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Guide to Domain Names in Generic Top-Level Domains
by At-Large Staff Feb. 29, 2008

Feb. 29, 2008

Dear Community: As some of you know, some time ago a draft Guide to Domain Names was prepared by an ICANN consultant with a view to having it published for the use of the individual Internet community worldwide. During the At-Large community meetings in New Delhi, it was decided that the work of preparing the guide for publication should be concluded by allowing members of the community to provide any comments, proposed edits, or thoughts for inclusion in the published text not later than 31 March 2008. I have attached the current draft of the text for you to review. We will have translated editions prepared of the final edition - unfortunately the cost of translating something that may (depending upon how many comments and the nature of the comments) change a great deal makes translating the text now difficult. POINTS TO CONSIDER: 1) This is the raw text of the guide. The version to be published will be prepared in a desktop publishing environment to make it attractive and visually appealing. Of course, until the basic text is completed, it is hard to decide precisely how to format the guide in a DTP application - that's why we are having it done 2) It has been suggested that some graphics would be useful. This of course is entirely sensible. If you have ideas for what these should be, please let us know. You do not have to be very specific - something like the following would work: "Put in a pie chart showing the total number of registered domains in all gTLDs, broken down by gTLD" 3) Is there something which could be included that would be specific for your region of the world? Let us know - there's no problem with producing regionally-specific versions of the guide, if you think that would be more useful. 4) Revision tracking is turned on, so if you want to edit the text directly and send that to us, feel free. Equally, you can just send us narrative suggestions - please remember though that we need enough specificity to be able to understand what to change. If your comment is extremely general, that will make it difficult to know what we should change. If we are unsure of what you mean, we will reply and ask you for more details. -- Regards, ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)alac.icann.org

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Application for ALS from APTI
by Matthias Langenegger Feb. 29, 2008

Feb. 29, 2008

Dear all, We would like to inform you about the reception of an ALS application from the Association for Technology and Internet (APTI), a Bucharest-based Internet Organisation. Please find it attached to this mail. There will be further information on the background of the application sent to you in due course. Best regards, Matthias Langenegger At-Large Coordination Officer

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] working on a EURALO draft internet users declaration
by Wolf Ludwig Feb. 28, 2008

Feb. 28, 2008

Hi, the report from yesterday's meeting will be posted on this list tomorrow. Regards, Wolf JFC Morfin wrote Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:04: >is this an official Euralo blog? >Will there be a report of yesterday's meeting there? >Thank you. >jfc > >At 14:55 26/02/2008, Annette Muehlberg wrote: >>dear all, >>as an outcome of our todays euralo board meeting in geneva, i >>started a blog on a draft for an icann internet users declaration we >>might want to present at the euralo meeting in paris and use as our >>proposal for a global discussion on that issue. >> >>please go ahead and put in your ideas and proposals at: >><http://euralo.wordpress.com/>http://euralo.wordpress.com/ > comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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Location EURALO board meeting Geneva
by Wolf Ludwig Feb. 24, 2008

Feb. 24, 2008

Dear all, this is to confirm again that our tomorrow’s board meeting in Geneva will happen from 12.00 (noon) to max. 18.00 PM (max.) – probably we can get through our Agenda even before. The location of our board meeting will be at Jade Manotel, Rue Rothschild 55, 1202 Geneva (where Desirée is booked in and where she could use the breakfast room for meetings before). Actually the Jade Manotel location is not far from Geneva central train station (Cornavin). On your way out turn to the left to Rue de Lausanne and from there it’s about 7 min. walking distance to Rue Rothschild 55, Jade Manotel, CH-1202 Geneva Here you will find further details about the location of the Jade Manotel, Rue Rothschild 55, in Geneva: http://hotels.switzerland-bookings.com/hotel/ch/ascotmanotel.en.html?label=… You can also take the tram No. 15 direction “Nations” and get of at the 2nd station. Board members confirmed for tomorrow are: Annette, Desirée, Rudi, Sébastien and Wolf. Jeanette, Bill and Wolfgang will be briefed on our discussion and outcome on Tuesday (by Wolf). Glad to meet you tomorrow in Geneva, regards, Wolf _____ As a first preliminary Agenda for this (1st) EURALO board meeting I would like to suggest: (1) Briefing about ICANN’s New Delhi meeting (2) Options for a EURALO summit in Paris (3) Draft EURALO budget for the coming fiscal year (4) Planning for General Assembly in June 08 in Paris (5) Board elections at GA in June 08 in Paris (6) Other outreach activities foreseen (7) Miscellaneous If you have any further suggestions to this agenda draft please let me know. comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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Welcome Matthias Langenegger to the ICANN At-Large Staff
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 23, 2008

