November 2007 - At-Large - lists.icann.org

budget committee nomination and thanks to all
by Annette Muehlberg Nov. 5, 2007

Nov. 5, 2007

All, thank you all for the friendly and very productive meeting in LA. It was sad to loose our old ALAC members: to all of you many thanks. It was great to get know all new ALAC members and I hope, this was an encouraging start for all of you. I think it was very positive, that in our last meeting on thursday we agreed on abolishing the secretariat-list and have a joint ALAC and Secretariat list. As well, that we decided, that if chairs/secretariats of the RALOs take part in ICANN meeting, we will always have joint ALAC-Secretariats meetings. I would like to thank Dough Brent and Denise Michel for joining us on our thursday meeting. It is very helpful, that we now have a general procedure in place for planning our project/budget planning: - Chair sends out to all regional lists a request for planning their regional projects and handing in budget applications for the planning of the current fiscal year 2007/2008 as well as 2008/2009. Applications have to include a clear definition of the projects, its missions and what should be accomplished. Budget Committee puts proposals together. ALAC (in coop with RALO nominees), based on the proposals of its Budget Sub-Committee, plans a prioritised proposed budget / funds requirement forecast, for a given period, based upon RALOs and ALAC members input. 2. ICANN/the ICANN community decides on funds availability and proposes a match of funds (modified, full or partial) to each prioritised proposal (and if certain project proposals are not accepted as being either of merit OR able to be funded, ICANN gets in touch with ALAC before denial and explains its reservations, so that the Sub Committee can act to find a consensus for the budget plan). 3. We care about transparency: at least ALAC and RALO nominees should always have access to an online forum where all the budget expanses - planned and already realized. Budget Committee receives every single extra request (workshops etc. of RALOs and ALAC as well as individual demands of ALAC and RALO members (such as travel costs to meetings other than ICANN meetings) for reason of transparency and to give recommendation to staff (larger projects in consultation with ALAC). Dough informed us, that next year the operating plan and budget plan will be set up at the same time (february?) and will then be discussed by the community. Though the fiscal year begins july first, ALAC has to hand in its planning (based on inputs by the At-Large, RALOs and the ALAC itself) beginning January next year. And immediately to come up with the planning for the current fiscal year. For an event as big as an users summit in Paris next year, we were told that we would have to come up with especially convincing arguments. As always: the amount of money needed has to be weighed with the importance and possible impact of the respective project. As we have one place free on the budget committee (former member was Jaqueline), I would like to nominate Vanda for our budget committee, who already showed a lot of interest in the budget planning and told me that she would accept the nomination. There is a lot to do, we will work on it together. I hope everyone has a safe trip home. All the best to all of you Annette

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My offer to help
by Bill Silverstein Nov. 5, 2007

Nov. 5, 2007

I'm willing to assist as needed. My interest includes RAA and Whois issues. I am a software engineer (an old timer that remembers upgrading to 64k in a system) that have been tracking and litigating against spammers (and aiding others in doing the same).

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dot mobi liason?
by John L Nov. 5, 2007

Nov. 5, 2007

Hi. Did the ALAC decide whether it was Wolfgang or me for the .MOBI policy advisory board? Regards, John Levine, johnl(a)iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.

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agenda items invitation of nomcom member
by Annette Muehlberg Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

All, concerning our agenda today: 1. Ross Rader, ALAC appointed NomCom member from NA, would like to take the chance to talk with us some minutes. He has time to join us right after our meeting at 5 pm. So please, if you have no urgent other stuff to do, take the chance to stay further 10 minutes. Other NomCom members might want to join as well. 2. I talked with Hue and Veronica and we have the following proposals for our agenda: a.. Informing At-Large on LA-ICANN Meeting. We propose, several people sign up to summary ICANN working sessions of ALAC/RALO and others related to individual internet users. This information should include conclusions and proposed steps the ALAC should take on the respective issues. - Showing role of ALAC in Domain tasting - issues report and PDP. Role of Working group/Members. a.. Planning ahead: on the short and on the long run after LA Meeting. b.. Question: Do we have one issue we should all concentrate on? To each Issue someone should be assigned to as coordinator/responsible, definition of timeline. c.. Planning committee for next ICANN meeting in India - ALAC and RALO members from Asia Pacific? One further issue which we decided on sunday to talk about was, apart from budget, the definition of role of staff which I would like to propose to add to point 2, Division of Responsibilities between RALOs and the ALAC. And we should not forget to set clear times for breaks. ;-) So updated agenda would be: Location: Bel Air Room A G E N D A (including breaks) 1. 1300 - 1400 Report of the Secretariats on their Previous Meetings: 1. Priorities of each RALO for the next year ("the Vision Thing") 2. Efforts to Improve Internet End-User Engagement with ICANN Issues 3. Discussion on Face-to-Face Meetings and Community Engagement (includes Summit idea) 2. 1400 - 1530 Synthesis of the Secretariat and ALAC's Views on These Subjects, as well as: 1. Priorities for At-Large overall for the next year - Informing At-Large on LA-ICANN Meeting. (several people sign up to summary ICANN working sessions of ALAC/RALO and others related to individual internet users. This information should include conclusions and proposed steps the ALAC should take on the respective issues.) - Showing role of ALAC in Domain tasting - issues report and PDP. Role of Working group/Members. - Planning ahead: on the short and on the long run after LA Meeting. - Question: Do we have one issue we should all concentrate on? To each Issue someone should be assigned to as coordinator/responsible, definition of timeline. - Planning committee for next ICANN meeting in India - ALAC and RALO members from Asia Pacific? 2. Division of Responsibilities between RALOs and the ALAC and definition of role of staff 3. 1530-1600 Training on New Membership, ALS Application, and Due Dilligence Handling System (R Guerra) 4. 1600-1620 Demonstration of new atlarge.icann.org (Marc Salvatierra & Nick Ashton-Hart) 5. 1620-1700 Budgeting Process (D Brent, N Ashton-Hart, D Michel) 6. 1700-1715 Talk with ALAC NomCom member(s) See you soon Annette

