October 2007 - ispcp - lists.icann.org

[ SECRETARIAT ] ISPCP Resources for Los Angeles ICANN Meeting
by Mark McFadden - ISPCP Secretariat Oct. 29, 2007

Oct. 29, 2007

All: We have published a first draft of an ISPCP resources page for those interested in attending the ICANN meetings in Los Angeles: http://www.ispcp.info/mtgs-la.html It contains a relatively detailed schedule of interesting meetings for ISPs as well as some useful external links. mark Mark McFadden Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency mcfadden(a)ispcp.info

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Concluding the work of the Transfers Review WG.
by mark.h.mcfadden＠bt.com Oct. 25, 2007

Oct. 25, 2007

Colleagues; By way of this message, the working group on inter-registrar transfers concludes its work. Pursuant to Council resolution 20050512-03, this group had a mandate to "...review the staff Transfers report in order to seek clarification, further information and provide guidance for the 6 month review and to report back to the Council..." This working group conducted its work through mailing lists and teleconferences sporadically held throughout 2005-2007. The working group, with much assistance from ICANN staffer Karen Lentz, has produced the following three reports: 1. Advisory Concerning Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (Transfer-Advisory-23aug07.pdf) This is submitted by the WG to the Council as a suggestion for an advisory to be posted and distributed to the community. It is intended to provide clarifications and reminders on some common questions. The items covered in this document are those raised by the WG and believed to be not generally well-known or understood. 2. Points of Clarification Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (Transfer-Denial-Clarifications-23aug07.pdf) This is submitted by the WG to the Council as a suggestion for tightening the language on 4 areas within the list of reasons for which a registrar may deny a transfer request - to modify these requires policy development work, but this document may be helpful as a starting point to reduce the time necessary to be spent on this work. The purpose is to move toward tighter wording of some key points in the existing policy to remove loopholes/provide clarification. The suggestions included in this document are based on available references to the intent of the original policy work. 3. Communication to GNSO on Policy Issues Arising from Transfer Review (Transfer-Policy-Issues-23aug07.pdf) This is submitted by the WG to the Council as a suggestion for areas in which further policy development work may be desirable. This list came from issues identified by the members of the working group. The recommendation of the working group concerning these reports is as follows, in the form of a resolution that may be considered by the GNSO Council; "i) Whereas the GNSO Working Group on Inter-registrar Domain Transfers Policy Review (Transfers WG) has completed its work, and; ii) Whereas, the Transfers WG has provided a series of reports to the GNSO Council for its consideration, Be it resolved that; i) The GNSO Council will issue the working group report entitled "Advisory Concerning Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy" for constituency and community review and comment for a period of no less than 14 days, and; i.a) pursuant to this comment period, all material commentary will be summarized and reviewed by Council i.b) pursuant to the review by Council that the current, or an amended form of this report be provided to Staff for posting to the ICANN web site as a community advisory. ii) Pursuant to section 1.b of Annex A of ICANN's Bylaws, that the GNSO Council initiate the formal GNSO Policy Development Process by requesting the creation of an issues report evaluating issues raised by the working group document "Points of Clarification Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy". iii). That the GNSO Council form a short-term planning group to analyse and prioritize the policy issues raised in the report "Communication to GNSO on Policy Issues Arising from Transfer Review" before the Council further considers a PDP on any of the work discussed in the report." I would personally like to thank the participants of this working group for their time and effort. I would also like to specifically thank Karen Lentz of ICANN for doing all of the heavy lifting and the incredible patience she had with our rather laid back scheduling. We will review these documents at the next Council meeting, but I am available for questions via email beforehand. Thank you all. -- Regards, Ross Rader Director, Retail Services Tucows Inc. http://www.domaindirect.com t. 416.538.5492

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[ SECRETARIAT ] IDN Testing Goes Live [ from gNSO Secretariat ]
by Mark McFadden - ISPCP Secretariat Oct. 15, 2007

Oct. 15, 2007

My Name, My Language, My Internet: IDN Test Goes Live ICANN launches global test of Internationalized Domain Names http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-15oct07.htm MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: Internet users around the globe can now experiment with their name in their language on their Internet with today's launch of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers live testing of Internationalized Domain Names in 11 languages. "This is one of the most exciting times yet in the development of IDNs," said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN's President and CEO. "Internet users who speak the 11 languages of the test can play a key role in testing how IDNs operate, and help us move toward full implementation for all the languages of the world." Internet users around the globe can now to access wiki pages with the domain name example.test in the 11 test languages -- Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. The wikis will allow Internet users to establish their own subpages with their own names in their own language -- one suggestion is: example.test/yourname. ICANN has also put a video explaining the evaluation process on YouTube, and available on the ICANN website. The wiki pages can be accessed by typing example.test in the characters of one of the 11 languages, or by going to http://idn.icann.org. "These wikipages are key to the test. We want to know how the URL displays in the Internet browser, if it works when you cut and paste it into the body of an email to a friend, and how all of this impacts the root zone," Dr Twomey added. The 11 evaluation wikis will remain online until IDNs are fully implemented and the first top-level domain is introduced in the evaluation language. The full introduction of IDNs will mean that people can write the whole of a domain name in the characters used to write their own language. Presently you can only use these characters before the dot, so .com, .net, .org and the like can only be written in characters from basic Latin. IDNs will change this so that literally tens of thousands of characters will be available to the world. The "example.test" labels with the associated scripts, the languages that were used for translation of the two terms "example" and "test", and the A-labels for second and top level that are inserted in the IDN TLD zones and DNS respectively. Enjoy the videos! Mark McFadden Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency mcfadden(a)ispcp.info

