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Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] RES: Notice of Opening for Board Liaison Nominations Period
by Jeffrey A. Williams June 6, 2008

June 6, 2008

Jacque and all, Here is a novel idea. In that as you say that only 15 ALAC members can nominate anyone, why not each of them self nominate? I suppose that these same 15 members are the only ALAC members that can vote as well? ROFLMAO! This is one of the most skewed situations I've ever seen in my lifetime! Utterly ridiculous! -----Original Message----- >From: "Jacqueline A. Morris" <jam(a)jacquelinemorris.com> >Sent: Jun 6, 2008 3:41 AM >To: LB <lbleriot(a)gmail.com> >Cc: alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >Subject: Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] RES: Notice of Opening for Board Liaison Nominations Period > >I now understand what you were talking about ! The note indicated that >only the 15 ALAC members could submit nominations, either of themselves >or someone else. So JFC had no standing to nominate anyone. Not that JFC >was self-nominating Sebastien, which of course is ridiculous. >Bad translations are a powerful tool for misunderstanding. >Jacqueline >LB wrote: >> >> 4. the most fun is the note of Staff who reminds JFC that >> self-nominations are prohibited when they comment on his nomination of >> Sebastien Bachollet. >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >ALAC mailing list >ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > >At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "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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Weekly posting summary for alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten June 6, 2008

June 6, 2008

Total of 60 messages in the last 7 days. script run at: Fri Jun 6 00:53:02 EDT 2008 Messages | Bytes | Who --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 25.00% | 15 | 30.08% | 153148 | jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com 11.67% | 7 | 10.97% | 55872 | staff at atlarge.icann.org 8.33% | 5 | 10.02% | 51024 | cheryl at hovtek.com.au 6.67% | 4 | 5.89% | 30012 | lists at privaterra.info 5.00% | 3 | 4.47% | 22778 | jefsey at jefsey.com 5.00% | 3 | 3.39% | 17269 | dannyyounger at yahoo.com 3.33% | 2 | 3.69% | 18765 | dthompson at gov.nu.ca 3.33% | 2 | 3.66% | 18614 | lbleriot at gmail.com 3.33% | 2 | 3.44% | 17518 | carlosaguirre62 at hotmail.com 3.33% | 2 | 2.69% | 13719 | nick.ashton-hart at icann.org 3.33% | 2 | 2.54% | 12954 | jam at jacquelinemorris.com 3.33% | 2 | 2.38% | 12107 | johnl at iecc.com 3.33% | 2 | 2.37% | 12056 | michele at blacknight.ie 3.33% | 2 | 2.26% | 11486 | joly at punkcast.com 1.67% | 1 | 2.54% | 12955 | brenbe at consumer.org 1.67% | 1 | 2.03% | 10355 | vanda at uol.com.br 1.67% | 1 | 1.60% | 8157 | huenguyen at netnam.vn 1.67% | 1 | 1.56% | 7954 | narten at us.ibm.com 1.67% | 1 | 1.55% | 7905 | alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca 1.67% | 1 | 1.53% | 7779 | sricciardi at fibertel.com.ar 1.67% | 1 | 1.33% | 6773 | derek at aa419.org --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 100.00% | 60 |100.00% | 509200 | Total

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Re: [At-Large] [EURO-Discuss] [ALAC-Internal] Notice of Opening for Board Liaison Nominations Period
by Nick Ashton-Hart June 5, 2008