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ROOM CHANGE: Today's ALAC+Secretariats Session now in Plaza
by Nick Ashton-Hart Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

We have been moved to a new bigger room with a better translation booth setup - Plaza. I will have a sign on Century A/B for those who don't get this. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 595 85 44 mobile: +41 (79) 595 54 68 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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At-Large Social Dinner / LA ICANN
by Robert Guerra Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

I have made a dinner reservation for 18 for 8:30 this evening Chinois on Main (Vietnamese/french) http://www.gusto.com/california/santamonica/restaurants/chinoisonmain-R2321… Santa Monica I'll confirm the # attending at this afternoon's alac meeting other then dinner, i've been told that there's a group from LAC (not sure what constituency) that will be going out to dance salsa around 10:30. I'll try to find out the location, so that those interested might be able to join them as well. regards Robert

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Jacqueline's presentation at ICANN Open Forum
by Alan Greenberg Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

Great job!!! Alan

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ALAC Statement on ICANN Board IDN Questions
by Nick Ashton-Hart Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

Note that the following has been posted to www.alac.icann.org: under 'Correspondence and Statements' and will shortly also be on the main page: At-Large Advisory Committee Submits Response to June 2007 IDN Questions to the ICANN Board On October 29th, the At-Large Advisory Committee agreed unanimously on a detailed response to the questionnaire on IDNs posed to it by the ICANN Board of Directors in June 2007. This statement was the product of extensive consultations with the worldwide At-Large community. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 595 85 44 mobile: +41 (79) 595 54 68 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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Comments about at-large/ALAC in ICANN newsletter
by Robert Guerra Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

Several colleagues are reporting that inappropriate and false information on and about at-large and ALAC meetings this week are being printed in the ICANN newsletter. I would like to ask : 1. that the text present in the newsletter be posted to the list, and 2. should the text and/or comments be deemed as inappropriate, then ALAC should take appropriate actions regards Robet

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Re: [At-Large] DRAFT ALAC comment on IPv4 depletion and IPv6 migration
by cheryl＠hovtek.com.au Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

Good afternoon, I have just come from the presentation of this statement by Carlos on behalf of ALAC, to the ASO... (please note I have not included here the draft text as I was off the email grid when it was circulated to lists on Monday but if it did not go to both lists then I implore someone to rectify that I now have read on local network and send via my mail server as the only option :-( Some *brief points* that will be further discussed in ALAC meetings should be noted by all of you interested in this matter of v4 -> v6... Firstly our presentation was most warmly and generously received, and our thanks go to Carlos Aguirre for both his presentation and his work in preparing for this matter when Izumi (our normal lead in this topic) was unable to stay in LA for this meeting... It is my firm belief that as a result of his representation to the ASO meeting, we have established a clear profile as a 'party of interest' which needs to be involved with the policy deliberation processes that occurs in this group (not only in the important issue of IPv4 distribution) but also any other matters that effect us as the end user (i.e. consumers of the services) that the addressing infrastructure provides for... Secondly several questions were asked, and comments made, after the presentation... Carlos will fully outline these in his report back to ALAC on this meeting, but a few excellent suggestions regarding a change of the terms used in our draft document were made, and should be noted by the At-Large Community, as we will desire YOUR input on these particular points, as we do our edit... Specifically these were the use of 'migration' this term has certain contextual / interpretation issues and it is advised that we should replace it in our documentation with the term "transition", and the very valid point that the use of the term "black-market" needs replacing with a nomenclature that indicates that it is an undesirable secondary market... the potential of what does the word 'hype' means in the draft was pre-emptively dealt with by Carlos in his annotation to that section and also requires attention. Also ARIN have kindly supplied us with access to some of their plain language summary of issues texts which will greatly enhance our own outreach efforts in our regions and local environments and *most importantly* have already done extensive translation pieces of this text which we can use AND seem willing to explore possible assistance to us in translation to language not currently addressed in their document repository. Finally this is a clear invitation (if not mandated requirement) for us to be actively involved in the policy development *particularly* at the policy development points in the community input into the regional registry processes this constituency uses... And as they use a regional based system which mirrors our own interaction and mutual exchange of idea points do not need to be "created" they do however need to be locally actioned. And I know I personally look forward to our future work together in matters of mutual interest. Kindest regards, Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO)

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