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

[Fwd: Re: [NA-Discuss] African Region finishes its MoU]
by Wendy Seltzer March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

With or without RALOs, these are concrete issues of concern to individual Internet users. Should ALAC be writing reports, starting PDPs, or just letting its users' concerns lie? (I vote against the last option...) --Wendy -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] African Region finishes its MoU Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:55:49 -0800 (PST) From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger(a)yahoo.com> To: NA Discuss <na-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Re: "February has turned out to be a good month for the At-Large community" I guess that depends on who you talk to: (1) The registerfly.com debacle has already resulted in 75,000 domain name registrations that weren't processed in January owing to fraud and mismanagement. http://icann.org/correspondence/registerfly-notice-of-breach-21feb07.pdf (2) The Chair of the Registrars Constituency has revealed that ICANN has never implemented registrant data escrow protection by failing to provide a schedule, terms, and format for data escrow. http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg06000.html (3) GNSO Councilor Sophia Bekele has reported that two prominent domain name resellers have been denied membership in the GNSO Business Constituency (which they viewed as the necessary conduit that would allow for full participation in the GNSO IDN Working Group). These firms are Regtime of Russia and Karmania Media (Iran). The sordid details are at http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03256.html (4) The NCUC posts a press release describing ICANN as the Net's Word Police. http://www.bloggernews.net/14882 (5) The Eurid Registry (.eu) finds it necessary to create a Registrar Code of Conduct; Eurid will establish a platform to better log the flood of complaints against registrars (this is after having sued 400 registrars for breach of contract and having earlier suspended 74,000 domains). http://www.eurid.eu/images/Documents/CoC/code_of_conduct_en.pdf --- Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org> wrote: > For those who don't already know this, the African > ALS Community > finished their MoU with ICANN and it went off to the > Office of the > General Counsel late last week. > > The European ALS community will also be meeting in > Lisbon and are > committed to finishing work on their MoU and Bylaws > there - making > three (!) new RALOs at one ICANN Meeting. > > Congratulations on all the hard work :) February has > turned out to be > a good month for the At-Large community :) > > -- > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NA-Discuss mailing list > NA-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss_atlarge-lists.ic… > --- > Draft MoU with ICANN: > http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_MOU > > Draft Operating Principles: > http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_OP > ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news _______________________________________________ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss_atlarge-lists.ic… --- Draft MoU with ICANN: http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_MOU Draft Operating Principles: http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_OP -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/

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Fwd: AP-RALO completed MoU and OP Today
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

I thought the wider At-Large world would be keen to hear the good news from Asia today. Congratulations to the AP At-Large Community :) It was great to meet you all and I look forward to helping to facilitate your making a difference for a long time to come :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Izumi AIZU <iza(a)anr.org> Date: 28-Feb-2007 22:57 Subject: [APAC-Discuss] AP-RALO completed MoU and OP To: Interim ALAC <alac(a)icann.org>, Asia-Pacific Discuss < apac-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Dear all, I would like to take this opportunity to report that AP RALO formation meeting here in Bali during APRICOt took place today, and I am pleased to share that we have completed most of the tasks for the formation, we reached the consensus on Draft MoU with ICANN, and also on Operating Principles. 12 ALS representative out of 13 gathered here and we put our initiating signatures to the documents, to be submitted to the ICANN Board. We could not complete the selection of new ALAC members and officers, but agreed with the selection schedule, including the nomination starting shortly, for a week, etc. The official announcment should come any time soon together with the minutes of our meeting. As one of "interim" members of ALAC together with Ms. Hong Xue from AP region, I personally feel greatful to all the support and active involvement of all ALS members here in our region, as well as staff support, and also all the friendly advices and suport from larger ALAC friends in other regions and othe ICANN community memebrs. Nom-com designated Siavash did the great job of charing the session of the entire day. Special thanks to Siavash! Well, the real tasks will be still there, and not easy, but I hope we will eventually make rational and meaningful steps to bring the voices of individual users in this region to the ICANN policy process. izumi _______________________________________________ APAC-Discuss mailing list APAC-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/apac-discuss_atlarge-lists.… -- -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 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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Communications from the public; registrar data escrow
by Wendy Seltzer March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

A couple questions. Is anyone monitoring <http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/> ? We should have a way for the ordinary Internet user to get in touch with ALAC, and through us, ICANN (as if we can get in touch with ICANN), but I thought we had closed this forum due to spam. It seems still to be alive, and collecting several dozen complaints about RegisterFly, for one. Can we establish better means of getting public input??? 1.1 - Do we want to say something about ICANN's failure to demand data escrow, as the general public had thought was provided for in the RAA (3.6)? I see this as a place where even ICANN's standard "no third party beneficiary" language wouldn't save them from suit by a harmed registrant. --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/

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African Region finishes its MoU
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 28, 2007

Feb. 28, 2007

For those who don't already know this, the African ALS Community finished their MoU with ICANN and it went off to the Office of the General Counsel late last week. The European ALS community will also be meeting in Lisbon and are committed to finishing work on their MoU and Bylaws there - making three (!) new RALOs at one ICANN Meeting. Congratulations on all the hard work :) February has turned out to be a good month for the At-Large community :) -- 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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AP-RALO completed MoU and OP
by Izumi AIZU Feb. 28, 2007

