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RAA approved
by Alan Greenberg March 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

At its meeting in Mexico City, the package of Registrar Accreditation Agreement amendments was unanimously approved. This was following a GNSO meeting earlier this year where the package was rejected. The ALAC had previously formally supported the acceptance of the RAA, not because it was felt to address all of our concerns, but rather that the proposed changes were in their own right, very important for the community. Going into the Mexico City meeting, there was significant distance between the various constituencies (and ALAC) and in fact two very distinct motions were on the table. The level of cooperation shown to achieve this result speaks well to the collaborative model that ICANN uses. The new motion below approved the amendments, but at the same time sets a hard deadline for completing a Registrant Charter of Rights and puts the Registrars on record as committing to quickly begin working in good faith to address further changes to the RAA. Alan =================================== Motion made by Tim Ruiz Seconded by Kristina Rosette Whereas, the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) has not been amended since May 2001, and ICANN has undertaken a lengthy consultative process related to amending the RAA, including several public comment periods and consultations; Whereas, the proposed changes to the RAA include important compliance and enforcement tools for ICANN; The Council wishes to approve the set of proposed amendments as quickly as possible so that the ICANN Board may review them, and if approved then implement them as quickly as possible; and Whereas, The Council would like to proceed on the drafting of a charter identifying registrant rights that registrars would be obliged to link to, as contemplated in the set of amendments; The Council would like a specific process and timeline to move forward with additional potential amendments to the RAA; and The Registrar Constituency is supportive of these efforts and is willing to participate on a good faith basis on anticipated next steps. Resolved: The GNSO Council supports the RAA amendments as documented in http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.p… and recommends to the Board that they be adopted at its meeting of March 6, 2009; Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, representatives from the GNSO community and the ALAC shall be identified to participate in drafting a registrant rights charter, as contemplated by the amendments and the current GNSO Council discussions, with support from ICANN staff. A draft charter shall be completed no later than July 31 2009; and Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss further amendments to the RAA and to identify those on which further action may be desirable. The Drafting Team should endeavor to provide its advice to the Council and ICANN staff no later than July 31, 2009.

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Re: [At-Large] [Summit-participants] [FWD: Re: Breakfast with member of the board]
by Rudi Vansnick March 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

Unfortunately, I have to leave for the airport as we are required to be at the airport 3h before departure. I would like to thank all of you for the fantastic week, the great work delivered in the different working groups. At-Large has been larger than ever ... up to the next round now. Hope to see you all in Sydney ... have a save trip back home and ... take a few days rest to recover. Rudi Vansnick Evan Leibovitch schreef: > Garth Bruen at KnujOn wrote: >> Volken, they realy do mean 6:15 >> > > If anyone wans to walk in a group, I was hoping to leave the Melia > about 6:50-7:00 > Anyone else want to go then? > > > - Evan > > > _______________________________________________ > Summit-participants mailing list > Summit-participants(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/summit-participants_atlarge… > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.7/1983 - Release Date: 03/04/09 07:41:00 > >

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Re: [At-Large] [council] e-Crime and Abuse of the DNS Forum: a global perspective
by Denise Michel March 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