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[ SECRETARIAT ] Notes on ISPCP Input to ICANN Strategic Plan
by Mark McFadden - ISPCP Secretariat Oct. 15, 2007

Oct. 15, 2007

A meeting was held between ICANN Management and the ISP Constituency to discuss the current ICANN Strategic Plan. The ISPCP was represented by Mark McFadden and Tony Holmes. ICANN staff has prepared a short summary of the ISPCP concerns. The notes from that conference call are available at the ISPCP web site: http://www.ispcp.info/notes-strp.pdf Mark McFadden Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency mcfadden(a)ispcp.info

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[ SECRETARIAT ] Provisional Agenda: Los Angeles ISPCP Meeting
by Mark McFadden - ISPCP Secretariat Oct. 15, 2007

Oct. 15, 2007

At the most recent ISPCP teleconference a provisional agenda was set for the ISPCP meeting to be held on 30 October 2007 in Los Angeles, California. The ISPCP agenda will include: 1. Introductions/Welcome 2. Update on WHOIS - further progress 3. GNSO and ICANN reform 4. New gTLDs 5. Dialogue with Board members Comments, additions or corrections should be sent to the mailing list. mark Mark McFadden Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency mcfadden(a)ispcp.info

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[ SECRETARIAT ] ISPCP Statement on Staff Report for whois is posted
by Mark McFadden - ISPCP Secretariat Oct. 15, 2007

Oct. 15, 2007

All: The ISPCP comments on the Staff Report for whois has been posted to our web site. You can find a copy at: http://www.ispcp.info/stmt-whois2.pdf mark Mark McFadden Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency mcfadden(a)ispcp.info

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New Dehli will host the February 2008 ICANN Meeting
by mark.h.mcfadden＠bt.com Oct. 9, 2007

Oct. 9, 2007

New Delhi, India will host the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' 31st International Public Meeting from 10-15 February 2008. Here's the link from the ICANN web site: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-09oct07.htm Mark McFadden Secretariat, ISPCP Constituency mcfadden(a)ispcp.info http://www.ispcp.info

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WHOIS CONSTITUENCY STATEMENT CALLED FOR
by Anthony Harris Oct. 8, 2007

Oct. 8, 2007

Guys, Please see: please see http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/icann-staff-overview-whois13sep07.pdf Regards Tony Harris

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[ SECRETARIAT ] ISPCP Conference Call
by Mark McFadden - ISPCP Secretariat Oct. 3, 2007

Oct. 3, 2007

======================================================================== Internet Service Provider and Connectivity Provider Constituency Generic Names Supporting Organization ======================================================================== 3 October 2007 ISPCP Constituency Conference Call A Conference call for the ISPCP constituency has been set up: Monday, October 8th 1600 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com> http://www.timeanddate.com 1800 Paris 1700 London 1600 UTC 1300 Buenos Aires 1200 Boston, Washington DC 1100 Madison, Chicago The teleconference bridge and access code are provided, as usual, upon RSVP by constituency members. An agenda for the call will be provided separately. If you have questions relating to the conference call please contact the ISPCP Secretariat at: <mailto:mcfadden@ispcp.info> mcfadden(a)ispcp.info

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[ SECRETARIAT ] ISPCP Elections for ICANN NomCom Representative
by Mark McFadden Oct. 3, 2007

Oct. 3, 2007

======================================================================== Internet Service Provider and Connectivity Provider Constituency Generic Names Supporting Organization ======================================================================== 3 October 2007 NOMINATION RESULTS - ICANN Nominations Committee Representative In accordance with both the ICANN bylaws and the ISPCP bylaws this message indicates that the period for nominations for an ISPCP representative to ICANN's NomCom closed. A single nominee, Mark McFadden of BT was nominated and is willing to serve in this position. According to the ISPCP By-Laws and past precedent, the Secretariat can ask the ISPCP to elect the nominee by consensus acclamation when the number of nominees is the same as the number of positions to be filled. I therefore ask if there is any objection to the election of Mark McFadden as our NomCom representative. Objections should be sent to the ISPCP Secretariat at: <mailto:mcfadden@ispcp.info> mcfadden(a)ispcp.info If no objection is raised in the next 72 hours the ISPCP will elect Mr McFadden by acclamation. Thanks to everyone who participated in the election process. If you have questions relating to the election, the constituency Articles or the nomination process please contact the ISPCP Secretariat at: <mailto:mcfadden@ispcp.info> mcfadden(a)ispcp.info

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