April 2011 - At-Large - lists.icann.org

ICANN Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) Oversight Hearing
by Eric Brunner-Williams May 4, 2011

May 4, 2011

Colleagues, The House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet will hold a hearing on: "ICANN Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) Oversight Hearing", on Wednesday 5/4/2011 - 10:00 a.m., at 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. There is, as yet, no hearing documentation and no witness list, though these will be forthcoming. http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_05022011.html I'll post a follow-up when either hearings documentation or witnesses are posted at the Subcommittee's web site. Eric

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten April 29, 2011

April 29, 2011

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Re: [At-Large] Newest Member of At-Large Staff
by Carlton Samuels April 25, 2011

April 25, 2011

Welcome Matt. Looking forward to working with you. Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten April 22, 2011

April 22, 2011

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Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Announce] Newest Member of At-Large Support Staff - Matt Ashtiani
by Cintra Sooknanan April 22, 2011

April 22, 2011

Welcome Matt! I have heard many good things about you and look forward to us working together in the future. Best regards and Happy Easter Cintra Sooknanan Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:00 PM, ICANN At-Large Staff < staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> wrote: > Dear All, > > > > Please see below an announcement from David Olive, ICANN Vice President for > Policy Development, on the newest member of the At-Large staff: > > > > ** > > > > Dear All, > > > > I am very pleased to announce that Matt Ashtiani will be joining the Policy > Team as the At-Large Coordination Officer. After a brief transition period, > Matt will take on the full responsibilities of this position as part of the > At-Large Secretariat providing support to the ALAC and At-Large community. > > > > Matt joined ICANN as the Constituency Travel Coordinator in June 2009. > > > > He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a > triple Bachelor of Arts in International Developmental Studies, Political > Science, History and a minor in Middle Eastern/North African Studies. > After > his undergraduate career Matt moved to Dublin, Ireland where he completed > his Masters of Philosophy in International Peace Studies with a specialty > in > International Relations from Trinity College Dublin. > > > > In addition to English, Matt speaks fluent Farsi and some Spanish. > > > > Matt is based at ICANN's headquarters in Marina del Rey, California. > > > > Matt can be reached directly at matt.ashtiani(a)icann.org > > > > Regards, > > David Olive > > ICANN Vice President for Policy Development > > > > ** > > > > At-Large staff wish to welcome Matt and very much look forward to working > with him on supporting the At-Large community. > > > > Regards, > > Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn > Vernon > > ICANN At-Large Staff > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ALAC-Announce mailing list > ALAC-Announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-announce > > At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org >

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New Draft of the Applicant Guidebook for New gTLDs is Available for Public Comment
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh April 16, 2011

April 16, 2011

Dear All, >From http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-15apr11-en.htm : ICANN has posted for public comment today the April 2011 Discussion Draft of the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook. In keeping with the draft timeline (http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/draft-timeline-new-gtlds-18mar11-en.pdf) [PDF, 117 KB] approved by the ICANN Board at its meeting in San Francisco, this draft of the Applicant Guidebook will be open for comment for 30 days, through 15 May 2011. This posting includes a "track changes" version of the six modules of the Applicant Guidebook, along with a series of new Explanatory Memos related to changes made as a result of the recent consultations between ICANN's Board and Governmental Advisory Committee: Trademark Protections (Trademark Claims & Sunrise Services; and The Requirement for Demonstrating Use) GAC and Government Objections; Handling of Sensitive Strings; Early Warning Exemptions to Objection Fees for Governments Root Zone Scaling Market and Economic Impacts Registry-Registrar Separation These memos were developed to document the latest position on these topics by taking into account the current thinking, discussions and public comments received. Each memo not only reflects GAC advice but also contains the reasoning and rationale on each of the relevant issues regarding the launch of the New gTLD Program and Applicant Guidebook. Also being posted today is the ICANN Reply (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/board-notes-gac-scorecard-clean-15…) [PDF, 275 KB] to the GAC Comments (on the ICANN Board's Notes on the GAC Scorecard). Keeping with the draft timeline, ICANN plans post a final version of the guidebook by 30 May 2011, in time for consideration of the New gTLD implementation program at an extraordinary meeting of the ICANN Board to be held on Monday, 20 June 2011, at the ICANN meetings in Singapore. See http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-15apr11-en.htm and http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-6-en.htm for all of the relevant links Kind Regards, Dev Anand Teelucksingh LACRALO Secretariat

