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Re: [At-Large] Call for nominations for ALAC Officer Positions (2nd round)
by Cheryl Langdon-Orr Nov. 5, 2007

Nov. 5, 2007

NP Sebastien, I can proxy for you... Community please note the following nomination(s)...Forwarded to the At Large Public list on behalf of Sebastien Ricciardi... CLO Nick can you check why he is not able to post??? CLO From: Sebastian Ricciardi [mailto:sricciardi@fibertel.com.ar] Sent: Monday, 5 November 2007 11:48 PM To: cheryl(a)hovtek.com.au Cc: 'Nick Ashton-Hart' Subject: RV: [At-Large] Call for nominations for ALAC Officer Positions (2nd round) Dear Cheryl, I don´t know why I cannot post in the At Large Worldwide list. However, I would like to nominate myself either for Registrar/Registrant relations or new gTLDs liaison. I would be happy to work with the ALAC in these or any other subject. Best regards, Sebastian Ricciardi _____ De: alac-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] En nombre de Jacqueline A. Morris Enviado el: Viernes, 02 de Noviembre de 2007 05:41 p.m. Para: 'At-Large Worldwide' Asunto: [At-Large] Call for nominations for ALAC Officer Positions (2nd round) Dear At Large After the first round, the following positions remain unfilled, with no nominations. I now call for nominations for the following Officer and Liaison positions for the ALAC for the 2007-2008 term. Liasons do not need to be ALAC members, but Officers do. Only ALAC members can nominate. Nominations are due to this list in 14 days - 12:00 UTC on Friday Nov 16 Nominations for Officer Positions 2007/8 ALAC Committee Officers Rapporteur No nominations Liaisons WHOIS No nominations Working Groups IDNs No nominations WHOIS No nominations Registrant/Registrar Relations No nominations IPv4 IPv6 Transition No nominations New GTLDs No nominations No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.18/1104 - Release Date: 11/1/2007 18:47

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WHOIS Stalemate: more studies, any you'd like?
by Wendy Seltzer Nov. 5, 2007

Nov. 5, 2007

Colleagues, The GNSO Council has just concluded the WHOIS PDP by refusing to endorse the Working Group's Operational Point of Contact recommendations. They also, on a closer margin, voted down the negotiation-forcing sunset proposal. Instead, the Council called for more studies. While many of us would have preferred to see action, after five years of WHOIS debate, at-large can contribute to the definition of these studies. Are there concrete questions about WHOIS harms, benefits, or alternatives that you (ALSs, individuals, and all) would like to see addressed with data-driven research? According to the draft of the motion passed, "Council shall provide additional definition regarding the potential data gathering and study requirements no later than February 15th, 2008." I'm assuming ALAC should pass its recommendations to the Council through Alan. Council will be preparing a Board submission shortly, and I'm happy to convey ALAC's comments when that is discussed. Thanks, --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/

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budget committee nomination and thanks to all
by Annette Muehlberg Nov. 5, 2007

Nov. 5, 2007

All, thank you all for the friendly and very productive meeting in LA. It was sad to loose our old ALAC members: to all of you many thanks. It was great to get know all new ALAC members and I hope, this was an encouraging start for all of you. I think it was very positive, that in our last meeting on thursday we agreed on abolishing the secretariat-list and have a joint ALAC and Secretariat list. As well, that we decided, that if chairs/secretariats of the RALOs take part in ICANN meeting, we will always have joint ALAC-Secretariats meetings. I would like to thank Dough Brent and Denise Michel for joining us on our thursday meeting. It is very helpful, that we now have a general procedure in place for planning our project/budget planning: - Chair sends out to all regional lists a request for planning their regional projects and handing in budget applications for the planning of the current fiscal year 2007/2008 as well as 2008/2009. Applications have to include a clear definition of the projects, its missions and what should be accomplished. Budget Committee puts proposals together. ALAC (in coop with RALO nominees), based on the proposals of its Budget Sub-Committee, plans a prioritised proposed budget / funds requirement forecast, for a given period, based upon RALOs and ALAC members input. 2. ICANN/the ICANN community decides on funds availability and proposes a match of funds (modified, full or partial) to each prioritised proposal (and if certain project proposals are not accepted as being either of merit OR able to be funded, ICANN gets in touch with ALAC before denial and explains its reservations, so that the Sub Committee can act to find a consensus for the budget plan). 3. We care about transparency: at least ALAC and RALO nominees should always have access to an online forum where all the budget expanses - planned and already realized. Budget Committee receives every single extra request (workshops etc. of RALOs and ALAC as well as individual demands of ALAC and RALO members (such as travel costs to meetings other than ICANN meetings) for reason of transparency and to give recommendation to staff (larger projects in consultation with ALAC). Dough informed us, that next year the operating plan and budget plan will be set up at the same time (february?) and will then be discussed by the community. Though the fiscal year begins july first, ALAC has to hand in its planning (based on inputs by the At-Large, RALOs and the ALAC itself) beginning January next year. And immediately to come up with the planning for the current fiscal year. For an event as big as an users summit in Paris next year, we were told that we would have to come up with especially convincing arguments. As always: the amount of money needed has to be weighed with the importance and possible impact of the respective project. As we have one place free on the budget committee (former member was Jaqueline), I would like to nominate Vanda for our budget committee, who already showed a lot of interest in the budget planning and told me that she would accept the nomination. There is a lot to do, we will work on it together. I hope everyone has a safe trip home. All the best to all of you Annette

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My offer to help
by Bill Silverstein Nov. 5, 2007

Nov. 5, 2007

I'm willing to assist as needed. My interest includes RAA and Whois issues. I am a software engineer (an old timer that remembers upgrading to 64k in a system) that have been tracking and litigating against spammers (and aiding others in doing the same).

