August 2010 - EURO-Discuss - lists.icann.org

Questions regarding nomination and board positions
by Manuel Schneider Aug. 26, 2010

Aug. 26, 2010

Dear all, dear staff, thanks for the ICANN usb stick with documents. It was very interesting to look through them. I'd like to take this opportunity as a newbie to ask some questions to which I didn't find answers yet in the ongoing discussions on the mailinglist as well as in the documents I got. To introduce our ALS and myself, I am contact person for the newly recognized ALS Wikimedia CH, one of the national chapters of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind the Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wiktionary etc. Myself is a studied IT engineer with an interest in free and open source software and corresponding social movements. As I am running a serverhosting business since eleven years I had to deal with ICANN's topics before, while I was never involved in ICANN before we decided to become an ALS with Wikimedia CH. Within Wikimedia I am working with Wikimedia Deutschland (as I am german) and am a founding member of Wikimedia CH (as I live on the boarder to Switzerland). Beside technical interest (hosting Wikimedia platforms for chapters in Switzerland, Austria and Israel) my main interest is the multicultural aspect of Wikimedia and running global projects be it organising conferences, spreading Wikimedia content in the global south or developing the Wikimedia organisation. As a newbie to ICANN I am still interested and curious in the mechanics, roles and goals of the different ALSes and holder of the various ICANN positions. So I am trying to follow the ongoing discussions, which is not very easy. These questions refer to both upcoming elections in the EURALO and ICANN board. * what are criteria to be nominated or elected into one of these board positions? Can someone point me to a document where they are described? * what kind of persons are supposed to be nominated / elected into these board positions? Are you looking for experienced ICANN / ALAC members or persons rooted in the community, defending interests of the users, like a counterweight to the commercial background of other board members? * how is a board mandate handled? Is this a political mandate which requires the feedback to and from the community or is it a personal position where board members represent themselves and are only accountable to their own conviction? * how are the selected candidates validated? How are nomination - self-nominations and such by other members - handled? Is there any difference, is there any consideration of RALO recommendations? What I wonder is how I as a newbie can choose a trustworthy candidate who represents my ALS and our community to which we feel accountable to. Maybe the answers to the questions above will shed more light on this process. Thanks a lot, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

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ICANN Board Nomination
by Annette Muehlberg Aug. 22, 2010

Aug. 22, 2010

Dear all, This is a very special moment: For many years we have been working on setting up structures to get Internet users involved in ICANN’s policy and decision making processes. After implementing RALOs in each region of the world we finally managed to (re)build a structure to have an Internet user representative on the ICANN Board with voting rights. This is a very important and responsible position. Herewith, I nominate Avri Doria to represent Internet users on the ICANN Board. She is extremely qualified to serve the interests of users on the ICANN Board. Here, I include just some of Avri's qualifications. She - worked more than 20 years in the technical side of industry. She has technical know-how and understanding of the relation between technology and policy - is dedicated and passionate about Internet users' issues and is deeply rooted in civil society. She participated in the WSIS, was a member of the Working Group on Internet Governance, member of the IGF secretariat, was coordinator of the Internet Governance Caucus - knows ICANN by heart and is well-respected in the ICANN community. She served for several years as chair of the GNSO Council and community working groups (she was elected chair by the GNSO Council after being appointed to Council by the Nominating Committee). She understands both global situation and ICANN's roles and responsibilities - communicates clearly, whether by electronic or in-person communications, she can speak effectively to a variety of audiences - is persistent in advocating Internet user’s interests and relevant policies and is keen to work with the Internet users, RALOs and ALAC on ICANN policies - asks for Parity for GAC and ALAC. She wants to see ALAC advice treated in the bylaws with as much respect and response as GAC advice - stands for a culture of transparency which she wants to become the norm in ICANN. She worked with ALAC to produce the joint ALAC-NCSG letter to Board on public posting of Staff memos sent to the Board - argued against the program to pre-announce the names people planned to apply for; argued for and is co-charing the committee to find ways to assist new gTLD applicants who may not have the financial capabilities of ICANN insiders - cares about all Internet users (and potential Internet users). As a long-time developer, she works on systems for people in remote communities and takes figuring out the users' requirements as a serious activity that must involve those users - cares about capacity building. She teaches Internet Governance around the world, focusing on technical issues as well as on freedom of expression and privacy. She is a member of the core faculty of the Summer Schools on Internet Governance (ISSIG) - is member of ISOC and does a great deal of work on technical participation at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) - cares about work on closing the global divide. Co-chairs with ALAC the WG to support new gTLD applicants with funding and other assistance - has multi-lingual capacity and cultural understanding. She is well grounded in many languages, lived and worked for several years in many different countries around the world Avri is a technical person who understands policy and cares about the user perspective – and she is a nice person, really cool to work with.

