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Board meeting agenda
by Vittorio Bertola Aug. 10, 2007

Aug. 10, 2007

All, the Board has decided to hold a teleconference meeting on August 14 (originally it was planned to be cancelled). This is the agenda: * Proposed Data Escrow Agreement Negotiation * GNR Contract Renewal * IANA Related Issues -- Discussion/possible action on: 1. Redelegation of the .DM ( Dominica) Domain 2. Delegation of Eleven Evaluative Internationalized Domains 3. Delegation of the .KP ( North Korea) Domain 4. Delegation of the .ME ( Montenegro) Domain 5. Delegation of the .RS ( Serbia) Domain 6. Redelegation of the .YU (former Yugoslavia) Domain 7. Update on Outstanding Redelegation Requests * BGC Recommendations -- Discussion/possible action on: 1. Adjustments to the Board Committee Assignments 2. Review of Terms of Reference for Board of Directors Review * Consent Agenda 1. Approval of Legal Expenses 2. Finance Committee Recommendations * Other Business Any input is welcome. Regards, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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Monthly SSAC Report
by Robert Guerra Aug. 8, 2007

Aug. 8, 2007

Attached monthly SSAC report. Time and resources permitting, might be a good idea for At-large to produce a report that's similar in structure. regards, Robert --- Robert Guerra <rguerra(a)privaterra.ca> Managing Director, Privaterra Tel +1 416 893 0377

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Aug. 8, 2007

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[Fwd: [gnso-whois-wg] Draft outcomes report v 1.6]
by Wendy Seltzer Aug. 7, 2007

Aug. 7, 2007

Please share your comments on version 1.6 of the WHOIS WG report. I've already shared my (personal) disagreement with most of the statements of claimed "agreement," and with the way disagreement has been characterized. Others who'd like to agree or disagree should please do so. I have not said the OPOC should have no responsibilities, rather that those responsibilities should be determined between the registrant and its OPOC, not imposed by ICANN, since the registrant remains responsible for registration and use of the domain name. Thanks, --Wendy -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gnso-whois-wg] Draft outcomes report v 1.6 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:41:31 +0200 From: Philip Sheppard <philip.sheppard(a)aim.be> To: <gnso-whois-wg(a)icann.org> References: <p06230911c2d6a8cae753(a)[10.0.1.2]> Please find attached the outcomes report version 1.6. This I hope captures the last two weeks of discussion on list and on our two calls. Changes compared to v1.5 are: - new and clarified text; - revised levels of support; - revised section 7 (with text transferred from section 2); - new section 8 (further studies). (I considered issuing a red-line tracked version but there have been too many changes to make this a useful tool.) I would like to call a halt to changes of substance on the issues: these we have well covered. I would like to invite any comments where you feel any opinion on the substance is NOT yet recorded. Please do NOT repeat earlier opinion: that will just make life more challenging to weed out duplication. Please do WITHDRAW earlier statements of disagreement if you now believe the revised text is something that you can support. Comments are open for one week until mid-day Thursday 9 August. After that we will issue version 1.7 which will factor in any changes (as above) along with factual and contextual additions from ICANN staff. I will advise later how long version 1.7 will be up for comment before completion of the group's work. Many thanks. Philip Sheppard Chairman -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org phone: +1.914.374.0613 Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/

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Summit Planning Group
by Thompson, Darlene Aug. 7, 2007

Aug. 7, 2007

Hi all, There was considerable discussion in San Juan amongst various ALAC members that it would be a good idea to plan for a Summit to gather reps from all of ICANN's At-Large Structures in one place. In parallel with the regular ICANN conference, the Summit will provide a program designed to: 1) Educate ALSs about ICANN functions, methods and culture 2) Help ALS representatives interact with their constituents on ICANN-related issues 3) Assist ALSs and RALOs in developing locally-relevant policy positions 4) Exchange ideas and perspectives related to the ICANN At-Large community 5) Energize participants, to keep the energy of the Summit going long after the last day of the conference {More ideas welcome, here} Our goal here is to get the help and input of people within the global At-Large community who want to make the Summit happen. Actually, if ICANN does not see support from the global community for this, it definitely will not happen. So, I've put this e-mail out to all of At-Large. If you wish to assist with the Summit, please let us know and sign up to our planning-committee list: http://groups.google.com/group/icann-summit. We would also like to take this time to encourage discussion about the pros and cons of having a summit at all. A notice similar to this one has gone out on the Secretariat's list, as was suggested during the ALAC meetings in San Juan but, so far, the uptake as been rather minimal. If this is something that only the NARALO wishes to see happen, then it should be allowed to die quietly now. If not, then we have lots of work to do to make it all come together and we have to let ICANN know that we want it! Cheers, Darlene Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-6531 Fax: (867) 979-8870 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca

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AP and Africa RALO Teleconference to meet ICANN Board Liaison Candidates
by Nick Ashton-Hart Aug. 7, 2007

Aug. 7, 2007

Dear All: Please feel free to join in the following teleconference. This is your opportunity to speak to the three candidates for the important post of ALAC Liaison to the Board of Directors of ICANN. Your ALAC members will be pleased to have your input on the candidates as the election will be held shortly after this teleconference. The URL for the information below is: https://st.icann.org/alac/ index.cgi?board_liaison_interview_2007 ALAC Board Liaison Interview 2007 Date: 8 August 2007 APRALO Teleconference Time: 1100 UTC (for the time in various timezones click here) Recording: Available 48 Hours after meeting A G E N D A Introduction of Board Candidates Brief Comments from Each Candidate Questions and Answers Any Other Business Remote Participation Access PARTICIPANT ACCESS INFORMATION Please join MR NICK ASHTON HART on AUG-8-2007 (Monday) at 11:00 UNIVERSAL TIME. Access information is below. CALL DATE: AUG-8-2007 (Monday) CALL TIME: 11:00 UNIVERSAL TIME DURATION: 1 hr PASSCODE: 8038456 LEADER: MR NICK ASHTON HART DIAL-OUTS: R Singh, B Beiram DIAL-IN NUMBERS: Country Toll Numbers Freephone/ Toll Free Number AUSTRALIA 61-2-8211-1396 1-800-758-196 AUSTRIA 43-1-92-80-003 0800-677-861 BELGIUM 32-1-150-0312 0800-4-9471 BRAZIL 0800-8912026 CHILE 1230-020-2453 CHINA* 10800-712-1202 10800-120-1202 COLOMBIA 01800-9-156439 CZECH REPUBLIC 420-2-25-98-56-16 DENMARK 45-7014-0239 8088-2100 FINLAND 358-106-33-149 0-800-1-12771 FRANCE LYON: 33-4-26-69-12-76 080-563-9909 FRANCE MARSEILLE: 33-4-86-06-00-76 080-563-9909 FRANCE PARIS: 33-1-70-75-25-35 080-563-9909 GERMANY 49-69-2222-3198 0800-101-6627 GREECE 30-80-1-100-0674 00800-12-6609 HONG KONG 852-2286-5642 800-968-764 HUNGARY 06-800-17241 INDIA 000-800-852-1218 INDONESIA 001-803-011-3502 IRELAND 353-1-247-5274 1800-992-870 ISRAEL 1-80-9303035 ITALY 39-02-3601-0953 800-985-849 JAPAN 81-3-5539-5164 0034-800-40-0719 LUXEMBOURG 352-27-000-1351 MALAYSIA 1-800-80-8124 MEXICO 001-866-627-0579 NETHERLANDS 31-20-718-8530 0800-023-4392 NEW ZEALAND 64-9-970-4646 0800-447-834 NORWAY 47-21-59-00-49 800-15497 PANAMA 011-001-800-5072083 POLAND 00-800-1211184 PORTUGAL 8008-12439 RUSSIA 8-10-8002-9873011 SINGAPORE 65-6883-9208 800-120-4284 SLOVAK REPUBLIC 421-2-322-422-16 SOUTH AFRICA 080-09-93384 SOUTH KOREA 82-2-6744-1062 00798-14800-6326 SPAIN 34-91-414-40-78 800-098-194 SWEDEN 46-8-505-96-328 0200-897-068 SWITZERLAND 41-44-580-4210 0800-000-782 TAIWAN 886-2-2795-7358 00801-137-694 THAILAND 001-800-1206-65092 UNITED KINGDOM BIRMINGHAM: 44-121-210-9016 0800-279-3590 UNITED KINGDOM GLASGOW: 44-141-202-3216 0800-279-3590 UNITED KINGDOM LEEDS: 44-113-301-2116 0800-279-3590 UNITED KINGDOM LONDON: 44-20-7950-6551 0800-279-3590 UNITED KINGDOM MANCHESTER: 44-161-601-1416 0800-279-3590 URUGUAY 000-413-598-3431 USA 1-210-795-1143 866-297-1588 VENEZUELA 0800-1-00-2797 *Access to your conference call will be either of the numbers listed, dependent on the participants' local telecom provider Restrictions may exist when accessing freephone/toll free numbers using a mobile telephone. PASSCODE: 8038456 -- 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 (UK): +44 (20) 7681-3135 Fax (Swiss): +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile (UK): +44 (7774) 932798 Mobile (Swiss): +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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Security & Stability - At Large Mailing List
by Robert Guerra Aug. 3, 2007