Feb. 28, 2007

Dear all, I would like to take this opportunity to report that AP RALO formation meeting here in Bali during APRICOt took place today, and I am pleased to share that we have completed most of the tasks for the formation, we reached the consensus on Draft MoU with ICANN, and also on Operating Principles. 12 ALS representative out of 13 gathered here and we put our initiating signatures to the documents, to be submitted to the ICANN Board. We could not complete the selection of new ALAC members and officers, but agreed with the selection schedule, including the nomination starting shortly, for a week, etc. The official announcment should come any time soon together with the minutes of our meeting. As one of "interim" members of ALAC together with Ms. Hong Xue from AP region, I personally feel greatful to all the support and active involvement of all ALS members here in our region, as well as staff support, and also all the friendly advices and suport from larger ALAC friends in other regions and othe ICANN community memebrs. Nom-com designated Siavash did the great job of charing the session of the entire day. Special thanks to Siavash! Well, the real tasks will be still there, and not easy, but I hope we will eventually make rational and meaningful steps to bring the voices of individual users in this region to the ICANN policy process. izumi

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Bottom-up organization has bottomed out
by Wendy Seltzer Feb. 28, 2007

Feb. 28, 2007

Friends on all the lists this reaches, here's a message I shared with the ICANN Board reflecting my personal concerns about the possibility of another "ICANN reform process" calling for yet another round of public-input-to-be-ignored: >Hi, > >I'm aware that the Board is discussing the LSE report on GNSO reform, >and hearing concern that reforms to increase Internet-user involvement >should be driven bottom-up, rather than top-down. In that context, I >wanted to share my personal views from longstanding involvement with >ICANN and its at-large. > >The problem with bottom-up development at this point is that it's >bottomed out. Nearly everyone who's ever tried to get involved as an >individual with ICANN has been turned away in frustration after spending >thoughtful time and effort. Having had their suggestions rejected in >previous reform processes, why should they spend any more time with a >new one? This does not mean there are no individual concerns with ICANN >issues, only that the opportunity cost of raising those concerns has >gotten too high. > >So now, almost the only people willing to be involved with ALAC are >those who see it as a means to non-ICANN ends, such as greater respect >for their local groups or activities. (Some of these are people of good >will, and some of their ends are valuable, they're just not ICANN's >issues and shouldn't be.) > >ICANN needs a way to incorporate the feedback of its "customers," since >there's no market competition restraining it. > >I hope you'll take this in the productive spirit in which it's intended, >and I look forward to further discussion. >Thanks, >--Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/

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Re: [At-Large] Asamblea General / General Assembly
by Carlton A Samuels Feb. 26, 2007

Feb. 26, 2007

Dear ALL: For those of you who shall be attending ICANN Puerto Rico, please be reminded that since Puerto Rico is United States Territory, there may be visa requirements. The requirements are generally defined by each of your country's bilateral agreement with the United States of America and local operating conditions. For further information, you are urged to visit the official United States Department of State website where you can get all the information you need. http://www.unitedstatesvisas.gov/ . Or failing this, call your local U.S. Consulate for the specific information. Kind regards, Carlton [Spanish Version] Querido todos: Para los de usted que atendera a ICANN Puerto Rico, recuerdese por favor que puesto que Puerto Rico es territorio de Estados Unidos, puede haber requisitos de la visa. Los requisitos son definidos generalmente por cada uno del acuerdo bilateral de su pais con los Estados Unidos de America y las condiciones de funcionamiento locales. Para la informacion adicional, le impulsan visitar el departamento oficial de Estados Unidos del Web site del estado en donde pueden conseguir toda la informacion que usted necesita. http://www.unitedstatesvisas.gov/. O fallando esto, llame su consulado local de ESTADOS UNIDOS para la informacion especifica. Respeto bueno, Carlton

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Completed African RALO MoU
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 25, 2007

Feb. 25, 2007

Dear Dan: I'm very pleased to inform you that the African ALS community has concluded their discussions on the contents of their MoU with ICANN and to provide you with the document for your final review. This version is largely the same as the one you looked at last December. I have also attached the public consultation notice. It is my hope that you will be able to complete your review directly, as this will allow the public comment period to be completed prior to the Lisbon ICANN meeting in March, so that the MoU may be signed, and approved by the Board at the public meeting on the 30th. I shall look forward to your reply in due course and forward it to the community. You may also hit reply all, and your email should go through to the mailing lists without any problem. -- 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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Asia Pacific At-Large community meeting Feb 28th
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 25, 2007

Feb. 25, 2007

Dear All: The Asia Pacific At-Large community is engaging in their final-stage negotiations on the contents of their MoU with ICANN on February 28th, in a meeting that is part of the APRICOT 2007 Conference in Bali, Indonesia. The meeting documents are all available online via the www.apralo.org website. I look forward to meeting the regional representatives in a couple of days! Baher Esmat and Save Vocea from the Global Partnerships team will be at the meeting too, alongside other events they are a part of at APRICOT. -- 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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Customer protection
by Vittorio Bertola Feb. 21, 2007

Feb. 21, 2007

All, you might have noticed some pieces of news out there on the story of Registerfly, a registrar which is apparently failing to pay its registry dues and thus to renew their registrants' domains, and all other sorts of bad behaviour (see www.registerflies.com) A month ago or so, I had already forwarded to the Board list a message from the GA list, about other problems with a reseller (including the typical one "my reseller listed themselves, rather than me, as the registrant"). As you might know, often ICANN says that this falls outside of its mandate, and into the mandate of local consumer protection regulations. At the same time, I think that there are many things that ICANN could do, from education (e.g. better information to point out registrants to appropriate authorities) to consensus building (for example working to develop best industry practices for registrars and resellers for what pertains to how to deal with their customers) and to actual regulation (for example adding to the registrar accreditation agreements clauses that require registrars and their resellers to follow such best practices). I would like to use these cases to push the Board to set up a specific working group with the task of finding out some actions that ICANN could do to get to better consumer protection. Thus, I would like to know whether this is a request that we all share, so that I can put it forward. Thanks, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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