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dot mobi liason?
by John L Nov. 4, 2007

Nov. 4, 2007

Hi. Did the ALAC decide whether it was Wolfgang or me for the .MOBI policy advisory board? Regards, John Levine, johnl(a)iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.

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agenda items invitation of nomcom member
by Annette Muehlberg Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

All, concerning our agenda today: 1. Ross Rader, ALAC appointed NomCom member from NA, would like to take the chance to talk with us some minutes. He has time to join us right after our meeting at 5 pm. So please, if you have no urgent other stuff to do, take the chance to stay further 10 minutes. Other NomCom members might want to join as well. 2. I talked with Hue and Veronica and we have the following proposals for our agenda: a.. Informing At-Large on LA-ICANN Meeting. We propose, several people sign up to summary ICANN working sessions of ALAC/RALO and others related to individual internet users. This information should include conclusions and proposed steps the ALAC should take on the respective issues. - Showing role of ALAC in Domain tasting - issues report and PDP. Role of Working group/Members. a.. Planning ahead: on the short and on the long run after LA Meeting. b.. Question: Do we have one issue we should all concentrate on? To each Issue someone should be assigned to as coordinator/responsible, definition of timeline. c.. Planning committee for next ICANN meeting in India - ALAC and RALO members from Asia Pacific? One further issue which we decided on sunday to talk about was, apart from budget, the definition of role of staff which I would like to propose to add to point 2, Division of Responsibilities between RALOs and the ALAC. And we should not forget to set clear times for breaks. ;-) So updated agenda would be: Location: Bel Air Room A G E N D A (including breaks) 1. 1300 - 1400 Report of the Secretariats on their Previous Meetings: 1. Priorities of each RALO for the next year ("the Vision Thing") 2. Efforts to Improve Internet End-User Engagement with ICANN Issues 3. Discussion on Face-to-Face Meetings and Community Engagement (includes Summit idea) 2. 1400 - 1530 Synthesis of the Secretariat and ALAC's Views on These Subjects, as well as: 1. Priorities for At-Large overall for the next year - Informing At-Large on LA-ICANN Meeting. (several people sign up to summary ICANN working sessions of ALAC/RALO and others related to individual internet users. This information should include conclusions and proposed steps the ALAC should take on the respective issues.) - Showing role of ALAC in Domain tasting - issues report and PDP. Role of Working group/Members. - Planning ahead: on the short and on the long run after LA Meeting. - Question: Do we have one issue we should all concentrate on? To each Issue someone should be assigned to as coordinator/responsible, definition of timeline. - Planning committee for next ICANN meeting in India - ALAC and RALO members from Asia Pacific? 2. Division of Responsibilities between RALOs and the ALAC and definition of role of staff 3. 1530-1600 Training on New Membership, ALS Application, and Due Dilligence Handling System (R Guerra) 4. 1600-1620 Demonstration of new atlarge.icann.org (Marc Salvatierra & Nick Ashton-Hart) 5. 1620-1700 Budgeting Process (D Brent, N Ashton-Hart, D Michel) 6. 1700-1715 Talk with ALAC NomCom member(s) See you soon Annette

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ROOM CHANGE: Today's ALAC+Secretariats Session now in Plaza
by Nick Ashton-Hart Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

We have been moved to a new bigger room with a better translation booth setup - Plaza. I will have a sign on Century A/B for those who don't get this. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 595 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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At-Large Social Dinner / LA ICANN
by Robert Guerra Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

I have made a dinner reservation for 18 for 8:30 this evening Chinois on Main (Vietnamese/french) http://www.gusto.com/california/santamonica/restaurants/chinoisonmain-R2321… Santa Monica I'll confirm the # attending at this afternoon's alac meeting other then dinner, i've been told that there's a group from LAC (not sure what constituency) that will be going out to dance salsa around 10:30. I'll try to find out the location, so that those interested might be able to join them as well. regards Robert

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Jacqueline's presentation at ICANN Open Forum
by Alan Greenberg Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

Great job!!! Alan

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ALAC Statement on ICANN Board IDN Questions
by Nick Ashton-Hart Nov. 1, 2007

Nov. 1, 2007

Note that the following has been posted to www.alac.icann.org: under 'Correspondence and Statements' and will shortly also be on the main page: At-Large Advisory Committee Submits Response to June 2007 IDN Questions to the ICANN Board On October 29th, the At-Large Advisory Committee agreed unanimously on a detailed response to the questionnaire on IDNs posed to it by the ICANN Board of Directors in June 2007. This statement was the product of extensive consultations with the worldwide At-Large community. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 595 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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