Feb. 23, 2008

Dear all: It is my pleasure to introduce you to Matthias Langenegger, who has just joined the At-Large staff in the Policy Unit as At-Large Coordination Officer. He’ll be helping support the global At-Large community in scheduling, meeting support and logistics, servicing information requests, minuting meetings, and helping keep the websites and community communications tools (like the new membership system) up- to-date amongst other essential tasks. Many of you may know Matthias from the IGF Secretariat, where he interned throughout much of 2007 - while there he assisted in the preparations for the Rio de Janeiro Internet Governance Forum in November 2007, coordinating the sessions schedule and providing logistical coordination. He also assisted in the assessment process for the different workshop and best practice proposals. Before and during his university education, he worked in different office environments such as banks and a small language school. He is originally from the German-speaking part of Switzerland and is a native German speaker who is fluent in English and French. He also speaks fair Catalan and Spanish having lived in Barcelona for a year. Matthias recently graduated from the Graduate Institute of International Relations at the University of Geneva and holds an MA in international relations. He lives in Geneva. Continuing the tradition of very long email addresses amongst the At-Large staff, he can be reached at matthias.langenegger(a)icann.org (or, in short form, matthias(a)icann.org ). For those who, like me, often produce inaccurate pronunciations of others’ names, his forename is pronounced “muhteeahs” :) Please welcome him aboard. We’re very glad to have him! -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 594-85-44 Mobile: +41 (79) 595 54-68 email: nick.ashton-hart(a)icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] EURALO Board Meeting in Geneva
by Veronica Cretu Feb. 22, 2008

Feb. 22, 2008

Greetings, everyone! Many thanks, Wolf and Annettee, for trying so hard to bring us all together to Geneva next week. It is understandable that we will not be able to make it (procedural related issues, etc.), besides, timing is too short! In my case, I need an official invitation letter in order to be able to get the visa - and this takes several days. I absolutely agree that it is crucial to have F2F meetings, but now, under the current circumstances let's see what other solutions might be there for us ... If we go for a Teleconference, than we should all be there ( I hope I will be called in this time), with concrete objectives, and ending it with concrete outputs. Wolf has already provided a tentative Agenda which we might want to review and adjust it to the Teleconference. Let's try to discuss and come to a commonly agreed solution as soon as possible! Veronica -----Original Message----- From: euro-discuss-request(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org To: euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:00:30 -0500 Subject: EURO-Discuss Digest, Vol 16, Issue 24 Send EURO-Discuss mailing list submissions to euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.… or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to euro-discuss-request(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org You can reach the person managing the list at euro-discuss-owner(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of EURO-Discuss digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Confirmstion 1st EURALO board meeting inGeneva (S?bastien Bachollet) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:55:53 +0100 From: S?bastien Bachollet <sebastien.bachollet(a)isoc.fr> Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Confirmstion 1st EURALO board meeting inGeneva To: "'Discussion for At-Large Europe'" <euro-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Message-ID: <00f901c87573$caf100e0$9601a8c0@C400SBTBBS> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, If we are not going to have a real Euralo meeting, I will not come to Geneva. The cost of the Train + hotel is not a good spend just for a lunch ;) But if nobody are coming to Geneva better to have a conf call. Sorry for that All the best S?bastien Bachollet Pr?sident 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@atlarge-lists.icann.org] De la part de William Drake Envoy??: vendredi 22 f?vrier 2008 17:04 ??: Discussion for At-Large Europe Objet?: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Confirmstion 1st EURALO board meeting inGeneva Hi, On 2/22/08 4:00 PM, "Wolf Ludwig" <wolf.ludwig(a)comunica-ch.net> wrote: > Hi Rudi, I put the confirmation (pasted below) on the list last Friday and I > am wondering that you haven't received it before. It would be good to know > how many people can make to Geneva on Monday (Annette, Desir?e, Veronica, > Bill, Rudi, S?bastien and myself) to make the final room > arrangements. Regards, Wolf Unfortunately, I actually have another pressing obligation that day. I was going to try to change things if it was really the only time that worked for everyone else, so I reluctantly indicated I could be available on Doodle, but as things have evolved it just doesn't make sense for me. At the same time, Wolfgang and Jeanette don't arrive until evening. Wolf says he was planning to meet with latecomers Tuesday for a briefing; perhaps we could simply multilateralize and do a Euralo lunch at the IGF consultation? It's usually possible to grab a table at the back of the UN cafeteria, or in the delegates' lounge, or I could book a place at the 8th floor restaurant (more expensive but good view of the mountains etc)... Bill _______________________________________________ EURO-Discuss mailing list EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.i cann.org Homepage for the region: http://www.euralo.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1292 - Release Date: 21/02/2008 16:09 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1292 - Release Date: 21/02/2008 16:09 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ EURO-Discuss mailing list EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge-lists.… End of EURO-Discuss Digest, Vol 16, Issue 24 ********************************************

