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Re: [At-Large] Call-In to the ALAC/Europe/Africa meeting
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

I believe that he did - I'm sure he will say otherwise if he feels differently. On 29/03/07, Wendy Seltzer <wendy(a)seltzer.com> wrote: > > At 10:21 AM 3/29/2007, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote: > >FYI, Danny Younger just asked a question and it came through loud > >and clear here - hopefully it was as clear for him. > > Even more important, I hope he got a clear answer :) > > --Wendy > > > >On 29/03/07, Wendy Seltzer <<mailto:wendy@seltzer.com> > >wendy(a)seltzer.com> wrote: > >I look forward to seeing the minutes. > > > >--Wendy > > > >At 10:06 AM 3/29/2007, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote: > > >FYI, there is call-in access as found at > > ><<https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?third_session>https://st.ican > > n.org/alac/index.cgi?third_session >https://st.icann.org/alac/index. > > cgi?third_session > > > > > >Please join the meeting - the agenda is also at the page shown above > > > > > >-- > > >-- > > >Regards, > > > > > >Nick Ashton-Hart > > >PO Box 32160 > > >London N4 2XY > > >United Kingdom > > >UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 > > >USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 > > >Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 > > >mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 > > >Win IM: > > <mailto:ashtonhart@hotmail.com><mailto:ashtonhart@hotmail.com> > ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com > > / > > >AIM/iSight: <mailto: > > nashtonhart(a)mac.com><mailto:nashtonhart@mac.com>nashtonhart(a)mac.com / > Skype: > > >nashtonhart > > >Online > > >Bio: > > ><<https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart>https://www.linkedin.com/i > > n/ashtonhart >https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart > > >_______________________________________________ > > >ALAC mailing list > > ><mailto:ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org> ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > ><http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists > > .icann.org> > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > > > > www.alac.icann.org > > ><http://www.icannalac.org>www.icannalac.org > > > >-- > >Wendy Seltzer -- <mailto:wendy@seltzer.org>wendy(a)seltzer.org > >Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School > >Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society > ><http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html> > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html > >http://www.chillingeffects.org/ > > > > > > > > > >-- > >-- > >Regards, > > > >Nick Ashton-Hart > >PO Box 32160 > >London N4 2XY > >United Kingdom > >UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 > >USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 > >Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 > >mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 > >Win IM: <mailto:ashtonhart@hotmail.com>ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / > >AIM/iSight: <mailto:nashtonhart@mac.com>nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: > >nashtonhart > >Online > >Bio: > ><https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart > > -- > Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org > Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School > Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html > http://www.chillingeffects.org/ > -- -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 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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Re: [At-Large] Call-In to the ALAC/Europe/Africa meeting
by Wendy Seltzer March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

At 10:21 AM 3/29/2007, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote: >FYI, Danny Younger just asked a question and it came through loud >and clear here - hopefully it was as clear for him. Even more important, I hope he got a clear answer :) --Wendy >On 29/03/07, Wendy Seltzer <<mailto:wendy@seltzer.com> >wendy(a)seltzer.com> wrote: >I look forward to seeing the minutes. > >--Wendy > >At 10:06 AM 3/29/2007, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote: > >FYI, there is call-in access as found at > ><<https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?third_session>https://st.ican > n.org/alac/index.cgi?third_session >https://st.icann.org/alac/index. > cgi?third_session > > > >Please join the meeting - the agenda is also at the page shown above > > > >-- > >-- > >Regards, > > > >Nick Ashton-Hart > >PO Box 32160 > >London N4 2XY > >United Kingdom > >UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 > >USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 > >Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 > >mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 > >Win IM: > <mailto:ashtonhart@hotmail.com><mailto:ashtonhart@hotmail.com>ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com > / > >AIM/iSight: <mailto: > nashtonhart(a)mac.com><mailto:nashtonhart@mac.com>nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: > >nashtonhart > >Online > >Bio: > ><<https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart>https://www.linkedin.com/i > n/ashtonhart >https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart > >_______________________________________________ > >ALAC mailing list > ><mailto:ALAC@atlarge-lists.icann.org> ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > ><http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists > .icann.org>http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > > www.alac.icann.org > ><http://www.icannalac.org>www.icannalac.org > >-- >Wendy Seltzer -- <mailto:wendy@seltzer.org>wendy(a)seltzer.org >Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School >Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society ><http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html >http://www.chillingeffects.org/ > > > > >-- >-- >Regards, > >Nick Ashton-Hart >PO Box 32160 >London N4 2XY >United Kingdom >UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 >USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 >Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 >mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 >Win IM: <mailto:ashtonhart@hotmail.com>ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / >AIM/iSight: <mailto:nashtonhart@mac.com>nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: >nashtonhart >Online >Bio: ><https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart>https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/

