January 2010 - EURO-Discuss

At Large Director: electorate
by Adam Peake Jan. 26, 2010

Jan. 26, 2010

I've been thinking about what I said about the election process, my concerns about the ALS as the electorate. I don't think I was wrong (of course!) but I have come to think it doesn't matter, as a matter of principle the At Large should be the ones voting, as such I fully support a directed vote. As nomcom appointed ALAC member I would be happy to take direction on how to vote, should be for EU-RALO to decide. (I am not sure this would be binding on future nomcom appointees, but perhaps we can write rules that allow for a case by case approach.) Please, can we begin informing the ALS of the process. All should be subscribed to this list. But some direct outreach to individual reps would be good. So the response rate to email about the At Large Director vote is at least 75%. Thanks, Adam

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FW: Meeting this evening
by ICANN At-Large Staff Jan. 20, 2010

Jan. 20, 2010

Dear All, Please find below a message from Rudi Vansnick intended for this distribution list. -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org ------ Forwarded Message From: Rudi Vansnick <rudi.vansnick(a)isoc.be> Reply-To: "rudi.vansnick(a)isoc.be" <rudi.vansnick(a)isoc.be> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:04:43 -0800 To: "euralo(a)st.icann.org" <euralo(a)st.icann.org> Cc: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> Subject: Meeting this evening Dear colleagues, I know, you have not heard a lot from me last 2 months. Been so busy, especially at government level. Some Belgian politicians are somehow willing to take the lead in Europe on some topics. Most often it is our minister of economic affairs Van Quickenborne (indeed he has not stolen his name as we call him Quicky). He decided to launch a project Start2Surf (november 2009) but forgot to integrate a lot of provisions and technical aspects related to accessible and affordable internet connections (do not forget Belgium being one of the most expensive countries). He also launched a new "tax" for intellectual property rights on every electronic equipment able to store data. So for each usb-stick, each flash card, every hard disk we have to pay extra money in order to cover IPR while the money goes into the pockets of management companies and not to the original author. Normal as you know, while buying a flash card I do not specify for what data I will use it, it is impossible to define the author having the rights. And do not forget that this is internet related stuff as the hard disks are bought by hosting companies and as such affects every internet user in Belgium - increasing price of internet usage and storage. On top of this tomorrow a debate on the data retention law is on the table at parliament. ISOC Belgium's task force e-Security produced a work document (some 7 pages long) which will be in discussion at that meeting too. As you see, it is not easy to combine all this together with my business activities (as that's how I can pay my bills and work also for ALAC). However, I'll be on the meeting this evening for a max of 15 to 20 minutes. A short briefing on the status of the ALS-ccTLD bridge project: During the last ccNSO meeting the topic was brought up again by my counterparty Ron Sherwood as the has been no information during the last 2 months on this topic. He stressed out that a decision from the ccNSO was expected soon as the project is in launch-phase at ALAC. It is indeed important to have the collaboration of ccTLDs otherwise it has no sense to go forward. However, as Ron is involved himself in a ccTLD and has good contacts with other ccTLDs, he pronounced the positive reaction of some of his colleagues willing to participate in our project. So, I consider the project is now in a phase of final launch, which means I have to finalize my document on this. I'll put it on my to do list for the next 3 days, so it would be available on the mailinglist and website end of the week. Sorry I've been absent but as we all have our daily duties to complete mine were just a bit to have to deal with. Hopefully our ministers will give us more time for intervention on decisions such as explained above. And of course you're all concerned as you will be in Brussels in June. Till this evening, Rudi Vansnick President Internet Society Belgium vzw Voorzitter TIK vzw Board member EURALO (ALAC - ICANN) Tel: +32 (0)70 77 39 39 GSM: +32 (0)475 28 16 32 www.internetsociety.be <http://www.internetsociety.be> - www.vansnick.eu <http://www.vansnick.eu> <--------- Recent and upcoming travels and activities ----------> 7/3 - 14/3 : 37th ICANN meetings in Nairobi - Kenya 20/6 - 27/6 : 38th ICANN meetings in Brussels - Belgium <---------------------------------------------------------------> ------ End of Forwarded Message

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REMINDER: EURALO Call Tuesday, 19 January 17:00 UTC
by ICANN At-Large Staff Jan. 16, 2010

Jan. 16, 2010

Dear All, Friendly reminder that the EURALO monthly call will be held on Tuesday, 19 January at 17:00 UTC. The draft agenda (to be updated) and call details can be found at: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?19_january_2010 -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org

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Belarus: Government tightens grip on Internet
by Wolf Ludwig Jan. 15, 2010

