September 2007 - NA-Discuss

Meeting Summary, Sept. 10, 2007
by Thompson, Darlene Sept. 14, 2007

Sept. 14, 2007

And here it is - as eagerly awaited ;) D Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-6531 Fax: (867) 979-8870 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca

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Teleconference Recordings
by Nick Ashton-Hart Sept. 13, 2007

Sept. 13, 2007

Dear All: The recordings of the last two teleconferences are now online. Darlene, were you the one keeping the summary minutes? Or Bret? Perhaps one or the other could post them or send them along and I'll do it? -- 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(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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Report from Secretariat's Meeting
by Thompson, Darlene Sept. 12, 2007

Sept. 12, 2007

Hi all, As mentioned on the telephone conf. today, we had a Secretariat's conference this evening and I was to make a couple of enquiries: 1. Question: Why doesn't the region get to select its own people coming to LA rather than ICANN dictating to them? Answer: Its actually only one person per region coming to LA. Apparently some of the regions don't have a chair or don't have a secretariat. If the region doesn't have a Secretariat, the Chair goes. If the region has both, the Secretariat goes. So, its only one person per region, mainly Secretariats, and that is how they were chosen. 2. Concern: We need to make remote participation MUCH better. Answer: This is one of Nick's pet peeves. Apparently, ICANN has been in the habit of hiring the cheapest of the cheap for sound so, you get what you pay for. Nick has been promised that, this year, they are paying for someone competent. He has been bringing this up to the "higher ups" on a frequent basis. D

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Secretariat Election
by Bret Fausett Sept. 11, 2007

Sept. 11, 2007

As decided on yesterday's telephone conference, Darlene Thompson has been elected by acclamation to serve as the NA-RALO Secretariat through the ICANN annual meeting in November, 2008. Thank you, Darlene, for agreeing to serve and for all that you are doing to help make the NA-RALO a success. -- Bret Fausett

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Multilingual Survey: ICANN Public Information: Is it what you need?
by Nick Ashton-Hart Sept. 11, 2007

Sept. 11, 2007

One of ICANN's most important jobs is to provide information on its processes. To that end, we have a series of publications, systems and websites to elicit input and comment from the Internet community. But is it enough? Are we providing sufficient information? Is it in the right format or on the right topics? Are you using the various means of interacting with ICANN? If not, why not? What can we do to improve? We have set up a quick and easy six-question online survey to find out from you what you want. It will take less than five minutes, but we will use it to help decide the future course of providing information about ICANN and its processes. So please do take a few minutes out from your day to complete the survey. We will be very grateful for all help received. The survey is in English, Spanish, French, and Brazilian Portuguese and available below: https://www.bigpulse.com/916i -- 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(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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ICANN Summit Progress Report
by Thompson, Darlene Sept. 10, 2007

Sept. 10, 2007

Hi all, Evan and I just has a conference call with Nick regarding the Summit plans so far. It's of course critical that we come up with a plan that meets the expectations of the community, as well as ICANN itself as it will be funding all the costs. As it turns out from our discussion, our goals for the Summit are remarkably similar. >From the point of view of ICANN (as expressed by Nick), the At-Large Community ultimately exists to provide the general public's point of view on relevant issues. For the Summit to be considered as a worthwhile achievement of that goal - not to mention provide value for its substantial expense -- it must actually produce policy analysis and recommendations to the rest of the ICANN community. Certainly educational and social components are vital. However, for the Summit to succeed a significant amount of education and discussion on issues must take place in advance, within the RALOs and ALSs, with final debate taking place and formal consensus recommendations being delivered at the Summit. The event's success will be judged - within ICANN itself - by its ability to provide useful recommendations and analysis regarding issues of importance, reflecting the diverse but common needs of the At-Large community. Summit delegates, in order to be funded, will be expected to have already raised relevant issues within their constituencies. We received commitments from Nick that sufficient background information will be provided in many languages, to allow such debate to start well in advance. We started with the attached ICANN Ensemble document. Nick liked many of the ideas shown there but was concerned the plan did not sufficiently commit the Summit to produce concrete policy documents. Here is what we need to do: 1. Decide which (and how many) policies we would like to work on. Obviously we don't have time to work on ALL of ICANN's policies at once. So, we need to choose between 3 to 5 of the current issues and work on them. This can be achieved by an on-line poll. (While it will be possible to start debate on long-term issues to be turned into policy at a later date, it is important to choose a number of issues on which At-Large can have an impact within the coming year.) 2. Create actual realistic milestones. We need to have dates and things accomplished by those dates to prove to ICANN that we are actually working on this stuff. When they see this, they will be much more likely to fund this venture. This will also be our opportunity to get a commitment out of them. They won't commit unless they see work getting done. 3. Only those that put the effort into doing the policy work will have the opportunity to go. ICANN will not fund those that just want travel or to socialize. Period. ICANN will, more than likely, be funding the Secretariats and Chairs to go to the LA meeting to discuss this further. They may also fund one or two others but that is it. The group will schedule at least one conference call during the LA meeting to involve anyone else who wants to participate but will not be there.