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Fwd: Board liaison - can we discuss as a priority on Tuesday call
by Adam Peake Aug. 21, 2010

Aug. 21, 2010

I just sent a note, below, to the ALAC's internal list about trying to keep the board liaison. My memory of this matter is that when we've discussed it in the region we've been for trying to keep the liaison. I'd like to make sure I'm correct, don't want to misrepresent anyone's views! Thanks, Adam >Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:40:25 +0900 >To: <alac-internal(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> >From: Adam Peake <ajp(a)glocom.ac.jp> >Subject: Board liaison - can we discuss as a priority on Tuesday call > > >I am concerned we are not continuing to make the case for keeping >the liaison role on the board. The liaison is necessary: without it >we loose an important means of providing advice/recommendations to >the board and communication with the board. Noting the ALAC is an >advisory committee not a supporting organization. > >Also concerned that if we loose that board advisory role then the >supporting organizations we currently have liaisons with may >re-consider those relationships. I know this has been mentioned by >some constituencies. > >Can we please not drop this matter. I would very much like to hear >what the RALOs have to say. My understanding it that EARALO shares >my concerns (stand to be corrected :-)) Could we make sure there is >time on next weeks call to discuss this. > >Thanks, > >Adam

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Board Selection process at EURALO
by Wolf Ludwig Aug. 20, 2010

Aug. 20, 2010

Dear all, In August 2009, a year ago already, and following the recommendations of the independent At Large Review, the ICANN Board made the historical decision that ALAC should be granted a voting Board seat instead of a non-voting Board Liaison which we had until now. This Board decision is the result of a long-lasting struggle by former and present ALAC members and some observers see a link between our first ALAC User Summit held in March 09 in Mexico-City what increased credibility and respectability of our work. After the Board’s decision, ALAC convened working committees to discuss and decide appropriate procedures for the selection of its future voting Board members. Two of our members sat on the Design Team for the election process, and two are now sitting on the Candidate Evaluation Team. We are pleased to announce that everything is now ready to proceed with accepting applications called Statements of Interests (SOIs) from people wishing to be considered for the Board Director Position. This can be done on: https://www.bigpulse.com/m9918/intro To be considered, an applicant needs to send in an SOI. In EURALO, we would like to facilitate the process for applicants and wish to go further, by asking you if you would like to recommend potential candidates from your ALS, your ALAC region, or even other ALAC regions. As time is of the essence (the call for SOIs ends on 21st August), we would be looking forward to receive your nominations as soon as possible and are willing to invite and assist the candidates you suggest in filling out their SOI. Please email your nominations as soon as possible on this list, we will follow-up with the nominees afterwards (to provide confidentiality of personal data). Off-list nominations can also be sent to: info(a)euralo.org A list of candidates who submitted their completed Statement of Interest (SOI) will be published on Monday, August 23 under https://st.icann.org/working-groups/index.cgi?at_large_director_candidate_2… The updates on the Board Selection process will be an agenda item of our next General Assembly in Vilnius as well. Your suggestions are welcome. Kind regards, Wolf Ludwig and Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond Note: You can download the ALAC Final Recommendations on At-Large Community Director Selection Process under: https://st.icann.org/data/workspaces/working-groups/attachments/at_large_dir ector_appointment_process:20100726033157-0-1902/original/ALAC%20Final%20Reco mendations%20on%20At-Large%20Community%20Director%20Selection%20Process-09Ju n2010.pdf 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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Fwd: [Absc] Fwd: Proposed Press Release for outreach use
by Christopher Wilkinson Aug. 18, 2010

