October 2018 - At-Large - lists.icann.org

Re: [At-Large] [ALAC] Root Zone KSK Rollover
by Vanda Scartezini Oct. 12, 2018

Oct. 12, 2018

Nothing happened here that someone has informed ( no news from the Brazilian Association of ISPs - 4,000 here). Best regards, Vanda Scartezini Polo Consultores Associados Av. Paulista 1159, cj 1004 01311-200- Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Land Line: +55 11 3266.6253 Mobile: + 55 11 98181.1464 Sorry for any typos. On 10/12/18, 17:09, "ALAC on behalf of Alan Greenberg" <alac-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org on behalf of alan.greenberg(a)mcgill.ca> wrote: Did anyone notice??? https://www.icann.org/ksk-rollover-status https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ksk-rollover Alan _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac At-Large Online: http://www.atlarge.icann.org ALAC Working Wiki: https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Advisory+Committee+(AL…

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by narten＠us.ibm.com Oct. 12, 2018

Oct. 12, 2018

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FY19 Board activities and priorities
by León Felipe Sánchez Ambía Oct. 11, 2018

Oct. 11, 2018

Dear all, As our meeting in Barcelona gets closer, the Board wanted to share with the community its activities and priorities for FY19. To that end, Cherine Chalaby, Chair of the ICANN Board has published a blog post that provides the details on both activities and priorities for the Board on FY19. You can read the post here <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/about-the-fy19-board-activities-priorities>. I hope you find this blogpost useful. Best regards, León

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Fwd: Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT) Final Report Now Available for Public Comment
by Carlton Samuels Oct. 10, 2018

Oct. 10, 2018

Final report ready for public comment, -Carlton ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= [image: ICANN] <http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-10-10-en ------------------------------ Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT) Final Report Now Available for Public Comment 10 October 2018 LOS ANGELES – 10 October 2018 - The Final Report and Recommendations <https://icann.org/en/system/files/files/cct-rt-final-08sep18-en.pdf> [PDF, 4.89 MB] of the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review has been published for public comment. On 8 September 2018 the CCT Review Team submitted its Final Report and Recommendations to the ICANN Board of Directors. Informed by multiple studies, research, and data gathering initiatives, as well as input from the ICANN community and ICANN Board, the review team produced a final report that examines the extent to which the introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has promoted competition, consumer trust, and consumer choice in the domain name system. The review team report also assesses the effectiveness of the safeguards ICANN has implemented to mitigate issues related to the introduction of new gTLDs, and the New gTLD Program's application and evaluation process. The report contains 35 recommendations, covering requests for more and better data collection, policy issues to be addressed by the community, and suggested reforms relating to transparency and data collection within ICANN Contractual Compliance. The recommendations were adopted with full consensus from the Review Team. Per the ICANN Bylaws <https://icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article4.6>, each final report of a review team shall be published for public comment in advance of the Board's consideration. The Public Comment process on the Final Report was started on 08 October 2018 and is expected to close on 27 November 2018. To review the Final Report and Recommendations and provide your feedback, click here <https://icann.org/public-comments/cct-final-recs-2018-10-08-en>. Next Steps By 8 March 2019 - within six months of receipt of the Final Report <https://icann.org/en/system/files/files/cct-rt-final-08sep18-en.pdf> [PDF, 4.89 MB] and Recommendations - the ICANN Board shall consider the report and public comments to determine whether to approve the recommendations. The Board will then direct implementation of the recommendations that were approved and provide written rationale for the decision if any recommendations are not approved. ICANN organization will prepare a feasibility assessment on the final recommendations to inform Board consideration. About the CCT Review Launched under the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC), the CCT Review Team was formed to assess the New gTLD Program in three areas: competition, consumer trust, and consumer choice. The review also assesses the effectiveness of safeguards put in place to mitigate issues arising from the introduction of new gTLDs and the Program's application and evaluation process. The review, now a Specific Review under ICANN Bylaws section 4.6 <https://icann.org/public-comments/reviews-standards-2017-10-17-en>, examines the degree to which the process of implementing the New gTLD Program was successful in producing desired results and achieving the stated objectives. About Specific Reviews Specific Reviews <https://icann.org/resources/reviews/specific-reviews> are mandated by ICANN Bylaws <https://icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en#article4.6> and are crucial to the legitimacy and accountability of ICANN. Specific Reviews serve as ICANN's progress report to the world. They demonstrate how ICANN delivers on its commitments and identifies areas where ICANN can improve. Specific Reviews are conducted by members of the stakeholder community who look at past processes, actions, and outcomes in order to make recommendations to improve future performance. Click here <https://icann.org/resources/reviews> to learn more about Reviews and how you can get involved. About ICANN ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique, so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world. - - - - - - -

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WEBCAST TUE-THU: Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology 2018 #TechWomenAfrica
by Joly MacFie Oct. 9, 2018

