February 2008 - EURO-Discuss

EURALO Delhi report:1
by Wolf Ludwig Feb. 11, 2008

Feb. 11, 2008

Hi all, some of us arrived at ICANN’s 31st meeting starting tomorrow (Monday) in NewDelhi. Present in Delhi are: Annette, Veronica, Desirée, Sébastien, Wolf (we haven’t met Wolfgang so far). Having the opportunity to participate there I intend to send you a short summary from the conference every day. Today we had an ICANN ALAC “One Day” Workshop (Agenda see: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?10_february_2008 and documents https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?new_delhi_documents) with the following programme: *Briefing /reporting on RALO’s and respective (un-)activities; there seems to be some common difficulties to get started and to contribute in a substantial way to ICANN issues so far. *Briefing/reporting by Working Groups: Whois IDN IPv6 (FRA?) User’s Summit Domain name tasting Alan Greenberg presented a report on the WG (Domain name tasting) outcome showing that this is the only ALAC-WG so far which has already fulfilled its task. *Presentation by Veronica on “What is an ALAC/At Large Working Group at ICANN?” *Afterwards we discussed in 3 sub-groups on Whois, IDN and IPv6 and came up with 3 respective reports (I think Nick will put them on the ALAC-Wiki the next days). *The last part of today’s Workshop programme was a presentation by Kieren McCarthy on Public Participation tools and objectives of ICANN “and how we can use these tools, contribute to future direction and benefit from use of these tools for our desired policy development outcomes”. A complete report of today’s ALAC Workshop will be posted on Feb. 20. For me it was a good introduction to the 31st ICANN meeting – and particularily having had a first opportunity to meet ALAC folks from different RALOs f2f and personally which is helpful for any discussion and participation. So far, best regards from Delhi, Wolf comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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slides on new gtld recommendations
by Annette Muehlberg Feb. 10, 2008

Feb. 10, 2008

All, you may want to have a look at these slides. I guess, it will be a challenge to get new gtlds through this maze of restrictions. No "subversive propaganda", criticism of religion, etc. etc. in domain names. here is the staff's plan to implement council's new gtld recommendations http://www.gnso.icann.org/correspondence/presentation-gnso-new-gtlds-09feb0… best greetings annette

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Remote Participation in New Delhi At-Large Meetings
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 6, 2008

Feb. 6, 2008

Dear All: Since the 31st International ICANN meeting is now just around the corner - the first At-Large meetings start next Sunday - I wanted to take a moment to remind everyone who will not be there in person of the remote participation options that exist for you. Firstly - At-Large meetings will allow you to hear, and be heard, via telephony as per usual. You can see all the details associated with each meeting from the main At-Large meeting page at: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?new_delhi_meeting There are several ways for you to get connected. We have made a number of improvements to the remote participation services, thanks in large part to a new vendor for teleconference services for At-Large: 1) Use a freephone number local to you - see https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi/AdigoITFS_112807.jpg?action=attachme… for a current list. 2) If no freephone number is available in your country, you can have the service dial out to you via a simple web form at: http://go.adigo.com/go/outlink.php?sid=7298 . *IMPORTANT NOTE: The dialling system will only work if you preface your country code with 011 instead of 00.* For those who are participating this way, if for some reason you're connection drops, you can use the form above to get re-connected. You can also contact the conference operator at the AOL/AIM ID: d4500. The Access Code for all calls is: 1638. More broadly, ICANN has many other public participation options for remote participation. These include: * Streaming audio for many sessions - it is anticipated that the audio streams will be in multiple languages for the first time as well; * Chat with other remote participants and the meeting participants in New Delhi - including asking questions for panellists which will be brought to the meeting by meeting moderators; * Forums on various hot topics where you can electronically debate with others. The place to start for all of this is at http://public.icann.org. I hope that many of you will join us remotely in New Delhi! -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Welcome CLUSIT to At-Large and the EURALO!
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 5, 2008

