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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by narten＠us.ibm.com Oct. 5, 2018

Oct. 5, 2018

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THNIC Foundation comment on String Confusability
by Satish Babu Oct. 4, 2018

Oct. 4, 2018

Dear At-Large Community Please see below the public comment made by the Thai Network Information Center (THNIC) Foundation on String Confusability based on homophone variants. The statement is being circulated at their request to the larger At-Large Community, as it is considered as an issue that may impact end-users and language/script communities: The Thai Network Information Center (THNIC) Foundation would like to submit the following comment on the Initial Report on the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process (Overarching Issues & Work Tracks 1-4) : Work Track 3’s Recommendation 2: “Strings must not be confusingly similar to an existing top-level domain.” refers to only the visual or spelling similarity. We would like to emphasize the importance of homonym which can cause confusions to the users' community, and must be avoided particularly at the TLD level. An example case can be found from the first round of the new gTLD where there was an application for .thai new gTLD which phonetically clashes with existing .ไทย (Thai IDN ccTLD). However, thanks to the ICANN board ruling, the application was "Not Approved” in November 2013. From this expensive exercise, we would like to request that homonym be explicitly included in the similarity to existing top-level domain consideration of the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook to prevent future confusions and costly disputes. With kind regards, satish

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APTLD-74
by Roberto Gaetano Oct. 3, 2018

Oct. 3, 2018

Hi all. Please find below some notes about the APTLD-74 meeting that I have attended a couple of weeks ago - see http://www.aptld74.uz<http://www.aptld74.uz/>. I have been invited as partner organization to this event, that celebrates the 20th anniversary of APTLD. I presented the attached slide deck, and spoke mainly about the MoU signed a few years ago between APRALO and APTLD as well as about the potential areas for collaboration. The AP ccTLD community has huge experience on IDN, and I do believe that we could find synergies between their technical competence as operators and our approach about user needs. Another item is the underserved regions. On both topics there have been presentations and reports in the course of the meeting. Another issue, that however I have not raised in that context as it was out of scope, is how to extend the collaboration and to sign an MoU in other regions. I believe that we can exploit this potential, but we need to address specific issues rather than a generic “political” statement - and the two areas of collaboration that I have mentioned could be evaluated further, not only in AP. Among the other sessions and contributions, may I mention the huge effort that Uzbekistan is doing to improve the infrastructure - I was impressed by the speaker. Also interesting were the reports from the Members, in particular those with special connectivity problems like Vanuatu, and the already mentioned sessions on IDN and Universal Acceptance. Best regards, Roberto

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WEBCAST MONDAY: UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation: Virtual Town Hall Meeting
by Joly MacFie Oct. 1, 2018

Oct. 1, 2018

The first one of these sessions is available on the webcast link, and also via twitter <https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live/status/1046683851714482178>. Second is at noon EDT, [image: UN-HLP-DC livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation>Today *Monday October 1 2018* the *United Nations High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation <https://digitalcooperation.org/about/>*, following its recent *first meeting <https://digitalcooperation.org/panel-meets-to-chart-path-forward/>* in NYC, will hold a *Virtual Town Hall <https://dig.watch/events/un-high-level-panel-digital-cooperation-virtual-to…>*. This will comprise two sessions to accommodate differing timezones, both of which will comprise a briefing and Q&A facilitated by co-executive director *Dr Jovan Kurbalija*. The sessions will be captured and webcast via the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation>*. <https://www.opendatacon.org/> *WHAT: United Nations High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation Virtual Town HallWHERE: WebexWHEN: Monday October 1 2018 08:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC | 04:00 & 12:00 EDTWATCH: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation>TWITTER: #DigitalCooperation http://bit.ly/digitalcooperation <http://bit.ly/digitalcooperation>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10561/ - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by narten＠us.ibm.com Sept. 28, 2018

Sept. 28, 2018

Total of 14 messages in the last 7 days. script run at: Fri Sep 28 00:53:03 EDT 2018 Messages | Bytes | Who --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 21.43% | 3 | 34.44% | 184638 | joly at punkcast.com 14.29% | 2 | 33.53% | 179743 | devtee at gmail.com 14.29% | 2 | 8.24% | 44168 | remmyn at gmail.com 7.14% | 1 | 5.12% | 27431 | dndannang at gmail.com 7.14% | 1 | 4.36% | 23366 | maureen.hilyard at gmail.com 7.14% | 1 | 3.65% | 19560 | sb at inapp.com 7.14% | 1 | 3.49% | 18697 | tijani.benjemaa at fmai.org.tn 7.14% | 1 | 2.69% | 14433 | evan at telly.org 7.14% | 1 | 2.31% | 12381 | leonfelipe at sanchez.mx 7.14% | 1 | 2.17% | 11652 | narten at us.ibm.com --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 100.00% | 14 |100.00% | 536069 | Total

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WEBCAST TODAY: The Battle for the Global Internet
by Joly MacFie Sept. 27, 2018