June 5, 2008

As a point of clarification, nominations or self-nominations per the Rules of Procedure (Rule 9.2) may only be made by ALAC members. On 05/06/2008 14:23, "JFC Morfin" <jefsey(a)jefsey.com> wrote: Dear Wolf, I nominate Sebastien Bachollet. jfc PS. I know that france@large Members who do not exist cannot nominate candidate right-now nor france@large to vote. But who knows if this will not have been corrected before the closure of the vote. I also suppose that, as one of the largest and most involved European ALS, our opinion should be considered. I do not nominate Sebastien because he is French and because I know him well, but due to his long and successful experience with ICANN issues as a non-American citizen, a former BC active leader, a specialist of the Internet Governance, the founder and organiser of the EGENI leading meeting on Naming Governance, the French ISOC Chapter Chair, an active Civil Society actor at the IGF and the Chair of the AGIFEM project which made ICANN to come in Paris and made the resulting costs financed. IMHO this is the kind of experience and of doer ALAC need to liaise with the BoD and keep them moving in the proper direction (which is necessarily @large oriented) if we want ICANN to survive the transition (JPA and IGF) as an international entity. At 13:01 05/06/2008, Wolf Ludwig wrote: >we received a call from the ALAC Chair recently on the Opening for >Board Liaison Nominations Period for the position of the At-Large >Liaison to the ICANN Board of Directors. This position is currently >held by Wendy Seltzer, a law professor from the US who I had the >pleasure to meet in February in New Delhi. _______________________________________________ EURO-Discuss mailing list EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.… Homepage for the region: http://www.euralo.org -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director for At-Large Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA DD: +1 (310) 578-8637 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Briefing On new Generic Top-Level Domains: Select your preferred briefing time/date
by At-Large Staff June 5, 2008

June 5, 2008

Dear ALAC New GTLD Policy Working Group members: As you know, the ALAC has asked the members of the working group to accelerate efforts to provide a draft statement on the work of ICANN to create a process for the inclusion of new generic top-level domains on the Internet. In order to help with this effort, a briefing by Karla Valente and Olof Nordling on the ICANN staff will be provided to working group members, and those members of the At-Large community who wish to attend, to provide an update on the work of the staff to design the implementation process for the policy developed by the GNSO. We would like to offer two windows of time when this briefing can be held, in order to facilitate the broadest participation in the briefing. The times and dates available may be found, and your participation preferences recorded, at http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=binhbh6zcs6m8afa. You may fill in your preferences on or before 1800 UTC on 6 June 2008. We will announce the meeting shortly after that time. Homepage for the New GTLD Policy Working group: https://st.icann.org/gnso-liaison/index.cgi?new_gtld_policy Co-Coordinators: Erick Iriarte Ahon & Sebastian Ricciardi ALAC Issue Coordinator: Beau Brendler Members: Gurumurthy Kasinathan (AP) Erick Iriarte Ahon (LAC) Sebastian Ricciardi (LAC) Veronica Cretu (EURO) Beau Brendler <Brenbe(a)consumer.org> (NA) The working group is still seeking members from Africa - and of course more may join from other regions too! -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Re: [At-Large] [Fwd: [ccnso-members] Report on global domain name use by phishers - released by AntiPhishing Working Group]
by Jeffrey A. Williams June 5, 2008

