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Surprise on ICANN Brussels schedule page ...
by Rudi Vansnick May 10, 2010

May 10, 2010

Dear colleagues, I was surprised looking at the webpage on the ICANN Brussels schedule http://brussels38.icann.org/sched-overview I do not see any announcement of ALAC meetings ... and in regards our EURALO Outreach activities this is really not very helpful as we are trying to get sponsors for this event. Can staff check why ALAC is not mentioned ? Best regards, Rudi Vansnick Internet Society Belgium vzw - president   Board member EURALO (ALAC - ICANN)  ALAC ccNSO liaison Tel: +32 (0)70 77 39 39  GSM: +32 (0)475 28 16 32  www.internetsociety.be

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EURODIG follow-up
by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

This is just to let you know that EURODIG took place in Madrid on Thursday and Friday last week. It was a real success, and the draft messages from Madrid are all linked from the front page on: http://www.eurodig.org I brought the following (heavy) material to the conference and left it on the brochures table: - around ~20 at large brochures in English - around ~20 at large brochures in Spanish - around ~20 at large brochures in French - around ~30 EURALO brochures in English - 15 ICANN annual reviews 2009 Thanks to Heidi & ICANN staff for having gotten all of this material to me in time! At the end of the first day, none of the ICANN annual reviews were there, so I guess they were all taken. About half of the brochures remained. At the end of the second day, I saw around 25 brochures altogether - I guess the rest was somehow picked up... I left them there since I left early, and I gathered that the many people still lingering around might still be interested in picking up brochures. On Sunday, I'll be going to Geneva, in time for the IGF sessions. I'll take the remainder of the ICANN annual reviews there. (all 15 of them). I gather that ICANN staff (or other EURALO folks) might wish to take a few at large brochures along. I think that they are popular. Kind regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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Welcome to ICANN At-Large!
by ICANN At-Large Staff May 5, 2010

May 5, 2010

Dear Manuel, ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you that Wikimedia Switzerland has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS). The ALAC greatly appreciates your group¹s 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 ALS, 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)atlarge.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 contact you identify will automatically be added to your region¹s list just for accredited ALSes to discuss regional issues and to the mailing list for Staff announcements (only Staff can post messages to that list); you are invited to join others as you wish. - 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)atlarge.icann.org . - ALAC website. The ALAC website (www.atlarge.icann.org) is a good source for ICANN news and information of interest to individual Internet users. We encourage you to provide your members with a link. The ALAC relies on volunteers to translate information into multiple languages. Translations of documents on the website are welcome and should be sent to staff(a)atlarge.icann.org <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> . - At-Large Regional Websites. Regional wiki 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. These are maintained by the community and can contact staff(a)atlarge.icann.org <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> if you wish to have a user account . They are: African Region: http://www.afralo.org/ <http://www.afralo.org/> Asia/Australia/Pacific Region: http://www.apralo.org/ <http://www.apralo.org/> <http://www.apralo.org/> European Region: http://www.euralo.org/ <http://www.euralo.org/> <http://www.euralo.org/> Latin America/Caribbean Region: http://www.lacralo.org/ <http://www.lacralo.org/> <http://www.lacralo.org/> North American Region: http://www.naralo.org/ <http://www.naralo.org/> <http://www.naralo.org/> 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 staff(a)atlarge.icann.org <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> . Sincerely, The At-Large Advisory Committee www.atlarge.icann.org staff(a)atlarge.icann.org <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> On 22/03/2010 21:15, "Manuel Schneider" <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> wrote: > Dear Sir / Madam, > > it is my pleasure to hereby submit the application of the Swiss > Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia CH, to be recognised as an At-Large > Structure and become part of the ICANN At-Large community. > > Please review the attached document and come back if there are any > questions. > > In the name of Wikimedia CH I thank you for your time, we are looking > forward to join the ICANN community and become a more stronger > participant in the coordination of the internet. > > Best regards, > > > Manuel Schneider

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EURALO ALS Representative List for ALS Survey
by ICANN At-Large Staff April 29, 2010