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Re: [At-Large] Call-In to the ALAC/Europe/Africa meeting
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

FYI, Danny Younger just asked a question and it came through loud and clear here - hopefully it was as clear for him. On 29/03/07, Wendy Seltzer <wendy(a)seltzer.com> wrote: > > I look forward to seeing the minutes. > > --Wendy > > At 10:06 AM 3/29/2007, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote: > >FYI, there is call-in access as found at > ><https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?third_session> > https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?third_session > > > >Please join the meeting - the agenda is also at the page shown above > > > >-- > >-- > >Regards, > > > >Nick Ashton-Hart > >PO Box 32160 > >London N4 2XY > >United Kingdom > >UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 > >USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 > >Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 > >mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 > >Win IM: <mailto:ashtonhart@hotmail.com>ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / > >AIM/iSight: <mailto:nashtonhart@mac.com>nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: > >nashtonhart > >Online > >Bio: > ><https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart > >_______________________________________________ > >ALAC mailing list > >ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > >www.alac.icann.org > >www.icannalac.org > > -- > Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org > Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School > Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html > http://www.chillingeffects.org/ > -- -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 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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Re: [At-Large] Call-In to the ALAC/Europe/Africa meeting
by Wendy Seltzer March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

I look forward to seeing the minutes. --Wendy At 10:06 AM 3/29/2007, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote: >FYI, there is call-in access as found at ><https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?third_session>https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?third_session > >Please join the meeting - the agenda is also at the page shown above > >-- >-- >Regards, > >Nick Ashton-Hart >PO Box 32160 >London N4 2XY >United Kingdom >UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 >USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 >Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 >mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 >Win IM: <mailto:ashtonhart@hotmail.com>ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / >AIM/iSight: <mailto:nashtonhart@mac.com>nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: >nashtonhart >Online >Bio: ><https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart>https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart >_______________________________________________ >ALAC mailing list >ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > >www.alac.icann.org >www.icannalac.org -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/

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Call-In to the ALAC/Europe/Africa meeting
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

FYI, there is call-in access as found at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?third_session Please join the meeting - the agenda is also at the page shown above -- -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 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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Re: [At-Large] Public Forum presentation - draft
by Vittorio Bertola March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