Jan. 15, 2010

FYI with regards, Wolf _____ Government tightens grip on Internet RSF, Published on 6 January 2010 Reporters Without Borders is worried about the government’s plans to tighten control of the Internet in a country where free expression is already restricted. President Alexander Lukashenko acknowledged on 30 December that his government is putting the final touches to a bill to this effect. The draft decree was leaked to the media on December 14, 2009. The discussions around it remain secret. “We must emphasize our concern about this bill, which threatens online free speech and everyone’s right to express their views anonymously without fear of government repression,” Reporters Without Borders said. “After placing most of the traditional media under its control, the regime is pursuing an offensive against new media.” The press freedom organisation added: “The president’s attempts to be reassuring cannot hide the repressive nature of this bill, which is liable to make netizens censor themselves. It should be abandoned so that Belarus is not added to the list of countries such as North Korea, China and Iran that Reporters Without Borders has identified as Enemies of the Internet.” The bill would require all online publications to be registered and everyone going online to be identified, both in Internet cafés and at home. Internet café clients would have to show an ID document in order to go online, while Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would have to keep a record of this information and report it to the police, courts and the special agencies that monitor all news content published in Belarus. Each website would have to register under a procedure to be defined by the cabinet and approved by the presidential office’s Centre for Operations and Analysis, which would be in charge of monitoring site content. If the site has information about Belarus, it would have to be registered under a Belarusian domain name (with the .by suffix). Finally, ISPs would be forced to block websites deemed by government agencies to be “extremist.” This would be done without referring to any court. President Lukashenko said on 30 December that “the government will not prevent anyone from doing anything and will ban nothing” but this cannot be reconciled with earlier statements that Internet policy would be based on the Chinese model. In practice, criticism of the regime will be targeted under a policy of “the better you monitor, the better you can pursue and repress” and prosecuting defamation will be used as a cover for the repression. In a country where government media hold sway and independent media struggle to survive, the Internet has until now been an area of dynamic free expression with a developed blogosphere that has around 3 million participants. The August 2008 press law requiring media to be registered did not apply to the Internet. The proposed new bill would address this omission and what the government calls online “anarchy.” In its monitoring of online freedom, Reporters Without Borders has until now classified Belarus as a country “under surveillance” because it has only one ISP (Beltelekom), because access to opposition websites is blocked during major political events and because Internet café owners are required under a February 2007 decree to alert the police about customers who visit “sensitive” sites and keep a record of all the sites visited during the previous 12 months on each computer and make it available to the police if requested. Journalists writing for the Charter 97 opposition news website (charter97.org) received threats last July after the site posted an article about a racism case. (source: http://www.rsf.org/Government-tightens-grip-on.html) comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net Digitale Allmend http://blog.allmend.ch - EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation http://euralo.org

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REMINDER: Briefing Call on Strategic Planning 2010-2013 15.01.10 AT 16:00 UTC
by Wolf Ludwig Jan. 15, 2010

Jan. 15, 2010

Dear all, as communicated last week on this list, the EURALO representatives participating in the community call on the ICANN Strategic Plan may submit a EURALO position that they can advocate during the call to mark EURALO’s priorities. I have not seen any suggestions or comments so far. Therefore, I would like to suggest the following points as a draft of an EURALO input: To implement the community recommendations from the ICANN – At-Large Summit in Mexico from March 2009 such as to improve ICANN’s transparency and accountability. In this context it was stated that a further empowerment of ICANN’s At-Large structure is needed. If ICANN intends to strengthen Multi-Stakeholder participation and the voice of Internet users in its decision making process more incentives and enabling mechanisms for ALSes and user communities are essential. In this perspective RALOs need more institutional support and funding for their outreach activities (such as the ICANN-Studienkreis meeting, EuroDIG etc.), besides their regular General Assemblies. With this assistance from ICANN we can reach our ambitious goal to organise one ALS from each country in the respective RALO and region at least. As it was repeatedly stated in the public consultation process for new gTLDs, entrance barriers need to be lowered to allow better competitive chances for non-commercial parties and stakeholders. The development perspective of the Internet cannot be seen as a mere market place. Therefore the public interest needs more attention and respect in ICANN’s decision making process and strategic planning. Please feel free to add more points of concern to this draft or improve the wording of this text. Otherwise, I will dare to present this as an EURALO input at the community call next Friday PM for the ALAC Statement on the Strategic Plan. Thanks and kind regards, Wolf ICANN At-Large Staff sent Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:55: >Dear All, > >This is to remind you of the conference call scheduled to discuss >ICANN’ s Strategic Planning 2010-2013. The call is scheduled for Friday 15 January 2010 at 1600 UTC: > >08:00 PDT, 11:00 EDT, 13:00 Buenos Aires, 16:00 London, 17:00 CEST, 19:00 Nairobi, 00:00 Singapore/Hong Kong (16.01), 03:00 Sydney (16.01) > >This call will be an opportunity for members of the At-Large community to speak with Kevin Wilson, ICANN Chief Financial Officer and Theresa Swinehart –Vice President, Global and Strategic Partnerships, to ensure that ALAC and regional strategies are in synch with ICANN’s main strategic objectives and projects. > >The call details and Adobe Connect link can be found at: >https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?community_call_on_strategic_planning_20… > >Please let us know if you require a dial-out by emailing staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. > >This call will be held in English only. > >Thank you. > >Regards, > >Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström >ICANN At-Large Staff > >email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org >website: www.atlarge.icann.org >_______________________________________________ >ALAC-Announce mailing list >ALAC-Announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-announce_atlarge-lists… > >At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org > comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net Digitale Allmend http://blog.allmend.ch - EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation http://euralo.org