Thanks for your email, Mike. "Narrow mission" is used in the context of the e-Crime and DNS Forum in which participants will be discussing (among other things) activities over which ICANN has no control nor responsibility. We welcome your contributions to the discussion. See you at 14:00. Regards, Denise Denise Michel ICANN Vice President Policy Development denise.michel(a)icann.org +1.408.429.3072 mobile +1.310.578.8632 direct On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Mike Rodenbaugh <icann(a)rodenbaugh.com> wrote: > > ICANN does not have a "narrow mission" -- as clearly proved by its $60 > million annual budget. So I respectfully request that Staff please stop > saying so in public materials. > > Thanks. > > Mike Rodenbaugh > Rodenbaugh Law > 548 Market Street > San Francisco, CA 94104 > +1.415.738.8087 > www.rodenbaugh.com > - Show quoted text - > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-council(a)gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On > Behalf Of Denise Michel > Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:15 PM > To: ccNSO Council; ccnso-members(a)icann.org; council(a)gnso.icann.org; > liaison6c; At-Large Worldwide; Steve Crocker; jun(a)wide.ad.jp; Louis Lee; > adiel(a)afrinic.net; Janis Karklins > Subject: [council] e-Crime and Abuse of the DNS Forum: a global perspective > > Greetings. > > The main session of "e-Crime and Abuse of the DNS Forum: a global > perspective" scheduled for Wednesday, March 4, 14:00-18:00 in Don-Alberto > 2-4 (Main Room), will be scribed, and the transcript and all presentations > will be publicly posted at <http://mex.icann.org/node/2653>. Included below > and attached in Word is an updated agenda. I know that overlapping meetings > have been scheduled and not all interested community members will be able to > attend the Forum, but rest assured that all available information will be > publicly posted, including the results of the break-out sessions. > > Regards, > Denise > > Denise Michel > ICANN Vice President > Policy Development > ----------------------------------- > > > e-Crime and Abuse of the DNS Forum: a global perspective > > Organized by ICANN Staff in Cooperation with the At-Large Summit > > Wednesday, March 4 > 14:00-18:00 > Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico > Don-Alberto 2-4 Conference Room > > The Forum will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss numerous > global activities and issues related to e-Crime and DNS abuse that involve a > broad array of international stakeholders. While not all of these issues > fall within ICANN's narrow mission, the Forum is intended to facilitate > public dialogue and working relationships on e-Crime and DNS abuse among > members of the global Internet community, as requested by the ICANN > community. > > Welcome Alejandro Pisanty (former Director, ICANN Board; National > University of Mexico) Time: 14:00 - 14:10 > > Alejandro Pisanty will provide an introduction to the Forum including its > format, aims, and objectives. > > Session 1. The e-Crime Landscape (Time: 14:10 - 15:03) > > Moderator: Cheryl Langdon-Orr (Chair, At-Large Advisory Committee) > (14:10-14:13) > > Panel: Beau Brendler (Consumer Reports WebWatch Project); Fred Felman > (MarkMonitor); and Jeffrey Bedser (Internet Crimes Group) > > Introduction to E-Crime (20 minutes) (14:13 - 14:33) Beau Brendler will > provide an overview of the manner in which e-Crime affects consumers as well > as discuss activities that aim to educate the public regarding e-Crime > risks. Fred Felman will review recent e-Crime trends, and highlight types > of harms to end-users. > > Sizing and Scoping e-Crime (20 minutes) (14:33-14:53) Jeffrey Bedser will > describe the e-Crime ecosystem and explain how organized crime uses the > Internet and the DNS to facilitate criminal acts against end-users. Jeffrey > will also discuss emerging legal efforts that focus on protecting end-users > against Internet-based crime. Jeffrey will use the results of extensive > attack traffic, DNS, and domain name data analysis to illustrate that > e-Crime is able to exploit resources from virtually any user and provider in > the global Internet. He will describe how criminal attack network activity > is distinguished from legitimate (production) traffic. Jeffrey will also > show the hotspots for bot and malware activity and where domain names are > used to abet e-crime are registered. > > Audience Questions (10 minutes) (14:53-15:03) > > Session 2. Criminal Attacks and Abuse Response Today (Time: 15:03-16:11) > > Moderator: Greg Rattray (Chief Internet Security Advisor, ICANN) Time: > 15:03 - 15:06 > > Panel: Rod Rasmussen (Internet Identity); Tim Ruiz (GoDaddy), Greg Aaron > (Afilias), Law Enforcement (TBD); Vanda Scartezini (At-Large Advisory > Committee); Jeff Neuman (NeuStar); Oscar Robles-Garay > (NIC.mx) > > Case studies in global criminal attacks (20 minutes) (15:06-15:26) Rod > Rasmussen will describe the chronology of events leading to the discoveries > and cessations of two noteworthy security incidents. He will describe both > the parties involved in, and the events leading up to, the disconnection of > the McColo hosting provider, and the sustained disruption of Srizbi bot > communications with their command and control servers by preventing the > automated registrations of botnet domains. Rod will describe the events > surrounding the attack against the e-billing company, CheckFree, through its > domain names, the immediate effects, related phishing of registrars, and the > prospects for future, similar attacks against the financial sector and > end-users. > > Abuse Response Today - (30 minutes) (15:26-15:56) The speakers will describe > their respective roles in responding to, and acting upon, criminal > complaints where domain names are used to abet criminal activities, and how > to protect legitimate end-users from erroneous shut-downs (false positives). > A law enforcement expert will describe the role of the private sector in > cooperating with law enforcement agencies, and in proactively responding to > E-crime so as to protect consumers. > > Audience Questions (15 minutes) (15:56-16:16:11) > > Session 3. Role of ICANN Stakeholders and Staff in Responding to e-Crime > (45 minutes) Time: 16:11-17:01 > > Moderator: Lyman Chapin (former Director, ICANN Board) (16:11-16:14) > > Panel: Jon Nevett (Network Solutions); Garth Bruen (Knujon); Steve Metalitz > (Intellectual Property Constituency); David Giza (ICANN Compliance Office); > Roelof Meijer (SIDN); Adam Palmer (Public Interest Registry); Rudi Vansnick > (ISOC.be); Marc Ottawa (Royal Canadian Mounted Police); Andy Steingruebl > (PayPal); Tony Harris (Cabase) > (16:14-16:56) > > The speakers will describe how current ICANN gTLD and ccTLD policies and > contractual obligations of registries and registrars help combat E-crime. > The role of ICANN's Compliance Office in reinforcing these efforts, such as > in the areas of WHOIS accuracy, and registrar breach notices, will be > explained. The speakers will also discuss the efforts among industry groups > to develop voluntary guidelines and share data to enhance the private > sector's responses to e-Crime. > > Audience Questions (15 minutes) (16:56 - 17:01) > > Next Steps - e-Crime Break-Out Sessions (60 minutes) Time: 17:01 - 18:01 > > Instructions: Denise Michel, ICANN Vice President, Policy Development > > The public will have an opportunity to participate in further detailed > discussion and exchange of information by joining one of several break-out > sessions on specific issues moderated by the individuals identified below: > > . Law Enforcement and ccTLDs (Marc Moreau and Erick Iriarte Ahon) > . Consumer Protection in Existing and New TLDs (Beau Brendler and > Holly Raiche, Executive Director, ISOC-AU) > . The Role of ICANN (Jon Nevett, Kristina Rosette, and Doug Brent, > Chief Operating Officer, ICANN) > . e-Crime in Latin America - conducted in Spanish (Vanda Scartezini > and Alejandro Pisanty) > > The moderators of each break-out session will summarize any suggested next > steps and recommendations from their respective group during the Public > Forum. > >

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ALAC Meeting today
by Annette Muehlberg March 4, 2009

March 4, 2009

All, somehow the todayŽs ALAC meeting is not anymore mentioned on the public ICANN agenda. It takes place in Hotel Melia from 18:30 - 20:00, room Alameda 4/5. Greetings Annette

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e-Crime and Abuse of the DNS Forum: a global perspective
by Denise Michel March 3, 2009

March 3, 2009

Greetings. The main session of "e-Crime and Abuse of the DNS Forum: a global perspective" scheduled for Wednesday, March 4, 14:00-18:00 in Don-Alberto 2-4 (Main Room), will be scribed, and the transcript and all presentations will be publicly posted at <http://mex.icann.org/node/2653>. Included below and attached in Word is an updated agenda. I know that overlapping meetings have been scheduled and not all interested community members will be able to attend the Forum, but rest assured that all available information will be publicly posted, including the results of the break-out sessions. Regards, Denise Denise Michel ICANN Vice President Policy Development ----------------------------------- e-Crime and Abuse of the DNS Forum: a global perspective Organized by ICANN Staff in Cooperation with the At-Large Summit Wednesday, March 4 14:00-18:00 Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico Don-Alberto 2-4 Conference Room The Forum will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss numerous global activities and issues related to e-Crime and DNS abuse that involve a broad array of international stakeholders. While not all of these issues fall within ICANN's narrow mission, the Forum is intended to facilitate public dialogue and working relationships on e-Crime and DNS abuse among members of the global Internet community, as requested by the ICANN community. Welcome Alejandro Pisanty (former Director, ICANN Board; National University of Mexico) Time: 14:00 – 14:10 Alejandro Pisanty will provide an introduction to the Forum including its format, aims, and objectives. Session 1. The e-Crime Landscape (Time: 14:10 – 15:03) Moderator: Cheryl Langdon-Orr (Chair, At-Large Advisory Committee) (14:10-14:13) Panel: Beau Brendler (Consumer Reports WebWatch Project); Fred Felman (MarkMonitor); and Jeffrey Bedser (Internet Crimes Group) Introduction to E-Crime (20 minutes) (14:13 – 14:33) Beau Brendler will provide an overview of the manner in which e-Crime affects consumers as well as discuss activities that aim to educate the public regarding e-Crime risks. Fred Felman will review recent e-Crime trends, and highlight types of harms to end-users. Sizing and Scoping e-Crime (20 minutes) (14:33-14:53) Jeffrey Bedser will describe the e-Crime ecosystem and explain how organized crime uses the Internet and the DNS to facilitate criminal acts against end-users. Jeffrey will also discuss emerging legal efforts that focus on protecting end-users against Internet-based crime. Jeffrey will use the results of extensive attack traffic, DNS, and domain name data analysis to illustrate that e-Crime is able to exploit resources from virtually any user and provider in the global Internet. He will describe how criminal attack network activity is distinguished from legitimate (production) traffic. Jeffrey will also show the hotspots for bot and malware activity and where domain names are used to abet e-crime are registered. Audience Questions (10 minutes) (14:53-15:03) Session 2. Criminal Attacks and Abuse Response