I am moving this to the public list, because it is very important. We can discuss on words, but your interpretation of the text of the PDP that would require the GNSO Council to approve a request for an Issue Report by an Advisory Committee is not what was agreed in year 2002. It was explicitly said that we were advisory, but we'd have the unilateral right (of course to be used with care) to put things on the GNSO agenda. I have even checked this with a GNSO guru during the break, who said that there's no way that it can be differently from this - we just need to phrase the request correctly. If the ICANN staff stays with that interpretation, and if it is confirmed by the GNSO, I would like to raise the issue with the other ACs and with the Board to understand whether this is actually the intent of ICANN at the political level. Nick Ashton-Hart ha scritto: > Your interpretation does not square with the ICANN GC. Note the word > 'request' in 1(c). Further, you do not request ICANN Staff for an issues > report; you send a request to the GNSO as per 1(c). > > On 29/03/07, *Izumi AIZU* <iza(a)anr.org <mailto:iza@anr.org>> wrote: > > Yes, I looked at 1 c. already, as follows, > > 1 c. /Advisory Committee Initiation./ An Advisory Committee may > raise an issue for policy development by action of such committee to > commence the PDP, and transmission of that request to the GNSO Council > > The "transmission of that request" implies to the commence of PDP, > but NOT issue report IMHO. So, this does not prevent us from > requesting ICANN Staff for Issue Report. Otherwise, there is little > room for any advisory committee - I cannot imagine GAC accepts this > and ask GNSO council to reuqest Issue report or RSSAC or SSAC does... > > izumi > > 2007/3/29, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton(a)consensus.pro > <mailto:nashton@consensus.pro>>: > > Look at 1(c). Then look at 2.... > > On 29/03/07, *Vittorio Bertola* < vb(a)bertola.eu > <mailto:vb@bertola.eu>> wrote: > > Nick Ashton-Hart ha scritto: >> Note one error below of process. Quite important not to > misstate the process... >> >> >However, there is a need for more concrete information to > prove these >> >problems actually exist and are affecting the ordinary > users and their >> >experience in using the Internet. Therefore ALAC is > drafting a formal >> >request shortly to ask ICANN staff to prepare an Issue > Report. At the same >> >> This above statement is the problem. What ALAC can do is > ask the GNSO >> Council to ask for an Issues Report to be prepared. > > Huh? If you go to > http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#AnnexA > <http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#AnnexA>, point > 2, it says that upon the request of "a properly supported > motion from an > Advisory Committee", staff will create an Issue Report, > which will then > go to the GNSO council together with a recommendation on > whether or not > to start a PDP. You clarified a few mails ago that according > to Dan "a > properly supported motion" is one that the majority of the > ALAC approved > in a formal vote. > > I don't know how that can be read differently - are you sure > that you > mean what you wrote? I thought Maria had said that the GNSO > council > needs to approve the starting of a PDP, not the creation of > an issue report. > -- > vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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ALAC Draft Statement on Domain Tasting and Domain Monetization - V. 1.3
by Izumi AIZU March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