April 29, 2010

Dear All It was decided during the ICANN Meeting in Nairobi to launch another global ALS survey. The goal of this survey is to find out how we can better assist you in participating in At-Large. The survey will be open starting next week and you will receive details about the survey shortly prior to its start. In view of the online survey, we would like to confirm the ALS representatives participating and the email address where the voting credentials will be sent to. Attached below you find to list with all regional ALSes representatives and the corresponding contacts according to our current information. This email is sent to all ALS representatives and copied to the EURALO mailing list. Please respond to us by Monday, May 3rd if the information for your ALS need to be changed. You ONLY need to reply to this message if the information for your ALS is INCORRECT. Please do not reply to all recipients of this message, you can simply send to message to staff(a)atlarge.icann.org . We will send out an updated list before the start of the elections. -- 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 EURALO ALS Representatives: Association for Technology and Internet (APTI) adela.danciu(a)apti.ro Adela Danciu Associazione Italiana per la Sicurezza Informatica rchiesa(a)clusit.it Raoul Chiesa Asociación de Usuarios de Internet mps(a)aui.es Miguel Perez Subias Committee for a Democratic United Nations (Komitee für eine Demokratische UNO) senges(a)uno-komitee.de Max Senges Comunica-ch - the Swiss Platform on the Information Society wolf.ludwig(a)comunica-ch.net Wolf Ludwig Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz (DVD) e.V. huelsmann(a)datenschutzverein.de Werner Hülsmann E-Seniors epstein(a)free.fr Monique Epstein FIfF (Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung) sh(a)fiff.de Stefan Hügel FoeBuD e.V. & Big Brother Awards Deutschland mail(a)foebud.org Rena Tangens Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (FITUG) e.V lutz(a)fitug.de Lutz Donnerhacke Humanistische Union e.V. (The Humanist Union) bruch(a)humanistische-union.de Christoph Bruch ISOC - Catalan Chapter aoliva(a)isoc-cat.org Andreas Oliva ISOC Belgium rudi.vansnick(a)isoc.be Rudi Vansnick ISOC Bulgaria dpefeva(a)gmail.com Dragoslava (Dessi) Greve ISOC Chapter of Wallonia cw(a)christopherwilkinson.eu Christopher Wilkinson ISOC Finland board(a)isoc.fi Tommi Karttaavi ISOC France sebastien(a)bachollet.com Sébastien Bachollet ISOC Italy (Societa' Internet) vb(a)bertola.eu Vittorio Bertola ISOC Luxembourg A.S.B.L. patrick(a)vande-walle.eu Patrick Vande Walle ISOC Netherlands michiel(a)staff.isoc.nl Michiel Leenaars KEPKA - Consumers Protection Centre consumers(a)kepka.org Nikolaos Tsemperlidis Medienstadt Leipzig wolfgang(a)imv.au.dk Wolfgang Kleinwächter Netzwerk Neue Medien (NNM) Annette.Muehlberg(a)web.de Annette Muehlberg Slovenian Consumers Association ursa.smid(a)zps.si Ursa Smid Terre des Femmes-Germany e.V. dr.heike.jensen(a)web.de Heike Jensen Ynternet.org Institute jcb(a)ynternet.org Jean-Claude Bulliard

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statement from Budget & Finance WG action item
by Adam Peake April 27, 2010

April 27, 2010

Hi, As I mentioned during the EU RALO call a couple of days ago, there was a question for us from the Budget & Finance WG concerning an action item from the WG's meeting of March 29. Lutz, apparently the action item reflects something you said on the call, it reads: "Staff to place issue of whether regions feel that At-Large is working for itself rather than for the overall benefit of ICANN on the next cross-regional Secretariat's teleconference. Regions are also encouraged to bring this issue up." <https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?29_march_2010_action_items> Does this make sense to you? Or could you explain. On the EU RALO call we weren't sure what it meant and generally disagreed. Thanks, Adam

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draft ALAC statement on ICM/xxx
by Adam Peake April 23, 2010

April 23, 2010

Hi, A draft on the ICM/xxx application and process is online <https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?statement_on_icm_application_for_the_xx…> Any comments? The text reads: "Draft ALAC Statement On the issue of the ICM Application for the .XXX sTLD, the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is concerned with the transparancy [sic] and accountability of the processes being undertaken and not with any matters of content that this sTLD may be host for. We also note the considerable time taken in and thoroughness of the independant [sic] review of this matter and as such the ALAC supports that the process be carried out in an expedient, equitable, and defensible manner. We would like to see the issue settled quickly with the necessary transparency." Among the RALO's, so far only NARALO has drafted a statement: "During our most recent NARALO conference call (April 12th, 2010) the consensus of the discussion was that, given the wide spread support for the domain when it was first proposed and that the legal process has now rejected the validity of ICANN's initial resolution of the matter, ICANN should just approve the request without further unwarranted process. The NARALO members present on the call considered this to be a free speech issue and as such the establishment of the domain should not be refused." ALAC will be discussing and hopefully voting on a final statement during the monthly meeting on April 27. Please comment before then. My view: Think the ALAC draft needs clarification: e.g. "(ALAC) is concerned with the transparency and accountability of the processes being undertaken BY STAFF and BOARD and not with any matters of content (apologies for caps :-)) and "and as such the ALAC supports that the BOARD'S FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE ICM APPLICATION be carried out in an expedient, equitable, and defensible manner." I also support the NA RALO statement. Thanks, Adam

