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WG: Re: [ALAC-Internal] Compilation of comments on resourcing for public consultation on Ops plan and budget framework
by Wolf Ludwig May 1, 2009

May 1, 2009

Hi all, for all those of you who have been at out last GA in Mexico-City here is a support statement from LACRALO to the EURALO statement on the Proposed Framework for ICANN's FY10 Operating Plan and Budget for your information - see below. Best, Wolf Heidi Ullrich wrote Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:58: >Dear All, > >As a follow up, please note that Andrés Piazza submitted the LACRALO statement on the Proposed Framework for ICANN's FY10 Operating Plan and Budget to the Public Comments forum today. > >The text of the statement reads: > >On behalf of the LACRALO, I wish to submit the following comments on the > >"Proposed Framework for ICANN's FY10 Operating Plan and Budget". > >The Latin American and Caribbean Regional At-Large Organisation endorses >the text of the EURALO's statement on the Operational Plan and Budget as >posted at http://forum.icann.org/lists/op-budget-fy2010/msg00006.html. > >ICANN needs to fund travel support for all constituencies (ALAC, >At-Large, GNSO, SSAC, etc.) to participate at their meetings and should >not increase travel support for a constituency at the expense of another. > >Regards, > >Andrés Piazza >LACRALO Chair President > > >The link to this statement is available at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/op-budget-fy2010/msg00015.html. > comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net Digitale Allemd http://blog.allmend.ch - EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation http://euralo.org

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Fwd: [At-Large] Reminder: Briefing on Proposed Framework for FY10 Operating Plan and Budget 30 April 05:00 UTC
by Dragoslava Greve April 30, 2009

April 30, 2009

Dear all, I am forwarding for your attention information about a briefing by Kevin Wilson, ICANN CFO on the Proposed Framework for the FY10 Operating Plan and Budget. Details are below. Regards, Dessi ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [At-Large] Reminder: Briefing on Proposed Framework for FY10 Operating Plan and Budget 30 April 05:00 UTC Date: Thursday 30 April 2009 From: Heidi Ullrich <Heidi.Ullrich(a)icann.org> To: "at-large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org" <at-large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org>, "alac-announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org" <alac-announce@atlarge- lists.icann.org> Dear All, Kevin Wilson, ICANN Chief Financial Officer, will be giving a briefing on the Proposed Framework for the FY10 Operating Plan and Budget at 05:00 UTC 30 April. Details of this Briefing Session, including agenda, presentation, Adobe Connect link, and participation information are available here: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?budget_ops_meeting_30_april_2009. The session will be open to all members of the At-Large community worldwide. Interpretation into FR and ES will not be available on this call. If you would like to request a dial-out, please inform At-Large staff at staff(a)atlarge.icann.org. As background to this call, the Proposed Framework for the FY10 Operating Plan and Budget, which was first presented at the ICANN Meeting in Mexico City, is currently seeking comments from the public. The draft FY10 Operating Plan and Budget is scheduled to be posted by 17 May 2009. The Board Finance Committee is currently scheduled to adopt the FY10 Operating Plan and Budget during the ICANN Meeting in Sydney. The Proposed Framework for the Fiscal Year 2010 (FY10)Operating Plan and Budget is available in the five UN languages here: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-17feb09-en.htm Additional consultation details may be found here: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#op-budget-fy2010 Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org _______________________________________________ At-Large mailing list At-Large(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge- lists.icann.org At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org -------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] [ALAC] Draft IRT Report
by Patrick Vande Walle April 27, 2009

