April 2012 - At-Large - lists.icann.org

Public Board Meeting - the Update for Prague
by Carlton Samuels May 10, 2012

May 10, 2012

I'm sure I may be in the minority to bemoan the passing of the usual 'public' Friday morning ICANN Board meeting. Let us be clear I'm not just hopped off the truck here. I'm familiar enough with these matters to recognize it for what it is principally intended; theatre. But in the ICANN context, even crafted theatre has its role. First, I truly believe that for a claimed multistakeholder organisation and while the 'public' board meeting may not have been all it could be, it was an important indicator or attribute of the MSM, especially having regard the global public interest. Secondly, even if the votes are already taken, there existed an outside chance that one may witness truly revealing 'body language' of participants. Maybe its because for most of my life I have always straddled several socio-political realities. But I am socialized to be ever mindful that one may 'feel the hand of Esau even as you hear the voice of Jacob'. I can still hear Susan Crawford's cathartic farewell speech in 2008. It was remarkable, the response in body language of several board members told a story. I will concede it may not mean much, then and there. Aferall, the deed is done and the die is cast. But when the 'fire next time' comes, it is instructive. - Carlton Samuels ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================

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Conflicts in the Future
by Carlton Samuels April 30, 2012

April 30, 2012

See our colleague, Charles Mok on conflcits [of interests] here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHdStGV37iI - 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 27, 2012

April 27, 2012

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten April 20, 2012

April 20, 2012

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Re: [At-Large] Tim Berners- Lee and UK Snooping
by Carlton Samuels April 18, 2012

April 18, 2012

I saw and read it with some interesting too. Especially since deep in the story, it finally came thru that he's not really against snooping in principle but moreso about how it was managed: "He said that if the government believed it was essential to collect this kind of sensitive data about individuals, it would have to establish a "very strong independent body" which would be able to investigate every use of the surveillance powers to establish whether the target did pose a threat, and whether the intrusion had produced valuable evidence. But he said that since the coalition had not spelled out an oversight regime, or how the data could be safely stored, "the most important thing to do is to stop the bill as it is at the moment". I do share his sense of foreboding on the easy ride we give Facebook and Google in relation to this same issue. And the sense that a backlash is inevitable. - Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:00 AM, <na-discuss-request(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > wrote: > Send NA-Discuss mailing list submissions to > na-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:33:01 -0400 > From: Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [NA-Discuss] Tim Berners Lee and UK Snooping Legislation > To: na-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/17/tim-berners-lee-monitoring… > > > -- > Glenn McKnight > mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com > skype gmcknight > twitter gmcknight > Http://www.globalcatalysts.com > http://newsocialmedia.wordpress.com > > >

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Re: [At-Large] [IDN-WG] ALAC Response to the VIP Proposed Project Plan and Next Steps
by Hong Xue April 18, 2012

April 18, 2012

*They made one > point of clarification regarding the treatment of communities who consider > themselves ready to implement IDN Variants - that it would only happen > after the label generation toolset work is done. In their project plan > this can only begin mid of FY13. * If a community is already ready on technology, policy and management, why people in that community have to wait until mid 2013 to implement IDN variant TLDs? This conclude would actually exclude some variant-related IDN TLD applications from the first-round new gTLD program. Among six scripts under VIP study and project plan, Chinese community that is most ready on IDN variants would be most affected. If this is the truth, it should be revealed. At the end of the day, it is the ordinary Chinese-script users who suffer most from these arbitrary decisions. I assume at-large has the responsibility to truthfully reflect users' view. Actually, Chinese community is not asking for any favorite treatment, instead, they are against exclusive and discriminative treatment. BTW, variant issues are unique to Chinese scripts, not relevant to Japanese or Korean. So CJK cannot be bundled on variants. Hong -- Dr. Hong Xue Professor of Law Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) Beijing Normal University http://www.iipl.org.cn/ 19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street Beijing 100875 China

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten April 13, 2012

April 13, 2012

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Linux Journal Survey: How many domains do you own?
by Evan Leibovitch April 6, 2012

April 6, 2012

Cute, with some relevance to the many ALSs here with open source connections: http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1035187 http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1035187/results -- Evan Leibovitch Toronto Canada Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56

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by Vanda UOL April 6, 2012

April 6, 2012

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten April 6, 2012

April 6, 2012

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