November 2008 - At-Large - lists.icann.org

FYI: Launch of BadwareBusters.org
by Brendler, Beau Nov. 21, 2008

Nov. 21, 2008

Hello, everyone. StopBadware.org, a project of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center, and Consumer Reports WebWatch today are introducing in beta BadwareBusters.org, a new online community for people looking for help removing viruses, spyware and other bad software from their computers. It's strictly a public service -- we don't make any money from it. We hope interested people will contribute to an ongoing dialogue about badware: how to define it, which applications to watch, how to protect against it, and so on. I thought perhaps some of us in the ICANN user community may be interested and have appropriate expertise to contribute. The site uses an algorithm-based reputation and rating system to help people identify the most useful content and most helpful users. The idea is for the site to be easy for novices and experts alike, with a community made up of computer newbies to active techies. If you have time, please give us feedback on the site and get involved in the community. http://www.badwarebusters.org Beau Brendler ________________________________________ From: at-large-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org [at-large-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Vande Walle [patrick(a)vande-walle.eu] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:03 AM To: At-Large Worldwide Subject: [At-Large] IPv4 address exhaustion For those interested in this topic, there is a (non-technical) article in this month's Internet Protocol Journal by Geoff Huston. It pretty well summarizes the issues and suggests different approaches to solve them. Highly recommended. http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-3/113_ipv… or in pdf http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-3/ipj_11-… Patrick _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge-lists.ican… At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org *** Scanned ** This e-mail message is intended only for the designated recipient(s) named above. The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, retain, copy, redistribute or use this e-mail or any attachment for any purpose, or disclose all or any part of its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments from your computer system.

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Egyptian Blogger's video to be shown at Human Rights Film Festival
by Robert Guerra Nov. 21, 2008

Nov. 21, 2008

I wanted to share the news that I have just heard news from Gemy that the upcoming Human Rights Film Festival in Cairo Nov 23-27 has selected his video for public viewing this Sunday . Details will soon be posted on the film festival site @ http://www.cairofilm.org Congratulations to Gemy and his colleagues for the courage to document the issues being faced by local users, bloggers, and internet activists in Egypt. In case you didn't have the opportunity to view the video at the Nov 6th screening at the ICANN meeting you can watch it here - http://blip.tv/play/AdfAcZDQOw regards Robert

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IPv4 address exhaustion
by Patrick Vande Walle Nov. 21, 2008

Nov. 21, 2008

For those interested in this topic, there is a (non-technical) article in this month's Internet Protocol Journal by Geoff Huston. It pretty well summarizes the issues and suggests different approaches to solve them. Highly recommended. http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-3/113_ipv… or in pdf http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-3/ipj_11-… Patrick

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Weekly posting summary for alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten Nov. 21, 2008

Nov. 21, 2008

Total of 50 messages in the last 7 days. script run at: Fri Nov 21 00:53:02 EST 2008 Messages | Bytes | Who --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 2.00% | 1 | 82.68% | 2707911 | khaled.koubaa at topnet.tn 10.00% | 5 | 1.07% | 34947 | patrick at vande-walle.eu 4.00% | 2 | 5.05% | 165332 | ajp at glocom.ac.jp 8.00% | 4 | 0.71% | 23176 | johnl at iecc.com 6.00% | 3 | 1.16% | 37978 | nick.ashton-hart at icann.org 6.00% | 3 | 1.02% | 33281 | dthompson at gov.nu.ca 6.00% | 3 | 0.85% | 27969 | jefsey at jefsey.com 6.00% | 3 | 0.56% | 18206 | ross at tucows.com 6.00% | 3 | 0.55% | 17945 | dannyyounger at yahoo.com 4.00% | 2 | 0.84% | 27373 | lists at privaterra.info 4.00% | 2 | 0.78% | 25466 | jsalgueiro at cantv.net 4.00% | 2 | 0.66% | 21501 | cheryl at hovtek.com.au 4.00% | 2 | 0.46% | 14917 | ocl at gih.com 4.00% | 2 | 0.45% | 14880 | evan at telly.org 4.00% | 2 | 0.44% | 14258 | carlosaguirre62 at hotmail.com 4.00% | 2 | 0.37% | 12003 | dogwallah at gmail.com 4.00% | 2 | 0.36% | 11693 | vb at bertola.eu 2.00% | 1 | 0.50% | 16430 | admin at isoc.sd 2.00% | 1 | 0.48% | 15565 | rajnesh.singh at gmail.com 2.00% | 1 | 0.24% | 7950 | andrespiazzagpj at hotmail.com 2.00% | 1 | 0.23% | 7618 | carlton.samuels at uwimona.edu.jm 2.00% | 1 | 0.23% | 7372 | narten at us.ibm.com 2.00% | 1 | 0.19% | 6193 | jam at jacquelinemorris.com 2.00% | 1 | 0.15% | 5032 | mom at netmom.com --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 100.00% | 50 |100.00% | 3274996 | Total