April 27, 2009

Agree with you Carlton. There are some additional issues: One is the privacy issue, as mentioned in Michele Neylon's posting on CircleID: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090426_icann_irt_report_comment_short_timef… Another one I see is that the report insists that there should be no "unnecessary or undue costs, either to trademark owners or to legitimate users and consumers". Nothing comes for free, so who is going to bear the cost ? The IRT seems to think the registries should bear the cost of protecting someone else's IP rights. However, if the registries' operating costs are increasing due to the long and painful IP rights checking and possible liability, they will be passed on to all registrants in the end via an increase of the unit price for domain names, whether or not those registrants have IP rights to defend or not. Higher prices for domain names means less attractiveness and sales. For the community-based TLDs, with a limited market, it may not look like a viable path to set up such an expensive machinery. In effect, the IRT recommendations might kill all TLDs that do not focus on large volumes. Patrick On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:40:34 -0500, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels(a)uwimona.edu.jm> wrote: > Thanks for sharing this Alan. > > I'm too am no expert but sooooo many things are commonsensical if you > understand and subscribe to principle. One of the recommendations is for a > Globally Protected Marks List with a high threshold to entry. In context, > here's an interesting formulation from the report: > > *"Certain categories of marks may warrant different levels of protection. > For example, extremely strong globally‐recognized marks may justify a > higher > level of protection than lesser‐known marks; "* > > Um, I wonder what is the legal criteria that separates a "swoosh" from a > "hemp leaf"? That Nike has loads of money to hire IP lawyers in every > jurisdiction in the world but a small clothing manufacturer don't? So now, > it appears these eminences would junk the principle of equal protection of > the laws and give the green light to copycats, depending on the strength of > cash of the mark holder? Say it ain't so! > > Is there a sense that a mark may become more "globally-recognized" - > translate that term to mean valuable - in time? And who's counting that? > > I will tell you the story about a local Mom-and-Pop food shop owned by a > family named McDonald and the McDonald Corporation - yes, the Ronald > McDonald one - one day......... > > Carlton Samuels > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Alan Greenberg > <alan.greenberg(a)mcgill.ca>wrote: > >> The draft IRT report on Intellectual Property issues associated with >> gTLDs >> was released yesterday. >> >> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-24apr09-en.htm >> >> >> http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/irt-draft-report-trademark-protect… >> >> Note that although it is posted for a 30 day comment period, the final >> report is due on 24 May 2009, and comments to be considered in the >> drafting >> of the final report must be submitted by 6 May 2009 - 11 days from today. >> >> It is clear that the IRT group has done an enormous amount of work in a >> very short time. I will leave it to experts in the field to comment on >> the >> appropriateness of their recommendations. >> >> Alan >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > ALAC mailing list > ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > > At-Large Online: http://www.atlarge.icann.org > ALAC Working Wiki: http://st.icann.org/alac -- Blog: http://patrick.vande-walle.eu Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/patrickvw Identica: http://identi.ca/patrickv

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] WG: Regional Advice for AUI SP
by Adam Peake April 22, 2009

April 22, 2009

I thought AUI was a business users association? AUI was represented on the first names council, active in the DNSO and creation of ICANN (and pre ICANN). If they exist to serve individuals, fine, if corporations, not fine. Of course individuals can be commercial (a point we still need to make in the GNSO stakeholder group formation process.) Adam >I had a quick look to the 2 DD (AUI of Spain and E-senior form France). >It seems that they can be qualified to be ALSs. >All the best > >Sébastien Bachollet >Président d'honneur - Isoc France >sebastien.bachollet(a)isoc.fr >www.egeni.org >www.isoc.fr > > > >> -----Message d'origine----- >> De : euro-discuss-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:euro-discuss- >> bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org] De la part de Wolf Ludwig >> Envoyé : mardi 21 avril 2009 23:15 >> À : euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >> Objet : [EURO-Discuss] WG: Regional Advice for AUI SP >> >> Dear Sébastien and all, >> >> sorry I thought this was sent to the entire list for review already. I >> am forwarding this (and a 2nd ALS application afterwards) for your >> info. >> >> Best, >> Wolf >> >> >> Matthias Langenegger wrote Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:10: >> >Dear Wolf and Dessi, >> > >> >On February 22nd, we received a European ALS application from the >> Associación Usuarios Internet of Spain, which is based in Madrid. >> Please find the Due Diligence form attached. >> > >> >We kindly ask you to provide us with the regional advice for this >> application in your capacity as EURALO officers. Your advice will >> support the review of the At-Large Advisory Committee on this >> application. >> > >> >According to our timeline for ALS applications, the due date for the >> regional advice was April 12th. Due to delays with the due diligence >> form we are currently behind schedule for this application. We would >> like to encourage you to provide us with regional advise for this >> application within the next two weeks to ensure that the process >> suffers no further delays. >> > >> >We would like to remind you that the DD form could contain sensitive >> information. Please read it carefully before sending it off to third >> parties. >> > >> >Regards, >> > >> >Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber- >> White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms >> >ICANN At-Large Staff >> >email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org >> > >> >> comunica-ch >> phone +41 79 204 83 87 >> Skype: Wolf-Ludwig >> www.comunica-ch.net >> >> Digitale Allemd >> http://blog.allmend.ch - >> >> EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation >> http://euralo.org > > >_______________________________________________ >EURO-Discuss mailing list >EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.… > >Homepage for the region: http://www.euralo.org

