Dear Councilors:

Please find below my report for the Council Meeting on October 28th, together with links to information material.

1) ALAC adopted a Position Description for ALAC Members and Liaisons:

See link:

2) ALAC Community Guide to Generic Top-Level Domain Names [draft]:

See attached PDF file [ICANN_At_Large_Bro.pdf] Brochure.

3) ALAC approves proposed Working group to research the possibility of developing mutually beneficial relationships between ccTLDs and ALSs:

See attached PP file [cctld=als-bridge.ppt] used in Rudi Vansnick's presentation to ALAC.

4) ccTLD NIC-VI outreach experiment resulted in a commitment from the University of the Virgin Islands to introduce ICANN and Internet Governance material into the UVI Computational Sciences degree curriculum:

See attached WORD file [UVI ICANN commitment.doc] with text from that commitment letter.

5) ALAC approved the previously proposed meeting in Seoul between ALAC Chair, ccNSO Chair, ALAC and ccNSO Liaisons, and ccTLD operators who have existing community outreach programs, to determine what mutual benefits may be realized from a project to bring together ALSs and their ccTLD counterparts.

There are currently 97 ccNSO members and 118 ALSs.

There are currently 20 ALSs in countries where the ccTLD is not a member of ccNSO.

There are 64 countries where there are ccNSO members but no ALSs:

See attached WORD file [ALSs and related ccTLDs.doc]

Ron Sherwood, ccTLD/ALAC Liaison