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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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Open ALAC meeting in Mexico?
by Izumi AIZU March 1, 2009

March 1, 2009

Hi, I am trying to find any ALAC meeting, the committee meeting, which is open for public, including ALS and RALOs? Other than all Summit events and meeting with NCUC on Monday 6 pm and with the Board , I could not find one. Or there will be no ALAC meeting or no open meeting but all closed? Thanks for your help, izumi

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Registrar compliance
by Derek Smythe March 1, 2009

March 1, 2009

Ladies and Gentleman As you may or may not know, I am actively involved in regularly reporting scam domains with fake whois details to registrars, concentrating mainly on advance fee fraudsters. Many of the real perpetrators are known, these gangs have been busted theoretically except for their locality. Hours and hours are spent verifying facts before the first report goes off. While some registrars have been a pleasure to work with and are willing to enforce the RAA (thank you PublicDomainRegistry/DirectI, Enom and the others that abide by the RAA), I must admit I am utterly and thoroughly disgusted in some of the other registrars. To make matters worse, ICANN's wonderful WDPRS system does not work! If the registrar decides to ignore a report, so does ICANN. I have reported numerous domains recently where I really went out of my may to make sure the evidence was extremely conclusive. These domains survived the "WDPRS process" unchanged, also follow up reports. Yet where I challenged a bank to have their lawyers contact one such registrar where the registrar ignores my reports, copying the registrar as well, they could disable the fake HSBC domain within hours? Hello MelbourneIT? The other domains reported in the same batch remain online and actively scamming! This is by no means an isolated incident for MelbourneIT. When making ICANN aware of registrar issues and extreme violations of the RAA, also making them aware of ignored WDPRS reports, I have been given the cold shoulder. As such, why should RAA compliant registrars continue to abide by the RAA if the "world's largest domain name registrar" blatantly ignores the RAA? Why should the public waste time on a placebo called the WDPRS system? Systems do not enforce compliance, the willingness of the people behind the systems do! As such, in the only avenue left to me, I have published some pertinent facts online at a blog, http://www.badwhois.info/wp (I am adding more info on the reported domains soon), regarding the holding company of the "world's largest domain name registrar" and their attitude towards compliance. Yet their website sports an ICANN logo???? How can the ordinary internet user survive the new Internet where everybody wants to make rules, but nobody is willing to enforce them? I am sickened to the core by this so called system. I saw the Internet born, I make a living out of IT, helped build it, I am involved in Internet security, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to say I am proud of it. "Business on the Internet", "the promise of the Internet" etc have all become oxymorons. As an example, take a quick look at how many spoofs of one bank there has been that has been found - NatWest bank - http://db.aa419.org/fakebankslist.php?psearch=natwest - now try Barclays, Citi. Obviously these could be mistaken for UDRP issues, but are not. The legal title holders to these marks are not directly affected so don not defend against these actively, so the public is left to fend for themselves. LEAs will not and impossibly cannot shut down each one of these - they simply do not have sufficient resources. Anyway, why use the taxpayer's money to sort out a mess that started elsewhere, why not stop this at the core? Bogus whois details where a registrar refuses to do anything without court orders etc does not help when the RAA is blatantly ignored. Ordinary citizens are under attack, they are being scammed every day on the internet, they see the trash in their email boxes, their identities are stolen and further scam domains are registered with those self same details. Corporates are willing to accept this and self blind or hide behind other legalese (also private domain registrations), since it allows the money to flow in, yet the victims are the ordinary innocent citizens who do not understand how the system works (or does not work). The system is now devoid of reality and "decency" - but that is the OPM and OPP I refer to in my posting. Definitely no integrity and not working for the ordinary internet user. To date nobody can quantify the financial losses on the Internet due to scams. Small businesses, and not so small, cannot survive once scammers get involved and spoof them. They simply do not have the financial means. What happened to BuyerGuardian.com? What message is the registrar community and ICANN is sending out? With ICANN Mexico happening, I would appreciate it if some of the attendees could find out what chance a normal internet user has of using the "system" if I, who I believe am more knowledgeable on domain and RAA issues than the average internet user, can not get either the registrar, or failing that ICANN, to actually look at reports of serious breaches of the RAA. Currently they do not have a snowball's hope ... Derek Smythe

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Presentations at At-Large Summit
by Patrick Vande Walle March 1, 2009

March 1, 2009

I am being asked if and when the presentations given at the Summit meeting this Friday will be put on-line. Thanks Patrick

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Rescheduling summit sessions without asking???
by Annette Muehlberg Feb. 28, 2009

