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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Announcement on IANA Stewardship Transition (Rinalia Abdul Rahim)
by Eberhard Blocher Oct. 4, 2016

Oct. 4, 2016

October 1st marks a sad day for the Internet. With IANA Stewardship transitioning from the NTIA to the ICANN multi-stakeholder community, the internet now is less transparent, less democratic and less accountable. INCONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 it was declared We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government (...) NTIA being part of the US Government, means, following closely the US Declaration of Independence, that if it had become destructive of anything at all regarding the oversight of the IANA functions, there would have been procedures, established for 240 years, to alter or to abolish it. Now, with the new multi-stakeholder model in place for the oversight of the IANA function, all this has been discarded. How long will it take for the rest of the world to realize this? The new IANA Stewardship is good news for all US citizens who "know", and bad news for everybody else, mainly for those not being a US citizen, all over the world. Eberhard Blocher EAHP KG P.O. Box 30 03 26 50773 Köln Germany http://www.eahp.com Tel. +49-221-9139535 Fax +49-221-2711016 http://cla.tel

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Announcement on IANA Stewardship Transition
by Rinalia Abdul Rahim Oct. 3, 2016

Oct. 3, 2016

Dear Members of the At-Large Community, *The IANA Stewardship Transition is Complete* Today, on 1 October, the IANA functions contract between ICANN and NTIA expired. The expiration of the contract between ICANN and the United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions, will have no impact on end users of the Internet; they will not see any changes or difference in their use of the Internet. This historic moment marks the transition of the coordination and management of the Internet’s unique identifiers to the private-sector, a process that has been committed to and underway since 1998. The ICANN Community, Board and staff as well as the larger Internet community took on this challenge, over two and a half years, and succeeded. Developing the transition proposals was unprecedented, and reflected the multistakeholder community at work. Because of the hard work by everyone, the ICANN organization is now a more accountable and transparent body. There will be some small changes to how ICANN operates, but its underlying goal is the same – to support the Community and ensure the continued stable and secure operation of the DNS. It has been a privilege to be a part of this process where the multistakeholder model of Internet Governance demonstrated its power. I wanted to take a moment to thank and congratulate all of you for your hard work over the past two and a half years to get us to where we are today. Best regards, Rinalia Abdul Rahim ICANN Board Director Links to announcements that have gone out about the IANA Stewardship transition: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2016/statement-assista nt-secretary-strickling-iana-functions-contract https://www.icann.org/news/blog/final-implementation-update https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-09-30-en https://www.icann.org/news/blog/cheers-to-the-multistakeholder-community

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CROPP
by Roberto Gaetano Oct. 3, 2016

Oct. 3, 2016

Hi all. Unfortunately I am in a meeting in the US and will be unable to attend the call. One of the items on the agenda is CROPP, and I would like to follow up on the discussion at our last teleconference sharing my opinion with you. I understand the rationale behind Oksana's proposal to use CROPP funding for attendance to the next EURALO GA, but I have to disagree. I believe that, even if we could bend the rules to use the CROPP funding for bringing members to an ICANN meeting, it would be a waste of the scarce resources dedicated to outreach. There are other funding mechanisms for participation in ICANN meetings. Outreach is one of the activities where we are lacking, for a number of reasons, and we should be putting even more effort to widen EURALO's footprint and to get new members rather than use the money for the benefit of those who are already members. Last but not least, I have already expressed my dismay on the fact that if we have a funded travel people can spare a whole week for travelling to an ICANN meeting, but they cannot make up the time (2 to 4 hours) for joining the General Assembly by teleconference. Cheers, Roberto

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EURALO Strategic Plan for Outreach
by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond Sept. 30, 2016