Aug. 3, 2007

I'd like to announce that the Security & Stability - At Large Mailing List is now operation. Address for subscribing is as follows: <http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ssac-liaison_atlarge- lists.icann.org> regards, Robert --- Robert Guerra <rguerra(a)privaterra.ca> Managing Director, Privaterra Tel +1 416 893 0377

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Updates on the WHOIS WG
by Wendy Seltzer Aug. 2, 2007

Aug. 2, 2007

The WHOIS working group is now working around the document attached to this list message: <http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-whois-wg/msg00460.html> Although the OPOC (Operational Point of Contact) is still being discussed, the draft burdens it procedural hurdles that would make it impracticably costly -- such as verification of the OPOC or accreditation with ICANN and status as an agent for the registrant. The intent behind many of these proposals seems, as is common, to prevent adoption of more privacy-respecting WHOIS display. If we don't keep the contact lightweight, it will be too costly for registrars to implement and individuals to adopt. As this is on the agenda for the WG's July 11 call, <http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-whois-wg/msg00491.html> it would be helpful if others who have been participating in the WG's work would also express their concerns, either on list or on the call. The OPOC's responsibility was conceived as one to pass information along to the registrant, without requiring the registrant to list his or her direct contact information in public WHOIS. Somewhere along the way, the WG has given the OPOC an additional role of REVEALing information when a query is made but not responded to. This too seems like an overextension and loss for privacy, at least where there is no legal reason for the registrant's information to be revealed. As an individual participant, I continue to advocate that only due process of law should force disclosure of contact information that individuals choose to protect. I'd be happy to hear support or argument with that view. I will be happy to join the ALAC call if there is interest in discussing any of these issues. Please let me know, and share your views if you're not participating directly in the WG. --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy(a)seltzer.org Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/

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Re: [At-Large] Who is At-Large, anyway?
by carlos aguirre July 27, 2007

