Announce] REMINDER / Community Call with Board Liaison Candidates / 20 September 2009 @ 1800 UTC Importance: High Dear All, This is to remind you that the Community Call with the Board Liaison Candidates will be held on: Sunday, 20th September at 18:00 UTC (11:00 PDT/14:00 EDT/15:00 Buenos Aires/20:00 CEST/04:00 Sydney on Monday, 21st September). You will find the meeting information as well as the Draft Agenda at: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi/index.cgi?community_call_with_board_liai son_candidates Due to very low interest in a second call from members of the community, we have been asked to inform you that a second call will not be held. However, you can submit your questions directly on the meeting page in English, French or Spanish. To do so, please click on the ³comment² button at the top of the page. We strongly recommend you post your questions PRIOR to the call. The Board Liaison candidates who are not able to participate on this call, will respond to the questions directly on the wiki. To candidates: We remind them to review the questions from the community posted to the Questions Section in advance of the call, and if they are unable to attend the call, to provide answers via the comment feature of the wiki We look forward to hearing as many of you as possible on the call on Sunday! Thank you Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org ------ Forwarded Message From: At-Large Staff <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:52:38 -0700 To: <alac-announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Cc: At-Large Staff <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> Subject: Community Call with Board Liaison Candidates Dear All, As set out in the 2009 Board Election Process < https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?board_liaison_process_2009> (EN only), a special purpose teleconference shall be arranged not earlier than Friday, 18th September and not later than Sunday, 20th September at which the candidates for Board Liaison as forwarded from the RALOs to the ALAC shall be provided an equal length of time to speak about their candidature. The ALAC Chair will determine the length of time each candidate will speak prior to the start of the call. This will be followed by a question and answer period during which community members may ask questions of the candidates. The call will also include an explanation of the election process for the board liaison as well as the implications for this position following the Board¹s decision of 27th August 2009 for the At-Large community to select a voting director to the Board. So as to make the call at a time convenient for as many regions as possible, the call is scheduled for Sunday, 20th September at 18:00 UTC (11:00 PDT/14:00 EDT/15:00 Buenos Aires/19:00 CEST/04:00 Sydney on Monday, 21st September). This call shall be recorded and transcribed and conducted in English, Spanish, and French through the use of interpreters. Further call details will be sent out shortly. We recognize that this time may not be suitable for everyone in all regions, especially those in the Eastern hemisphere. Therefore, in order to ensure that as many people within the At-Large community are able to be on a call with the Board Liaison candidates, a Doodle is being offered for a potential additional call on Saturday, 19th September at times more suitable for people living in the Eastern hemisphere if there is sufficient demand. Please only respond to the Doodle if you are unable to participate in the call scheduled for Sunday, 20th September at 18:00 UTC. This call will be recorded and transcribed and conducted in English only. The Doodle is available here: http://www.doodle.com/s7yzrhfdi7t7qkz5. Thank you, Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org _______________________________________________ ALAC-Announce mailing list ALAC-Announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-announce_atlarge-lists… At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org

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congratulations
by Karaitiana Taiuru Sept. 17, 2009

Sept. 17, 2009

Congratulations to Hong for her re appointment to the NomCom for another 12 month period. Regards, Karaitiana Taiuru

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Board Liaison updates
by Karaitiana Taiuru Sept. 16, 2009

Sept. 16, 2009

Dear all, The names that APRALO is putting forward for the position of Board Liaison are located on the revised APRALO election wiki, available here: <https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?2009_election_calls_apralo>https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?2009_election_calls_apralo. This list is in alphabetical order and does not indicate preference. Regards Karaitiana Taiuru

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APRALO ALS Representative list for upcoming online polls
by At-Large Staff Sept. 4, 2009

