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Notes from Monday’s Geneva Meeting
by Wolf Ludwig March 3, 2008

March 3, 2008

Dear all, as promised yesterday, below you find the notes from our meeting on Monday in Geneva for review and comments: ______ Notes / Minutes from EURALOs’ first board meeting on Monday, 25 February 08, 12h00 – 15h30, at Jade Manotel, Geneva: Board members foreseen were: Annette, Desirée, Rudi, Sébastien and Wolf. Present in Geneva: Annette, Desirée, Wolf. Sébastien execused by Mail (Monday morning), no answer from Rudi. Jeanette, Bill and Wolfgang were briefed on the outcome on Tuesday (by Wolf). Proposed Agenda for this (1st) EURALO board meeting -- no supplements were suggested. (Topic 1) Briefing about ICANN’s New Delhi meeting As the board members present have all been in Delhi there is no need for a general briefing about the last ICANN conference. Wolf explained why he insisted on today’s board meeting even if our funding request has not been approved by ICANN staff again. The meeting was already agreed at our last phone conference at 17 January. And as it was said again and again that the EURALO board must have a chance to meet at least once f2f before the first GA in summer in Paris to overcome the “agony” we were accused for during the last months. (Topic 2) Options for an EURALO summit or PrepCom in Paris The idea for organising a Users’ Summit came up at ICANN’s LA meeting and Sébastien was strongly involved in the subsequent discussion and draft of a proposal in the Summit-WG. From a EURALO point of view there was a certain frustration when the global summit was postponed to the “Fiscal Year 2008-09”, to be organised somewhere else but Paris, by the ICANN board. And there have been different suggestions and ideas to use the ICANN Paris meeting *at our front door* for a common EURALO User-related project. In this context Wolfgang suggested: “I would add that we need a drafting committee. One outcome from the summit should be a "ICANN At Large & Internet Users Declaration". The Paris meeting gives us an opportunity to negotiate F2F on a text like on a PrepCom. We would need a drafting group with volunteers starting on a concrete outline and later with text.” (Wolfgang) The EURALO board (Annette, Desirée, Wolf, Jeanette, Bill and Wolfgang so far) believes that there is a need for another event for European ALSes besides the foreseen GA *based on content* with Working Groups and presentation on subjects like * Whois (volunteers Wolf with Rudi?) * A “Internet Users Declaration" * Public perception and understanding of DNS (Desirée) * Summary of ALAC’s activities (who volunteers for this part?) (any further suggestions for subjects?) Annette said that she has worked already on the “Internet Users Declaration" issue of putting together a list of items relevant for Internet users underlining some special European concern like Privacy and the Whois. Annette volunteeres to chair this WG and to set-up a Website to further discuss these subjects. The ALAC-EU / EURLAO (www.//st.icann.org/euralo/index.clgl) could be a suitable place for this. As we believe that many of our ALSes are tired from procedural debates and won’t come to Paris in summer if there is no event / programme of content and substance which may attract and mobilize them again. Therefore a common project like a European PrepCom (for a later global Users’ Summit) is considered as being essential. As we cannot count on ICANN funding for such a side event / Users’ Summit PrepCom in Paris Wolf will prepare and submit a project proposal for the board to be submitted to different European organisations for sponsoring. Part of such a PrepCom and project proposal could be an input like a “reader” with summarized position papers on subjects dealt with in Paris. (Topic 3) Draft EURALO budget for the coming fiscal year The board members (present) agreed that the current working conditions do not enable or promote RALOs’ efforts and do not allow to follow their tasks, dynamics and agenda setting. After EURALO was created in March 07 in Lisbon and the board was elected in May 07 we repeatedly asked for funding for a f2f board and outreach meeting which was refused twice. And there is no transparency so far, which of the five RALOs has requested what for their respective activities and what was approved by the staff or not. As long as we have no auto-determination and decision authority on the conduct of our activities we cannot make further progress with our work. At the Los Angeles 2007 meeting, ALAC and RALOs and staff have agreed upon clear procedures that any ALAC member or RALO representative could send in a budget proposal to the ALAC budget committee; the budget committee then coordinates the budget proposals and sends it to ALAC and RALOs and in general it is expected that if proposals within the limits of the budget, it should be approved by staff, and if it is not approved, the staff should explain why. Staff should be copied on the proposals from the very begging in order to facilitate this process. EURALO will submit a new budget proposal for the Fiscal Year 2008-09 to ALAC that will at least include -one board f2f meeting a year, -one General Assembly, -and several outreach and internet user related projects. Wolf will prepare a draft at the beginning of March, post it on the list for review and submit it afterwards to ALAC’s budget committee. (Topic 4) Planning for General Assembly in June 08 in Paris According to the by-laws EURALO and its board are supposed to organise a first General Assembly within one year. The next ICANN meeting in Paris offers the best opportunity for this GA as one representative per ALS will be invited and funded by ICANN for a meeting in its region. For a preliminary/draft GA-agenda the following points are suggested: Board Statement of Accounts, needs for revision of Bylaws (as noted in Lisbon) for example individual users participation at EURALO, discussion and approval of a EURALO working programme and projects 2008-09, approval of EURALO’s working budget 2008-09, board (re-)elections. (Topic 5) Board elections at GA in June 08 in Paris As the term of some (half) of the board members will expire in summer we have to discuss this issue at the GA in Paris. There are suggestions to reduce the size of the EURALO board to five members to make it more operational and effective. We have to clarify in advance whether any adjustments have to be made in the By-laws. (Topic 6) Other outreach activities foreseen Wolf was invited last week (21./22.02.08) to the DomainPulse 2008 in Vienna to discuss the “User perspective” and to present EURALO on a panel (moderated by Wolfgang and with participation of Roberto and others). Another outreach meeting (ICANN Studienkreis) is already foreseen in October 08 in Helsinki and EURALO should use this opportunity to find, attract and include ALSes from Scandinavia (which is a blind spot at our landscape so far). (7) Miscellaneous None This is a first draft from Monday’s meeting, discussed, modified and approved at yesterday evening’s/Tuesday meeting with Jeanette, Bill and Wolfgang. Please let us know your comments on the respective topics! If we can find further approval we could define it as a “consent paper” of the board -- and discuss further details on a next phone conference. Thanks and regards, Wolf comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend

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working on a EURALO draft internet users declaration
by Annette Muehlberg March 3, 2008

March 3, 2008

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/ greetings annette

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Re: [EURO-Discuss] Application for ALS from APTI
by Annette Muehlberg Feb. 29, 2008

Feb. 29, 2008

warm greetings back to you from berlin! annette > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: "Adela Danciu" <adelada(a)yahoo.com> > Gesendet: 29.02.08 12:55:20 > An: "'Sébastien" Bachollet' <sebastien.bachollet(a)isoc.fr> > Betreff: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Application for ALS from APTI > Actually is a result of Wolfgang's European IG Summer School of last summer and not only ... ;) > > Warm greetings from Bucharest to all, > > Adela > > Roberto Gaetano <roberto(a)icann.org> wrote: > this is excellent news! i wonder whether this is a result also of wolfgang's icann studienkreis meeting last fall... > cheers, > roberto > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > From: euro-discuss-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Langenegger > Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2008 16:48 > To: Discussion for At-Large Europe; Wolf Ludwig; Annette Muehlberg; Sébastien Bachollet > Subject: [EURO-Discuss] Application for ALS from APTI > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > --

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ALS application from france@large
by At-Large Staff Feb. 29, 2008

Feb. 29, 2008

Dear all, We would like to inform you about the reception of an ALS application from france@large, a Versailles-based Internet Organisation. Please find it attached to this mail. You will find that it is in French. An English version of the application as well as further information about of the application will be sent to you shortly. Best regards, At-Large Staff staff(a)alac.icann.org

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GNSO Improvements Proposals Open for Public Comment
by Nick Ashton-Hart Feb. 29, 2008

Feb. 29, 2008

Please note that the GNSO Improvements Report 2008 is open for public comments from 25 February 2008 to 25 March 2008 http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#gnso-improvements-report-2008 GNSO Improvements Report 2008 Explanation: On February 15, 2008, ICANN's Board acknowledged receipt of the "GNSO Improvements Report" and indicated that it would like to receive final public comments on the Report to enable it to consider and implement the Report's recommendations as soon as possible. The Board has directed ICANN staff to open a public comment forum on the Report for 30 days, draft a detailed implementation plan in consultation with the GNSO, begin implementation of the non-contentious recommendations, and return to the Board and community for further consideration of the implementation plan. A copy of the Board's resolution regarding this matter can be found here. http://www.icann.org/minutes/resolutions-15feb08.htm A COUPLE OF POINTS TO CONSIDER FOR AT-LARGE MEMBERS: * Do you think that the At-Large community should be a part of the GNSO as a constituency in its own right? You can read more about this in the proposals on page 41. * One of the recommendations is that greater coordination between the GNSO and other parts of ICANN should be implemented - this includes At-Large - read more about it on pages 47 - 48 HOW TO GET THE REPORT: You can read the full report here [PDF, 197K] http://www.icann.org/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-report-03feb 08.pdf and see a web page with more information here. http://www.icann.org/topics/gnso-improvements/ The ICANN Board Governance Committee's "GNSO Review Working Group" http://www.icann.org/topics/gnso-improvements/ developed the Report's http://www.icann.org/topics/gnso-improvements/gnso-improvements-report-03feb 08.pdf set of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the GNSO, including its policy activities, structure, operations and communications. The Report reflects the Working Group's examination of many aspects of the GNSO's functioning, including the use of working groups and the overall policy development process (PDP), and the structure of the GNSO Council and its constituencies. The Board Governance Committee determined that the GNSO Improvements working group had fulfilled its charter and forwarded the report to the Board for consideration." Is it clear to you what this comment period covers? Do you have all the information you need to respond? The staff member responsible is Denise Michel - if you have questions, she can be reached at denise.michel(a)icann.org. Please submit comments to: gnso-improvements-report-2008(a)icann.org Archives: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-improvements-report-2008/ Please take the time to comment. Thank you. Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director for At-Large Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (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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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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