Today (Time: 15:03-16:11) Moderator: Greg Rattray (Chief Internet Security Advisor, ICANN) Time: 15:03 – 15:06 Panel: Rod Rasmussen (Internet Identity); Tim Ruiz (GoDaddy), Greg Aaron (Afilias), Law Enforcement (TBD); Vanda Scartezini (At-Large Advisory Committee); Jeff Neuman (NeuStar); Oscar Robles-Garay (NIC.mx) Case studies in global criminal attacks (20 minutes) (15:06-15:26) Rod Rasmussen will describe the chronology of events leading to the discoveries and cessations of two noteworthy security incidents. He will describe both the parties involved in, and the events leading up to, the disconnection of the McColo hosting provider, and the sustained disruption of Srizbi bot communications with their command and control servers by preventing the automated registrations of botnet domains. Rod will describe the events surrounding the attack against the e-billing company, CheckFree, through its domain names, the immediate effects, related phishing of registrars, and the prospects for future, similar attacks against the financial sector and end-users. Abuse Response Today – (30 minutes) (15:26-15:56) The speakers will describe their respective roles in responding to, and acting upon, criminal complaints where domain names are used to abet criminal activities, and how to protect legitimate end-users from erroneous shut-downs (false positives). A law enforcement expert will describe the role of the private sector in cooperating with law enforcement agencies, and in proactively responding to E-crime so as to protect consumers. Audience Questions (15 minutes) (15:56-16:16:11) Session 3. Role of ICANN Stakeholders and Staff in Responding to e-Crime (45 minutes) Time: 16:11-17:01 Moderator: Lyman Chapin (former Director, ICANN Board) (16:11-16:14) Panel: Jon Nevett (Network Solutions); Garth Bruen (Knujon); Steve Metalitz (Intellectual Property Constituency); David Giza (ICANN Compliance Office); Roelof Meijer (SIDN); Adam Palmer (Public Interest Registry); Rudi Vansnick (ISOC.be); Marc Ottawa (Royal Canadian Mounted Police); Andy Steingruebl (PayPal); Tony Harris (Cabase) (16:14-16:56) The speakers will describe how current ICANN gTLD and ccTLD policies and contractual obligations of registries and registrars help combat E-crime. The role of ICANN’s Compliance Office in reinforcing these efforts, such as in the areas of WHOIS accuracy, and registrar breach notices, will be explained. The speakers will also discuss the efforts among industry groups to develop voluntary guidelines and share data to enhance the private sector’s responses to e-Crime. Audience Questions (15 minutes) (16:56 – 17:01) Next Steps – e-Crime Break-Out Sessions (60 minutes) Time: 17:01 – 18:01 Instructions: Denise Michel, ICANN Vice President, Policy Development The public will have an opportunity to participate in further detailed discussion and exchange of information by joining one of several break-out sessions on specific issues moderated by the individuals identified below: • Law Enforcement and ccTLDs (Marc Moreau and Erick Iriarte Ahon) • Consumer Protection in Existing and New TLDs (Beau Brendler and Holly Raiche, Executive Director, ISOC-AU) • The Role of ICANN (Jon Nevett, Kristina Rosette, and Doug Brent, Chief Operating Officer, ICANN) • e-Crime in Latin America - conducted in Spanish (Vanda Scartezini and Alejandro Pisanty) The moderators of each break-out session will summarize any suggested next steps and recommendations from their respective group during the Public Forum.

