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Fwd: AP-RALO completed MoU and OP Today
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

I thought the wider At-Large world would be keen to hear the good news from Asia today. Congratulations to the AP At-Large Community :) It was great to meet you all and I look forward to helping to facilitate your making a difference for a long time to come :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Izumi AIZU <iza(a)anr.org> Date: 28-Feb-2007 22:57 Subject: [APAC-Discuss] AP-RALO completed MoU and OP To: Interim ALAC <alac(a)icann.org>, Asia-Pacific Discuss < apac-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Dear all, I would like to take this opportunity to report that AP RALO formation meeting here in Bali during APRICOt took place today, and I am pleased to share that we have completed most of the tasks for the formation, we reached the consensus on Draft MoU with ICANN, and also on Operating Principles. 12 ALS representative out of 13 gathered here and we put our initiating signatures to the documents, to be submitted to the ICANN Board. We could not complete the selection of new ALAC members and officers, but agreed with the selection schedule, including the nomination starting shortly, for a week, etc. The official announcment should come any time soon together with the minutes of our meeting. As one of "interim" members of ALAC together with Ms. Hong Xue from AP region, I personally feel greatful to all the support and active involvement of all ALS members here in our region, as well as staff support, and also all the friendly advices and suport from larger ALAC friends in other regions and othe ICANN community memebrs. Nom-com designated Siavash did the great job of charing the session of the entire day. Special thanks to Siavash! Well, the real tasks will be still there, and not easy, but I hope we will eventually make rational and meaningful steps to bring the voices of individual users in this region to the ICANN policy process. izumi _______________________________________________ APAC-Discuss mailing list APAC-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/apac-discuss_atlarge-lists.… -- -- 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] Question
by Vittorio Bertola March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

hilali Aziz ha scritto: > *Dear all,* > > ***We received a forwarded message written by Vittorio Bertola and > forwarded by Nick Ashton Hart on 09- 02 – 2007, in which we learn that > the author of this mail would like to see us give our support to a > recently formulated application to attribute the **.eh ccTLD** to > Western Sahara. * Actually, I was not asking for "support". What I would like is the application to be evaluated as far as possible on a non-political basis. ICANN has always adopted the approach that if a geographical entity is in the ISO 3166-1 list, then it deserves a ccTLD as long as someone is willing to run it; this does not imply any statement on whether that entity is or is not a country, or about the legitimacy of its political situation. To explain, my summarization of the political issue comes from the online neutral source for excellence, Wikipedia, and other websites. For example: > *To claim that the Western Sahara is one of the last colonies in the > world, just like the Cayman islands, is an utter fallacy; I took this from an United Nations document reported here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_list_of_Non-Self-Governing_Terr… However, the point here is not to debate on whether Morocco's or Polisario's claims are legitimate, and I am sure that, as I noted, there are different interpretations of the matter. I just wanted to provide a quick recap for readers, without making a political statement. I am happy to hear from the Moroccan side of the dispute, of course, and I would also be happy to hear from the Polisario side; the "local Internet community" includes both. But I would avoid to get us involved into the political dispute in itself. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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Re: [At-Large] Preparing for Lisbon: Resolutions from At-Large to the larger community?
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

To the extent that the effort involves purely coordination, I can help with that - chasing people for contributions etc. The development of the draft text is, I would submit, perhaps best done in the first instance by those in ALAC familiar with the issues in question, and only by the staff in the case that nobody has the time to do this work (though, perhaps, as these first drafts are just that - drafts - and completely subject to amendment, perhaps in some ways it is less important who is the first drafter... I have put a first-draft of an Agenda together for the ALAC teleconference on the ALAC Working Wiki. On 01/03/07, Vittorio Bertola <vb(a)bertola.eu> wrote: > Nick Ashton-Hart ha scritto: > > Dear All: > > > > May I suggest to you that the At-Large community has a unique > > opportunity at the upcoming Lisbon meeting to agree a few resolutions > > on key issues which are in the public and icann policy 'Eye' at the > > moment. With at least two RALO MoUs being concluded, and likely the > > European one too, the conference will have a big spotlight on the > > community. > > I think that your suggestion is good. > I also think that we desperately need leadership to this effect. > Annette's illness is unfortunate, and we need someone to write down a > todo list with actions and deadlines, force people to sign up for items, > and push them until they deliver on time. And we need it now, if we want > to make it by Lisbon. > As all volunteer groups, this is an individual-driven effort, so I would > suggest that any of us who feels like doing it, and especially those who > would like to serve as Vice Chairs, takes this task upon him/her. > (I mean - I can do it if you wish, but we really need to create new > leadership, not rely on the old one...) > -- > vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- > --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <-------- > -- -- 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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[Fwd: [MemberPubPol] Call for nominations for the Regional Policy Advisory Group for Latin America and the Carribean]
by Vittorio Bertola March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

This might be interesting to our members from Latin America. -------- Messaggio Originale -------- Oggetto: [MemberPubPol] Call for nominations for the Regional Policy Advisory Group for Latin America and the Carribean Data: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:05:35 +0100 Da: Matthew Shears <shears(a)isoc.org> A: 'ISOC PP' <memberpubpol(a)elists.isoc.org> Dear members, ISOC is pleased to be calling for nominations for its Regional Policy Advisory Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (RPAG LAC). Now that we have a Regional Bureau for Latin American and the Caribbean we feel it is opportune to invite a small set of senior policy experts to assist ISOC shape its public policy activities in the region. The full details can be found here: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/advisorygroups.shtml. Given the location of the next IGF, this group will become instrumental in our related outreach and planning. We welcome your nominations. Best, Matthew ---------------------------- Matthew Shears Director of Public Policy Internet Society + 45 30 71 74 10 shears(a)isoc.org www.isoc.org _______________________________________________ Memberpubpol mailing list Memberpubpol(a)elists.isoc.org http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/memberpubpol -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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Communications from the public; registrar data escrow
by Wendy Seltzer March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