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Funding proposal for 1st EURALO board meeting in Geneva
by Rudi Vansnick Feb. 22, 2008

Feb. 22, 2008

Dear all, As I did not see a confirmation of the meeting date for the EURALO board in Geneva, I'm requesting by this message the confirmation of the meeting. Up till now I did not plan any travel, which I will have to do asap when I know date and time. Thanks for replying asap. Best regards, Rudi Vansnick President - CEO Internet Society Belgium vzw Board member ISOC-ECC Barcelona-Spain /Dendermondesteenweg 143 - B-9070 Destelbergen Belgium GSM: +32 (0)475 28 16 32 Tel: +32 (0)70 77 39 39/ http://www.isoc.be Wolf Ludwig schreef: > Attached please find a list of the present EURALO board member 07-08 > for your information, Rudi, > > best regards, > Wolf > > > Rudi Vansnick wrote Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:11: > >> Small question about the EURALO board members : I can not find a webpage >> with information on who is on the EURALO board. Can you please help me >> through or make an announcement with the list of boardmembers ? >> >> Best regards, >> >> Rudi Vansnick >> >> >> >> > > comunica-ch > phone +41 79 204 83 87 > www.comunica-ch.net > > http://blog.allmend.ch - > Digitale Allmend > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1290 - Release Date: 2008-02-20 20:45 >

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Funding proposal for 1st EURALO board meeting in Geneva
by Wolf Ludwig Feb. 22, 2008

Feb. 22, 2008

Dear Cheryl, Vanda, Annette Dear Nick, On our last Tel.Conf. in January the board of EURALO expected the User Summit happen next June in Paris. And in this context we decided to finally have our 1st (physical) board meeting after ICANN’s New Delhi meeting at the end of February in Geneva. The EURALO board was elected in May 07 and we planned to have our first board meeting in conjunction with (Wolfgang Kleinwächter’s) last Studienkreis Outreach meeting in October 07 in Warsaw. In August 07 we submitted an application for a rather modest funding for a one-day board meeting to ICANN which unfortunately was not approved. Please take into consideration that many of EURALO’s board members have never met each other so far what hampered the working dynamic considerably. And the recent ALAC-RALO meetings in Delhi proofed in a rather convincing way how important f2f meetings are for any constructive debates (not only) among volunteers. As some board member will come to Geneva in the context of the next IGF-consultation end of February, we thought that this offers another opportunity again to finally have a 1st EURALO board meeting in Geneva – -and presumably last meeting before ICANN’s 32nd meeting in Paris. Please note that the term of some of our board members expires at the end of may resp. in June at our 1st General Assembly. And we consider it as being completely inappropriate not having had a chance for at least one board meeting in between, which is also indispensable for the preparation of the EURALO meeting in Paris. As a first preliminary Agenda for this (1st) EURALO board meeting we suggested: (1) Briefing about ICANN’s New Delhi meeting (2) Options for a EURALO summit in Paris (3) Draft EURALO budget for the coming fiscal year (4) Planning for General Assembly in June 08 in Paris (5) Board elections at GA in June 08 in Paris (6) Other outreach activities foreseen (7) Miscellaneous The suggested funds for the EURALO board meeting the 25 February in Geneva are rather modest again. It just needs travel reimbursements for a part of the board members who are not coming to Geneva for the IGF-consultations anyhow. Travel / flight reimbursements EURO / US$ 2’000.— Hotel accommodation (if required) EURO / US$ 300.— Meal EURO / US$ 700.— Total EURO / US$ 3’000.— This meeting is necessary for a decent preparation of the EURALO/ALS meeting this summer in Paris as well. We are looking forward for a positive considerations and response to our funding proposal to make our EURALO board meeting a success. Kindest regards, Wolf Ludwig EURALO Chair comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] EURALO Delhi report 4
by Wolf Ludwig Feb. 15, 2008