Oct. 9, 2018

Just started, this is kind of historic, in that is the first time we've ever simulcast in two languages! As well as the livestream channels both webcasts can be seen on ISOC Africa Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>, and the ISOC Live Twitter <https://twitter.com/isoc_live> <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aswgt2018>From *Tuesday through Thursday October 9-11 2018*the* 2nd Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology <https://webfoundation.org/africasummit/>* is happening in *Accra, Ghana*. The Summit — which comes at a crucial point in time when the world is set to reach 50% connectivity — aims to design solutions that will enable millions of African women and girls to benefit from access to technology and use their skills to build a better Africa for all. The Summit will explore a range of relevant topic areas, with a focus on developing policy to advance: ● Access to affordable broadband ● Women’s rights online ● Digital education and skills ● Digital entrepreneurship English and French Livestreams will be available via the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <http://isoc.live/>*. *WHAT: 2nd Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology <https://webfoundation.org/africasummit/>WHERE: Accra, GhanaWHEN: Tuesday – Thursday October 9-11 2018 (Accra runs on UTC)PROGRAM: https://aswgt2018.sched.com/ <https://aswgt2018.sched.com/>ENGLISH WEBCAST: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aswgt2018 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aswgt2018>FRENCH WEBCAST: https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/safft2018 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/safft2018>TWITTER: #TechWomenAfrica http://bit.ly/techwomenafrica <http://bit.ly/techwomenafrica>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10616/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by narten＠us.ibm.com Oct. 5, 2018

Oct. 5, 2018

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THNIC Foundation comment on String Confusability
by Satish Babu Oct. 4, 2018

Oct. 4, 2018

Dear At-Large Community Please see below the public comment made by the Thai Network Information Center (THNIC) Foundation on String Confusability based on homophone variants. The statement is being circulated at their request to the larger At-Large Community, as it is considered as an issue that may impact end-users and language/script communities: The Thai Network Information Center (THNIC) Foundation would like to submit the following comment on the Initial Report on the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (Overarching Issues & Work Tracks 1-4) : Work Track 3’s Recommendation 2: “Strings must not be confusingly similar to an existing top-level domain.” refers to only the visual or spelling similarity. We would like to emphasize the importance of homonym which can cause confusions to the users' community, and must be avoided particularly at the TLD level. An example case can be found from the first round of the new gTLD where there was an application for .thai new gTLD which phonetically clashes with existing .ไทย (Thai IDN ccTLD). However, thanks to the ICANN board ruling, the application was "Not Approved” in November 2013. From this expensive exercise, we would like to request that homonym be explicitly included in the similarity to existing top-level domain consideration of the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook to prevent future confusions and costly disputes. With kind regards, satish

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APTLD-74
by Roberto Gaetano Oct. 3, 2018

Oct. 3, 2018

Hi all. Please find below some notes about the APTLD-74 meeting that I have attended a couple of weeks ago - see http://www.aptld74.uz<http://www.aptld74.uz/>. I have been invited as partner organization to this event, that celebrates the 20th anniversary of APTLD. I presented the attached slide deck, and spoke mainly about the MoU signed a few years ago between APRALO and APTLD as well as about the potential areas for collaboration. The AP ccTLD community has huge experience on IDN, and I do believe that we could find synergies between their technical competence as operators and our approach about user needs. Another item is the underserved regions. On both topics there have been presentations and reports in the course of the meeting. Another issue, that however I have not raised in that context as it was out of scope, is how to extend the collaboration and to sign an MoU in other regions. I believe that we can exploit this potential, but we need to address specific issues rather than a generic “political” statement - and the two areas of collaboration that I have mentioned could be evaluated further, not only in AP. Among the other sessions and contributions, may I mention the huge effort that Uzbekistan is doing to improve the infrastructure - I was impressed by the speaker. Also interesting were the reports from the Members, in particular those with special connectivity problems like Vanuatu, and the already mentioned sessions on IDN and Universal Acceptance. Best regards, Roberto

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WEBCAST MONDAY: UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation: Virtual Town Hall Meeting
by Joly MacFie Oct. 1, 2018

Oct. 1, 2018

The first one of these sessions is available on the webcast link, and also via twitter <https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live/status/1046683851714482178>. Second is at noon EDT, [image: UN-HLP-DC livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation>Today *Monday October 1 2018* the *United Nations High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation <https://digitalcooperation.org/about/>*, following its recent *first meeting <https://digitalcooperation.org/panel-meets-to-chart-path-forward/>* in NYC, will hold a *Virtual Town Hall <https://dig.watch/events/un-high-level-panel-digital-cooperation-virtual-to…>*. This will comprise two sessions to accommodate differing timezones, both of which will comprise a briefing and Q&A facilitated by co-executive director *Dr Jovan Kurbalija*. The sessions will be captured and webcast via the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation>*. <https://www.opendatacon.org/> *WHAT: United Nations High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation Virtual Town HallWHERE: WebexWHEN: Monday October 1 2018 08:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC | 04:00 & 12:00 EDTWATCH: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation>TWITTER: #DigitalCooperation http://bit.ly/digitalcooperation <http://bit.ly/digitalcooperation>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10561/ - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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