A couple questions. Is anyone monitoring <http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/> ? We should have a way for the ordinary Internet user to get in touch with ALAC, and through us, ICANN (as if we can get in touch with ICANN), but I thought we had closed this forum due to spam. It seems still to be alive, and collecting several dozen complaints about RegisterFly, for one. Can we establish better means of getting public input??? 1.1 - Do we want to say something about ICANN's failure to demand data escrow, as the general public had thought was provided for in the RAA (3.6)? I see this as a place where even ICANN's standard "no third party beneficiary" language wouldn't save them from suit by a harmed registrant. --Wendy -- 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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African Region finishes its MoU
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 28, 2007

Feb. 28, 2007

For those who don't already know this, the African ALS Community finished their MoU with ICANN and it went off to the Office of the General Counsel late last week. The European ALS community will also be meeting in Lisbon and are committed to finishing work on their MoU and Bylaws there - making three (!) new RALOs at one ICANN Meeting. Congratulations on all the hard work :) February has turned out to be a good month for the At-Large community :) -- 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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AP-RALO completed MoU and OP
by Izumi AIZU Feb. 28, 2007

Feb. 28, 2007

Dear all, I would like to take this opportunity to report that AP RALO formation meeting here in Bali during APRICOt took place today, and I am pleased to share that we have completed most of the tasks for the formation, we reached the consensus on Draft MoU with ICANN, and also on Operating Principles. 12 ALS representative out of 13 gathered here and we put our initiating signatures to the documents, to be submitted to the ICANN Board. We could not complete the selection of new ALAC members and officers, but agreed with the selection schedule, including the nomination starting shortly, for a week, etc. The official announcment should come any time soon together with the minutes of our meeting. As one of "interim" members of ALAC together with Ms. Hong Xue from AP region, I personally feel greatful to all the support and active involvement of all ALS members here in our region, as well as staff support, and also all the friendly advices and suport from larger ALAC friends in other regions and othe ICANN community memebrs. Nom-com designated Siavash did the great job of charing the session of the entire day. Special thanks to Siavash! Well, the real tasks will be still there, and not easy, but I hope we will eventually make rational and meaningful steps to bring the voices of individual users in this region to the ICANN policy process. izumi

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Bottom-up organization has bottomed out
by Wendy Seltzer Feb. 28, 2007

Feb. 28, 2007

Friends on all the lists this reaches, here's a message I shared with the ICANN Board reflecting my personal concerns about the possibility of another "ICANN reform process" calling for yet another round of public-input-to-be-ignored: >Hi, > >I'm aware that the Board is discussing the LSE report on GNSO reform, >and hearing concern that reforms to increase Internet-user involvement >should be driven bottom-up, rather than top-down. In that context, I >wanted to share my personal views from longstanding involvement with >ICANN and its at-large. > >The problem with bottom-up development at this point is that it's >bottomed out. Nearly everyone who's ever tried to get involved as an >individual with ICANN has been turned away in frustration after spending >thoughtful time and effort. Having had their suggestions rejected in >previous reform processes, why should they spend any more time with a >new one? This does not mean there are no individual concerns with ICANN >issues, only that the opportunity cost of raising those concerns has >gotten too high. > >So now, almost the only people willing to be involved with ALAC are >those who see it as a means to non-ICANN ends, such as greater respect >for their local groups or activities. (Some of these are people of good >will, and some of their ends are valuable, they're just not ICANN's >issues and shouldn't be.) > >ICANN needs a way to incorporate the feedback of its "customers," since >there's no market competition restraining it. > >I hope you'll take this in the productive spirit in which it's intended, >and I look forward to further discussion. >Thanks, >--Wendy -- 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] Asamblea General / General Assembly
by Carlton A Samuels Feb. 26, 2007

Feb. 26, 2007

Dear ALL: For those of you who shall be attending ICANN Puerto Rico, please be reminded that since Puerto Rico is United States Territory, there may be visa requirements. The requirements are generally defined by each of your country's bilateral agreement with the United States of America and local operating conditions. For further information, you are urged to visit the official United States Department of State website where you can get all the information you need. http://www.unitedstatesvisas.gov/ . Or failing this, call your local U.S. Consulate for the specific information. Kind regards, Carlton [Spanish Version] Querido todos: Para los de usted que atendera a ICANN Puerto Rico, recuerdese por favor que puesto que Puerto Rico es territorio de Estados Unidos, puede haber requisitos de la visa. Los requisitos son definidos generalmente por cada uno del acuerdo bilateral de su pais con los Estados Unidos de America y las condiciones de funcionamiento locales. Para la informacion adicional, le impulsan visitar el departamento oficial de Estados Unidos del Web site del estado en donde pueden conseguir toda la informacion que usted necesita. http://www.unitedstatesvisas.gov/. O fallando esto, llame su consulado local de ESTADOS UNIDOS para la informacion especifica. Respeto bueno, Carlton

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Completed African RALO MoU
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 25, 2007

Feb. 25, 2007

Dear Dan: I'm very pleased to inform you that the African ALS community has concluded their discussions on the contents of their MoU with ICANN and to provide you with the document for your final review. This version is largely the same as the one you looked at last December. I have also attached the public consultation notice. It is my hope that you will be able to complete your review directly, as this will allow the public comment period to be completed prior to the Lisbon ICANN meeting in March, so that the MoU may be signed, and approved by the Board at the public meeting on the 30th. I shall look forward to your reply in due course and forward it to the community. You may also hit reply all, and your email should go through to the mailing lists without any problem. -- 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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