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by Vanda UOL April 15, 2011

April 15, 2011

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten April 15, 2011

April 15, 2011

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ICANN financials
by Joly MacFie April 14, 2011

April 14, 2011

http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3930246/ICANN+Revenues+Grow.h… For fiscal 2010, ICANN's revenues from its core operations were reported at $65.77 million, an increase from the the $60.23 million reported for fiscal 2009. ICANN was able to grow revenues from Internet Registries to $31.91 million up from $24.54 million in 2009. 2010 revenues from country code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) grew to $1.67 million, up from $1.57 million the prior year. ICANN also generated new revenues of $236,000 from its IDN ccTLD fast track request process. While ICANN has grown revenues, they also grew expenses in 2010. Total expenses were reported at $58.65 million up from $51.29 million for 2009. [ Report: http://www.icann.org/en/annualreport/annual-report-2010-en.pdf ] --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten April 8, 2011

April 8, 2011

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Posted Comments to NTIA's NOI on the IANA Function
by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond April 5, 2011

April 5, 2011

Dear all, for those of you who are interested in the subject, the NTIA has published the comments it has received: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/comments/110207099-1099-01/ Kind regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Announce] RESULT: Vote on ALAC Statement on the GAC New gTLD Scorecard
by Evan Leibovitch April 4, 2011

April 4, 2011

Well, the vote has closed with no ALAC members voting against. Ten in favour and one abstention (and the abstainer agreed with the report's conclusions), representing support from all of ICANN's five regions. So as of now the Response to the GAC Scorecard -- which is now in the hands of both the Board and the GAC -- is an official ALAC statement. Thanks to everyone who contributed input; the document reflects quite a mix of both recent comment and historical policy development. Now, having said all the, the statement is still a living document that -- as its disclaimer states -- is subject to ongoing updating as more feedback came in. Some recent discussion on the NARALO list regarding DNSSEC has potential implications for the Scorecard response so I am following that closely. Indeed, the "debate" over the release of the statement itself has been interesting to watch. The first indication of entertainment was the sudden arrival in the NARALO email list of vested interests who had previously appeared to write ALAC off as irrelevant. That response was predictable, ultimately a message of "how dare we try to slow -- let alone stop -- the train to gTLD-land". The response that followed, though, was even more interesting. It seems that there is an increasing comfort within ALAC with the position that a glut of dozens -- let alone hundreds -- of unrestricted new gTLDs does not necessarily serve the public interest, increase public trust in the DNS, or encourage the use of domain names to find content (as opposed to search engines or referral sites). Indeed, there are some foreseeable Internet stability risks possible in the case of over-supply of TLDs leading to large-scale financial failure of new registries, or the widespread repetition of the reliability and enforcement problems that exist in current TLDs. Long after the startup consultants have been paid and the service contracts signed, end users may be required to clean up the mess. Advocating restraint, throttling and/or categorization as part of the gTLD rollout may be indeed going against the grain of the rest of ICANN, but we're not here (well, I'm not) just to tell the industry what it want to hear. The debate is far from over. Since the creation of a RALO- and ALS-based infrastructure ALAC hasn't really been part of the claimed consensus about gTLDs. At least it's gratifying to know that this fact has finally received some needed attention. - Evan

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ALAC/At‐Large Improvements Project Plan
by Danny Younger April 1, 2011

April 1, 2011

The ALAC/At-Large Improvements Project Plan was scheduled for completion by March 2011. When will the final work product be available for public comment?

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten April 1, 2011

April 1, 2011

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