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Statement of Interests for Ross Rader
by Ross Rader Oct. 14, 2006

Oct. 14, 2006

Statement of Interests I am the Director of Research and Innovation for Tucows Inc., an ICANN accredited registrar and internet services vendor. Tucows is a minority shareholder in Afilias LLC, with roughly an 8% shareholding. Neither Tucows, nor I, is in possession of, nor have access to Registry Sensitive or Registry Proprietary information as defined by any relevant registry operating contracts as a result of this relationship. Tucows provides consulting and application hosting services to other registrars and internet services providers. I am not an officer, director, consultant, or employee of any of these customer organizations nor am I specifically involved in providing services to them. The URL for this statement is: http://www.byte.org/blog/_WebPages/StatementofInterestsforRossRader.html -ross

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Draft discussion paper on IDN policy issues
by Olof Nordling April 5, 2006

April 5, 2006

Dear councilors, Attached please find a draft discussion paper on IDN policy issues, as just announced by Bruce at the meeting on new gTLDs. Best regards Olof

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Proposed dates for GNSO council and task force meeting in second quarter
by GNSO.SECRETARIAT＠GNSO.ICANN.ORG April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org] Dear Council Members, Here are some proposed dates for Council teleconference meetings and face to face working sessions for the second quarter up to the Marrakesh meetings on 26-30 June 2006: Wednesday 12 April GNSO Council teleconference - Summer time in Europe 12:00 UTC (there will be voting on this call so please indicate whether you will be present as there are no proxies) Thursday 18 May GNSO Council teleconference - 12:00 UTC Thursday afternoon 25 May, Friday all day 26 May, Saturday all day 27 March - proposed face to face policy work session in Brussels Thursday 8 June GNSO Council teleconference - 12:00 UTC Friday 9 June proposed new PDP-Feb06 task force teleconference (time to be decided) Thursday 15 June GNSO Council teleconference - 12:00 UTC (just before Marrakesh meeting) Thank you very much. Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Sample Transcript is Available
by Ross Rader March 30, 2006

March 30, 2006

The transcription sample that we discussed during our administrative planning meeting is now online in a variety of formats. The quality is quite good given the price of the service. I expect that the quality will increase as the service becomes more familiar with our "words" and "phrases" and as we get better at introducing ourselves when we speak. This transcription cost $50USD. I would recommend that we proceed with a six month trial to help better gauge the value of this service to our constituents and community. #### We've just finished transcribing a podcast for you. The text is below and you can download the results in these formats as well: RTF: http://castingwords.com/transcripts/RG/5693.rtf html: http://castingwords.com/transcripts/RG/5693.html text: http://castingwords.com/transcripts/RG/5693.txt Please write if you have any questions or comments. We look forward to transcribing more audio for you in the future! The castingWords team, support(a)castingwords.com http://castingwords.com more formats: alternate html: http://castingwords.com/transcripts/RG/5693-a.html formated text: http://castingwords.com/transcripts/RG/5693.text -- -rr "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Contact Info: Ross Rader Director, Research & Innovation Tucows Inc. c. 416.828.8783 Get Started? http://start.tucows.com My Blogware: http://www.byte.org

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update of statement of interest.
by Avri Doria March 30, 2006

March 30, 2006

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, it occurred to me that although it does not represent a financial interest, i do have an outside interest in the assignment of TLDs. my updated statement: http://psg.com/~avri/icann-stmt-interest.html I am an independent research consultant and have no employment, contract, financial interest, share ownership or any other business relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars except as a holder, and fee payer, of several domain names in .com, .net and .org. As part of my volunteer activities I have spoken to and given advise to various representatives of indigenous nomadic and semi-nomadic populations on the topic of obtaining an TLD. a. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEK2lyzUL36xoPd70RAvRSAJ9fE9yDOUKaD8kG+HQsnbXGovTUKQCeLlTo PTbghXkjHaiP6only6jtrbw= =Fu5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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More IDN policy quicksand
by Cary Karp March 29, 2006