Sept. 30, 2016

Dear EURALO members, please be so kind to find the following Strategic Plan on Outreach for Fiscal Year 17 (FY17 - 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017). The plan has gone through a review by the EURALO Board. EURALO needs to file this plan by 30 September with the CROPP process, in order to be able to receive CROPP funding for FY17. As a reminder, CROPP is the ICANN funded pilot program that allows the RALO to fully fund (travel, per-diem plus 2 hotel nights) up to 5 people per year to a regional meeting where they would be engaging in outreach. It is therefore important that EURALO files this outreach strategic plan on time. Your prompts feedback is appreciated prior to me filing the plan on 30th September at around 12:00 UTC. --- cut here --- Draft EURALO Outreach Strategy Our aim remains to have at least one ALS present in every country that EURALO covers. Our efforts therefore concentrate on countries in which there are no EURALO ALSes. This year is also seeing a rise in individual members. Often, organisations that could be potential ALSes are unsure of the benefits of becoming an At-Large Structure. Often, a first step that has been taken by organisation leaders, is to join as an individual to gain better knowledge and understanding of EURALO prior to applying on behalf of their organisations. The EURALO outreach program has been indiscriminately promoting both applications as an individual and as an organisation. Building on the previous year outreach strategy, EURALO will pursue its focus on: * the annual EuroDIG events to take place in 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia; * the annual ICANN Studienkreis meetings in Europe(for what we repeatedly asked ICANN support -- in vain); * the European Summer School on Internet Governance (EuroSSIG) in Meissen/Germany where several members are involved; * receiving feedback on ICANN-related matters from members participating in national IGF initiatives (Germany, Switzerland, France, UK and Ukraine); * inviting and supporting up to 5 members or potential candidates to attend EuroDIG meetings via CROPP, although that number is likely to be reduced this year. These Outreach opportunities are always used for identifying potential new members (ALSes or individuals), discussions about EURALO and its role and to attract new people. We go out of our way to speak to potential candidates, distribute EURALO flyers and encourage them to participate. One major progress over past years is the regular consultations and discussion with Jean-Jacques Sahel, VP Stakeholder Engagement for Europe and based in Brussels as well as Michael Yakushev, VP Stakeholder Engagement for Easter Europe and Russia. We have been able to coordinate Outreach at several meetings thanks to their involvement. With EuroDIG now running its own fellowship program, emphasis on participation at EuroDIG for CROPP slots has decreased. The RALO leadership is now identifying other potential events to participate in using CROPP, starting with an event called "re:publica", the 2016 instance if which took plain in early summer in Berlin/Germany, became the biggest conference and fair on Internet politics in Europe with over 7’000 participants -- see: https://re-publica.de/en/about-republica The challenge in identifying suitable venues comes from the variety of languages spoken in Europe. There are therefore few suitable European-wide conference that could offer the same access to potential ALSes as EuroDIG. Collaboration with the local Regional Internet Registry has been until now through the annual EuroDIG. Indeed, EURALO is a EuroDIG partner and so is RIPE. This year, we plan on building on this first link and work towards a bilateral agreement based on a MoU similar to those signed by other RALOs with their Regional Internet Registry. It is worth noting that the partnership with EuroDIG has opened a lot of doors for end user input in Europe. We also plan to engage dialogue with other membership organisations that our At-Large Structures meet in their environment to discuss their way to conduct outreach with the aim to benefit from lessons learnt. EURALO will consider cooperation with other organisations to help the goal of strengthening our ALS base. Perhaps most significantly in EURALO's strategy, EURALO has created a task force on ALS Engagement focussing on our already existing ALSes. With many ALSes not offering their full participation in EURALO activities, this Task Force will study the reasons for this low participation and methods to increase participation. Outreach does not only take place by recruiting new At-Large Structures, but also by recruiting more active members amongst the At-Large Structures - bearing in mind an ALS has more than just one member. --- cut here --- Kindest regards, Olivier

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] ACTION ITEMS EURALO CALL- 13 September
by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond Sept. 30, 2016

Sept. 30, 2016

Dear all, an action item from our last EURALO call: > 2. Olivier proposed : EURALO Hot Topics document to be posted on the > EURALO wiki page, every month there could be a review of EURALO Hot > Topics. This can be publicized on the EURALO mailing list. [Olivier > not sure if you want to query the list as there was some discussion or > move forward with this ] Please be so kind to find this EURALO Hot Topics page on: https://community.icann.org/x/9Ae4Aw The living document, a Google Doc, is available on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dzaW48JUMzLGdttMcmg8-PbRBA6AycIS_KLIt6O… Please comment on it and make suggestions for additions/amendments. Many thanks, Olivier

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REMINDER: CALL FOR MEMBERSHIP: At-Large IANA Transition & ICANN Accountability Working Group
by ICANN At-Large Staff Sept. 20, 2016

Sept. 20, 2016

Dear All, On behalf of Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the At-Large IANA Transition & ICANN Accountability Working Group<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=48333881>, this is a call for new membership as well as confirming if you do NOT wish to continue your current membership. The mission of this ad-hoc working group was first to discuss the transition of US Government Stewardship of the IANA function followed by a focus on CCWG Accountability. However, the next part of this Working Group's activities will focus closely on supporting our members and participants in the various CCWG Accountability Workstream 2 (WS2) topics. Membership of this WG is open to all At-Large members. For new members, please indicate your interest to join this Working Group by informing Olivier<mailto:ocl@gih.com> and At-Large staf<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>f by Friday, 23 September 2016 at 23:59 UTC. For current members, please confirm to Olivier<mailto:ocl@gih.com> and At-Large staff<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> if you would NOT like to continue being a member of this Working Group by Friday, 23 September 2016 at 23:59 UTC. The next call of the At-Large IANA Transition & ICANN Accountability Working Group is scheduled for Accountability is scheduled on Thursday, 22 September 2016 at 12:00 UTC for 90 minutes. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine, Terri Agnew and Yeşim Nazlar ICANN Policy Staff in support of the At-Large Community E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Website: atlarge.icann.org<https://atlarge.icann.org/> Facebook: facebook.com/icann<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge>atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge> Twitter: @<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge>ICANNAtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge> [unknown.png]

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CALL FOR MEMBERSHIP: At-Large IANA Transition & ICANN Accountability Working Group
by ICANN At-Large Staff Sept. 16, 2016