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TR: ICANN News Alert -- Application Round Opens for Brussels Meeting Fellowships
by Sébastien Bachollet Jan. 12, 2010

Jan. 12, 2010

Hello all, It is important that all the one who can be eligible for that Fellowships program take this opportunity ASAP. All the best Sébastien Bachollet <mailto:sebastien@bachollet.com> sebastien(a)bachollet.com +33 6 07 66 89 33 De : ICANN News Alert [mailto:communications@icann.org] Envoyé : mardi 12 janvier 2010 02:05 À : sebastien.bachollet(a)free.fr Objet : ICANN News Alert -- Application Round Opens for Brussels Meeting Fellowships <http://www.icann.org/> ICANN News Alert http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11jan10-en.htm _____ Application Round Opens for Brussels Meeting Fellowships Program ensures global representation at ICANN’s International Public Meetings 11 January 2010 MARINA DEL REY, Calif. : The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has launched the 10th round of Fellowship program applications for its 38th International Public Meeting to be held in Brussels, Belgium on 20-25 June 2010. “Just like the Internet, ICANN is global in scope in its operations,” said Theresa Swinehart, ICANN’s Vice President, Global and Strategic Partnerships. “Our Fellowship program has had a lot of success at our last 8 meetings in making sure global voices are heard in the wide variety of public forums that it holds.” For the Nairobi Meeting, there are 26 fellows from 21 countries, chosen from 119 applications received. 10 of the fellows are alumni from at least one of the past eight programmes; 14 fellows are first-time attendees to any ICANN meeting and 2 have attended past meetings, but are first time fellows. Priority is given to applicants who are current residents of developing and least developed nations and interested in participating in ICANN and its supporting organizations, such as the Governmental Advisory Committee, the Country Code Names Supporting Organization, the At-Large and the Generic Names Supporting Organization. The Fellowship program will assist in covering airfare, hotel and a stipend. Recipients will be expected to actively participate in and contribute to ICANN processes. As always, registration for ICANN’s meetings is free for anyone wanting to attend. Applications for the meeting in Brussels will be accepted from now until 1200 PDT (UTC -7) on 19 February 2010. More information, as well as a link to the application for a fellowship, is available online at: https://forms.icann.org/fellowship/applications/icann38/ or email at fellowships(a)icann.org What Is ICANN? To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. _____ Sign up for ICANN's Monthly Magazine <http://www.icann.org/en/magazine/> This message was sent from ICANN News Alert to sebastien.bachollet(a)free.fr. It was sent from: ICANN, 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 , Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601. You can modify/update your subscription via the link below. <http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186> Email Marketing by <http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186> iContact - Try It Free! <http://app.icontact.com/icp/static/images/icons/email_manage_subscription.p…> <http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=11033745&l=6333&s=6V76&m=28…> Manage your subscription <http://click.icptrack.com/icp/track.php?msgid=284442&act=6V76&r=11033745&c=…>

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Director White Paper - Request for Comments
by At Large Staff Jan. 12, 2010

Jan. 12, 2010

* La version française est ci-dessous *La versión española está abajo Dear All, At its 22 December 2009 teleconference, the ALAC charged a small group with the task of creating an initial white paper on the proposed process for the selection of an ICANN At-Large Board Member to be distributed for wide-spread comment early in January 2010. Please find attached a copy of the Director White Paper in EN and FR for review. The Spanish document will be available in the next few days. The Director White Paper is also available for comment on wiki pages. The portal page is available at: https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?director_white_paper. All members of the At-Large community are encouraged to comment on the Director White Paper prior to the next Community Call on the At-Large Selection Process to be scheduled between 27-29 January 2010 (a Doodle will be sent shortly). Comments will be accepted in any of the six UN languages. Please make your comments directly on the wiki page using the "comment" button. It is additionally requested that At-Large community members forward this message to other relevant lists to distribute the call for comments on the Director White Paper as widely as possible. Regards, ** Cher tous, À sa téléconférence du 22 décembre 2009, l'ALAC a chargé un petit groupe de la tâche de créer un premier livre blanc sur le procédé proposé pour le choix d'un membre du conseil At-Large d'ICANN à distribuer pour le commentaire répandu tôt en janvier 2010. Veuillez trouver ci-joint une copie du directeur livre blanc en en et franc pour la revue. Le document espagnol sera disponible en prochains jours. Le directeur livre blanc est également disponible pour le commentaire aux pages de wiki. Le page portique de `est disponible à : https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?director_white_paper. Tous les membres de la communauté At-Large sont encouragés à présenter leurs observations sur le directeur livre blanc avant le prochain faire appel de la Communauté au processus de sélection At-Large à programmer entre les 27-29 janvier 2010 (un Doodle sera envoyé sous peu). Des commentaires seront acceptés dans des six langues l'unes des de l'ONU. Veuillez formuler vos commentaires directement sur la page de wiki utilisant le " ; comment" ; bouton. On lui demande en plus que membre de la Communauté At-Large font suivre à ce message d'autres listes appropriées pour distribuer l'appel pour des commentaires sur le directeur livre blanc aussi largement comme possible. Cordialment, ** Estimado todos, En su teleconferencia del 22 de diciembre de 2009, el ALAC encargó a un pequeño grupo de la tarea de crear un Libro Blanco inicial en el proceso propuesto para la selección de un miembro del Consejo At-Large de ICANN que se distribuirá para el comentario extenso temprano en enero de 2010. Encuentre por favor ató una copia del director Libro Blanco en el EN y el franco para la revisión. El documento español estará disponible en los próximos días. El director Libro Blanco está también disponible para el comentario en las páginas del wiki. El page porta del `está disponible en: https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?director_white_paper. Animan a todos los miembros de la comunidad At-Large a comentar respecto al director Libro Blanco antes de la llamada siguiente de la comunidad en el proceso de selección At-Large que se programará entre el 27-29 de enero de 2010 (un Doodle será enviado pronto). Los comentarios serán aceptados en seis idiomas unas de los de la O.N.U. Haga por favor sus comentarios directamente en la página del wiki usando el " comment" botón. Se pide además que los miembros de la Comunidad At-Large transmiten a este mensaje otras listas relevantes para distribuir la llamada para los comentarios sobre el director Libro Blanco tan extensamente como sea posible. Respetos, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org

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Discussion on the ICANN Strategic Plan
by Wolf Ludwig Jan. 8, 2010

Jan. 8, 2010

Dear all, first of all, let me wish all of you ALL THE BEST for the coming year! To follow up on our EURALO teleconference in December, I would like to draw your attention to the discussion on the ICANN Strategic Plan 2010 – 2013. The Strategic Plan is an important public consultation as it will ultimately set ICANN’s long term goals and influence how its money is spent. I think, it is important for all regions to participate in this discussion. Due to the seasonal circumstances and holidays I guess, I haven’t seen any discussion on the Strategic Plan on the EURALO lists. And I am not aware about discussions being held in other fora (ALAC or RALOs) ... The public consultation on the Draft plan will close on January 21st ( http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#strat-plan-2010) and Staff will organize a community call on either January 14th or 15th to collect input from the regions and start working on the ALAC Statement on the Strategic Plan. There are several EURALO member who have participated in the Doodle survey for this call ( http://www.doodle.com/n7taeasf9tg4bxkn) It is high time to reach out to our regional members now to help start a discussion on this issue and especially for those who plan on participating in the community call. Ideally, the EURALO representatives participating in the community call may submit a EURALO position that they can advocate during the call as this is a great opportunity to mark EURALO’s priorities. As far as I can remember from our last/December call, Sébastien suggested the point or ambitious goal already "to have one ALS from each country in the respective RALO and region at least". May be there are other relevant points to be added to our regional position -- such as e. g. to get more involved in regional/European policy issues related to the Internet (on the EU and CoE level – as we did with the EuroDIG already) etc. The minimum we need is a core group of those people or board members who indicated their participation at the community call next week already to work on this. Thanks and kind regards, Wolf comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net Digitale Allmend http://blog.allmend.ch - EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation http://euralo.org

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