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Conference call at 17 UTC - 19 CET
by Rudi Vansnick April 22, 2010

April 22, 2010

Dear colleagues, Conference call scheduled at 17 UTC - 19 CET (in about 2 hours from now) Agenda of the call : https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?22_april_2010 Rudi Vansnick Internet Society Belgium vzw - president   Board member EURALO (ALAC - ICANN)  ALAC ccNSO liaison Tel: +32 (0)70 77 39 39  GSM: +32 (0)475 28 16 32  www.internetsociety.be <--------- Recent and upcoming travels and activities ----------> 29/4 - 30/4 : EURODIG III - Madrid Spain 26/5 - 27/5 : e-Gov Summit - Sofia Bulgaria 20/6 - 27/6 : 38th ICANN meetings in Brussels - Belgium 30/6 - 4/7 : ICT salon 50th anniversary RD Congo - Kinshasa <--------------------------------------------------------->

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REMINDER: EURALO Call Wednesday, 24 March 17:00 UTC
by ICANN At-Large Staff April 20, 2010

April 20, 2010

Dear All, This is to remind you that the next EURALO teleconference is scheduled for Wednesday, 24 March 2010 at 1700 UTC. The agenda (to be updated) and call details can be found at: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?24%20March%202010 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, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff

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secretariat report and minutes from the last meeting
by Dragoslava Greve April 15, 2010

April 15, 2010

Dear colleagues, FYI, the EURALO Secretariat report in addition to the March Nairobi one, is published on the wiki: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?euralo_secretariat_monthly_reports Also, the minutes from the last teleconference are uploaded. https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?24_march_2010 Sorry for the delay. Best regards, Dessi Discussed ALAC issues: Participation in ALAC Statements prepared for the following consultations: Proposed Framework for the Fiscal Year 2011 Operating Plan and Budget - as discussed in Nairobi, Wolf posted a proposal and summary of activities, including the preparation of the EURALO Showcase; the General Assembly in Brussels and Outreach in Latvia in September. Patrick worked with Carlton and Adam on the draft ALAC Statement on WHOIS Accuracy. In conclusion, the procedure was not transparent enough, but the outcome is good. With regard to IDNs, there is not much we can say on that as Europeans, it is mostly related to non-latin scripts, and 3-letter character scripts (generally scripts that are not alphabetical). Only 4 ccTLDs are on the IDN fast track, which is not enough. At-Large Board Selection process – there has been a briefing on the work of the ABSdt group and further information on the ABCEC. A WG has been created to communicate the importance of the process to the European ALSes and to engage them into the selection process. Olivier has been forwarded to replace Dessi for the Brussels Meeting. Outreach activities: Preparations for the Brussels EURALO Showcase. A Brussels Showcase working group has been created to focus on the organization of the event.

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EURODIG 2010
by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond April 15, 2010

April 15, 2010

EURODIG is going to take place in Madrid on 29 and 30th April 2010, and I am confirmed to attend. I know that Rudi Vansnick and Christopher Wilkinson will also be there. As usual, I would like to be able to use the event as much as possible for EURALO outreach. - Will any other ALS representatives be there? It would be particularly good to meet with any local ALS representatives too! - Will any ICANN staff be attending too? - I have about 30 EURALO flyers in my possession and intend to taken them with me to EURODIG, but I have run out of At Large Flyers, and I think that the EURALO flyers are more effective when presented alongside the At Large flyers. If ICANN staff are coming to EURODIG, then I guess they'll take some flyers with them, but if there will be no ICANN staff, then do any of the other attendees have further flyers, or should we arrange that one of us receives flyers in time to take them to EURODIG? - Having just discussed aspects of a EURALO showcase event at ICANN Brussels, would the EURODIG event be a good platform to find speakers/sponsors/supporters/invitees? I look forward to your suggestions! Kind regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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