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Attendees Arrivals in Paris
by Wolf Ludwig May 19, 2008

May 19, 2008

Dear all, on the suggestion of Annette, I created a listing of our ALS representatives arrivals (ETA) in Paris for the ICANN meeting and our General Assembly (GA) -- see https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?euralo_icann_at_large_europe I would like to ask you to sign in as soon as your itineraries are confirmed by you and the travel agent. For further planning purposes it would be good to know when ALSes registered for Paris arrive and especially for Board members at what time on Friday or Saturday we could meet first. Thanks for your support and best regards, Wolf comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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Welcome APTI to ICANN At-Large!
by At-Large Staff May 16, 2008

May 16, 2008

TO: Association for Technology and Internet (APTI) FROM: ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) SUBJECT: At-Large Structure Certification ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you that the Association for Technology and Internet (APTI) 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; 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. - At-Large Regional Websites. Regional 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 being very substantially revised in the next couple of weeks but you should keep the URLs handy and check back regularly. They are: African Region: http://www.afralo.org/ Asia/Australia/Pacific Region: http://www.apralo.org/ European Region: http://www.euralo.org/ Latin America/Caribbean Region: http://www.lacralo.org/ North American Region: http://www.naralo.org/ - Regional WiKi: Each At Large Region has a Wiki that allows the region to collaborate. These are maintained by the community and create the regional websites shown above. This framework is in the final stages of preparation but if you wish to have a user account, send an email to staff(a)atlarge.icann.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. Sincerely, The At-Large Advisory Committee www.atlarge.icann.org staff(a)atlarge.icann.org --------------------------- Name: Location (city/country/region; whatever is relevant to your membership): Mission: Member benefits: Contacts (name/s and email address/es -- title/s optional): Website: Other (additional informational you would like included): -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] WG: [ALAC-Internal] FW: Call for Comments on GNSO Domain Tasting Motion ... ACTION Required for RALO's and ALS input
by Dominik Filipp May 16, 2008

