March 2008 - NA-Discuss - lists.icann.org

ALAC Draft Accountability Framework and Conflicts of Interest Policy
by Nick Ashton-Hart April 29, 2008

April 29, 2008

Dear Community members: The ALAC decided at their last meeting to request the staff to draft up a comprehensive Accountability Framework, which the ALAC Executive Committee was to review and amend at its meeting this month. The Chair proposed to the ExComm that at the same time a Conflicts of Interest Policy should be prepared as this was a natural accompaniment to the Accountability Framework. he ExComm has reviewed these two texts, and the ALAC is now to review the draft from 1 April until 11th April - comments from the wider At-Large community are of course welcomed. Any comments received are then to be incorporated and the resulting text will be on the agenda for adoption at the next ALAC Teleconference, in May. The URL for the text is as follows. In order to save bandwidth for those who do not have broadband, the text has not been attached to this message: https://st.icann.org/data/workspaces/alac/attachments/8_april_2008:20080331… French and Spanish translation will be available once they are ready. -- 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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Documentary Information Disclosure Policy Request
by Danny Younger April 15, 2008

April 15, 2008

Dear all, I have composed a letter to ICANN Staff requesting the disclosure of a certain document. I would appreciate having this letter placed on the agenda for our next NARALO meeting, and any member feedback to further refine or augment this letter. The letter is attached. regards, Danny ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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ARIN Participation at the Nonprofit Technology Conference
by Richard Jimmerson April 1, 2008

April 1, 2008

I saw that someone mentioned the Nonprofit Technology Conference on this list a few weeks back. I wanted to write back to give a brief description of ARIN's participation in the event. ARIN participated in the "Science Fair" which was the NTC exhibition event. We spoke to many people one-on-one about IPv4 depletion and the need to consider IPv6 adoption. On Friday, we held a 90-minute conference session to discuss details about IPv4, IPv6, the Regional Internet Registry System, and other educational topics. We encouraged everyone we spoke to, to participate in the ARIN policy development process as well as other processes and activities. Attendees' technical knowledge ranged from minimal to extensive, but we found everyone extremely interested in learning more about the issues facing the Internet community. We distributed hundreds of fact sheets, multimedia CDs, and comic books to people who planned to read the materials themselves or pass along to the more technical staff members not present at the event. This was a very useful and valuable conference to attend. We gained a wealth of information regarding the various ways that nonprofit organizations are using "Internet Technology" in their communities. Please contact me if you are interested in talking about the event in general, ARIN's participation in it, or other events where you think ARIN could participate. Richard Jimmerson Chief Information Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) http://www.arin.net

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ARIN Public Policy Meeting Remote Participation
by Richard Jimmerson March 31, 2008

March 31, 2008

The ARIN community will hold its 21st Public Policy and Members Meetings next week in Denver, Colorado. The entire meeting will be webcast and available for participation remotely to all who cannot attend in person. Your participation in the ARIN policy and other processes is very important. Viewing the webcast of this meeting is an excellent way for you to stay informed of all policy and technical discussion taking place inside the ARIN region. The remote participation facilities go a step further and give you the same full interactive access to the ARIN Public Policy Meeting, just as if you were physically in the meeting room in Denver. Questions and statements you submit using ARIN's remote participation facilities can be brought to the floor microphone by a member of the ARIN staff. Webcast and remote participation information is available at this link. http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XXI/webcast.html Anyone may participate in ARIN's policy process and this meeting. You do not have to be a member of ARIN or pay a fee to use these remote participation facilities. You do, however, need to register to participate remotely in advance of the meeting. If you are interested in participating in ARIN's Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process or just the meeting in general, please take advantage of the remote participation facilities. There are several policy proposals currently under discussion by the ARIN community and we encourage you to participate. One example of the policy proposals currently under discussion is 2008-3: Community Networks IPv6 Allocation. This policy proposal seeks to change ARIN's Number Resource Policy Manual to allow for IPv6 assignments to community networks. You can find this policy proposal along with all the others on the agenda for the Denver meeting at the following link. http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XXI/agenda.html You can also find the proposals in the "Policies" section of the ARIN website. This section of the ARIN website provides a description and links to the ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM), Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process (IRPEP), and the archive of all active proposals under discussion. You will also find information on this page about how to participate in the ARIN policy process. Again, there are no fees or membership required to participate. Anyone may participate. http://www.arin.net/policy/index.html Warm regards, Richard Jimmerson Chief Information Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

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FW: [Secretariat] FW: Upcoming Budget Committee Meeting
by Thompson, Darlene March 28, 2008