June 5, 2008

All, Resending this via Matthias request... Derek, Jacque and all, This is a very good report. Our independant survey indicated that there were over 68k DN's used for phishing purposes in 2007 all of which DNS were mis-configured. We were a bit more exact in whom the top 10 phishers were. The top 5 are as follows: Yahoo.com, Gmail.com, googlemail.com, mac.com, yahoo.co.uk, google.com, live.com, live.ru, ATT.net, and wikipedia.com. Currently most of our members are blocking/filtering these DN's and their associated IP addresses, and will continue to do so until or unless those whom are responsible for these phishiers and their Sr. managment are prosecuted to the fullist extent of the law. -----Original Message----- >From: Derek Smythe <derek(a)aa419.org> >Sent: Jun 4, 2008 8:07 AM >To: At-Large Worldwide <alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> >Subject: Re: [At-Large] [Fwd: [ccnso-members] Report on global domain name use by phishers - released by Anti Phishing Working Group] > >Hi Jacqueline and all > >Jacqueline, thank you posting this brilliant document. > >Indeed many of the observations in this document highlights some >serious issues. > >I am sure the publishers would not mind me saying this; many of these >identical issues are not only found in phishing scams, but also in >advance fee fraud/419 scams, escrow scams, job/money mule scams and >non-existent goods scams and other criminal enterprise. > >Many of the above scams at different levels of sophistication, but >sooner or later we note the same trends for most of them, the general >targets being unsuspecting other internet users and service providers. > >This document is a definite MUST read for anyone involved in domain >names or hosting in any form, more so their staff and/or agents >dealing with fraud issues. > >Brilliant! > >Regards > >Derek >http://www.aa419.org > > >Jacqueline A. Morris wrote: >> FYI >> Jacqueline >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [ccnso-members] Report on global domain name use by phishers - >> released by Anti Phishing Working Group >> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:30:56 -0700 >> >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> The Antiphishing Working Group (APWG) has released the results of a survey on "Global >> Domain Name Use and Trends in 2007" - it's a study on how phishers use domain names and to what purposes. >> >> The study describes an analysis that the APWG did of a comprehensive database of the phishing that took place in 2007. Basing on this, the APWG has defined the ways that phishers use domain names in their attacks. >> >> The study is available at: http://www.apwg.org/reports/APWG_GlobalPhishingSurvey2007.pdf >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Gabi / ccNSO Secretariat >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ALAC mailing list >> ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org >> >> At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org >> > > >_______________________________________________ >ALAC mailing list >ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > >At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "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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CONFIRMED: Briefing Session on Draft Operational Plan and Budget
by At-Large Staff June 4, 2008

June 4, 2008

Dear all, This is to confirm that Mr Kevin Wilson, ICANN¹s Chief Financial Officer, will give a briefing session on the Draft Operational Plan and Budget for FY 08/09. Tuesday, 10 June 12:30 UTC (one hour before the start of the monthly ALAC teleconference). There will be French and Spanish interpretation for this call. Please find a list with international toll-free numbers and the conference access code on our meeting page. https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?draft_operating_plan_and_budget You will also find reference material such as the ALAC Statement on the Draft Budget on this page. Further, we will soon post an agenda and a Powerpoint presentation. In order to follow the presentation during the call, please follow the link to the Adobe connect meeting room and that page. If you have never used Adobe Connect, please follow the instructions on the meeting page. We would like to thank Mr. Wilson for the time and effort he has put into this and look forward to his presentation next week. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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[Fwd: [ccnso-members] Report on global domain name use by phishers - released by Anti Phishing Working Group]
by Jacqueline A. Morris June 4, 2008

June 4, 2008

FYI Jacqueline -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ccnso-members] Report on global domain name use by phishers - released by Anti Phishing Working Group Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:30:56 -0700 Dear all, The Antiphishing Working Group (APWG) has released the results of a survey on "Global Domain Name Use and Trends in 2007" - it's a study on how phishers use domain names and to what purposes. The study describes an analysis that the APWG did of a comprehensive database of the phishing that took place in 2007. Basing on this, the APWG has defined the ways that phishers use domain names in their attacks. The study is available at: http://www.apwg.org/reports/APWG_GlobalPhishingSurvey2007.pdf Kind regards, Gabi / ccNSO Secretariat

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ICANN Posts Draft Community Travel Support Document for Public Comment
by Nick Ashton-Hart June 4, 2008

June 4, 2008

ICANN Posts Draft Community Travel Support Document 3 June 2008 * View document at: http://www.icann.org/topics/travel-support/draft-procedure-22may08.htm * Send comments to: travel-support-draft(a)icann.org * View comments at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/travel-support-draft/ At the February Delhi meeting, there was a public consultation regarding ICANN's approach to travel support funding for the community. After the public consultation in Delhi, a public comment period was held, and the feedback was analyzed and noted on-line http://forum.icann.org/lists/travel-support-policy/msg00009.html. After receiving and analyzing comments on this draft, it will be updated if needed, and final results reviewed with the Board in Paris. Ultimately, the Board will need to adopt (or reject) the budget impact of this new proposal when the Board approves the budget in Paris. Note that the ALAC, on behalf of the At-Large community, provided advice to the Board on the subject of travel support - you may review that statement at: http://www.atlarge.icann.org/files/atlarge/ALAC%20Statement%20on%20Travel%2… -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director for At-Large Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA DD: +1 (310) 301-8637 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Next ALAC Teleconference: 10 June 1330 UTC
by At-Large Staff June 3, 2008