Feb. 15, 2008

Hi Vittorio, I think there is principle agreement among us (EURALOs) and the US NGOs (NARALOS) that the main goal is / remains "no governmental oversight at all" by no government at ICANN. We are now just working on some preliminary statements bringing the CO-statement into this context again. There are interesting discussions going on here, whether the proclaimed independence is "premature *at the moment*" as long as ICANN is still in an transition process and nobody knows exactly which direction ICANN will presumably take in the future. Let's say it's an interesting peace for discussion and we would appreciate some more comments on it! Best, Wolf Vittorio Bertola wrote Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:05: >The statement, if I understand it correctly, seems to say that the JPA >with the US Government should not be terminated, at least for the >moment, and that ICANN should remain dependent from the USG. I >understand the concerns that lead to this position, but I do not think >that this is a position that the EURALO could support. I imagine that >big US NGOs think that they can have some leverage in Washington if >ICANN does something that they don't like, but we Europeans are not in >the same position, so unless the JPA is substituted with something that >gives to our governments the same degree of authority of the USG, I do >not think that we should support the continuation of this kind of >agreements - and even in that case, perhaps no governmental oversight at >all, even with the risks of reduced accountability, could still be a >better option. > >Ciao, >-- >vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- >--------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <-------- > >_______________________________________________ >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 > comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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EURALO Delhi report 5
by Wolf Ludwig Feb. 15, 2008

Feb. 15, 2008

Hi all, Yesterday (Thursday) morning we had our last Public Forum what provided another opportunity for reporting back from different Workshops and to exchange opinions on various subjects (new gTLDs, GNSO improvements and protection of registrants), that were discussed during the 31st ICANN meeting. Reports presented included the ALAC, SSAC, RSSAC, NomCom and Ombudsman. The Board committees posted their reports Online for review. Before the lunch brake there was the Signing Ceremony of the MoU between ICANN and the Organizations in the Asia Pacific Region accredited as At-Large structures (APRALO). Seven representatives from different ALSes across the region were present to co-sign the agreement and another three signed electronically. (See Nick’s Mailing conc. ICANN.org Announcement: Asia-Pacific Internet Users Big Part of ICANNs New Delhi Meeting). By this step the creation of RALOs in all parts of the world is now completed. We are looking forward to further cooperations with our colleagues from APRALO! In the afternoon we had our 2nd session of the At-Large Advisory Committee with an exchange of views on a number of topics with members of the GAC and Board. The importance of the co-existence of IPv4 and IPv6 was one and the discussion on the IDN fast-track another part of the discussion. Furthermore we worked on a formal, if possible, joint ALAC statement on the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) – see also our yesterday’s discussion on the list – and it seems there is a considerable agreement on the last draft version 2. Darlene Thompson told us this morning that there is “rough concensus“ from NARALO. There is a common understanding that the New Delhi meeting provided more and intense interaction between ALAC and other stakeholders at ICANN. Now (Friday morning), I am sitting in the open Board meeting with a full agenda. Among the topics referring to ALAC the Board just passed a resolution on the At-Large Structure Summit by “unanimous approval”. This means, idea and project of organizing a User Summit was approved in principle and “within the (coming) fiscal year” 2008-09. During our 1st ALAC session here on Sunday we strongly voted for having this Summit happen “this year” – and as part of the subsequent ICANN meeting in Paris! You may imagine that there is some kind of frustration again among ALAC and RALO representatives. As far as I have heard the Summit is now supposed to happen probably in conjunction with ICANN’s 10th Anniversary? As the EURALO representatives in Delhi (Annette, Desirée, Veronica, Sébastien and me) still believe that a User Summit in Paris would be a unique opportunity to strengthen EURALO and its outreach. Therefore we have to discuss this issue as a major point on our agenda for the foreseen EURALO board meeting end of February in Geneva (confirmation of date with draft agenda will follow today in a separate mail). There are another 2 resolutions to be passed at today’s ICANN board meeting related to At-Large: (i) the Bylaw change for ALS Applications handling, and another (ii) the thanks of the Board to APRALO. The Delhi meeting is almost over and everyone seems looking already forward to the next ICANN event in Paris in June this year. Some of us will stay in Delhi or India for some more days. I have to take my return flight to Geneva tonight. Last and kindest greetings from Delhi, Wolf comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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