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Reminder: EURALO Teleconference on 21 April at 16:00 UTC
by Lutz Donnerhacke April 22, 2009

April 22, 2009

* Patrick Vande Walle wrote: > Unfortunately, I will not be able to participate in the meeting today, due > to last minute commitment. I'm sorry, the current political discussions in Germany did not allow me to reach the phone in time. So I'm sorry to miss the phone call.

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WG: Regional Advice for AUI SP
by Wolf Ludwig April 21, 2009

April 21, 2009

Dear Sébastien and all, sorry I thought this was sent to the entire list for review already. I am forwarding this (and a 2nd ALS application afterwards) for your info. Best, Wolf Matthias Langenegger wrote Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:10: >Dear Wolf and Dessi, > >On February 22nd, we received a European ALS application from the Associación Usuarios Internet of Spain, which is based in Madrid. Please find the Due Diligence form attached. > >We kindly ask you to provide us with the regional advice for this application in your capacity as EURALO officers. Your advice will support the review of the At-Large Advisory Committee on this application. > >According to our timeline for ALS applications, the due date for the regional advice was April 12th. Due to delays with the due diligence form we are currently behind schedule for this application. We would like to encourage you to provide us with regional advise for this application within the next two weeks to ensure that the process suffers no further delays. > >We would like to remind you that the DD form could contain sensitive information. Please read it carefully before sending it off to third parties. > >Regards, > >Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms >ICANN At-Large Staff >email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org > comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net Digitale Allemd http://blog.allmend.ch - EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation http://euralo.org

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WG: Regional Advice E-Seniors
by Wolf Ludwig April 21, 2009

April 21, 2009

And here comes the DD on E-Seniors from France... Best, Wolf Matthias Langenegger wrote Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:10: >Dear Wolf and Dessi, > >On March 22nd, we received an ALS application from the E-Seniors, an organization based in Paris. Please find the Due Diligence form attached. > >We kindly ask you to provide us with the regional advice for this application in your capacity as EURALO officers. Your advice will support the review of the At-Large Advisory Committee on this application. > >According to our timeline for ALS applications, the due date for the regional advice is May 10th. Due to delays with the due diligence form we are currently a couple of daysw behind schedule. We would like to encourage you therefore to provide us with regional advise for this application within the next two weeks to ensure that we can still finish the process in time. > >We would like to remind you that the DD form could contain sensitive information. Please read it carefully before sending it off to third parties. > >Regards, > >Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms >ICANN At-Large Staff >email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org > comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net Digitale Allemd http://blog.allmend.ch - EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation http://euralo.org

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action items from last call and ALAC performance indicators
by Adam Peake April 21, 2009

