Draft for comment on geoTLD by Annette: At the last ICANN Meeting in San Juan, the ALAC co-organised a well attended interesting workshop on geographic TLDs We are very interested in strengthening choice and diversity especially in respect to regional needs of users. One big issue of course is the implementation of IDNs. An other isse is to work on satisfying the demand of individual users in local adressing and local identification. It would be helpful if the Board would start a new round for applicants for new TLDs as soon as possible. We would like to contribute by conducting research on user preferences and impact on the communication between public services and individual users. In the light of the work of ICANN to make the use of the DNS more friendly to users, especially in respect to local needs, we appreciate very much initiatives for more localised top level domains. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Izumi AIZU" <iza@anr.org> To: "At-Large" <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 10:01 AM Subject: [At-Large] <IMPORTANT> Draft Plan for Tuesday's AtLarge communitymeeting with ICANN Board Here is the draft plan prepared by Annette, Alan, Wendy, Beau and Izumi this morning. Please read them carefully, and if your name is listed, then you are assigned a task for that.Don't miss it!! If you have additional topics to be discussed or any suggestions on how to operate this meeting, please send them to this list as soon as possible. We like to let ALL members of ALAC to speak up, but be mindful for the time allocations. Jacqueline to Chair the meeting, Izumi assist Jacqueline as time-keeper Introduction – Jacqueline Acknowledgement and introduction for outgoing and incoming ALAC members New members introduction - what they expect to do RALO-elect ALAC members and NomCom-select ALAC members to say a few words, 2 min max [10 - 15 min?] ALAC in Transition- Veronica/Cheryl – 3 min max Report on – One day Workshop Policy Areas – share ALAC views* *"ALAC" here means the collective voices with ALS and RALO community, not only 15-members. Followings are the list of topics and "speakers" who are responsible to prepare the draft sentences, hopefully in one or two paragraphs max this afternoon, circulate them online – to the open list – and the compile/edit them. They will be the speakers on the subject at the meeting to introduce them. If other members have additional comments, dissenting opinions, they are free to add – within limited timeframe. The Board may ask questions to us, or we may ask their opinions as a two-way dialogue. 1. New gTLDs - Wendy and Beau 2. gNSO improvement – Alan 3. Domain tasting, Domain name front running - Robert 4. geoTLDs - Annette 5. WHOIS – Wendy 6. IDNs - Hong – Annette 7. IPV4 and IPV6 – Izumi 8. Registrar Accreditation Agreements (RAAs), Registry Escrow - Beau 9. ccNSO issue area- Siavash 10. ALAC Review – Robert ALAC Operations issues 1. Bylaws changes, outreach plan - Alice and Mohamed ? (Robert to contact them) 2. Budgets- Cheryl and Annette 3. introducing the Secretariat (to be discussed tonight on how to) Thanks, izumi -- _______________________________________________ ALAC mailing list ALAC@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