Sept. 16, 2016

Dear All, On behalf of Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the At-Large IANA Transition & ICANN Accountability Working Group<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=48333881>, this is a call for new membership as well as confirming if you do NOT wish to continue your current membership. The mission of this ad-hoc working group was first to discuss the transition of US Government Stewardship of the IANA function followed by a focus on CCWG Accountability. However, the next part of this Working Group's activities will focus closely on supporting our members and participants in the various CCWG Accountability Workstream 2 (WS2) topics. Membership of this WG is open to all At-Large members. For new members, please indicate your interest to join this Working Group by informing Olivier<mailto:ocl@gih.com> and At-Large staf<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>f by Friday, 23 September 2016 at 23:59 UTC. For current members, please confirm to Olivier<mailto:ocl@gih.com> and At-Large staff<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> if you would NOT like to continue being a member of this Working Group by Friday, 23 September 2016 at 23:59 UTC. The next call of the At-Large IANA Transition & ICANN Accountability Working Group is scheduled for Accountability is scheduled on Thursday, 22 September 2016 at 12:00 UTC for 90 minutes. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine, Terri Agnew and Yeşim Nazlar ICANN Policy Staff in support of the At-Large Community E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Website: atlarge.icann.org<https://atlarge.icann.org/> Facebook: facebook.com/icann<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge>atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge> Twitter: @<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge>ICANNAtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge> [unknown.png]

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German Internet Governance Forum IANA Transition
by Annette Muehlberg Sept. 16, 2016

Sept. 16, 2016

Dear all, I just want to let you know, that last friday we had a very interesting German Internet Governance Forum in the City Hall of Berlin. We had several panels eg. on encoding values, on the policy on cryptography, on potential regulation on the export of surveillance soft- and hardware and on IANA-transition! The ICANN CEO Tarek Kamel gave a key note; the discussion took place with members of ISOC/IETF, the ICANN Board and the Cross Constiutency Working Group on ICANN accountability, the ICANN GAC and a CC TLD registry. The panel showed very well how difficult and at the same time extremly interesting it is to find technical solutions that work, as well as global policies and decicion making procedures on a global level, which are democratic and robust enough to fight interventions of single states and avoid the fragmentation of the internet. And of course, we had the priveledge of a perfect moderator: Thank you, Wolfgang (Kleinwächter). Greetings Annette *** Annette Mühlberg ver.di Bundesverwaltung, Ressort 1 Politik und Planung Digitale Arbeit, Netzpolitik, E-Government Leiterin der ver.di-Projektgruppe "Digitalisierung" Postanschrift: Annette Mühlberg, R 1 ver.di Bundesverwaltung Paula-Thiede-Ufer 10 10179 Berlin

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Fwd: Re: Hot Topics for European End Users
by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond Sept. 16, 2016

Sept. 16, 2016

Dear EURALO members, please see the email below from the ICANN Board director selected by At-Large. The paper in question can be consulted from https://atlarge.icann.org/advice_statements/9893 Kindest regards, Olivier -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Hot Topics for European End Users Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:42:00 +0200 From: Rinalia Abdul Rahim <rinalia.abdulrahim(a)gmail.com> To: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl(a)gih.com> CC: Heidi Ullrich <Heidi.Ullrich(a)icann.org>, Ariel Liang <ariel.liang(a)icann.org>, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg(a)mcgill.ca> Hi, Olivier. Today I gave a copy of the EURALO hot topics paper to Roberto Viola, European Commission Director-General for Communications Network, Content and Technology. Göran Marby was present and he read the paper as well. Roberto indicated how much he appreciated receiving it as he works on policies that benefit end users in Europe. Please feel free to share this information as you see fit. Best regards, Rinalia On Friday, 2 September 2016, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl(a)gih.com <mailto:ocl@gih.com>> wrote: Dear Rinalia, please be so kind to find attached our completed document listing Hot Topics for European End Users (in both Docx & PDF formats), which you may share with your Board colleagues. This was prepared with the input of end users in EURALO and with the help of At-Large staff. I'd be happy to answer any further questions pertaining to this document. Kindest regards, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond EURALO Chair

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EURALO Announcement - New Board member appointment by consensus
by ICANN At-Large Staff Sept. 15, 2016

Sept. 15, 2016

Dear EURALO members, On behalf of EURALO's Chair Olivier Crepin - Leblond and Secretariat Wolf Ludwig, we would like to announce the appointment of Erich Schweighofer as new Board member which was reached by consensus at the EURALO monthly call on 13/09/2016. Erich is a representative of the ALS "WZRI Wiener Zentrum fuer Rechtsinformatik / VCLI Vienna Centre for Legal Informatics" in Austria, Vienna. Congratulations to Erich on his new role! Kind regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine, Terri Agnew and Yeşim Nazlar ICANN Policy Staff in support of the At-Large Community E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Website: atlarge.icann.org<https://atlarge.icann.org/> Facebook: facebook.com/icann<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge>atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge> Twitter: @<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge>ICANNAtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge>

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