March 29, 2006

The quotes below are from Bruce's remarks in the real-time captioning of the GNSO Public forum. I am not being at all critical of the way anything was expressed in that context, but as we proceed with the development of formal IDN policies we will need to become very precise in the terminology we use. > at the moment, the IDN guidelines suggest using a single script to > the left of the dot, so you don't have a mixture of, say, English or > Latin scripts and Cyrillic scripts in the same name or mixtures of > different scripts. The guidelines say not to mix scripts in a single _label_, unless the language being represented is normally written using multiple scripts. This allows for situations where there may be arguable need for having multiple scripts in a domain name even when the intended language is normally written using only one of them. (Examples of such cases have been provided by representatives of the Unicode Consortium, if memory serves, primarily via their own e-mail discussion list.) This consideration is entirely separate from the current restriction to the exclusive use of Latin script in top-level labels. > if I have English script, then that connects to an English script > string in the root. And then if you wish to use Chinese script, then > that's associated with Chinese script TLD in the root. Or do you > allow mixes? And we have today, you can have English or Chinese -- or > you certainly can have today a Chinese script dot English script. The English _language_ is written using the Latin _script_. A large number of additional languages are written using that script. Some of these languages are more reliant than others on the ability to indicate diacritical marks in addition to the shared repertoire of basic characters (with it being a common misconception that English is entirely free from such need), but ASCII can comfortably be used for quite a few of those languages. Although we do urgently need to get beyond the constraints that it imposes, we should keep in mind that ASCII is not a synonym for English. Many of the individual languages that share the Latin script are used in more than one country. The same can apply to the different languages that are written -- listing only a few of many possible examples -- with the Arabic script (which, unlike the term English, does designate both a language and a script; Latin script is frequently called Roman script precisely to avoid this type of ambiguity), the Chinese script, the Cyrillic script, the Devanagari script, and all the other scripts that either are already under consideration or are going to appear in short order as we proceed with the internationalization of the namespace. There is certain to be some discussion of the extent to which countries may "own" the scripts used within their borders, but there are astonishingly few cases where there is any unique relationship between script and country. Corresponding conditions apply to languages. The first version of the IDN Guidelines was marred by its having been written under the assumption that the terms "language" and "script" were synonymous, with the preferential use of the former to avoid confusion (despite clearly differing opinions about the likely consequences of doing so). The 2.0 revision was prepared specifically to rectify the difficulties to which this led. I hope that I am not alone in feeling that the terminological stringency now reflected in the Guidelines should also be conveyed by the material that Council prepares. /Cary

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GNSO Council/Nom COM lunch Thursday 30 March
by GNSO.SECRETARIAT＠GNSO.ICANN.ORG March 29, 2006

March 29, 2006

Just a reminder that the Nominating Committee/GNSO Council lunch, is tomorrow, Thursday 30 March at 1:00 pm in room 'Square Affair 2' the room we used on Saturday and Sunday in Town Hall. I have sent a reminder to the Nom Com. Thank you. See you tomorrow! Kind regards, Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org

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Statement of Interest
by Bret Fausett March 28, 2006

March 28, 2006

Here's the statement I sent to the pdp-pcceg-feb06 task force yesterday. FYI, Bret -----Original Message----- From: Bret Fausett [mailto:bfausett@internet.law.pro] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:59 PM To: 'Bruce Tonkin'; 'pdp-pcceg-feb06(a)gnso.icann.org' Cc: 'John O. Jeffrey' Subject: RE: [pdp-pcceg-feb06] Public versus private declaration of financial interest I agree with Bruce's recommendation that we be as open and transparent as possible. Like Bruce at Melbourne IT, I don't believe that I would be able to list all of my law firm's clients, but I do think I should disclose those clients of the firm that have ICANN-related business (CFIT, previously disclosed). I don't know what other connections are material, but here are two additional notes. First, those of you have been around long enough may remember that I worked with the .iii team (Sarnoff Corporation and NextDNS, Inc.) in the 2000 bidding process for new gTLDs. They asked me then to keep them abreast of future developments in new gTLDs and let them know when it might be appropriate to resurrect their application. For the last six years, I've passed on news from time to time. We've recently discussed the fact that the time may be nearing for them to think more seriously about whether they want to pursue .iii again. I haven't received any compensation from them since 2000, and I have no promise of future compensation from them if they do decide to move forward. If .iii decides either to ask ICANN to reconsider the .iii application or to reapply whenever we allow new applications, I would hope to be a part of the team, in some capacity. I have no arrangements with, or promises from, anyone in that regard, however, so I don't view it as a "contingent interest." Since someone else might though, I note it here. Second, Jon Nevett, from Network Solutions and SRSPlus, has been proposed as a Chair of this Task Force. I have reseller account with SRSPlus. Is that material? I don't use it to sell to the public but maintain it for registrations of my own domain names and those used in my wife's business. I'm probably kindly disposed toward Jon because I use SRSPlus. -- Bret

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Copy of presentation on PDP-Feb06
by Bruce Tonkin March 28, 2006

March 28, 2006

Hello All, Attached is a copy of the presentation on the Feb-06 PDP at the GNSO Public Forum today. Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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Copy of presentation on new gTLD work
by Bruce Tonkin March 28, 2006

March 28, 2006

Hello All, See attached a copy of the presentation on new gTLD work that was presented in the public forum. Regards, Bruce Tonkin

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