Feb. 28, 2009

all, there is a summit-participants list, i know not even all participants are on it. but i am afraid, that important issues get lossed on different lists and we should rather stick to the public at-large list. this is why i resend the last posting of that list to the at-large list, hoping discussions will be continued here. but having a look at the archive, i just realised that we have two new staff members and maybe i have missed their introduction online, but it would be certainly nice to get to know them live at the summit. >Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, > Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms > ICANN At-Large Staff it is amazing how staff is doubling its size every year (in the last three years) and i hope that now there will be staff available for the at-large to offer services on the operational planning. best greetings annette ++++++++++++ [Summit-participants] Rescheduling sessions without asking??? Max Senges maxsenges at gmail.com Sat Feb 28 13:13:04 EST 2009 Previous message: [Summit-participants] Summit Update Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Matthias and all I have to say that the way you have been managing the preparation and scheduling of at least the session i am organizing is pretty unacceptable. You have informed me three days ago (Feb 25) that you approve the session proposal (which I handed in ....) and scheduled it for sunday(tomorrow). This already caused quite some coordinational stress as there where scheduling issues for many interested parties. I finally managed to get "our act together" this morning and now i have to learn from colleagues (not the organizers) that our session has been rescheduled to Tuesday. Sorry, but i would have appreciated if you had _asked_ me before whether re-scheduling our session one day before it is planned to take place works for me and the speakers! Especially as i do not think that the new setup - to have all thematic sessions in parallel will improve, but rather negatively influence the possibility of people to participate and hence conduct productive workshops! Also - when is the website going to be updated? and can you please announce the rescheduling as prominently as possible. Lastly i am wondering how the results of our sessions are supposed to feed into the final declaration as they are scheduled after all the workinging groups have done their meetings? Can you please explain the logic here? Kind regards, Max < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ----------------------Margaret Mead < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > Dr. Max Senges Chair Internet Rights and Principles Coalition www.internetrightsandprinciples.org < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > < : > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Matthias Langenegger < matthias.langenegger at icann.org> wrote: > Hi Max, > > The message was sent to the Summit participant list and I just saw that > your email address has not yet been subscribed to that list. Sorry about > that. I subscribed you to that list. > > > ------ Forwarded Message > *From: *At-Large Staff <staff at atlarge.icann.org> > *Date: *Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:52:35 -0800 > *To: *<summit-participants at atlarge-lists.icann.org> > *Subject: *[Summit-participants] Summit Update > > Dear All, > > Due to a scheduling conflict of the Board and Board Governance Committee, > the ALAC Chair has decided that the Sunday Sessions will now be adjusted to > allow for the ALAC Review Session to run from 0900 to 1030. Therefore the > Thematic Session currently scheduled for Sunday will be moved to Tuesday > afternoon with the other Thematic Sessions. The first sessions of the five > Working Groups will now be shifted to Sunday from 10:45 to 18:15. > > Regards, > > Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella > Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms > ICANN At-Large Staff > email: *staff at atlarge.icann.org > * > > ------ End of Forwarded Message >

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Review of the DNS Root Server Advisory Committee
by Patrick Vande Walle Feb. 28, 2009

Feb. 28, 2009

http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/rssac/ The Westlake report on RSSAC has just been published. It is quite hard, in that it points out that RSSAC is essentially unaccountable to the ICANN community, and that it does not pro-actively advise on root server related issues, or potential ones. Among the recommendations are a request that RSSAC holds its meetings together with ICANN ones, and to enlarge the AC to include representatives from ASO, GNSO, ccNSO, GAC and ALAC. Obviously, the recommendations should be discussed, but the gist of the report is right on target. Patrick

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IMPORTANT - Summit Participants
by Thompson, Darlene Feb. 28, 2009