Sept. 4, 2009

Dear All, In view of the upcoming At-Large elections, we would like to confirm the ALS representatives participating in the online election and the email address where the voting credentials will be sent to. Attached below you find to list with all regional ALSes representatives and the corresponding contacts according to our current information. This email was sent to all ALS representatives. Please respond to us by Sunday, September 13th, if the information for your ALS needs to be changed. You ONLY need to reply to this message if the information for your ALS is INCORRECT. Please do not reply to all recipients of this message, you can simply send to message to staff(a)atlarge.icann.org and we will send out an updated list before the start of the elections. There are currently only 17 eligible ALS representatives on the list. We did not add the ALS Communications and Multimedia Consumer Forum of Malaysia (CfM) as we do not have a contact email address for its main representative, Shahrir Saadun. Please contact us if you have a contact address for Shahrir so we can add him to the list. Thank you! -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff at atlarge.icann.org ************ Eligible APRALO voters (total 17): Aotearoa Maori Internet Organisation Karaitiana Taiuru karaitiana(a)taiuru.maori.nz Arab Knowledge Management Society (AKMS) Mahmoud Lattoufi mlattouf(a)agip.com At Large@China Dr. Hong Xue hong_xue(a)hotmail.com Chinese Domain Name Users Alliance Dr. Hong Xue hongxueipr(a)gmail.com Emirates Internet Group Khalid Bin Thani info(a)isoc.ae Hong Kong Internet Forum (HKIF) Paul Chow paul(a)hkif.hk Internet Users Network Izumi Aizu iza(a)anr.org Internet Users Society Niue Stafford Guest sguest(a)niue.nu ISOC Australia Cheryl Langdon-Orr langdonorr(a)gmail.com ISOC Chapter India Chennai Sivasubramanian Muthusamy isolatedn(a)gmail.com ISOC HK Edmon Chung edmon(a)isoc.hk ISOC NZ (Internet Society of NZ Incorporated) Keith Davidson keith(a)internetnz.net.nz ISOC Taiwan Chapter Chung Laung Liu liucl(a)mx.nthu.edu.tw National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association (NIIEPA) Ku Wei Wu, kuoweiwu(a)gmail.com Open Standards and Internet Association (OSIA) Hyun-kook Kahng kahng(a)kkorea.ac.kr Pacific Islands Chapter fo the Internet Society (PICISOC) Leslie Allison leslie.allinson(a)gmail.com Society Vasudhay Kutumbhkum (ISVK)- India Nimrol Agarwal nirmol81(a)yahoo.com ------ End of Forwarded Message

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Welcome the new ALAC Members Appointed by the NomCom
by At-Large Staff Aug. 31, 2009

Aug. 31, 2009

Dear All: We have the pleasure to provide the following note of the Chair of the ALAC: ---- We have our new NomCom appointees from the Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin American & Caribbean regions see http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-28aug09-en.htm. A Huge Welcome aboard to all of you I look forward to working with all of you in the ALAC and I'm sure I speak for everyone else in the Regional, ALS, and wider At-Large when I say we look forward to incorporating your expertise, views and energy into our policy development work and discussions over the next 2 years. -- Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO) Announcement text for ALAC NomCom appointments 2009-2011 is copied below... *<snip> ALAC* *James Seng* has been appointed as an At Large Advisory Committee member from Asia/Australia/Pacific. James will bring his significant expertise on IDN (internationalized domain names) to bear on At Large discussions, and can also share his experience of Internet issues in several Asian countries; including Malaysia, Singapore and China where he now resides. James is the CEO of Zodiac Holdings, a company focused on IDN gTLDs in Asia. James is also Chief Technology Officer of the Shanghai Synacast Media Tech. Co, a member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Advance Research and Education Network, and a committee member of the Internet and New Media Committee of Media Development Authority of Singapore. Previously, James has been a partner in Thymos Capital LLP 2007-2008, and worked as Assistant Director, Next Generation Network, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore from 2003-2006. James is or has been involved in numerous Internet-related groups and committees including the Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force, Internet Engineering Task Force, ICANN's IDN Registry Implementation Committee, Domain Name Technical Committeeof the Singapore Network Information Center, Asia Pacific Internet Association. He also served as Co-chair of the IDN Working Group, Internet Engineering Task Force, 1999-2003 and Chair of the iDNS Working Group, Asia Pacific Networking Group, 1998-2000. James' educational background includes a Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Engineering, Australian National University, 1996-1999 *Carlton Samuels* has been appointed as an At Large Advisory Committee member from Latin America / Caribbean. Carlton brings significant Caribbean experience and knowledge, and also an ability to facilitate consensus-building with the Latin American Internet community from his work as LACRALO secretariat. Carlton works as a consultant and an adjunct lecturer at the Information Science Faculty of Humanities & Education in the University of the West Indies at Mona Kingston, Jamaica. He is a Jamaican and US national. Previously, Carlton has worked as CIO & University Director of IT, University of the West Indies, Managing Director, Mona Informatix, as a registrar for the .jm ccTLD and VP, Network Systems, Neal & Massy Corporation as a senior executive with responsibility for regional network and telecommunications business segment for the largest Caribbean-based multinational. Carlton's current and previous volunteer positions include being a foundation member of and the current secretariat for the Latin America and Caribbean Regional At-Large Advisory Organization (LACRALO), member of the advisory boards of Microsoft Partners in Learning and the Project Advisory Board of the Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance Education (CUPIDE). Carlton has also been a member of the CARICOM ICT Task Force, a regional ICT leadership position charged with developing a cohesive ICT policy framework for Caribbean governments. Carlton's educational background includes a degree in Natural Sciences from The University of the West Indies, a postgraduate degree in management information systems from George Mason University, US, and a postgraduate diploma in corporate strategy from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. *Dave Kissoondoyal* has been appointed as an At Large Advisory Committee member from Africa. Dave will be an invaluable asset to the ALAC given his experience in Internet governance and the Internet Society, whose Mauritius chapter he founded. Dave is Director of Information Technology at Teleforma (Mauritius), Ltd - A US Upstream Company. Previously, Dave was Group Technical Director and Chief Technology Officer for the Bowman Group of Companies. Dave is a member of the Public Interest Registry .ORG Advisory Council, a member of the African Stakeholders Network (ASN) of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force and has been an Ambassador of the Internet Society to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Dave's other volunteer work includes acting at different times as Secretary, Treasurer and President (CEO) of Save the Children Mauritius. He also founded the Internet Society of Mauritius and is its president. Dave's education background includes a qualification in electronics from the University of Mauritius, in information systems management from the Mauritius Institute of Management / University of Surrey, United Kingdom, and in electronics from the City and Guilds of London Institute. He speaks English, French and Hindi. <end snip> -- Regards, *ICANN At-Large Staff* Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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LinkedIn RALO group
by Karaitiana Taiuru Aug. 30, 2009