Aug. 18, 2010

So, CLO+ICANN staff agree to 6 September deadline for the SoI. But I have not yet seen the Press Release revised accordingly. I must say that in matters of editing and posting and scheduling, I am glad to give my opinion occasionally (especially when widely supported) but I prefer to stay out of the loop when it comes to the execution of decisions. As Olivier and Adam have recently pointed out there seems to be some latency if not hysteresis within ICANN regarding such matters . . . Regards to you all, CW Begin forwarded message: > From: Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr(a)gmail.com> > Date: Wed 18 Aug 2010 00:46:39 GMT+02:00 > To: Brad White <Brad.White(a)icann.org>, Heidi Ullrich <Heidi.Ullrich(a)icann.org > > > Cc: "bcec(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org" <bcec(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> > Subject: Re: [Absc] Fwd: Proposed Press Release for outreach use > > Well I'm happy to support an extension and to the Sept 6th date of > CW's last email BUT to 2359 UTC NOT pacific time as we use UTC > So unless I hear *objections from BCEC* (all I see is support and > affirmation for the proposal) by Thursday 0400 UTC (ok that is a > tad more than the 48hrs I first gave => but I'm in a generous > mood ;-) we will extend the date for close of for SoI's on this > press release (good reason to send it AND do an update on ICANN and > other internal announces ;-) > > Also add the contact address details of BCEC-Request(a)icann.org to > be forwarded to everybody and Heidi (as staff contact) copied who > will follow-up again with the "appropriate regional liaison". > > AND note the press release (and other Announce(s) then can go live > as soon as possible after that time so my guess is first thing > Friday morning from MdR... > > > > Cheryl Langdon-Orr > (CLO) > > > > On 17 August 2010 22:57, Brad White <Brad.White(a)icann.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > > I think Christopher’s point (ref: his message below) is an extremely > valid one. I don’t how much latitude you have in setting back your > deadline… but that would be an appropriate consideration. > > > Another factor to consider in the establishment of your application > deadline is that our targeted media distribution on a news release > of this nature is the international Internet “trade press” as > opposed to the broader mainstream “consumer press,” which would > likely have little or no interest in the subject. Much of the trade > press is slow to react to any release or news story and some publish > weekly and not daily. Add to that, Christopher’s point about > translation for international trade press and you have another > factor to consider. > > > All that said… we will distribute whenever you so desire. > > > Best, > > Brad > > > Brad White > > Director of Global Media Affairs > > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) > > 1101 New York Ave. NW, Suite 930 > > Washington, DC 20005 USA > > Tel. +1 202.570.7118 | Fax +1 206.600.4226 > > www.icann.org > > > > > From: Christopher Wilkinson [mailto:cw@christopherwilkinson.eu] > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:45 AM > To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr; Heidi Ullrich; Brad White > Cc: Christopher Wilkinson; bcec(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > Subject: Re: [Absc] Fwd: Proposed Press Release for outreach use > > > Good morning: > > > Thankyou for this. I will brief the EURALO call about this later > today. > > > However, one thing that troubles me is the time limit of 21 August. > That is _four days_ from _today_! > > > Less, if an editor delays an article for 24 or 48 hours, e.g. to get > the press release translated. > > > At least we can extend the deadline to 23 August which bridges the > weekend without loss of working days. > > I would strongly prefer a three week deadline. > > > Regards to you all, > > > CW > > > > On 17 Aug 2010, at 01:46, Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote: > > > > I'm happy to sign off on this Press Release and then we can get onto > using it... But one minor question how do you as local reps want > to be 'approached' for local / regional follow up? one way would > be to list the "bcec-request" <BCEC-Request(a)icann.org>, contact on > this then you all get it forwarded to you for your own action the > other is that Heidi as the staff contact acts as liaison to the > relevant one of you from any enquirer that comes in... Which way do > those of you (who are keen to use this tool) preferring to go ??? > > > Cheryl Langdon-Orr > (CLO) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Heidi Ullrich <Heidi.Ullrich(a)icann.org> > Date: 17 August 2010 05:00 > Subject: FW: Release > To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr(a)gmail.com> > > Hi Cheryl, > > > Please can you review the attached press release and “sign off” on > the quote? Your quote identifies you as the ALAC Chair – do you want > to have both titles (ALAC and BCEC chair)? > > > Also, Christopher has asked me to send him a copy of the final press > release for discussion at the EURALO call tomorrow. > > > Kind regards, > > Heidi > > > Heidi Ullrich > > Director for At-Large > > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) > > Telephone: + 1 (310) 578 - 8647 > > Fax: +1 (310) 823 - 8649 > > Cell/Mobile: +1 (310) 437 - 3956 > > > From: Brad White > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 10:09 AM > To: Heidi Ullrich > Cc: Michele Jourdan > Subject: RE: Release > > > Heidi, > > > Attached is an initial draft of a news release. > > > As you know a news release is dramatically different than one of our > community web announcements. The target audience of a news release > are journalists who may know little or nothing about ICANN, let > alone the At-Large community or even any of our issues…. so we have > to strive to write them to the lowest common denominator… since many > have never written about such issues. > > > Please give me your suggested edits/changes and get sign-off on the > quote from Cheryl and we’ll go from there. > > > Also if you want to discuss this… you can reach me on the number > below… > > > Best, > > Brad > > > Brad White > > Director of Global Media Affairs > > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) > > 1101 New York Ave. NW, Suite 930 > > Washington, DC 20005 USA > > Tel. +1 202.570.7118 | Fax +1 206.600.4226 > > www.icann.org > > > <Message snipped> > > > <2010-08-16 At-Large Board > Seat.doc>_______________________________________________ > Bcec mailing list > Bcec(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/bcec_atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bcec mailing list > Bcec(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/bcec_atlarge-lists.icann.org