May 16, 2008

Hi All, So far, I have prepared the following analysis of the current final proposal on domain tasting http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga-200709/msg01556.html Best Dominik -----Original Message----- From: Wolf Ludwig [mailto:wolf.ludwig@comunica-ch.net] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:24 AM To: Dominik Filipp Cc: Annette Mühlberg; Wolfgang Kleinwächter; Karen Banks; Jeanette Hofmann; Vittorio Bertola; Desiree Miloshevic; Sébastien Bachollet; William Drake; Veronica Cretu; Rudi Vansnick; Dr. Christoph Bruch Subject: RE: [EURO-Discuss] WG: [ALAC-Internal] FW: Call for Comments on GNSO Domain Tasting Motion ... ACTION Required for RALO's and ALS input Hi Dominik, I didn't get any reactions or comments on GNSO Domain Tasting from the posting on the EURALO list so far. But if you could help and promote the discussion with the suggestion of some related links on facts/views/ opinions on the topic this would be welcome. Please post them on the EURALO list -- may be there is some response until the 21 May. Thanks and regards, Wolf Dominik Filipp wrote Wed, 14 May 2008 21:08: >Hi Wolf , > >Thanks for your interest and for the forwarding. There has already been a collection of facts/views/opinions gathered so far on the topic. In case of interest I can provide you with some related links if desired. > >It would be fine to catch the end of the comment period dated on 21 May. > >Best > >Dominik > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Wolf Ludwig [mailto:wolf.ludwig@comunica-ch.net] >Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:53 PM >To: Dominik Filipp >Cc: Annette Mühlberg; Wolfgang Kleinwächter; Karen Banks; Jeanette >Hofmann; Vittorio Bertola; Desiree Miloshevic; Sébastien Bachollet; >William Drake; Veronica Cretu; Rudi Vansnick; Dr. Christoph Bruch >Subject: RE: [EURO-Discuss] WG: [ALAC-Internal] FW: Call for Comments >on GNSO Domain Tasting Motion ... ACTION Required for RALO's and ALS >input > >Hi Dominik, > >I would be very much in favour of an EURALO position and statement on >domain tasting in general. I don't know whether EURALO Board members >who followed this discussion would support a NARALO position or a >>position in favour of full AGP elimination? > >Therefore I will forward your question to our domain tasting experts for comments and suggestions. > >Best, >Wolf > > >Dominik Filipp wrote Mon, 12 May 2008 21:53: >>Hi Wolf, >> >>Could EURALO issue a statement on domain tasting supporting its >>position in favour of full AGP elimination? This possibility is also >>being considered at NARALO, see >>https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?12_may_2008. >> >>Thanks >> >>Dominik >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Wolf Ludwig [mailto:wolf.ludwig@comunica-ch.net] >>Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:32 PM >>To: Dominik Filipp >>Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] WG: [ALAC-Internal] FW: Call for Comments >>on GNSO Domain Tasting Motion ... ACTION Required for RALO's and ALS >>input >> >>Thanks a lot for this hint, Dominik! >> >>Best, >>Wolf >> >> >>Dominik Filipp wrote Wed, 7 May 2008 10:45: >>>Hi all, >>> >>>There is already an ongoing debate on domain tasting on NA-Discuss >>>and partly ALAC forums discussing the elimination of the AGP. >>> >>>Unfortunately, because of the list split there is no central place >>>directly accessible to all where to address this important issue. >>> >>>It would perhaps be worth considering the reactivation of the Domain >>>Tasting Working Group. >>> >>>Dominik >>> >>> >>>Wolf Ludwig wrote: >>>>Dear all, >>>> >>>>I would like to forward to you this Call for public Comments. >>>>It would be great to have some comments and inputs from the EURALO >>>>community on the GNSO Domain Tasting Motion! >>>> >>>>Thanks and regards, >>>>Wolf >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>EURO-Discuss mailing list >>>EURO-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >>>http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss_atlarge- >>>l >>>i >>>sts.icann.org >>> >>>Homepage for the region: http://www.euralo.org >>> >> >>comunica-ch >>phone +41 79 204 83 87 >>Skype: Wolf-Ludwig >>www.comunica-ch.net >> >>http://blog.allmend.ch - >>Digitale Allmend >> >> > >comunica-ch >phone +41 79 204 83 87 >Skype: Wolf-Ludwig >www.comunica-ch.net > >http://blog.allmend.ch - >Digitale Allmend > > comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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FINAL CALL for Paris!
by Wolf Ludwig May 14, 2008

May 14, 2008

Dear all, staff and ICANN meeting manager, Stacy Hoffberg, have to fix the travel arrangements for Paris. As I was told, there are still some confirmations missing! Stacy Hoffberg wrote Wed, 14 May 2008 01:17: >Dear all, > >I have sorted through the many emails and have organized the database for the EURALO's. (...) > >There are a total of 17 people listed and the breakdown is as follows: >- 6 people have not responded to the travel support letter >- 2 have not confirmed with Frederic (...) Please be so kind and respond IMMEDIATELY/TODAY to Stacy’s travel support letter that your participation in Paris can be fixed and formalised! Thanks and regards, Wolf comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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Invitation to the 1st EURALO General Assembly, Paris
by Wolf Ludwig May 12, 2008

May 12, 2008

Dear all, after the first announcement (and some memories ;-) of the next 32nd ICANN Public Meeting at the end of June in Paris we now reached considerable registration for participation from our ALSes what I highly appreciate. A recent up-date of participation for Paris you can find at the EURALO Workspace: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?euralo_icann_at_large_europe I will take this opportunity to officially invite you to our 1st General Assembly (GA) which will be convened before the opening of the ICANN meeting on Saturday, 21 June 08, approximately in the afternoon (02:00-05:00 PM) in Paris (for more information see: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?21_june_2008) The exact details of the time and venue of our General Assembly will be send to you soon. Attached please find a first draft of an agenda for our GA. If you have any more suggestions and other points you wish to be added to this draft please let me know (preferably within the next two weeks). A report of the EURALO Board will be submitted via this list before the Paris meeting. Thanks and best regards, Wolf comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Invitation to the 1st EURALO General Assembly, Paris
by JFC Morfin May 11, 2008

May 11, 2008

At 22:00 11/05/2008, Wolf Ludwig wrote: >I will take this opportunity to officially invite you to our 1st >General Assembly (GA) which will be convened before the opening of >the ICANN meeting on Saturday, 21 June 08, approximately in the >afternoon (02:00-05:00 PM) in Paris (for more information see: >https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?21_june_2008) The exact >details of the time and venue of our General Assembly will be send to you soon. > >Attached please find a first draft of an agenda for our GA. If you >have any more suggestions and other points you wish to be added to >this draft please let me know (preferably within the next two weeks). Dear Wolf, as a speaker, on behalf of france@large, for the first @large meeting ever on the eve of Marina del Rey 2000, with Karl Auerbach and Andy Mueller-Maguhn, etc I hope I will be able to say a few welcome words to you in Paris to the World Internet Week of Paris (http://wiw.de-paris.info) I am interested to know the procedure to be nominated Euralo candidate (unless there are national quotas ?) jfc

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Important: Resigning from ALAC Position at ICANN
by Veronica Cretu May 7, 2008

May 7, 2008

Dear colleagues! Warm greetings from Moldova! Hope my message finds you well! I am currently involved as an international expert in a big project for the Ministry of Education of Liberia and will have to spend more than three weeks there starting from May 15. The NGO I run here in Moldova is also involved in many national projects which require very much of my direct involvement: monitoring and evaluation. In this context, it is quite a challenge to find additional time for ALAC activities when I am full-time involved in so many activities.That is why, it is my duty to inform you all that due to the many projects I am currently in charge of, I have to unfortunately resign from my ALAC position. It has not been an easy decision to make at all! I just can not stay in ALAC any longer just for the sake of being on ALAC/AtLarge – I prefer to be effective and to produce impact. And this is smth for which I simply don’t have time now! I must say that ALAC has been a great experience for me and I am truly thankful to everyone on ALAC who have been day by day, side by side during this last year. I have learned a lot from this professional, hard-working, committed and culturally diverse community. I want to thank my European colleagues: Annette and WolfgangKleinwächterin the first place, for their confidence in me and for believing that I can bring something new to ALAC, even if I am from Eastern Europe:)! I am very thankful to Cheryl and Izumi for their openness and for their professional support on the initiatives I launched on ALAC. I am happy for having worked with my European colleagues: Sebastian and Wolf and all my respect for all EURALO board membersfor the patience, passion and possible solutions they have been trying to identify in order to make EURALO start working on policy related issues in the region; My thanks go also for my North American colleagues: Alan, Robert and Beau – for their professional work and support whenever needed; Jose Ovidio, Carlos, Hawa– my admiration for the effort and time you invest in ALAC – I know it has not been easy for you given the language barriers that you have been facing so far; Mohamed, Fatimata, Vanda and Thu Hue –many thanks for your energy, time and devotion and for your friendly support on the ideas I was promoting on ALAC/Atlarge. Many thanks to current ALAC liaisons: Hong, Jacqueline and Wendy; And of course, my many thanks toNick- I know it is not an easy task to handle the communication and collaboration with such a big and diverse community. Thank you for your support throughout this year. I know ICANN staff will do much more in order to support ALAC/AtLarge become a viable and strong community now with more staff members in place. I am glad I managed to bring to ALAC/AtLarge some ideas and practices that go back to my professional background. Because