On 3/5/07, Siavash Shahshahani <shahshah@irnic.ir> wrote:
Just a short comment on item #4 since I won't be able to participate in the phone conference: There's been some controversy about this recently(alluded to in the message of Roberto - suggesting it could be taken to the Ombudsman). A Russian and an Iranian reseller applied for Business Constituency membership in order to participate in IDN Working Group but were turned down. Both were granted 'observership' status on WG thanks to efforts by Sophia Bekele. On Sophia's suggestion I asked Michael Palage about what Constituency such applicants belong to and I'm awaiting his answer.
Per the state of interests from Russian reseller, it seems it belongs to business constituency. I haven't seen the SoI from Iranian reseller. Hong
I added some of the policy issues to our Mar 6 agenda. <https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?6_march_2007> (It's a wiki, so feel free to add, subtract, or rearrange.) I propose that we run through these with no more than a couple minutes each, to see where we want to generate input and of what sort.
Policy Matters for Discussion
1. Domain Tasting: Update from Nick on Issues Report, start a PDP already (ws suggests) 2. Registerfly situation: ICANN's non-enforcement of its contracts and what that means to the public as third-party beneficiary (even if such status is disclaimed in the contracts) 3. gTLDs. Yes, .xxx is up for discussion again; does the GAC want veto rights over new TLD strings? 4. IDNs. Why can't domain re-sellers participate in the IDN process? 5. LSE's GNSO review and upcoming ALAC review. Yet Another ICANN Reform Process?
--Wendy
-- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@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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