April 21, 2009

Hi, Looking through the action items from last month's call I see I have two <https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?action_items_17_march_2009>. "New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook, Version 2 (V2) A Peake will rework a draft statement based on that information on behalf of Euralo and submit it to the discussion list 30 April is the deadline for the Euralo comments, and then the statement will be sent to the Icann board." Did I say I'd do this? I've not been following the Applicant Guidebook closely so I'm surprised I volunteered to anything on this. Note, the ALAC has just voted to support a statement on the guidebook developed from the Summit WG statement <https://st.icann.org/working-groups/index.cgi?at_large_gtld_working_group_s…> All voted in favor. ALAC also recently made a statement on the GNSO non-commercial stakeholder group <http://forum.icann.org/lists/sg-petitions-charters/msg00020.html> EU RALO may wish to consider. Second action item: "ALAC Review WG Draft Final Report A Peake will draft a statement on behalf of Euralo and poste it on the Euralo discussion- list." I have a note of this one but thought I said I would try to make time to summarize any changes from the earlier reports we'd discussed, highlight issues I thought we should take note of for possible comment. I am pretty certain I didn't say I would draft a statement. Anyway, my apologies, I haven't done whatever it was. Started, and got distracted by work, life and other things. Perhaps ironic given the two incomplete actions by my name... I have volunteered to join a working group to draft a set of performance indicators for ALAC members and liaisons. See email below. I'd like to know what RALO members think about ways to judge ALAC members' performance. Stepping back a bit, I think we need to begin with a job description, an agreed set of tasks and goals to judge performance against. At the moment performance is judged on participation <http://www.atlarge.icann.org/alac/performance.htm> using 3 measures: ALAC conference calls, ICANN conferences and ALS accreditation votes. Liaisons are also asked to submit liaison reports which are recorded. Current indicators are quantitative - they tell you if person turns up, they don't give any indication of any work done (I could have a 100% record of attending meetings, calls and votes, but never comment on a list, sleep during the calls except for when I need to wake to vote, etc.) How can we introduce more qualitative measures, while remembering ALAC members and liaisons are volunteers? Speck to you soon. Thanks, Adam >Delivered-To: ajp(a)glocom.ac.jp >X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true >X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtQFAMKs0ElMQ4lH/2dsb2JhbACBUotFwkcG >Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:49:47 -0400 >To: ALAC Working List <alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> >From: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg(a)mcgill.ca> >Subject: [ALAC] Performance Indicators >X-BeenThere: alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >List-Id: At-Large Advisory Committee > <alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org.atlarge-lists.icann.org> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/options/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org>, > <mailto:alac-request@atlarge-lists.icann.org?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: ><http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org> >List-Post: <mailto:alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> >List-Help: <mailto:alac-request@atlarge-lists.icann.org?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: ><http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org>, > <mailto:alac-request@atlarge-lists.icann.org?subject=subscribe> >Sender: alac-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > >In Mexico City, I was asked to lead a group developing a draft set >of performance indicators for ALAC members and Liaisons. > >I would suggest that this include RALO leadership, but purely from >the point of view of their interaction with the ALAC. Specifically, >there are some tasks related to taking information from the ALAC and >sending them on to ALSs, and getting information back, that might be >handled by wither the RALO-appointed ALAC members from the region, >or by the RALO leadership. I don't think that the ALAC cares which >it is in each case, as long as SOMEONE is doing it. > >A similar committee was created in Cairo, but it never met, and so >we are starting again. The members of the original group were > >We one WG member from each region. Cheryl and Adam have already >volunteered. So we now need a volunteer from LACRALO and from AFRALO. > >Alan > > > >_______________________________________________ >ALAC mailing list >ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > >At-Large Online: http://www.atlarge.icann.org >ALAC Working Wiki: http://st.icann.org/alac

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Reminder: EURALO Teleconference on 21 April at 16:00 UTC
by Annette Muehlberg April 21, 2009

April 21, 2009

Just for clarification. many countries have summertime, so if you are for example in Paris or Berlin the call starts at 18:00!!! best annette > > This is to remind you that the next EURALO teleconference is scheduled > for > > Tuesday, 21 April at 16:00 UTC/17:00 CET. > > > > > > Please find a draft agenda and additional details at: > > https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?21_april_2009. > > > > > > > > If you require dial-outs, please let us know at > > staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella > > Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms > > ICANN At-Large Staff > > email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > EURO-Discuss mailing list > > EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.… > > > > Homepage for the region: http://www.euralo.org > > _______________________________________________ > EURO-Discuss mailing list > EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.… > > Homepage for the region: http://www.euralo.org > --

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Reminder: EURALO Teleconference on 21 April at 16:00 UTC
by Heidi Ullrich April 21, 2009

April 21, 2009

Dear All, This is to remind you that the next EURALO teleconference is scheduled for Tuesday, 21 April at 16:00 UTC/17:00 CET. Please find a draft agenda and additional details at: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?21_april_2009. If you require dial-outs, please let us know at staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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