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Board Selection process
by Christopher Wilkinson Aug. 18, 2010

Aug. 18, 2010

Good morning: The attached draft press release will be issued imminently by ICANN. I received this overnight from CLO who has approved it. It is on the agenda for today's EURALO call. I have already queried the deadline of 21 August which is too short. That will no doubt now be changed. In other respects I can agree to the text. Regards, CW On 15 Aug 2010, at 18:06, Wolf Ludwig wrote: > <Draft_ICANN-BoardSelect10.doc>

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Preliminary Invitation to EURALO’s 3rd GA, September 2010, Vilnius
by Wolf Ludwig Aug. 17, 2010

Aug. 17, 2010

Dear all, according to EURALO’s by-laws a General Assembly has to be convened once a year. EURALO was created in March 07 in Lisbon. Our 1st GA took place in June 2008 in Paris, the 2nd in March 2009 in Mexico-City. For reasons you know, we couldn’t organise a 3rd General Assembly last June in Brussels due to lack of funding. As discussed at our last monthly calls in June and July, we decided to convene our next 3rd General Assembly at the occasion of the coming Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Vilnius/Lithuania for Wednesday, 15 September 2010, from 17:00 – 19:30, (venue and room TBC). Unfortunately, we cannot provide any travel and stay-over funding for this GA. Some of our members will travel to the IGF on their own and we use the opportunity of the IGF for a contextualised meeting and for EURALO outreach contacts. To our knowledge, about seven members will be present there and we will organise a remote participation for our members who won’t come to Vilnius. The draft of a GA Agenda you will find attached. If you have any suggestions or agenda items to be added, please let us know during the next four weeks. We would be pleased if some more of you could physically attend our 3rd General Assembly and otherwise count on a strong remote participation. 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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Summary Minutes EURALO Call 17 August 2010
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 17, 2010

Aug. 17, 2010

Dear All, The summary minutes and action items from today’s EURALO call have been posted on the agenda page under: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?17_august_2010 Please feel free to edit the minutes and action items if required. -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, 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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REMINDER: EURALO Teleconference Tuesday, 17 August 16:00 UTC
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 16, 2010

Aug. 16, 2010

Dear All, This is to remind you that the next EURALO teleconference is scheduled for Tuesday, 17 August 2010 at 1600 UTC. The agenda and call details can be found at: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?17_august_2010 If you are unable to attend the call please send an email indicating your absence and we will note this information on the agenda. If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff

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Yrjö Länsipuro nominated for NomCom Position
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 14, 2010

Aug. 14, 2010

Dear Yrjö, Congratulations for your nomination as ALAC-appointed Nominating Committee member from Europe! The nomination period for this position closed yesterday. In accordance with the selection process for this position outlined by the ALAC Chair, we ask you to please indicate whether you would like to accept your nomination on or before Tuesday, 10 August. EURALO will transmit a candidate list for this position to the ALAC by 16 August. You can find the full selection timeline and details about the position under: https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?alac_nomcom_delegates_2011 -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, 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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