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Re: [At-Large] The kiss of death
by Patrick Vande Walle Nov. 20, 2008

Nov. 20, 2008

JFC Morfin wrote, On 20/11/08 16:03: > Dear Vittorio, > ISOC wants ALAC to be a part of the GNSO. Jefsey, this is interesting. Do you have any document that proves your point ?

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Fwd: Fw: Use of DKIM on at-large mailing list
by Patrick Vande Walle Nov. 19, 2008

Nov. 19, 2008

The short term fix is to add "REMOVE_DKIM_HEADERS = Yes" to mm_cfg.py http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/DKIM OK, that will not generate the right DKIM sigs, but at least it will prevent Mailman from forwarding the original ones, and consequently generate false positives in spam filters. Patrick -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [At-Large] Fw: Use of DKIM on at-large mailing list Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:32:21 +0100 From: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl(a)gih.com> To: <at-large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Reply-To: At-Large Worldwide <at-large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Hello everyone, sorry for posting this here, but I sent the enquiry to the at-large-owner address but received no reply, so I think this might have gotten lost or ended up in /dev/null.. In short: DKIM/DomainKeys is incorrectly set-up for atlarge-lists.icann.org Warm regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D Global Information Highway Ltd http://www.gih.com/ocl.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl(a)gih.com> To: <at-large-owner(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:04 PM Subject: Use of DKIM on at-large mailing list > Hello there, > > I have noticed that you are using DKIM/DomainKeys on the at-large > ICANN server. > I think that it is great that you are embracing new technology. It is > also great that the server supports TLS. > > However, it appears that its implementation for domainkeys/DKIM on the > mailing list does not work correctly. > > At present: > > - messages which are DKIM-signed keep their DKIM signature and > therefore FAIL when received, because the at-large mailing list adds a > footer (how to subscribe/unsubscribe), so the message has been > tampered with > - messages which are not DKIM-signed become signed by the > atlarge-lists.icann.org server. However, there is no entry for > default._domainkey.atlarge-lists.icann.org key in the DNS. > > What should really happen: > > - the atlarge-lists.icann.org server should recognise when a domainkey > is active & replace the incoming domainkey with its own domainkey if > positive. > - atlarge-lists.icann.org should have an entry in the ICANN DNS for > its key under: default._domainkey.atlarge-lists.icann.org > > If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. > > Warm regards, > > Olivier > > -- > Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D > Global Information Highway Ltd > http://www.gih.com/ocl.html > _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge-lists.ican… At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org

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Fw: Use of DKIM on at-large mailing list
by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond Nov. 19, 2008

Nov. 19, 2008

Hello everyone, sorry for posting this here, but I sent the enquiry to the at-large-owner address but received no reply, so I think this might have gotten lost or ended up in /dev/null.. In short: DKIM/DomainKeys is incorrectly set-up for atlarge-lists.icann.org Warm regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D Global Information Highway Ltd http://www.gih.com/ocl.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl(a)gih.com> To: <at-large-owner(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:04 PM Subject: Use of DKIM on at-large mailing list > Hello there, > > I have noticed that you are using DKIM/DomainKeys on the at-large > ICANN server. > I think that it is great that you are embracing new technology. It is > also great that the server supports TLS. > > However, it appears that its implementation for domainkeys/DKIM on the > mailing list does not work correctly. > > At present: > > - messages which are DKIM-signed keep their DKIM signature and > therefore FAIL when received, because the at-large mailing list adds a > footer (how to subscribe/unsubscribe), so the message has been > tampered with > - messages which are not DKIM-signed become signed by the > atlarge-lists.icann.org server. However, there is no entry for > default._domainkey.atlarge-lists.icann.org key in the DNS. > > What should really happen: > > - the atlarge-lists.icann.org server should recognise when a domainkey > is active & replace the incoming domainkey with its own domainkey if > positive. > - atlarge-lists.icann.org should have an entry in the ICANN DNS for > its key under: default._domainkey.atlarge-lists.icann.org > > If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. > > Warm regards, > > Olivier > > -- > Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D > Global Information Highway Ltd > http://www.gih.com/ocl.html >