Hi, Here follows and attached is the third version. I messed up with the wiki, changing the link page title made it impossible to keep the history - thus this is a kind of new page now. I will try to find ways to fix it... in the mean time. I changed the title from "Comments" to "Statement". We still need more inputs and reactions from you guys! Thanks, izumi Here is the wiki URL: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?al_2007_r_1 ALAC STATEMENT ON DOMAIN TASTING AND MONETISATION AND THEIR IMPACTS ON THE INDIVIDUAL INTERNET USERS Version 1.3, Mar 28 On behalf of the ordinary Internet users, the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), with inputs from the worldwide At-Large Structures and other friends, would like to make the following statements on Domain Tasting and Domain Monetization. We think Domain Tasting and Domain Monetization are two different issues, though certain areas may have some relationship, and therefore we like to discuss them separately. The need to articulate the issue first for Domain Tasting We assume that Domain Tasting utilizing the existing Five-day Add Grace Period is an abuse that results in confusion of the ordinary Internet users and gives an unfair advantage to speculators. At this point of time, we feel there still needs more concrete information to prove these problems actually exist and are affecting the ordinary users and their experience in using the Internet. ALAC will draft a formal request shortly to ask ICANN staff to prepare the Issue Report. At the same time, we like to work together with other constituencies or groups who share the similar concern to come to a consensus position. Upon receiving the Issue Report by the staff, GNSO must make the decision whether a formal PDP is necessary or not. In addition, here are some possible actions you can do voluntarily now: With the User Consituency, business and non-commercial: Find the best ways to protect the interest of the end users, as registrants as well as just as general users who do not register domain names but just use domain names to communicate each other or find useful information on Internet. How to provide safeguard for the domain names they registered, what are the rights of the registrants, for example. With the Registrars Constituency: Finalize and implement Registrars Code of Conduct that prohibits unfair speculation and exploitation on Domain name registration including the use of five day Add Grace period. In case full consensus is difficult to achieve, some voluntary Code of Conduct or Best Practice or some kind of Self-certification may be a good alternative to assure user confidence. With Registry Constituency: gTLD and ccTLDs Consider how to avoid user confusion and unfair practices by abolishing the five day add grace period. Adding small fee, such as 25 cents per Domain to those registrants who kept their names using add grace period may be another solution. With ICANN Board: We suggest ICANN Board to consider how to prohibit unfair speculation, enhance consumer trust to Domain Name registration system, for example, initiating a third party study on the impact of Domain Tasting and Domain Monetization/speculation to the ordinary Internet users. ALAC is more than happy to assist such study, On Domain Monetization We note that there is a meaningful difference between Domain Tasting and Domain Monetization. Monetization is a straightforward arbitrage between the cost of domain registrations and the revenue from as much pay-per-click traffic as the domain owner can get from people who visit web sites in the domain. It's a fundamentally sleazy business, since the web sites have no useful content and the way they get the traffic is basically by tricking people, either via typos or recently expired domains. More importantly, the presence of such website makes web-surfing by ordinary users far more difficult and confusing than they should be. We do not think it is appropriate in this case to make ICANN as a regulator to watch and prohibit the Domain Monetization practices per se. Instead, on behalf of ordinary Internet users, we call upon those commercial enterprises such as Google or Overture to take appropriate measures such as to stop paying for clicks on pages with no content, thereby dealing with a problem that is not limited to typo and expired domains. We've seen click arbitrage, people buying Google ads to drive traffic to pages that are simply other Google ads. This kind of self-generating traffic for pay-per-click advertising is confusing and unnecessary for ordinary Internet users and, in the long run, not healthy for the development of Internet as a whole. Since Domain monetization is a relatively new phenomena, the impact to the ordinary users and the wider Internet community is hard to measure at this point. It seems clear, however, that it does not improve the user experience at all. We think it is worth to keep watching on how it develops and may seek for specific actions when we have clearer understanding of measurable impact. Background and Rationale on Domain Tasting "Domain tasting" is the term used to describe the use of the five-day add grace period to register domains without paying for them and find those domains which generate certain traffic for pay-per-click advertisements. We think these are unfair acts: somewhere between larceny and extortion, because the registration cost is zero and the purpose of these registrations is just to make money by taking advantage of automated bulk registration to exploit the domain names, which are in essence 'public goods', and not the real property of anyone. As many people have noted, this practice is exploiting a loophole that shouldn't exist in the first place. There was a great deal of debate both in the ICANN community about the deletion grace period, but none at all about add grace which was apparently tossed into the package by an ICANN staffer without asking anyone. So says Karl Auerbach, who was on the board at the time, and we haven't seen anything to the contrary from any other board member. As Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy, wrote in his blog: Millions of good .COM domain names – on any given day over 3.5 million and climbing — are unfairly made unavailable to small businesses and others who would actually register and use them in ways for which the names were intended. Many times businesses accidentally let their domain names expire. When they go to renew them, they find they have been snapped up – and taken away with a huge expensive hassle to follow – by an add/drop registrar. The usual explanation of domain tasting says that the registrars register millions of domains, watch the traffic, and then after 4.9 days they delete the ones that don't seem likely to make back the US$6.00 registration fee. Often they just delete them all and then reregister what they can a few minutes later until they find the domains that produce enough traffic to yield a return well above the registration fee. The add grace period is just a mistake. The problem it purports to solve is not and never was an important one. If you let an important domain expire, you risk losing the entire investment made in that domain over many years. But if one registers a domain by mistake, the most one risks is the ten or twenty dollars you paid to register it.