I strongly believe that “A policy is a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s).” back in Puerto Rico (my first ICANN meeting) I came to the conclusion that ALAC /At Large needs to have a set of mechanisms via which these policies are identified, promoted and evaluated. These are the few things that I have managed to do in the period of June 2007 – present: -I initiated the “OneDay” Workshop for ALAC/AtLarge. -I have designed the agenda and conducted together with Cheryl and Izumi two “OneDay” workshops before ICANN meetings in Los-Angeles and New Delhi. -I have compiled OneDay Evaluation Reports, based on the feedback from ALAC/AtLarge members who have participated in these meetings; -Back in New Delhi, I made a statement on behalf of ALAC on Organizational Development; -I elaborated the ALAC Organizational Development document that focuses on several components of the ALAC’s developments; -I proposed a document on “What is an ALAC/AtLarge” Working Group – and the document was used for planning activities per certain working groups during the OneDay workshop in New Delhi; -I have recently transferred some of the good practices that came as a result of this Organizational Development processes on ALAC into the GNSO Improvements Report. -Along with all the above, I organized a three days training program on Internet Governance and Community Development in Moldova (www.cmb.md/igf [http://www.cmb.md/igf] during which we had a special session on ALAC/AtLarge @ ICANN. Training participants were 16 young leaders representing civil society, business sector, international community and the Government. -I have had several discussions with APTI members from Romania, as they were our project partners in the above Program, and as a result we have recently received their application in order to become an accredited ALS structure @ICANN from our part of the world. All the reports and documents I produced have been available since produced at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?organisational_development [https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?organisational_development] . To conclude, I want to encourage you to contact me/stay in touch in case you are interested in working on projects/initiatives dealing with ICT for Development, Access to Knowledge, Internet Governance, Community Development, IDNs, Education, Virtual Embassies, Climate Change, etc. both regionally and/or internationally! Good luck with all your initiatives and all the best! As ever, Veronica Veronica Cretu, President, CMB Training Center CMB - Promoting innovations in Communication, Management and Business Chisinau, Moldova www.cmb.md [http://www.cmb.md/] www.cmb.md/igf [http://www.cmb.md/igf] +373 22 27 45 04, 273196 email:vcretu@cmb.md [javascript:openWin('/WorldClient.dll?Session=EJQQNER&View=Compose&To=vcretu(a)cmb.md&New=Yes','Compose',800,600,'yes');] VeronicaC(a)diplomacy.edu [javascript:openWin('/WorldClient.dll?Session=EJQQNER&View=Compose&To=VeronicaC(a)diplomacy.edu&New=Yes','Compose',800,600,'yes');]

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WG: [ALAC-Internal] FW: Call for Comments on GNSO Domain Tasting Motion ... ACTION Required for RALO's and ALS input
by Dominik Filipp May 7, 2008

May 7, 2008

Hi all, There is already an ongoing debate on domain tasting on NA-Discuss and partly ALAC forums discussing the elimination of the AGP. Unfortunately, because of the list split there is no central place directly accessible to all where to address this important issue. It would perhaps be worth considering the reactivation of the Domain Tasting Working Group. Dominik Wolf Ludwig wrote: >Dear all, > >I would like to forward to you this Call for public Comments. >It would be great to have some comments and inputs from the >EURALO community on the GNSO Domain Tasting Motion! > >Thanks and regards, >Wolf

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WG: [ALAC-Internal] FW: Call for Comments on GNSO Domain Tasting Motion ... ACTION Required for RALO's and ALS input
by Wolf Ludwig May 6, 2008