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Teleconference on Monday, September 10th
by Bret Fausett Sept. 10, 2007

Sept. 10, 2007

Noon, Pacific. 3:00 pm Eastern. Details here: https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?10_september_2007 -- Bret

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Next Meeting of the NA RALO
by Thompson, Darlene Sept. 7, 2007

Sept. 7, 2007

Hi all, This is just a "heads up" that we have a regularly set conference call coming up on Monday and we have no agenda to speak of. The link is below. One thing left "hanging" from the last telephone conference was the planning for the LA Meeting. Michael or Dharma - do you have any news on this front that you could present? Other than that, perhaps Bret could set us up with some kind of an agenda. https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?10_september_2007 Darlene Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-6531 Fax: (867) 979-8870 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca

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Nominating Committee Candidates 2007
by Thompson, Darlene Sept. 7, 2007

Sept. 7, 2007

Hi all, As 1/2 of your acting Secretariat for the NARALO, the below was forwarded to me for distribution. Although we are rather past the time limit with this, due to the present delays with the vote on the ALAC Liaison, we now have more time to discuss our options. I had already forwarded the website link to Jacqueline so that nobody was left out but it looks like new things have been happening. So, please circulate any input that you might have ASAP so that all views will be represented. Thank you, Darlene Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-6531 Fax: (867) 979-8870 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: Robert Guerra [mailto:rguerra@privaterra.ca] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:03 AM To: Thompson, Darlene Cc: Beau Brendler; Alan Greenberg Subject: A Nominating Committee Candidates 2007 Darlene: As you seem to be the acting secretariat for NA RALO, I wish to officially communicate to you that the individuals listed below (and posted to the NA ALAC wiki) are being considered by the NA ALAC representatives as 2007 nominating committee candidates from the NA Region. Alan, Beau and I still have to discuss the names. In the meantime, it would be great to get comments from NA Ralo on the list of candidates identified so far. A rather interesting development is that Michael Geist indeed might be interested. I had emailed him earlier but not received a reply. As luck would have it, I spoke to him during yesterday's CIRA meeting and seemed interested. However, said he'd need consult a colleague to find out what the time commitment is like and get back to me ASAP. Should he confirm, then my short list would be Wendy and Michael. Thought I haven't committed myself to supporting anyone - Thought i'd share what my current preferences are. That being - one canadian - Michael (if he confirms), if not Evan (who has confirmed) - and one person from the USA - Wendy (in no particular order). I mention two names, as Wendy is also a candidate for Board liaison. The decision on ALAC board liaison should have been known by now. The results are being withheld for reasons that , well, i can't reasonably explain. I won't say more.... Suffice it to say.. that should Wendy be elected as liaison, then my short list would be entirely Canadian - namely Michael & then Evan (again in no order) Please share this message with NA RALO and other related at-large lists. regards Robert -- https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi? na_nominating_committee_candidates_2007 * Hugh Dierker [USA] o current chair of the GNSO's General Assembly + Proposed by Danny Younger + Confirmed * Michael Geist [Canada] o Professor, University of Ottawa Law School + Proposed by Robert Guerra + Contacted at CIRA annual meeting (Sept 6, 2007) + Will shortly reply if interested. + Bio: Brief Bio, Complete CV * Evan Leibovich [Canada] o ALS Representative, CLUE (Canada) + Proposed by Beau & Robert + Confirmed * Wendy Seltzer [USA] o Proposed by Robert Guerra o Confirmed * Danny Younger [USA] o Contacted - not available regards, Robert --- Robert Guerra <rguerra(a)privaterra.ca> Managing Director, Privaterra Tel +1 416 893 0377 _______________________________________________ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss_atlarge-lists .icann.org <http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss_atlarge-list s.icann.org> --- Draft MoU with ICANN: http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_MOU Draft Operating Principles: http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_OP Draft Code of Conduct: http://www.icannwiki.org/NARALO_Code_of_Conduct