Feb. 28, 2009

Hi all, I have now been appointed "Official Sheepdog" and am very impressed with my new responsibilities (yeah, right!). Basically, its my job to get everyone to the Summit on time tomorrow morning, so please read the following: 1. The meeting starts at 9:00 AM. That means that everybody must be REGISTERED prior to that time and, lets face it, if everybody gets there at 8:45, this AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN! So, we need to get there WELL ahead of time to make sure we get registered on time. 2. The registration desk opens at 8:00 AM. PLEASE everybody try to get there as early as possible, especially those from the RALOs that aren't excedingly jet lagged (NARALO & LACRALO). Lets be respectful to other's time lags and show up as EARLY as humanly possible. Staff are doing their best - lets not let everybody down. 3. Registration and everything else tomorrow is happening at the 4th Floor of the Sheraton (not 2nd floor as previously announced). 4. My room # is 1803 - call me if you have questions. My wake up call will be at 6:30 so any time after that is just fine. I will be circling the lobby area and the restaurants (starting at about 7:30 or so) trying to make sure everybody gets moving. If you've not met me yet, I'm 5'8", long curly red hair, glasses, wearing a light grey suit. If you have a question about how to get to the Sheraton, I will walk with you for the first 50 feet or so until you can see it and I'll give you good instructions how to get there. This place isn't as bad (for muggers and such) as was first made out. If there are shuttle busses, take them. If not, you can get there by an EASY 7 minute walk at a stroll. (I've done it 4 times now and not been accosted by anybody.) The locals are generally quite pleasant and willing to assist (but, of COURSE, be careful). 5. I will need "Sub-Sheepdogs" to help me. I am REALLY hoping that each of the elected executives of each RALO will help me in getting your RALO participants to shuffle along ON TIME (read: EARLY!). We have a REALLY tight time schedule tomorrow and there actually isn't any excuse to show up late. 6. I am SO looking forward to seeing everybody! This is going to be a great conference and, since it is one of a kind, we need to make an AWESOME showing here. Please approach me if you need ANY help whatsoever. CU tomorrow! D Darlene A. Thompson CAP Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Sation 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca

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Weekly posting summary for alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten Feb. 27, 2009

Feb. 27, 2009

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Re: [At-Large] ICANN PREGUNTAS
by Presidencia Internauta Feb. 25, 2009

Feb. 25, 2009

Dear Jeffrey and all: It's very interesting what you say and I totally agree. Karl raises :"... ICANN on the list should be placed on a severe diet. But I do not see any force within ICANN that has the guts to do it .... " I think we should not wait until someone dares to do something, we must be the true protagonists of change within ICANN. I must also say that I totally agree with Evan, when it says that this culture of consensus has led to governance simply by "what is offensive to the lower" instead of asserting his leadership, mission, or even published. All for the sake of courtesy. The very root concept of "consensus politics" ... as whether to have a different status compared to the plain old "politics." In fact, I think some parts of ICANN are even proud of this owest common denominator for leadership. However, in my short time in the ICANN I've come to see it as a dereliction of duty, and a total lack of willingness to defend anything of value, except for growth without an end in itself. "I think it's good to hear ALAC this fellow, and I am not alone in my struggle for an Internet fair, free and with more possibilities for users. Sergio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org>; "Presidencia Internauta" <presidencia(a)internauta.org.ar> Cc: "2nd address Cheryl Langdon-Orr" <langdonorr(a)gmail.com>; "Alan Greenberg" <alan.greenberg(a)mcgill.ca>; "DOC/NTIA ICANN Rep" <aheineman(a)ntia.doc.gov>; "GAC Rep" <ssene(a)ntia.doc.gov> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [At-Large] ICANN PREGUNTAS > Sergio and all, > > Yes it is a joke, but a very bad one. ICANN seems to still consider > users and/or other non constituency stakeholders a nuisance, even though > these are the stakeholders that ICANN largely is supposed to serve. Seems > to me that they have their collective attitudes backwards, much like the > Banking community has had and in which we are now bailing them out. > > Presidencia Internauta wrote: > >> This is unacceptable! they are the same ones who want to lower the costs of >> participation >> of Internet users in ICANN! is a joke ... >> Sergio Salinas Porto >> Presidente >> Asociación Internauta >> Usuarios de Internet >> República Argentina >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger(a)yahoo.com> >> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:48 PM >> Subject: [At-Large] ICANN PREGUNTAS >> >> > >> > Adam, >> > >> > Some staff payments are indeed listed on the Form 990. The 2007 Form 990 indicated >> > that >> > Denise Michel received: >> > >> > $198,330 -- compensation >> > $49,160 -- contributions to emloyee benefit plans & deferred compensation >> > $130,465 -- expense account & other allowances. >> > >> > Doug Brent received: >> > >> > $148,500 -- compensation >> > $37,789 -- contributions to emloyee benefit plans & deferred compensation >> > $12,000 -- expense account & other allowances. >> > >> > You'll also find the figures for John Jeffrey, Kurt Pritz, Paul Levins and more... >> > (each >> > of whom receives more than a quarter million dollars per year). >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > Regards, > > Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 284k members/stakeholders strong!) > "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - > Abraham Lincoln > "YES WE CAN!" Barack ( Berry ) Obama > > "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is > very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt > > "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; > liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by > P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." > United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] > =============================================================== > Updated 1/26/04 > CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. > div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. > ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail > jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com > My Phone: 214-244-4827 >

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gTLD applicant's guide - version 2
by Patrick Vande Walle Feb. 25, 2009

Feb. 25, 2009

FYI http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-rfp-redline-18feb09-en.pdf Patrick

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