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Conflict of Interest Policy
by Steve DelBianco March 14, 2012

March 14, 2012

Here in Costa Rica we've discussed Conflicts of Interest policies, and this will be a topic at the Public Forum tomorrow. I found this<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/governance/coi/coi-policy-08dec11-en.h…> Conflict of Interest policy on ICANN's website. This policy applies to "Covered Persons", where (f) “Covered Person” shall mean an Officer, Director, Board Liaison, or Key Employee of ICANN. And where (g) “Director” is any voting member of the Board of ICANN. (a) “Board Liaison” shall mean those liaisons to the ICANN Board of Directors appointed in accordance with ICANN’s Bylaws. Marilyn, is this the new document you mentioned today? -- Steve DelBianco Executive Director NetChoice http://www.NetChoice.org and http://blog.netchoice.org +1.202.420.7482

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RE: BC Chair update at the Council Meeting
by Marilyn Cade March 14, 2012

March 14, 2012

Chris, thanks very much for capturing this! It is only missing a sentence, which indicates I should talk more slowly! I am remiss not to have named Alex Mora, our CAMTIC colleague, but I will be writing a formal letter of appreciation to Alex, and CAMTIC's Board on our behalf. While the full transcript is available, this idea of capturing any comments from members from the floor is an excellent service! Marilyn From: chris(a)andalucia.com To: excomm(a)bizconst.org Subject: BC Chair update at the Council Meeting Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:37:08 +0100 BC Chair update at the Council Meeting in Costa Rica THANK YOU. MY NAME IS MARILYN CADE, AND I'M THE CHAIR OF THE BUSINESS CONSTITUENCY.AS I SAID IN DAKAR ON BEHALF OF THE BUSINESS CONSTITUENCY, WE DO NOT REPORT ON gTLD POLICY ISSUES. AS THE LEADERSHIP OF THE -- MY CONSTITUENCY HAS ENTRUSTED THAT TO THE CAPABLE, INFORMED AND INVOLVED COUNCILLORS . SO SHOULD YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT gTLD POLICY, I'M SURE THAT THEY WILL SHARE THAT WITH YOU. I HAVE SEVERAL OTHER COMMENTS TO MAKE, AND I WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT.FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN MY COMMENTS BY SAYING THAT WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO BE IN COSTA RICA, AND THAT OUR MEMBERS HAVE BEEN WARMLY WELCOMED AND WE HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTERACT WITH LOCAL COSTA RICAN BUSINESS COLLEAGUES AND TO BE INVOLVED WITH THEM IN A NUMBER OF DISCUSSIONS AND IN A SOCIAL EVENT. AND I WOULD NOTE THAT WITH GREAT PLEASURE BECAUSE OF THE ASSISTANCE WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM OUR BUSINESS COLLEAGUES HERE IN COSTA RICA TO ENGAGE WITH US. SO THAT WAS A HIGHLIGHT FOR US, TO HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CONTINUE TO DO. WE DID A SIMILAR EVENT IN KENYA. WE DID AN EVENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE IGF IN NAIROBI AS A FOLLOW-UP TO ICANN GOING TO KENYA. I HOPE THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY WILL PERHAPS THINK ABOUT AS THEY ARE COMING TO THE NEXT LOCATION OR THE NEXT, AND THINK ABOUT HOW TO PLAN AHEAD TO INTERACT OUTSIDE OF ICANN WITH THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. WE ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO, IN PREPARATION FOR THE FACT WE WERE GOING TO BE INTERACTING WITH THE COMMUNITY, WE HAVE PUBLISHED AN UPDATE. THIS IS NOT OUR -- ONE OF OUR QUARTERLY NEWSLETTERS THAT I HAVE SHARED WITH THE COUNCIL. IT IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF A FACT SHEET. OUR NEWSLETTERS HAVE SIX PAGES, AND THIS, AS YOU WILL NOTE, IS ONLY FOUR. WE REPUBLISHED AND UPDATED THE DOCUMENT IN THE MIDDLE WHICH PROVIDES A GRAPHIC PORTRAYAL OF HOW ICANN IS ORGANIZED AND HOW THE GNSO IS IF THERE ARE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO RESPOND. >>STEPHANE VAN GELDER: ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?>> STEPHANE, ONE BRIEF COMMENT. I THINK IT'S A VERY USEFUL NEWSLETTER LETTER. AND IT'S A USEFUL DIGEST SO I HAVE ALREADY GRASPED SOMETHING FROM THAT. SO THANK YOU, MARILYN. >>MARILYN CADE: I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE CREDIT OF THE DESIGN TO THE NEWSLETTER TO CHRIS CHAPLOW AND TO BENDETTA WHO IS THE B.C. SECRETARIAT. AND WE INTRODUCED AN INNOVATION THAT IS ON THE WEB SITE WHICH IS CALLED "MEET THE B.C." SO THE INSERT THAT YOU HAVE THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE UPDATED AS A SNAPSHOT OF OUR MEMBERS AND A BRIEF BIO AND OUR GOAL IS TO DOUBLE OUR MEMBERSHIP IN THE NEXT YEAR.THANK YOU.

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ICANN’s Departing CEO: Burning Down the House — Crooked Timber
by Zahid Jamil March 14, 2012

March 14, 2012

http://crookedtimber.org/2012/03/13/icanns-departing-ceo-burning-down-the-h… Best regards, Zahid Jamil Barrister-at-law Jamil & Jamil Barristers-at-law 219-221 Central Hotel Annexe Merewether Road, Karachi. Pakistan Cell: +923008238230 Tel: +92 21 5680760 / 5685276 / 5655025 Fax: +92 21 5655026 www.jamilandjamil.com Notice / Disclaimer This message contains confidential information and its contents are being communicated only for the intended recipients . If you are not the intended recipient you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this message by mistake and delete it from your system. The contents above may contain/are the intellectual property of Jamil & Jamil, Barristers-at-Law, and constitute privileged information protected by attorney client privilege. The reproduction, publication, use, amendment, modification of any kind whatsoever of any part or parts (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means whether or not transiently or incidentally or some other use of this communication) without prior written permission and consent of Jamil & Jamil is prohibited. Sent from my iPad

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RE: [bc-gnso] Fake renewal notices
by john＠crediblecontext.com March 14, 2012

March 14, 2012

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Fake renewal notices
by Chris Chaplow March 14, 2012

March 14, 2012

John and Zahid, I probably will not be at the Council tomorrow. Here is the issue that steve mentioned. I have website client who get fake renewal notices. Or phone calls. We have a client who wants to register name.cn and as you have name.com and as we are a responsible registrar (actually not accredited) we wanted to check with you first before accepting our clients order. Do you want to register for 10 years of $$$ ? I advise my clients it is a scam, but just to be on the safe side they usually instructs me to make a defensive registration and I do so for one year with another registrar. Best Chris Chaplow Managing Director Andalucia.com S.L. Avenida del Carmen 9 Ed. Puertosol, Puerto Deportivo 1ª Planta, Oficina 30 Estepona, 29680 Malaga, Spain Tel: + (34) 952 897 865 Fax: + (34) 952 897 874 E-mail: <mailto:chris@andalucia.com> chris(a)andalucia.com Web: <http://www.andalucia.com/> www.andalucia.com Information about Andalucia, Spain.