June 3, 2008

Dear ALAC members, This is to remind you that the next ALAC teleconference is scheduled for Tuesday, 10 June at 1330 UTC. Please visit the meeting page to find participation instructions, a dial-out list and a tentative agenda. The agenda will soon be finalized. https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?10_june_2008 There will be a briefing session on the Draft Operational Plan and Budget starting right before the ALAC meeting at 1230 UTC. We will shortly put up a meeting page with all the documents and a slide show prepared by ICANN¹s Chief Financial Officer Mr. Kevin Wilson. You are all welcome to join this presentation. An official invitation will follow soon. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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ALAC May Teleconferences Summary Minutes
by At-Large Staff June 3, 2008

June 3, 2008

Dear ALAC members, We uploaded the summary minutes, action items and audio recordings for the ALAC May teleconferences to the meeting pages. Additionally, you can also find the summary minutes attached to this email below. https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?13_may_2008 https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?27_may_2008 Please note that the minutes are subject to change and are not official before adoption at the next ALAC meeting. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org May Meetings Summary Minutes 13 May Meeting: Participants: C Langdon-Orr (Chair), D Thompson, G Shearman, S Herlein Leite, V Scartezini, A Muehlberg, W Seltzer, H Xue, R Guerra, A Greenberg, B Brendler, S Bachollet Absent: C Aguirre, J Ovidio Salguiero, H Diakite, J Morris Staff: N Ashton-Hart, F Teboul, M Langenegger Minutes taken by Staff in the first instance. The Meeting Minutes of the last meeting were approved. Liaison Report The Board liaison gave an overview of the current issues at the Board level. W Seltzer noted that the Board has not indicated a timeline at their last meeting regarding the introduction of new gTLDs. She further noted that there was no decision about whether trademarks should be respected at the TLD level. With regards to dispute resolution at the TLD level, the Board members seemed to lean towards having an independent dispute resolution process. W Seltzer noted that it was important to prevent ICANN from getting involved with moral issues such as defining what TLDs should be allowed on grounds of morality because this was not in the purview of ICANN¹s mission. R Guerra noted he agreed with W Seltzer¹s statement. H Xue gave a short overview on current IDN issues. She pointed out that one of the most contentious political issues in the IDN sphere concerns objections. It is currently not clear what should happen if one country disputes a string proposed by another. With regards to the IDN liaison report, the Chair noted that she was concerned that the Fasttrack process for IDN ccTLDs was getting too complicated. A Muehlberg asked the IDN liaison if is it was possible to have introductory material. H Xue noted that she planned writing an introduction on IDNs in plain language. It was suggested to have the Staff remind the Working group liaisons to post their reports before ALAC meetings to post to the Website at at large policy working groups ALS Application status The Staff informed the participants about the ALS application status. (http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pDH-2Ym3VBKcDC3mA5enWfw&hl=en) ALS Vote A number of voice votes were announced: B Brendler and R Guerra asked that a vote be recorded that followed all the regional advice. S Bachollet asked that a vote be recorded to follow the regional advise for all applications except France@Large on which he will not vote. It was decided that the ICANN ombudsman should be involved to offer his good offices in advance of a formal request for action by the applicant france@large. C Langdon-Orr will approach the ombudsman to ask him how he could formally be engaged by the ALAC. The staff will inform the applicant of France@Large of the result of the vote. R Guerra noted that he would like to have a vote to change the wording of the ALS votes. A Greenberg noted that he tried to look up the most current ALAC rules of procedure and could not find them on the website. The Staff agreed to send out a link to those most current. It seemed to be generally felt among the ALAC members that the wording of the ALS votes should be changed to more simple language. The Staff will re-distribute the final document on the process mechanism on ALS application that was adopted in San Juan. The issue will be resolved on the mailing list by the ALAC members. Ratification and Status of ALAC Statements launched since the last Meeting The Chair proposed having