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Presentations General Opening Session
by Matthias Langenegger March 3, 2009

March 3, 2009

Dear all, All the slideshows from Saturday's General Opening Session can now be found under http://mex.icann.org/node/2590 http://mex.icann.org/node/2588 Regards, -- Matthias Langenegger At-Large Coordination Officer Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: matthias.langenegger(a)icann.org Main Tel: +41 (79) 644 65 35 Fax: +41 (22) 594 85 44 Skype ID: matthiaslangenegger

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Scribe Transcript General Opening Ceremony
by At-Large Staff March 3, 2009

March 3, 2009

Dear all, The scribe transcript from yesterday¹s General Opening Session is now available under: http://mex.icann.org/files/meetings/mexico2009/transcript-atlarge-summit-ope n-28feb09-en.txt The Presentations from yesterday¹s Opening Session will be uploaded shortly. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Revised RAA amendment/motion
by Alan Greenberg March 1, 2009

March 1, 2009

As you may remember, RAA amendment package that has been discussed needed to be approved by a 66% majority of the GNSO to allow the Board to put the changes in place. For a variety of reasons, when the GNSO voted on this, it did not receive a sufficient majority. There has been a discussion of various next-step motions. The following motion has just been circulated to the GNSO Council. As you will see, it is a cooperative effort of several constituencies. You will notice that a Registrant Bill of Rights, with a tight time-line, has a prominent place in this proposal, and the ALAC is explicitly included in the process. Your comments are welcome before the Wednesday morning GNSO meeting when it will be discussed, and potentially voted on. Alan >Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:43:04 -0700 >From: Tim Ruiz <tim(a)godaddy.com> >Subject: [council] Revised RAA amendment/motion >To: council(a)gnso.icann.org >Cc: Mike Rodenbaugh <icann(a)rodenbaugh.com> > >This is the revised amendment/motion drafted by a drafting team >comprised of representatives from the NCUC, IPC, and RrC. We tried to >address most of the concerns that have been raised. Let us know your >thoughts. > >Whereas, the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) has not been >amended since May 2001, and ICANN has undertaken a lengthy consultative >process related to amending the RAA, including several public comment >periods and consultations; > >Whereas, the proposed changes to the RAA include important compliance >and enforcement tools for ICANN; The Council wishes to approve the set >of proposed amendments as quickly as possible so that the ICANN Board >may review them, and if approved then implement them as quickly as >possible; and > >Whereas, > >The Council would like to proceed on the drafting of a charter >identifying registrant rights that registrars would be obliged to link >to, as contemplated in the set of amendments; > >The Council would like a specific process and timeline to move forward >with additional potential amendments to the RAA; and > >The Registrar Constituency is supportive of these efforts and is willing >to participate on a good faith basis on anticipated next steps. > >Resolved: > >The GNSO Council supports the RAA amendments as documented in >http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/current-list-proposed-raa-amendments-16dec08.p… > >and recommends to the Board that they be adopted at its meeting of March >6, 2009; > >Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, >representatives from the GNSO community and the ALAC shall be identified >to participate in drafting a registrant rights charter, as contemplated >by the amendments and the current GNSO Council discussions, with support >from ICANN staff. A draft charter shall be completed no later then July >31; and > >Within 30 days of Board approval of the set of amendments, the GNSO >Council will form a Drafting Team to discuss the amendments further and >identify those that the community believes could be further revised >through PDP processes or through additional changes to the RAA that may >not fall within scope of a formal PDP process. The Drafting Team should >endeavor to provide its advice to the Council and ICANN staff no later >then July 31, 2009. > > >Tim

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Re: [At-Large] [Summit-participants] constructive critical contribution to ALAC
by Izumi AIZU March 1, 2009