July 27, 2007

Excellent point Garth !!! The people is more than a simple registrant, live now in a society of knowledge, have relations in this environment, made a new economy there, and in a near future ( with a good job), could they (including not connected people, because in some moment could be connected) will fall in account that ICANN is a government of this on-line world. So, we must work for the people (everybody, as you said), regardeless the conection status. I liked so much your participation, because gave a another vision of that. Carlos Dionisio Aguirre abogado - Sarmiento 71 - 4to. 18 Cordoba - Argentina - *54-351-424-2123 / 423-5423 www.sitioderecho.com.ar www.densi.com.ar > From: garth.graham(a)telus.net> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:06:24 -0700> To: alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Who is At-Large, anyway?> > On 26-Jul-07, at 7:38 AM, John L wrote:> > The other group believes that it's all the Internet users who are not> > parts of other constituencies, all the people who have never > > registered a> > domain and never will, but use domains every day when they use the> > Internet.> > On 26-Jul-07, at 8:19 AM, RJGlass | America@Large wrote:> > I'm not sure if there ever will be a time when the 'Internet user > > with an email address' will ever have a concern about ICANN. > > However, the individual registrant is greatly effected by anything > > that ICANN does or says.> > > It never occurred to me that there was any other definition than > individual Internet users (ordinary people getting on with daily life > online), regardless of their "registration" status. ICANN is a > manifestation of an essential institution in a knowledge society. > Internet users should not be defined by their relationship to ICANN > but rather by the open nature of the society they inhabit.> > In the long term, those users (or, to put it another way, everybody) > will become more conscious of ICANN-like mechanisms because:> > 1). If we [win?] (we could lose!), the citizens of a knowledge > society will become more generally aware that Internet Governance > means governance of online relationships by the Internet (and, in > particular, Internet Protocol) more than it means governance of the > Internet.> > 2). Achieving that growing awareness will depend, in large part, on > resolution of the fundamental issue of autonomy in the ownership of > the online expression of the self. We need to advocate for an > evolution of IP that encodes "user-centric digital > identity" (although that's such an awful expression). Although they > are entwined, the right and ability to define who I am is a much > broader question that the "registration" that defines where I live.> > Garth Graham> Telecommunities Canada> > _______________________________________________> 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://www.alac.icann.org> ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org _________________________________________________________________ Exprésate - diseña tu página de inicio de Live.com como más te guste. http://www.live.com/getstarted

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Consultation Open on the RAA
by Nick Ashton-Hart July 27, 2007

July 27, 2007

Dear All: Today the official consultation opens on the registrar accreditation agreement. You can see the announcement below and also at http:// www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-27jul07.htm. NOTE: There is a new section at www.alac.icann.org for open public consultations and this will show up there very soon. ICANN Starts Consultation on How to Protect Registrants Public, stakeholder comments sought on changes to Registrar Accreditation Agreement 27 July 2007 MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: Increased protection for those registering domain names is ICANN’s goal as it launches consultations on its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) and the accreditation process for companies who register domains. “I called for the review of RAA and the accreditation back in March, and I’m pleased to be moving into the active consultation phase,” said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s CEO and President. “The need for this review is clear. The current RAA is more than six years old. We’ve seen the number of accredited registrars grow to more than 900. And we’ve seen the incredible difficulties that can be unleashed with the collapse of a Registrar.” The RAA is the contract that governs the relationship between ICANN and its accredited registrars. The current version was put in place in May 2001. The same contract is in place between ICANN and each of the more than 900 accredited registrars (a directory of which can be found at http://www.internic.net/regist.html ). The consultation is looking for ideas and input on amendments to the RAA and the registrar accreditation process in order to provide additional protection to registrants. Previous discussions in the ICANN community has already helped create a number of suggestions for discussion, which are: Incorporating provisions to govern the terms under which a registrar can be sold and continue to retain its ICANN accreditation. Including additional contract enforcement tools offering more options than the current one option – terminating accreditation. Addressing the responsibilities of a parent owner/manager when one or more of a “family” of registrars fails to comply with ICANN requirements. Requiring registrars to escrow contact information for customers who register domain names using Whois privacy and Whois proxy services. Augmenting the responsibilities placed on registrars with regard to their relationships with resellers. Requiring operator skills training and testing for all ICANN- accredited Registrars. Details of these proposals, as well as the consultation process, are available on ICANN”s website at http://www.icann.org/topics/raa/. The consultation stems from ICANN board resolutions made at the San Juan 29th International Public meeting held in June 2007. Those resolutions call for ICANN staff to solicit and consider the input of the Internet community regarding proposed changes to the RAA, registrar accreditation process, and related policies. A complete summary and analysis of community feedback will be made available at the end of the comment period and suggested amendments to the RAA will be posted for further comment. There will be a publicly available assessment of the impact that the input and comment had on the development of the amendments. “These consultations will make sure we have input from the wider community, and help us make the changes needed to protect registrants,” added Dr Twomey. About ICANN: ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers like domain names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .uk) and the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols that help computers reach each other over the Internet. Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability. ICANN is an internationally organized, public benefit non- profit company. For more information please visit: www.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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