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A Nominating Committee Candidates 2007
by Thompson, Darlene Sept. 7, 2007

Sept. 7, 2007

Hi all, As 1/2 of your acting Secretariat for the NARALO, the below was forwarded to me for distribution. Although we are rather past the time limit with this, due to the present delays with the vote on the ALAC Liaison, we now have more time to discuss our options. I had already forwarded the website link to Jacqueline so that nobody was left out but it looks like new things have been happening. So, please circulate any input that you might have ASAP so that all views will be represented. Thank you, Darlene Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-6531 Fax: (867) 979-8870 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: Robert Guerra [mailto:rguerra@privaterra.ca] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:03 AM To: Thompson, Darlene Cc: Beau Brendler; Alan Greenberg Subject: A Nominating Committee Candidates 2007 Darlene: As you seem to be the acting secretariat for NA RALO, I wish to officially communicate to you that the individuals listed below (and posted to the NA ALAC wiki) are being considered by the NA ALAC representatives as 2007 nominating committee candidates from the NA Region. Alan, Beau and I still have to discuss the names. In the meantime, it would be great to get comments from NA Ralo on the list of candidates identified so far. A rather interesting development is that Michael Geist indeed might be interested. I had emailed him earlier but not received a reply. As luck would have it, I spoke to him during yesterday's CIRA meeting and seemed interested. However, said he'd need consult a colleague to find out what the time commitment is like and get back to me ASAP. Should he confirm, then my short list would be Wendy and Michael. Thought I haven't committed myself to supporting anyone - Thought i'd share what my current preferences are. That being - one canadian - Michael (if he confirms), if not Evan (who has confirmed) - and one person from the USA - Wendy (in no particular order). I mention two names, as Wendy is also a candidate for Board liaison. The decision on ALAC board liaison should have been known by now. The results are being withheld for reasons that , well, i can't reasonably explain. I won't say more.... Suffice it to say.. that should Wendy be elected as liaison, then my short list would be entirely Canadian - namely Michael & then Evan (again in no order) Please share this message with NA RALO and other related at-large lists. regards Robert -- https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi? na_nominating_committee_candidates_2007 * Hugh Dierker [USA] o current chair of the GNSO's General Assembly + Proposed by Danny Younger + Confirmed * Michael Geist [Canada] o Professor, University of Ottawa Law School + Proposed by Robert Guerra + Contacted at CIRA annual meeting (Sept 6, 2007) + Will shortly reply if interested. + Bio: Brief Bio, Complete CV * Evan Leibovich [Canada] o ALS Representative, CLUE (Canada) + Proposed by Beau & Robert + Confirmed * Wendy Seltzer [USA] o Proposed by Robert Guerra o Confirmed * Danny Younger [USA] o Contacted - not available regards, Robert --- Robert Guerra <rguerra(a)privaterra.ca> Managing Director, Privaterra Tel +1 416 893 0377

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