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At-Large Report to the Lisbon Public Forum
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

Dear Colleagues: I'm happy to provide you with the Report of the community being presented by ALAC Chair Jacqueline Morris in about 15 minutes in the Lisbon public forum. We hope you are tuned in to the webcast from http://public.icann.org :) -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011] USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 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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3 RALOs Celebrated in Lisbon Today!
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

At 1330 GMT, as the finale of the Public Forum at the Lisbon ICANN Meeting, there will be a signing ceremony for two RALOs - Africa and Europe - and a recognition of the conclusion of the Asia/Australia/ Pacific MoU. Those newly-elected in AP and Africa will also be announced. The event will be webcast and scribed, and recorded and made available for download/viewing as a separate event as well as part of the Public Forum. Please see http://public.icann.org for details on watching and listening. The Order of Events is attached for your information. My congratulations to these regions for their achievement - the high- point of a very productive and policy-debate rich meeting for At- Large which I think it is fair to say has given the entire community a great 'bounce' in terms of visibility and credibility with all other constituencies.

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Re: [At-Large] ALAC Draft Statement on Domain Tasting and Domain Monetization - V. 1.3
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

May I just add to this excellent and concise statement of the situation the following points: 1) I caused a document to be prepared some weeks ago, posted then in English, that provides an overview of the GNSO and the PDP process, which was then translated into Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French. I really encourage everyone in the community to revew this - it isn't very long but should give you a solid background in the process which is very important considering that At-Large is now spearheading a PDP-launching effort. These documents have been announced on the front page of www.icann.orgyesterday, and can also be reached at: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?lisbon_documents 2) The Bylaws of ICANN, which contain the enire process as well as the above document, can be found at: http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm. The PDP Process can be found at: http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#AnnexA 3) The GNSO definition of what should be in an issues report can be found at: http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-19feb04.shtml On 29/03/07, Alan Greenberg < alan.greenberg(a)mcgill.ca> wrote: > > If I remember correctly, in the Mar 6 meeting, I asked for > confirmation of whether the document that we had received was in fact > an "Issues Report". The answer we received a few days later was that > it did not meet the criteria of a Bylaw-specified issues report. > Perhaps we should look into why we previously understood that the was > a formal issues report, but that will not help the present process. > > According to the Bylaws, the way that the ALAC can trigger a Policy > Development Process (PDP) is to formally request an Issues Report > from ICANN staff. This issues report must be delivered within 15 > days. The report can them be presented to the GNSO and the GNSO must > vote on whether to start a PDP within 15 days of receipt of the > Issues Report. Assuming that ICANN staff agree that this is indeed an > ICANN "policy" issue, a 33% vote by the GNSO triggers a PDP. If staff > does not agree that it is a policy issue, it requires a 66% vote of > the GNSO to trigger a PDP. The Issues Report can also be submitted to > the Board which, if it chooses, can vote to direct the GNSO to > initiate a PDP (for this entire process, see > http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#AnnexA) > > As of the meeting in Lisbon, the ALAC has passed a motion to submit a > request for an Issues Report to staff no later than 30 April 2007. > The request was delayed to allow us to solicit support from the GNSO > constituencies and to allow us to formulate the request to maximize > the issue being classed as a "policy issue". > > We already have the support of several GNSO constituencies and we > will work with them to formulate the request for an Issues Report. > > If we are successful, we should have a PDP initiated at the no later > than the San Juan meeting. > > Alan > > > At 28/03/2007 02:15 PM, Wendy Seltzer wrote: > > >The March 6 vote puts us further into the process. We should call what > >we already received from staff an Issues Report and forward this > >statement to the GNSO Council at this meeting to start the PDP. > > > >--Wendy > > > _______________________________________________ > ALAC mailing list > ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > www.alac.icann.org > www.icannalac.org > -- -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom UK Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 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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