Tuesday, 5 February 2008 TO: CLUSIT FROM: ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) SUBJECT: At-Large Structure Certification ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you on behalf of the At-Large community in ICANN that CLUSIT has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS). The ALAC greatly appreciates your groups’ 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 ALSes, 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@alac.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 contacts you identify will automatically be added to: · Your region’s discussion list; · The worldwide At-Large discussion list. You are of course invited to join others as you wish (excepting those ending –Staff). - 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@alac.icann.org. - At-Large related websites: There are a few websites you should be aware of: · The ‘official’ ICANN website for the At-Large community is at http://www.alac.icann.org . This site will be replaced with a much more up-to-date and modern site but in the meantime it is a good source of information and has links to all the At-Large related URLs and links to other parts of icann.org. · The ALAC Working Wiki: Much of the administrative and policy development coordination work is made available and developed on the community's wikis. Meeting agendas, recordings of meetings, minutes, and all kinds of important documents for the whole community are to be found to help you get 'up to speed' with the state of development of community positions on issues you care about. Feel free to join in; the place to start is at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?at_large_policy_working_groups . · 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. 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 and all ALSes are welcome to have edit privileges to help provide information on their activities. These wikis create the regional websites shown above. The staff will create accounts on the EURALO site for your designated contacts once you've sent them that information. 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 alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88 USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +41 (22) 595 85 44 mobile: +41 (79) 595 54 68 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart