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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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Transcript from today's Welcome Ceremony @ ICANN Costa Rica - full transcript & the President's speech
by Benedetta Rossi March 12, 2012

March 12, 2012

Dear BC Members, Please find attached the transcript from this morning's Welcome Ceremony @ ICANN Costa Rica. The speeches were particularly interesting and uplifting so I thought it would be of interest to BC members to have a copy. I have attached the full transcript of the welcome ceremony and the Costa Rican President's speech. -- 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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Dial in details for remote participation for the BC meeting ICANN Meeting Costa Rica
by Benedetta Rossi March 12, 2012

March 12, 2012

Dear BC Members, Please find below the dial in details for the BC meeting during the ICANN meeting in San Jose. Please also find the agenda attached. _Tuesday 13 March 2012 - _Commercial & Business Users Constituency (BC) Meeting http://costarica43.icann.org/node/29595 13:15 -- 16:45 Password BC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120313T1315&p1=2… <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120313T1315&p1=2…> *Dial in numbers:* *Country* *Toll Numbers* *Freephone/ Toll Free Number* ARGENTINA 0800-777-0519 AUSTRALIA ADELAIDE: 61-8-8121-4842 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA BRISBANE: 61-7-3102-0944 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA CANBERRA: 61-2-6100-1944 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE: 61-3-9010-7713 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA PERTH: 61-8-9467-5223 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA SYDNEY: 61-2-8205-8129 1-800-657-260 AUSTRIA 43-1-92-81-113 0800-005-259 BELGIUM 32-2-400-9861 0800-3-8795 BRAZIL 0800-7610651 CHILE 1230-020-2863 CHINA CHINA A: 86-400-810-4789 10800-712-1670 CHINA CHINA B: 86-400-810-4789 10800-120-1670 COLOMBIA 01800-9-156474 CZECH REPUBLIC 420-2-25-98-56-64 800-700-177 DENMARK 45-7014-0284 8088-8324 ESTONIA 800-011-1093 FINLAND Land Line: 106-33-203 0-800-9-14610 FINLAND Mobile: 09-106-33-203 0-800-9-14610 FRANCE LYON: 33-4-26-69-12-85 080-511-1496 FRANCE MARSEILLE: 33-4-86-06-00-85 080-511-1496 FRANCE PARIS: 33-1-70-70-60-72 080-511-1496 GERMANY 49-69-2222-20362 0800-664-4247 GREECE 30-80-1-100-0687 00800-12-7312 HONG KONG 852-3001-3863 800-962-856 HUNGARY 06-800-12755 INDIA INDIA A: 000-800-852-1268 INDIA INDIA B: 000-800-001-6305 INDIA INDIA C: 1800-300-00491 INDONESIA 001-803-011-3982 IRELAND 353-1-246-7646 1800-992-368 ISRAEL 1-80-9216162 ITALY 39-02-3600-6007 800-986-383 JAPAN OSAKA: 81-6-7739-4799 0066-33-132439 JAPAN TOKYO: 81-3-5539-5191 0066-33-132439 LATVIA 8000-3185 LUXEMBOURG 352-27-000-1364 MALAYSIA 1-800-81-3065 MEXICO 001-866-376-9696 NETHERLANDS 31-20-718-8588 0800-023-4378 NEW ZEALAND 64-9-970-4771 0800-447-722 NORWAY 47-21-590-062 800-15157 PANAMA 011-001-800-5072065 PERU 0800-53713 PHILIPPINES 63-2-858-3716 POLAND 00-800-1212572 PORTUGAL 8008-14052 RUSSIA 8-10-8002-0144011 SAUDI ARABIA 800-8-110087 SINGAPORE 65-6883-9230 800-120-4663 SLOVAK REPUBLIC 421-2-322-422-25 SOUTH AFRICA 080-09-80414 SOUTH KOREA 82-2-6744-1083 00798-14800-7352 SPAIN 34-91-414-25-33 800-300-053 SWEDEN 46-8-566-19-348 0200-884-622 SWITZERLAND 41-44-580-6398 0800-120-032 TAIWAN 886-2-2795-7379 00801-137-797 THAILAND 001-800-1206-66056 UNITED KINGDOM BIRMINGHAM: 44-121-210-9025 0808-238-6029 UNITED KINGDOM GLASGOW: 44-141-202-3225 0808-238-6029 UNITED KINGDOM LEEDS: 44-113-301-2125 0808-238-6029 UNITED KINGDOM LONDON: 44-20-7108-6370 0808-238-6029 UNITED KINGDOM MANCHESTER: 44-161-601-1425 0808-238-6029 URUGUAY 000-413-598-3421 USA 1-517-345-9004 866-692-5726 VENEZUELA 0800-1-00-3702 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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Dial in details for remote participation for the CSG meetings ICANN Meeting Costa Rica
by Benedetta Rossi March 12, 2012