March 1, 2009

Dear Niromol and all, I support most of what you said in the meeting and wrote below. I am quite concerned that the RALO structure becomes too much constraint, rather than a conduit, for ALSs to provide their voices and, in return get the feed backs, thus becoming real resources of At Large. Not all issues related to AtLarge at ICANN are of regional nature - I mean RALO may not always be the efficient mechanism to channel the voices of the global users. I mean, an ALS in Tokyo may not agree with another in Munbai, but with Cape Town, perhaps, but they do not necessarily make up the single AP-RALO view. And that is OK, I guess, on the introduction of new gTLDs, perhaps. RALO may be a good channel to out-reach the new ones into the playground, but it could also become its own subject, then it is not really efficient. I was one of the three members of small committee with Ester Dyson and Denice MIischel who wrote the first draft of ALS-RALO-ALS, so I feel part guilty and responsible for this ;-). izumi 2009/3/2, nirmol agarwal <nirmol81(a)yahoo.com>: > > > > Dear ALAC review team / Dear member ALS' > > As an out come of the discussion today morning (i.e 1 March 2009) in the > ALAC review WG meeting, I would like to highlight that while considering the > structural and participation from ALS it is important that the Working > group also take into consideration that the present structure is more a one > way vertical communication, where suggestion made by the ALS appears to go > in a black hole. It may be considered that in order to encourage greater > level of participation in advisory activities there need to be some sort of > response to the ALS on their comments, making the structure dynamic rather > than one way. > > Second, it is also advisable, in view of the requirement of arriving at > greater consensus, there needs to have greater horizontal interaction > between ALS all across the globe irrespective of which RALO the ALS belongs. > For which the fire wall created between various RALO should be done away > with as far as the ALS’s are concerned. I understand that this firewall > offers administrative convenience, but the same should not allow to sabotage > the greater ALAC goal. > > Consideration also needs to be given to the fact that the multiplicity of > groups such as GNSO, ccNSO, RALO are complicating the participation. It > needs to be clarified that if on an issue, say gTLD, if any RALO/ALS have > made any recommendation what would be the importance of such recommendation > when there exits an exclusive group taking care of the issue such as GNSO. > > Regards > > > Regards, > > Nirmol K Agarwal > > *"Life is beautiful, but conditions apply. Please read the offer document > carefully before investment."* > > > --- On *Sun, 3/1/09, Max Senges <maxsenges(a)gmail.com>* wrote: > > From: Max Senges <maxsenges(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Summit-participants] constructive critical contribution to ALAC > To: alac-review(a)icann.org > Cc: summit-participants(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org, > at-large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 4:58 PM > > Dear ALAC review team - dear ALAC colleagues > > Allow me to briefly restate the comments I made during the session on ALAC > review this morning and encourage you to also contribute constructively to > planning the future setup of ALAC @ > http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#alac-review > > 1) information overload > As a volunteer it is very difficult to follow all the complexities of ICANN > developments. It would be great if the core ALAC team can summarize and give > short updates on hot themes and especially calls for defined action (like > votes etc.). Another worthwhile effort might be a 5 min video newbie-guide > on what are the common practices and points of leverage for ALAC member > organizations. > > 2) education about ALAC & Internet Governance > I support the idea to develop educational resources (e.g. for teaching > Internet Governance and ICANN matters in school and university) as well as > to hold online lectures. Hereby learning materials and activities should be > addressed to ALAC members as well as the general public/users. I am happy > to help in developing this initiative as this is my field of work and i have > concrete ideas in how to bring this forward. > > 3) Facilitate organization - enable bootstrapping - POWER - funded > initiatives > I would like to reinterprete Karl Auberback's point raising that in the end > ICANN is at least not only a technical but also a policial institution in > which the name of the game is power. I'd like to add power is represented by > governmental diplomacy AND of course by money. Hence as Karl also pointed > out it is good and important to give advise - but as he rightly said > everybody can give advise and we as user representatives should continue to > influence ICANN's governance structure to give civil society/ user > representitives advise relevance. > > Nevertheless my constructive critical constribution to the review is to > improve the support (bootstrapping) for initiatives coming from ALAC member > organizations. One aspect that i'd like to single out is for ALAC staff to > facilitate to find funding for initiatives because there is only so much one > can do voluntarily. > > In this context allow me to mention that an innitiative is forming to work > on a User/Registrant Rights Charter which eventually will lead to better > user/consumer rights for all by integrating the charter into all Registrars > offerings. You are very much invited to join our team - please contact me > and/or come to our workshop on Tuesday, 3 March, 2009 16:30 - 18:00 Room: > Alameda 3 (Hotel Meliá) http://mex.icann.org/node/2651 > > 4) My last point is asking to explore how to make another ALAC summit like > the one in mexico possible. These face-to-face meetings are very very > essential to build the relationships and trust to start meaningfull work. > > Kind regards, > Max > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > Dr. Max Senges > > www.maxsenges.com > www.knowledgeentrepreneur.com > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Summit-participants mailing listSummit-participants@atlarge-lists.icann.orghttp://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/summit-participants_atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Summit-participants mailing list > Summit-participants(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/summit-participants_atlarge… > > -- >> Izumi Aizu << Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita, Japan * * * * * << Writing the Future of the History >> www.anr.org

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ALAC relationship with ccTLDs through the liaison ccNSO
by Rudi Vansnick March 1, 2009

March 1, 2009

Dear colleagues and friends, It is indeed important, Cheryl clearly stated this morning during the review session, the number of c's in the TLD world is much higher than the number of g's. Being elected ALAC liaison ccNSO, and just warming up in this job, I'm asking all of you to bring me as many possible items you want me to bring up in the ccNSO meetings I'm participating in. We all know the process of new GTLD's will certainly influence the views and opinions in regards the participation of users in the workspace of the ccTLD's through the ccNSO. Recently several ccTLD's joined the ccNSO, which clearly proves something is going on or starting to go on. Reason why I would really appreciate to have your input. I'm available during this Mexico for personal discussions if such is needed, and I surely welcome every input to help me bringing the ALAC views to the ccNSO. Best regards, Rudi Vansnick Melia hotel room 1922. Mobile +32475281632

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