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Policy Slides for today's BC meeting in Costa Rica
by Steve DelBianco March 13, 2012

March 13, 2012

Attached are a few slides for policy topics to be covered today. -- Steve DelBianco Executive Director NetChoice http://www.NetChoice.org and http://blog.netchoice.org +1.202.420.7482

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Article on IANA RFP Cancelation
by Phil Corwin March 13, 2012

March 13, 2012

BC members may have some interest in an article I published yesterday on NTIA's cancelation of the IANA RFP. Comments, as always, are welcome --- http://internetcommerce.org/NTIA_IANA_Cancel NTIA: ICANN Not Qualified to Be Awarded IANA Contract – And Therefore Shall Keep Running IANA for the Present Submitted by Philip Corwin on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 17:40 The ever-sunny skies over San Jose, Costa Rica were darkened by a dark cloud from Washington on the morning of March 10th, the opening day of activities at ICANN’s 43rd Public Meeting. The pall was cast by a notice posted by the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) stating that it had canceled the Request for Proposal (RFP) to administer the contract to operate the authoritative DNS root server per the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The brief NTIA notice stated that the cancelation occurred “because we received no proposals that met the requirements requested by the global community”. The NTIA statement can be found at http://ntia.doc.gov/other-publication/2012/notice-internet-assigned-numbers… . One of the applicants which failed to meet those requirements was ICANN, which currently administers the IANA functions – and will continue to do so until at least the unknown future time when NTIA reissues the RFP and decides there is a qualified applicant. The current contract under which ICANN administers IANA was set to expire at the end of September 2011, but had been extended by NTIA for six months while the RFP was in progress. NTIA’s announcement apparently caught ICANN’s Board and senior staff by surprise, and its timing seems more than coincidental – indeed, it seems quite a deliberate shot across ICANN’s bow. When queried at a meeting between the Board and ICANN’s GNSO policymaking body as to whether he had any comment on the development, ICANN Chairman Steve Crocker responded with a terse “No”, adding that the Board had not yet had time to fully digest the unexpected development. The NTIA noted that: Based on the input received from stakeholders around the world, NTIA added new requirements to the IANA functions’ statement of work, including the need for structural separation of policymaking from implementation, a robust companywide conflict of interest policy, provisions reflecting heightened respect for local country laws, and a series of consultation and reporting requirements to increase transparency and accountability to the international community. ICANN’s submission apparently fell short on one or more of these criteria, and will need to be beefed up when the RFP is revived if it is to retain the IANA function. Three not altogether incompatible theories are swirling around the San Jose meeting as to the real reason for NTIA’s IANA cancelation: * · NTIA wants to keep pressure on ICANN to build a higher wall between policy development and technical implementation, strengthen its conflict of interest rules, cooperate more with law enforcement and other national legal authorities, and give greater deference to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) on policy matters generally and acceptable new gTLD applications in particular. * · ICANN thought its re-awarding of the IANA contract was a foregone conclusion and failed to prepare an application that sufficiently “checked the boxes” on the new NTIA qualification criteria. * · NTIA wanted to conclude the next contract with ICANN’s new, yet-to-be-announced CEO, who will succeed Rod Beckstrom at the June meeting scheduled in Prague. We have no idea what the full rationale for NTIA’s action was. And it is still expected that ICANN will eventually be re-awarded the IANA contract, as shifting it to another party could be a mortal body blow to the organization. However, at a time when the new gTLD program is rolling forward (with speculation in San Jose that once the applicants are announced in May multiple lawsuits may ensue – both between applicants and against ICANN) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is maneuvering to supplant ICANN as the primary DNS operator, the U.S. declaration that ICANN is unqualified to operate the root zone function that is the technical foundation for its policymaking role further weakens its reputation and adds to uncertainty over the future of Internet governance. It also provides ammunition to those ICANN critics who assert that such U.S. actions, even when exercised to provide greater leverage to the GAC, nonetheless illustrate that ICANN remains too closely tied to U.S. laws and policy aims. None of this is welcome news for domain investors and the Internet community at large, and we can only hope that the situation will be resolved soon and satisfactorily. While ICANN is far from perfect, it continues to evolve and the multi-stakeholder governance model it embodies is preferable to any that gives governments alone the ultimate power over the future of the Internet. Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal Virtualaw LLC 1155 F Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20004 202-559-8597/Direct 202-559-8750/Fax 202-255-6172/cell "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey

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Adobe connect rooms for today's CSG & BC Meetings in Costa Rica
by Benedetta Rossi March 13, 2012

March 13, 2012

Dear BC Members, Please note the links to the adobe connect rooms for the CSG & BC meetings today below. There will be slides for both meetings so make sure you log in if you are participating remotely to avoid missing the slides! CSG: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/sjo43-tienda BC: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/sjo43-lasamericas -- Kind Regards, Benedetta Rossi BC Secretariat https://community.icann.org/display/gnsobc/Home www.bizconst.org bc-secretariat(a)icann.org

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Costa Rica, ICANN, and Nonviolent Governance
by Steve DelBianco March 13, 2012

March 13, 2012

My post from the Costa Rica meeting, including an observation about IANA See below or at http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120312_costa_rica_icann_and_nonviolent_gove… Costa Rica, ICANN, and Nonviolent Governance Mar 12, 2012 11:33 PM PDT By Steve DelBianco There's a peaceful feeling in the air at ICANN's meeting this week, and I think it has something to do with being here in Costa Rica. Speaking at today's opening ceremony, Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla described how, back in 1948, her country became the first to willingly go without any kind of armed forces for national defense. In that respect, Costa Rica is a lot like ICANN: alone in a hostile world with only its constituents and allies for protection. Costa Rica has proven that this nonviolent approach can work, but only if you keep your own house in order. If ICANN takes nothing else away from this week's meeting, we can at least hope it takes a page from its host nation's playbook. Everyone here at ICANN 43 has heard the mounting calls by governments and the United Nations to assert more power over the Internet, and by extension, ICANN itself. Since ICANN doesn't have a standing army (or maybe THAT'S what all the new gTLD fees are for?) to repel these challenges to its authority, it needs to be creative about protecting itself from growing threats. Part of ICANN's defensive strategy seems to have been "the best defense is a good offense." Its aggressive new gTLD program promises to dramatically increase the global reach of the Internet, thereby growing the community of stakeholders committed to the ICANN model. It's a bold strategy that carries some big risks. Even as ICANN increases its global footprint with new gTLDs, it increases its exposure to external threats. ICANN has never been more in the public eye, and that increased scrutiny means increased pressure to get things right. ICANN's growing global audience now expects the organization to meet the promises made for its ambitious TLD expansion plan. And a powerful army of detractors is poised to pounce on the slightest slip as evidence of ICANN's inadequacy. Meanwhile, governments that have always been uneasy about ICANN's bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model are anxious about fraud, abuse, and challenges to law enforcement that could be exacerbated in new gTLDs. Still, many of the issues important to governments remain unresolved. It's against that backdrop that I've been thinking about the U.S. Commerce Department's declaration that ICANN isn't quite ready for a renewal of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract. Maybe Commerce was showing its "tough love" for ICANN, signaling the need for more safeguards against controversial new TLDs that could alienate the governments now defending ICANN. ICANN can either heed that message, or else start assembling that army…

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Opening Speech by the Costa Rica President Laura Chinchilla
by Marilyn Cade March 13, 2012

March 13, 2012

Dear BC members President Chinchilla's speech is available at: http://costarica43.icann.org/node/29527Transcript: President Chinchilla's Speech http://costarica43.icann.org/meetings/sanjose2012/transcript-president-chin… It was an uplifting speech, and supported by a few others. On the other hand, to the members who asked me about Rod's speech, it seemed not as statesmanlike as should be. Our task, though, is soldiering on, focusing on work, and realizing that CEOs come, and go. We have major work this weekand ahead. The community who creates ICANN's stakeholders continues. I look forward to our breakfast. The GAC looks forward to meeting you. And then we will see the Board in the evening for a reception. All opportunities! I was so impressed by President Chinchilla's speech. Marilyn CadeBC Chair

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