Aug. 30, 2009

For those of you who have LinedIn accounts and wish to participate in the At Large discussions in LinkedIn please visit http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2238621&trk=hb_side_g The group description is below: -------------------- This area is reserved for members of registered At-Large Structures of ICANN as well as members as well as members and liaisons of the At-Large Advisory Committee and the five Regional At-Large Organizations (RALOs). --------------------- Regards Karaitiana Taiuru

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Welcome to ICANN At-Large!
by At-Large Staff Aug. 25, 2009

Aug. 25, 2009

25th August, 2009 TO: Open Standards and Internet Association FROM: ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) SUBJECT: At-Large Structure Certification ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you that the Open Standards and Internet Association has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS). The ALAC greatly appreciates your group¹s interest in involving individual users in ICANN and looks forward to working with you and your colleagues. The purpose of ALS certification is to recognize that your organization meets the necessary criteria to involve individual Internet users at the local or issue level in ICANN activities, and that your organization will support its individual members' informed participation in ICANN efforts that affect end-users. The ALAC is eager to promote a productive working relationship between your organization, other ALS, and the ALAC (and ICANN in general), and your input on how we can make this a success would be greatly appreciated. We would like to offer some initial tools to help your organization keep its members informed (about significant news from ICANN and information on ICANN policy-development efforts) and engaged in activities of interest: - Point of Contact for your Organisation: Please send an email to staff(a)atlarge.icann.org identifying the names and email addresses of one or two individuals who will be the point of contact for information and correspondence regarding ICANN At-Large. If this changes, please let us know. - At Large Mailing Lists. There are many At Large email lists, for each region; you can signup for them and manage your subscriptions at: http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo . The points of contact you identify will automatically be added to your region¹s list just for accredited ALSes to discuss regional issues and to the mailing list for Staff announcements; you are invited to join others as you wish. - ALS information. Information about your organization will be shared with the At-Large community to enable individuals interested in your group's activities to contact you, and to encourage cooperation with other groups interested in ICANN activities in your geographic region. Please complete and email the form at the bottom of this note to staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. - ALAC website. The ALAC website (www.atlarge.icann.org) is a good source for ICANN news and information of interest to individual Internet users. We encourage you to provide your members with a link. The ALAC relies on volunteers to translate information into multiple languages. Translations of documents on the website are welcome and should be sent to staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. - At-Large Regional Websites. Regional web pages also have been created to distribute information (including in local languages) on activities, events and issues of particular interest to people in each region. These are being very substantially revised in the next couple of weeks but you should keep the URLs handy and check back regularly. They are: African Region: http://www.afralo.org/ Asia/Australia/Pacific Region: http://www.apralo.org/ European Region: http://www.euralo.org/ Latin America/Caribbean Region: http://www.lacralo.org/ North American Region: http://www.naralo.org/ - Regional WiKi: Each At-Large Region has a Wiki that allows the region to collaborate. These are maintained by the community and create the regional websites shown above. This framework is in the final stages of preparation but if you wish to have a user account, send an email to staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. We look forward to working with you and your organization's members to advance individual Internet users' interests within ICANN. If you have any questions, or need additional information, please contact us at staff(a)atlarge.icann.org . Sincerely, The At-Large Advisory Committee www.atlarge.icann.org staff(a)atlarge.icann.org --------------------------- Name: Location (city/country/region; whatever is relevant to your membership): Mission: Member benefits: Contacts (name/s and email address/es -- title/s optional): Website: Other (additional informational you would like included):

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Fwd: Agenda posted
by Karaitiana Taiuru Aug. 25, 2009

Aug. 25, 2009

Reminder about our phone conference at UTC 05:00. >Dear all, > >Agenda has been posted on the link below, please see if you would like to >make changes or additions and do so, but let me know for the record. Thanks >and if there are any apologies, please send them here too. Thanks and look >forward to a great phone meeting on the 25th of August. > >https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?25_august_2009 > > >Pavan Budhrani >Communications Manager, >DotAsia Organisation >_______________________________________________ >APAC-Discuss mailing list >APAC-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/apac-discuss_atlarge-lists.… > >Homepage for the region: http://www.apralo.org

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Re: [APAC-Discuss] Agenda posted - and new At-Large External Events calendar
by Karaitiana Taiuru Aug. 22, 2009

Aug. 22, 2009

Dear colleagues, As previously discussed in several APRALO meetings we know have a worldwide RALO calender to add our regional events and ALS events. I assume everyone has received an invite to access the calender. The calender can be accessed here <https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi>https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi and is a Google calender. Could you please update with your events prior to the up comming APRALO meeting. We can then discuss possible outreach opportunities based on the calender events provided by you. Regards, Karaitiana Taiuru >I will also discuss the new At-Large external >events calendar (see the orange-colored events >at: ><https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi>https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi >- and click on the arrow on the right hand-hand >side of the calendar to specify At-Large >External Events). It is important that APRALO >ALSes identify upcoming APRALO outreach events >on this calendar prior to Tuesdays call with >ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, as this issue is a main >agenda item (see: ><https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi/index.cgi?alac_call_with_rod_beckstrom>https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi/index.cgi?alac_call_with_rod_beckstrom) >Please could you send out a message requesting >this information and add your own events, as well. > >Kind regards, >Heidi > >From: pavs16(a)gmail.com [mailto:pavs16@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Pavan Budhrani >Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:27 PM >To: Heidi Ullrich >Cc: Karaitiana Taiuru; cheryl(a)hovtek.com.au; >langdonorr(a)gmail.com; leslie.allinson(a)gmail.com; mlattouf(a)agip.com >Subject: Re: Agenda posted > >We will definitely want a physical APRALO >meeting there which could sub for your monthly meeting for October. :) > >Pavan >On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Heidi Ullrich ><<mailto:Heidi.Ullrich@icann.org>Heidi.Ullrich(a)icann.org> wrote: > >Hi Pavan and Karaitiana, > > > >Thanks very much for posting the APRALO agenda. It looks great! > > > >As you will hear during tomorrows Cross-RALO >call, At-Large staff have created an At-Large >external events calendar using Google calendars. >You may recall that this was an action item from >the Secretariats meeting in Sydney and is to >contain upcoming events from the RALOs as well >as global partnerships. It is suggested that >this calendar of regional events be used as a >means to highlight upcoming events in the RALOs >and Global Partnerships rather than using >thumbtacks in the RALO maps. APRALO may also >wish to create a wiki page of upcoming events in >the region. EURALO recently created a regional >events wiki where information on upcoming events >is available and people can sign up to >participate: ><https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?euralo_regional_events>https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?euralo_regional_events. >Would APRALO like a similar page, or is the Google calendar sufficient? > > > >Suggested agenda items include: > >1) planning for Seoul if APRALO would >like to schedule a physical meeting during the >Seoul Meeting, At-Large staff need to know no later than 1 September; > >2) feedback from the two community calls on >travel support/regional meetings > >3) upcoming ALAC call with ICANN CEO Rod >Beckstrom: ><https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi/index.cgi?alac_call_with_rod_beckstrom>https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi/index.cgi?alac_call_with_rod_beckstrom > >(Cheryl can discuss these latter two items) > > > >Kind regards, > >Heidi > > > > > > > > > > > > > >From: <mailto:pavs16@gmail.com>pavs16(a)gmail.com >[mailto:pavs16@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Pavan Budhrani >Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:16 AM >To: APRALO >Cc: Heidi Ullrich >Subject: Agenda posted > > > >Dear all, > >Agenda has been posted on the link below, please >see if you would like to make changes or >additions and do so, but let me know for the >record. Thanks and if there are any apologies, >please send them here too. Thanks and look >forward to a great phone meeting on the 25th of August. > ><https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?25_august_2009>https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?25_august_2009 > > >Pavan Budhrani >Communications Manager, >DotAsia Organisation > > > >-- >Pavan Budhrani >Communications Manager, >DotAsia Organisation

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