Feb. 5, 2008

Tuesday, 5 February 2008 TO: CLUSIT FROM: ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) SUBJECT: At-Large Structure Certification ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you on behalf of the At-Large community in ICANN that CLUSIT has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS). The ALAC greatly appreciates your groups’ interest in involving individual users in ICANN and looks forward to working with you and your colleagues. The purpose of ALS certification is to recognize that your organization meets the necessary criteria to involve individual Internet users at the local or issue level in ICANN activities, and that your organization will support its individual members' informed participation in ICANN efforts that affect end-users. The ALAC is eager to promote a productive working relationship between your organization, other ALSes, and the ALAC (and ICANN in general), and your input on how we can make this a success would be greatly appreciated. We would like to offer some initial tools to help your organization keep its members informed (about significant news from ICANN and information on ICANN policy-development efforts) and engaged in activities of interest: - Point of Contact for your Organisation: Please send an email to staff(a)alac.icann.org identifying the names and email addresses of one or two individuals who will be the point of contact for information and correspondence regarding ICANN At-Large. If this changes, please let us know. - At Large Mailing Lists. There are many At Large email lists, for each region; you can signup for them and manage your subscriptions at: http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo The points of contacts you identify will automatically be added to: · Your region’s discussion list; · The worldwide At-Large discussion list. You are of course invited to join others as you wish (excepting those ending –Staff). - ALS information. Information about your organization will be shared with the At-Large community to enable individuals interested in your group's activities to contact you, and to encourage cooperation with other groups interested in ICANN activities in your geographic region. Please complete and email the form at the bottom of this note to staff(a)alac.icann.org. - At-Large related websites: There are a few websites you should be aware of: · The ‘official’ ICANN website for the At-Large community is at http://www.alac.icann.org . This site will be replaced with a much more up-to-date and modern site but in the meantime it is a good source of information and has links to all the At-Large related URLs and links to other parts of icann.org. · The ALAC Working Wiki: Much of the administrative and policy development coordination work is made available and developed on the community's wikis. Meeting agendas, recordings of meetings, minutes, and all kinds of important documents for the whole community are to be found to help you get 'up to speed' with the state of development of community positions on issues you care about. Feel free to join in; the place to start is at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?at_large_policy_working_groups . · At-Large Regional Websites. Regional webpages also have been created to distribute information (including in local languages) on activities, events and issues of particular interest to people in each region. They are: African Region: http://www.afralo.org/ Asia/Australia/Pacific Region: http://www.apralo.org/ European Region: http://www.euralo.org/ Latin America/Caribbean Region: http://www.lacralo.org/ North American Region: http://www.naralo.org/ - Regional WiKi: Each At Large Region has a Wiki that allows the region to collaborate and all ALSes are welcome to have edit privileges to help provide information on their activities. These wikis create the regional websites shown above. The staff will create accounts on the EURALO site for your designated contacts once you've sent them that information. We look forward to working with you and your organization's members to advance individual Internet users' interests within ICANN. If you have any questions, or need additional information, please contact us at alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 595 85 44 mobile: +41 (79) 595 54 68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Euralo in Geneva?
by William Drake Feb. 4, 2008

Feb. 4, 2008

Hi, On this list and the January board teleconference there was discussion of having a Euralo board/Paris summit meeting in Geneva prior to the Tues. 26 Feb. IGF consultation. Sébastien put up a Doodle page so we could coordinate on scheduling availability. To date, only five people ( Sébastien, Wolf, Rudi, myself, and Wolfgang, who can¹t meet until the night of the 26th, after the consultation) have gone there to indicate their availability, and there have been no additions made in 14 days. In the meanwhile, there¹s a live discussion on the summit WG list about when and how to submit the proposal for staff/board consideration. It would be good to get clear on how we wish to proceed. As a first step, could we please decide whether we¹re having a meeting in Geneva, and if so when and where and would anyone other than the five people mentioned above be joining? Thanks, Bill *********************************************************** William J. Drake Director, Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance/PSIO Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland william.drake(a)graduateinstitute.ch ***********************************************************

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SSAC Releases Advice on Fast-Flux Hosting
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 1, 2008

Feb. 1, 2008

Dear All: The Stability and Security Advisory Committee has just released an updated report on Fast-Flux Hosting and the DNS, which can be accessed here: http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac025.pdf From the introduction of the report: "Fast flux" is an evasion technique that cyber-criminals and Internet miscreants use to evade identification and to frustrate law enforcement and anticrime efforts aimed at locating and shutting down web sites used for illegal purposes. Fast flux hosting is an application of technology that supports a wide variety of cyber-crime activities (fraud, identity theft, online scams) and is considered one of the most serious threats to online activities today. Basic fast flux hosting uses rapid modification of IP addresses associated with a system that hosts a malicious activity to evade detection and take down efforts. This technique is also used to rapidly modify the IP addresses of the name servers that resolve the domain names of the fluxed malicious hosts (this variant is sometimes called NS fast flux). A particularly troublesome variant of fast flux hosting, "double flux", fluxes addresses of both name servers and malicious (web server) hosts. This Advisory describes the technical aspects of fast flux hosting and fast flux service networks. It explains how the DNS is exploited to abet criminal activities that employ fast flux hosting, identifying the impacts of fast flux hosting, and calling particular attention to the way such attacks extend the malicious or profitable lifetime of the illegal activities conducted using these fast flux techniques. It describes current and possible methods of mitigating fast flux hosting at various points in the Internet. The Advisory discusses the pros and cons of these mitigation methods, identifies those methods that SSAC considers practical and sensible, and recommends that appropriate bodies consider policies that would make the practical mitigation methods universally available to registrants, ISPs, registrars and registries (where applicable for each). -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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