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Fwd: [ga] Reminder: Submit comments to "The Role of Individual Internet Usersin the GNSO"
by Patrick Vande Walle Nov. 19, 2008

Nov. 19, 2008

Question: do we plan to submit comments to this document, in addition to what we already did in the framework of the GNSO improvement effort ? If so, how are we going to proceed with only 11 days left ? This question aside, I still issues on the process. I do not remember we were explicitly asked to provide comments. Are we supposed to monitor each and every mailing list to find out what is expected from us ? And again, 3O days is too short for the At-Large community to respond to such requests. Patrick Vande Walle -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ga] Reminder: Submit comments to "The Role of Individual Internet Usersin the GNSO" Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:56:57 -0800 From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen(a)icann.org> To: "mail=ga(a)gnso.icann.org" <ga(a)gnso.icann.org> [To: council[at]gnso.icann.org; liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org] [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org] [To: regional-liaisons[at]icann.org] http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200811.html#gnso-users The Role of Individual Internet Users in the GNSO Open: 28 Oct 08 Closed: 28 Nov 08 Explanation: The ICANN Board has asked for additional community input on the appropriate role and representation of individual commercial and non-commercial Internet users in the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). Faced with a number of different recommendations stemming from various independent reviews and GNSO and user-community group efforts, the Board continues to consider this issue and believes that comments from the community, especially stakeholders in the GNSO, ALAC and At-Large groups, and any relevant applicants for new constituencies, would be particularly helpful. Potential commenters are asked to consider addressing the inclusion of registrants and individual users in the GNSO in a manner that compliments the ALAC and its supporting structures and ensures that registrants' and individual Internet users' gTLD interests are effectively represented within the GNSO. A summary document has been prepared by the ICANN Staff to provide background on this issue and to outline a number of potential options being considered by the Board. Deadline and How to Submit Comments The Staff is opening a 30-day public consultation forum, from 28 October 2008 until 28 November 2008, and invites community comments on this topic. Comments on the document are welcome via email at gnso-users(a)icann.org. This public forum will be open through 28 November 2008. An archive of all comments received will be publicly posted at http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-users/. For a copy of the public announcement of this forum please see http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-28oct08-en.htm. Is it clear to you what this comment period covers? Do you have all the information you need to respond? Please click "More information please" below to email ICANN directly Staff member responsible: Robert Hoggarth | More information please Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Letter to the Board
by Danny Younger Nov. 18, 2008

Nov. 18, 2008

I am of the view that the ALAC needs to write a very strong letter to the Board expressing their disgust with (1) the manner in which the ICANN Public Forum session was conducted that allowed for a very limited amount of time within which to interact with the Board and (2) the almost total lack of remote participation opportunities that were available to at-large members. As someone that attempted to participate remotely, I can't point to a single ALAC session that allowed for meaningful remote participation, nor were audio feeds available for many workshops. This has to be the worst case of both in-person and remote participation management that I have ever seen at an ICANN session.

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Additional ALAC Meeting topic
by Danny Younger Nov. 18, 2008

Nov. 18, 2008

Cheryl and members of the ALAC, As you may be aware, the RAA-WG has recently received correspondance from the following individuals: Rodger Flemming, Alfredo Giascopato, Jay Walker, Simon Templar, Matthew Griesinger, Clive Holton, Chris Ramsden, Brian d'Eon, Barry J Bailey, Jerry Jansa, Peter Naus, Bill Blue, Russell Johnson, John D. Knapp, Patty Sneeden, Sean Gardner, Neal Handly, Gary Li, Bob Wright, groundstar, Alan Cartledge, and Dana Longever. All these parties have requested the public disclosure of registrar main office addresses. It would be appropriate for the ALAC to reply to these users detailing what steps it is taking to address their concerns. Is there anything that you can tell this community other than the fact that you held a meeting with registrars in which this topic was discussed? How does the ALAC intend to solve the problem that they have raised?

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