May 6, 2008

Dear all, I would like to forward to you this Call for public Comments. It would be great to have some comments and inputs from the EURALO community on the GNSO Domain Tasting Motion! Thanks and regards, Wolf Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote Sat, 3 May 2008 09:08: >Your attention is drawn to the following *call for public comment* forwarded >to all SO & AC Chairs earlier today. > >The Secretariats and Executive Committees / Boards of the RALO's are hereby >requested to ensure (in their role in the "managing of outreach and public >involvement and acting as the main forum and coordination point in each >region for public input to ICANN", {see ><http://www.icann.org/committees/alac/> >http://www.icann.org/committees/alac/} ) to ensure that the ALS's and >At-large Community in your region are *aware of* and have *the opportunity >to input* into this final round of comment into the Domain Tasting Issue/ >Motion before it goes to the ICANN Board. > >Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO) >ALAC Chair 2007-2008 > > > >From: (.) Denise Michel >Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:18 AM > >Subject: Call for Comments on GNSO Domain Tasting Motion > >To: Supporting Organization and Advisory Committee Chairs > >Please note that a forum for public comments has been opened regarding the >recent action by the GNSO Council to approve by super majority vote a motion >to discourage use of the current "add grace period" (AGP). The forum can be >found at <http://icann.org/public_comment/#dt-motion-21may08>. > >The motion, which is now pending for Board action, would specifically >prohibit any gTLD operator that has implemented an "add grace period" (AGP) >from offering a refund for any domain name deleted during the AGP that >exceeds 10% of its net new registrations during that month, or fifty domain >names, whichever is greater. An exemption could be granted based on >extraordinary circumstances, as detailed in the motion. > >The public and all interested parties are invited to comment on this motion >before final consideration by the Board. >(.) > >Regards, >Denise Michel >Vice President Policy > comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Regional advice on France@Large application needed
by Vittorio Bertola May 3, 2008

May 3, 2008

Wolf Ludwig ha scritto: > Dear all, > > EURALO and its board is asked for opinion and advice on new ALS > applications in its region. In previous cases our verifications > didn’t show any difficulties or inconsistencies. Unfortunately in a > recent one, the application from France @Large, we face some problems > to come up with an unanimous recommendation. > > Repeated and detailed verifications of France@Large’s application by > the staff and some of the board members showed the following > inconsistencies: > > *the type of organisation and its membership is rather unclear. In > the application form, some of the crucial questions (2 d-e) on the > participation, role and influence of individual Internet users, are > answered with “No”. In question 2 f-j it is stated that the > applicant/ALS has “no organizations as members“ and „ governmental > bodies or quasi-governmental bodies as members“ neither. That means > that the organisational character of the applicant is not evident > after repeated checks. I'm not sure I understand. According to the English application that was posted to the EURALO list almost two months ago, in 2 d-e they say the exact opposite of what you report, they say that decisions are taken by their members. And in 2 e-f they say that they have no organizational members and no governmental members, which is a good thing. That's why we are asking those questions - to be sure that they are not controlled by companies or governments. > *the membership development, > > *the exact activities and > > *the financing/funding of the applicant. > > Therefore the Co-Chair and other board members cannot support > France@Large’s application under consideration of the given > information. If there is no objection from other board and EURALO > members -- with any further reasons to be considered -- we would like > to recommend non-approval to ALAC. I am a EURALO Board member, but this is the first time I am asked an opinion about this application. Can you explain me how and by whom this application was discussed, to come to the recommendation above? I remember the application being posted to the EURALO list, but I don't remember any comment there. Was there any request to all Board members or to the EURALO list for comments? If not, why not? In any case, I am forwarding this message to the list so that everyone is informed and we can have an open discussion. In general, we have to be very cautious about rejecting new applications, as it might look like a form of capture by the existing RALO members. I do not have a final opinion yet, but I have known Jefsey Morfin - the France@Large leader - for years, and even if he often has very controversial opinions, he exists and he has been participating to the At Large since the year 2000, which is more than can be said of several accredited ALSes. There should be a clear reason to reject this application, not just "we're not sure" or "we don't like him". That's a guarantee for a new Ombudsman case. > Please note that we need to know your opinion within the NEXT 2 DAYS. Nothing has happened for two months, so why all this hurry now? Regards, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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