March 12, 2012

Dear BC Members, Please find below the dial in details for the CSG meetings during the ICANN meeting in San Jose. *Tuesday 13 March 2012 - Commercial Stakeholder Group (CSG) Meeting * http://costarica43.icann.org/node/29611 09:45 -- 11:15 (3:45 pm UTC - 5:15 pm UTC) Password CSG PUBLIC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120313T0945&p1=2… <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120313T0945&p1=2…> 11:15 -- 12:15 (5:15 pm UTC - 6:15 pm UTC) Password BOARD CSG http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120313T1115&p1=2… <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120313T1115&p1=2…> http://costarica43.icann.org/node/29581 *Dial in numbers:* *Country* *Toll Numbers* *Freephone/ Toll Free Number* ARGENTINA 0800-777-0519 AUSTRALIA ADELAIDE: 61-8-8121-4842 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA BRISBANE: 61-7-3102-0944 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA CANBERRA: 61-2-6100-1944 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE: 61-3-9010-7713 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA PERTH: 61-8-9467-5223 1-800-657-260 AUSTRALIA SYDNEY: 61-2-8205-8129 1-800-657-260 AUSTRIA 43-1-92-81-113 0800-005-259 BELGIUM 32-2-400-9861 0800-3-8795 BRAZIL 0800-7610651 CHILE 1230-020-2863 CHINA CHINA A: 86-400-810-4789 10800-712-1670 CHINA CHINA B: 86-400-810-4789 10800-120-1670 COLOMBIA 01800-9-156474 CZECH REPUBLIC 420-2-25-98-56-64 800-700-177 DENMARK 45-7014-0284 8088-8324 ESTONIA 800-011-1093 FINLAND Land Line: 106-33-203 0-800-9-14610 FINLAND Mobile: 09-106-33-203 0-800-9-14610 FRANCE LYON: 33-4-26-69-12-85 080-511-1496 FRANCE MARSEILLE: 33-4-86-06-00-85 080-511-1496 FRANCE PARIS: 33-1-70-70-60-72 080-511-1496 GERMANY 49-69-2222-20362 0800-664-4247 GREECE 30-80-1-100-0687 00800-12-7312 HONG KONG 852-3001-3863 800-962-856 HUNGARY 06-800-12755 INDIA INDIA A: 000-800-852-1268 INDIA INDIA B: 000-800-001-6305 INDIA INDIA C: 1800-300-00491 INDONESIA 001-803-011-3982 IRELAND 353-1-246-7646 1800-992-368 ISRAEL 1-80-9216162 ITALY 39-02-3600-6007 800-986-383 JAPAN OSAKA: 81-6-7739-4799 0066-33-132439 JAPAN TOKYO: 81-3-5539-5191 0066-33-132439 LATVIA 8000-3185 LUXEMBOURG 352-27-000-1364 MALAYSIA 1-800-81-3065 MEXICO 001-866-376-9696 NETHERLANDS 31-20-718-8588 0800-023-4378 NEW ZEALAND 64-9-970-4771 0800-447-722 NORWAY 47-21-590-062 800-15157 PANAMA 011-001-800-5072065 PERU 0800-53713 PHILIPPINES 63-2-858-3716 POLAND 00-800-1212572 PORTUGAL 8008-14052 RUSSIA 8-10-8002-0144011 SAUDI ARABIA 800-8-110087 SINGAPORE 65-6883-9230 800-120-4663 SLOVAK REPUBLIC 421-2-322-422-25 SOUTH AFRICA 080-09-80414 SOUTH KOREA 82-2-6744-1083 00798-14800-7352 SPAIN 34-91-414-25-33 800-300-053 SWEDEN 46-8-566-19-348 0200-884-622 SWITZERLAND 41-44-580-6398 0800-120-032 TAIWAN 886-2-2795-7379 00801-137-797 THAILAND 001-800-1206-66056 UNITED KINGDOM BIRMINGHAM: 44-121-210-9025 0808-238-6029 UNITED KINGDOM GLASGOW: 44-141-202-3225 0808-238-6029 UNITED KINGDOM LEEDS: 44-113-301-2125 0808-238-6029 UNITED KINGDOM LONDON: 44-20-7108-6370 0808-238-6029 UNITED KINGDOM MANCHESTER: 44-161-601-1425 0808-238-6029 URUGUAY 000-413-598-3421 USA 1-517-345-9004 866-692-5726 VENEZUELA 0800-1-00-3702

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BC Meeting Agenda, Tuesday March 13th 2012 - Costa Rica
by Benedetta Rossi March 11, 2012

March 11, 2012

Dear BC Members, Please find attached the updated BC Meeting schedule for Tuesday March 13th at 1:30pm local time (7:30pm UTC/8:30pm CET). Thank you, -- 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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