Sept. 27, 2018

This has just started. [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalinternet> Today, *Thursday September 27 2018* at *Noon EDT*(16;00 UTC) *New America <https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/events/battle-global-in…>* , *DiploFoundation <https://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/battle-global-internet>*, and *ISOC-DC <https://isoc-dc.org/battle-global-internet/>* together present a panel – *The Battle for the Global Internet <https://isoc-dc.org/battle-global-internet/>*. The coming months are filled with important processes that could play a significant role in steering the future the Internet, including the *Internet Governance Forum <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2018-0>*, the* ITU Plenipotentiary <https://www.itu.int/web/pp-18/en/>*, *ICANN63 <https://meetings.icann.org/en/barcelona63>*, the *UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation <http://www.un.org/en/digital-cooperation-panel/>*, and more. Some of these processes will pose significant opportunity to codify principles of freedom, openness, interoperability, security, and resilience, while others pose serious challenges to proponents of the same. The outlook will be discussed by *Dr Jovan Kurbalija*, Executive Director, Secretariat of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation; *Robert Morgus*, Sr. Policy Analyst & Deputy Director, FIU-New America C2B Partnership; *Becky Burr*, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, Neustar; and *Shane Tews*, Co-Chair, Internet Governance Forum USA. Moderator is *Dr Tereza Horejsova*, Project Development Director, DiploFoundation. The event will be webcast live on *YouTube <https://youtu.be/nnN8SViKZhA>* and the *Internet Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalinternet>*. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalinternet <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalinternet> (auto-captions)YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/nnN8SViKZhA <https://youtu.be/nnN8SViKZhA>REPORT: The Idealized Internet vs. Internet Realities <https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/reports/idealized-inter…>TWITTER: #GlobalInternet https://bit.ly/2R3NfEd <https://bit.ly/2R3NfEd>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10552/ - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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v7.5 of the ICANN Stakeholder Analysis Tool - new redesigned Regional Dashboard
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Sept. 27, 2018

Sept. 27, 2018

Did an update to the ICANN Stakeholder Analysis Tool which allows for the ability to search by country: - At-Large Representation - ccNSO membership - GAC Membership - NCUC membership (persons and organisations) - Fellowships - Nextgen - Accredited Registrars and also do a regional or worldwide analysis on At-Large, ccNSO, GAC, NCUC and accredited registrars. The key change was a new look layout of the regional dashboard based on a suggestion from Olivier Crépin-Leblond (see attached screenshot) The Stakeholder Tool can be accessed at https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/ICANN+Stakeholder+Analysis+Tool Regards Dev Anand Teelucksingh, At-Large member, Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (http://ttcs.tt/)

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The Grumpies
by Evan Leibovitch Sept. 25, 2018

Sept. 25, 2018

Well, not me this time. https://grumpier.com.au/ Yes, it's about a ccTLD not under ICANN's domain (sorry). But it's an informative take on how those who find themselves on the outside of the multi-stakeholder model choose to fight back. Even more amusing is this response <https://mumbrella.com.au/why-we-should-care-about-changes-to-our-internet-d…> from an advisor to Affilias' takeover of .au domain management, complete with the requisite IGO fearmongering Without knowing the situation first-hand I am in no position to have a position. But the drama is worth a look by the rest of the bubble, and a warning to those who those who have captured ICANN to not take their entitlements for granted. Meanwhile, locally, I imagine my Australian friends and colleagues have other distractions <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blhR3sdkYCw>, no insult intended. -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch or @el56

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GDPR update by ICANN Org
by León Felipe Sánchez Ambía Sept. 25, 2018

Sept. 25, 2018

Dear all, An update on the state of GDPR topics has been posted by ICANN org in the following link: https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-gdpr-and-data-protection-privacy-upda… I write this to you from LA where the ePDP WG is holding a three day F2F meeting in which Alan and Hadia are representing the At-Large community. I hope you find this information useful. Kind regards, León Enviado desde mi iPad

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WEBCAST TODAY: 2018 Global People’s Summit - Reimagine Humanity: Changing the Status Quo
by Joly MacFie Sept. 22, 2018

Sept. 22, 2018

An inspiring event. What the Internet's for! Andrew Sullivan is due up around noon EDT / 16:00 UTC. [image: Global People's Summit] <https://www.globalpeoplesummit.org/2018-summit>Today, *Saturday September 22 2018* – which is also *One Web Day <http://onewebday.org/>* – from *7:30am-2pm EDT (11:30-16:00 UTC)* the* 2018 Global People’s Summit <http://xn--2018%20global%20peoples%20summit-o61t/>* takes place in NYC, hubs around the world, and online. The *Global People’s Summit <http://xn--the%20global%20peoples%20summit-jl5s/>* purpose is to involve that same everyone, everywhere in a place can collaborate, share best practices, foster innovation, build community, celebrate success, influence global agendas, and find new ways to translate their vision into action —together online, with the ultimate goal of supporting and informing the effort to achieve the United Nations’ *17 Sustainable Development Goals <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/>*. Speakers include Internet Society President & CEO *Andrew Sullivan*. The event will be webcast live via *YouTube <https://youtu.be/6cyc73wNCVI>*. *WHAT: 2018 Global People’s Summit <http://xn--2018%20global%20peoples%20summit-o61t/>WHERE: United Nations NYC + remote hubsWHEN: Saturday September 22 2018 7:30am-2pm EDT (11:30-16:00 UTC)WATCH: https://youtu.be/6cyc73wNCVI <https://youtu.be/6cyc73wNCVI>TWITTER: #GlobalPeople http://bit.ly/globalpeople <http://bit.ly/globalpeople>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10535/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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