a having a standing agenda item for discussing current ALAC statements. No objection was made to this proposal. Staff will ensure that this is included in forthcoming agendas. B Brendler noted that there was some concern among the NARALO members about the fact that only a small number of At-Large members seemed to participate in the policy process. He said that there will always be ALAC members who do not have an opinion on certain issues and that the way forward could perhaps be to have something like a roll call before statements are adopted to have more of an active consensus. A Greenberg pointed out he was in favour of there always being a formal vote on ALAC statements. He noted that in the Joint Statement of Users on GNSO improvements there were statements that he would not have wanted to be associated with would he have been able to withdraw his support, but that he had participated in the confidential discussions on that document not on his own behalf but as a community leader, and as a result he had not registered his personal objection. Were a separate vote to be held on ALAC statements, he would have been able to have recorded this personal view. The Chair noted that the process used for the three statements was by its nature iterative, and that the process for forthcoming work should be discussed in Paris on Sunday in order to further improve it going forward. There was general agreement with this way of proceeding. There seemed to be conflicting views held on the role of NomCom members and Working groups. The issue could not be resolved on this conference and will be continued online. The Chair noted that she felt sorry for A Greenberg for the criticism he received after not having passed on to NARALO the joint statement of users the that was labelled confidential. Flowchart of Statements The Staff asked if it would it be useful to provide a flowchart-based view of how the three statements were created and the various levels of comments taken. The Chair said that she welcomed this suggestion. The Staff will produce a flowchart-based view on the creation of ALAC statements. The Staff will send out a meeting planer to reconvene this meeting in 5 to 7 days to be able to plan for the meeting in Paris. Agenda Items 4 and 5 of the Items for decision at this meeting and all the Agenda Items for discussion only will be carried over to the next ALAC meeting. The Chair adjourned the meeting at 1505 UTC. 27 May meeting (The 13 May meeting was resumed and outstanding agenda items were carried over) Participants: N Thu Hue, V Scartezini, C Langdon-Orr (Chair), R Sherwood, H Xue (IDN liaison), W Seltzer (Board Liaison), J Morris (ccNSO liaison), F Seye Sylla, H Diakite, D Kasole, A Greenberg, J Ovidio Salgueiro Apologies: C Aguirre, R Guerra, A Muehlberg Staff: F Teboul, M Langenegger, N Ashton-Hart Minutes taken by Staff in first instance There was no quorum at the beginning of the meeting. List moderation The ALAC members discussed about how to proceed with the currently moderated mailing list member. S Bachollet suggested lifting list moderation for the person in question. R Sherwood noted that he was in favour of banning the person in question because excessive posting leads to list fatigue and discouraged the participation of other mailing list members. He suggested putting the issue to a broader poll including the list participant. The Chair noted that she sent three warnings to the person in question during moderation. The issue will go to broader polling. The question will be whether the moderated mailing list subscriber should be banned or not will be put to the list subscribers. Public Comment periods H Diakite noted that 45 days would be desirable to the current mechanism. V Scartezini also believes the additional time would give them some flexibility. The Board Liaison was asked to flag this as an issue at the Board level. The Chair noted that E Leibovitch made an excellent template for the Briefings. F Seye Silla suggested having more reminders and having smaller pieces at a time. J Morris noted that the translations often come up to 3 weeks after the comment period has started. She therefore suggested that the comment period start when the translations have been distributed. The ALAC will explore the matter of public comment periods and the best mechanism to increase the ability of all to participate further and come up with a statement in due course. The Staff encouraged the ALAC members to participate in the multilingual survey and to encourage others to participate. The matters of the ALAC working group and representation of regions will be subject of the OneDay Paris workshop in Paris (Sunday 22 June). The next ALAC teleconference will be on 10 June at 1330 UTC.

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