March 28, 2008

Hi all, See e-mail way below. So, this is on the same vein as Evan's last e-mails to the region. We need to figure out what our regional priorities are to bring them forward. It is very likely that this telephone conf will be held on Monday or Tuesday so any input on this is well appreciated by myself (and I will be sure to be checking my e-mails over the weekend - hubby out of town and I have nothing better to do). If I do not receive any other input, then I will be going forward with the idea of having 3-4 outreach meetings per year. Again, any input is welcome. 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) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca ________________________________ From: secretariat-bounces(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:secretariat-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of At-Large Staff Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 11:25 AM To: secretariat(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: [Secretariat] FW: Upcoming Budget Committee Meeting -- Regards, ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org ------ Forwarded Message From: At-Large Staff <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:20:31 +0100 To: Cheryl Langdon-Orr <cheryl(a)hovtek.com.au>, Vanda Scartezini UOL <vanda(a)uol.com.br>, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg(a)mcgill.ca>, Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg(a)web.de>, Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla(a)gmail.com> Cc: <secretariats(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Conversation: Upcoming Budget Committee Meeting Subject: Upcoming Budget Committee Meeting To the ALAC Budget Subcommittee: Cheryl, Vanda, Alan, Annette, and Fatimata, cc: At-Large Secretariats As you know, a Doodle page has been setup to schedule the Budget Subcommitee meeting requested at the last meeting of the ALAC on 11th March. At present, only Cheryl and Fatimata have said which dates are suitable for them - I hope that the rest of you will respond as a matter of urgency so this meeting can be scheduled - the URL again is: http://www.doodle.ch/9ewginbz2biwd3cy We have setup an agenda page for this meeting, at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?bc_april_meeting We are in the process of linking the documents related to that agenda to the page, as well as providing references to the supporting information related to them. The Chair of ALAC has asked me to remind members of the Finance and Budget Subcommittee that they should be attending the meeting as representatives of their regions. In particular, she draws to your attention that this means that you should be bringing to the meeting any suggestions for activities and events that your region believes to be important for the financial year beginning July 1 2008, running to the end of June 2009. Members of the Secretariats: I would like to appeal to you once again in the same vein - please ensure that any regional priorities which have a financial impact are sent to the members of the budget committee, and also to the staff at staff(a)atlarge.icann.org as soon as possible. The staff would like to remind everyone once again that the process of taking input from the constituencies began with an email on January 9th, from Denise Michel, VP of Policy Development. The Director of At-Large followed this up with an email on 30th January, reiterating the call for input. You may find PDFs of these emails at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?finance_and_budget_committee. Of course, in New Delhi calls for budget input and a review of the budgeting process was conducted. Complete information on the budgeting and operational planning cycle can be found at http://www.icann.org/planning/ The staff confirm hereby that as of date of this email we have received the suggestions listed below as regards regional priorities with a budget impact for the upcoming fiscal year: 1. We have drawn to the Chair's attention the proposal made some time ago by Wendy Seltzer for research to be done, and have asked for a copy of the proposal in its last form from Wendy, which could form one suggestion for future work this coming year. 2. We have the draft budget for the At-Large Summit. 3. APRALO has proposed participation in the IGF from its region (since the IGF will be held in the Asia-Australia-Pacific region this year). APRALO has a draft proposal which we very much hope will be finalised imminently. 4. LACRALO has said that it believes there must be funding to allow its region to meet at least once-yearly face-to-face whether at an ICANN International Meeting in the region in the given year, or separately, if there is to be no international meeting in LAC that year due to the rotation between regions which occurs. As has been repeatedly stated, the staff would prefer to build a draft budget based to the greatest possible extent upon priorities identified by the At-Large community. We believe it would be extremely helpful for each RALO to send at least some written thoughts on this important subject. We do trust that the meeting of the Finance and Budget Subcommittee in the coming few days will provide substantial additional input. At the same time, on 30th January we did inform the community that input should reach us by the beginning of March - and it is now the end of March, so we need whatever comments you would care to make as soon as possible. Of course, like all parts of the ICANN community, At-Large will be able to comment on the draft budget and operating plan once it is publicly posted. There will be opportunites for At-Large community members to participate in telephonic briefings on the draft budget once it is posted in order to help the community offer comments and understand the draft budget and its provisions for the At-Large community. -- Regards, ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org ------ End of Forwarded Message

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US Registrars and the Sudan Sanctions Program of the US Treasury Department
by Danny Younger March 26, 2008

March 26, 2008

a very informative piece by John Berryhill: http://www.johnberryhill.com/Sudan.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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New Community Website - conversion done, new site online!
by Nick Ashton-Hart March 25, 2008

March 25, 2008

Dear members of the community: I'm very pleased to be able to tell you that the conversion has been completed and the new website is up and running at www.atlarge.icann.org! There's still much to do though: 1. We will begin to change the menu structure on both the sides and the top to make things more intuitive. A number of documents also need to be changed from one long piece of text (like the main page) to individual 'pieces' of standalone text. The integration of forums and mailing lists for a two-way link between them is also pending. As those things are done we will also: 2. start migration a lot of the wiki content over to the main site - and also migrate the calendar from Google calendar 3. We'll create the regional sub-sites, so that it will become possible to allow community contribution of material to the site. 4. We'll start to 'turn on' features such as: RSS-feeds of blogs of members of the community related to ICANN (we will put out a call for those of you with blogs to send your URLs in - but hang on; we're not ready quite yet. I hope that you are all as excited by this milestone as I am. It has been a year in the making, and it may still look a bit like the old site - but we've now got a solid foundation to build a truly collaborative future! -- 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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Draft GNSO Improvements Statement from At-Large: Comments due by 31st March 1200 UTC
by At-Large Staff March 25, 2008

March 25, 2008

Dear Members of the At-Large Community: I have the pleasure to provide you with the attached draft statement of the ALAC Ad-Hoc Working Group on GNSO Improvements. It is intended that the statement should be transmitted by the At-Large Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of ICANN as a formal statement on behalf of the At-Large community. In order to do this, the following timeline has been established by the Working Group: 1. At-Large community views on the document are requested to be received not later than 31st March at 1200 UTC; 2. The Working Group will meet on 31st March to revise the statement as necessary to reflect the views of the community; 3. The Chair of the ALAC will transmit the finalised statement to the Board of Directors directly after it is finalised. We are requested to point out to you that the consultation on the GNSO Improvements proposal has been extended to 25th April 2008. As a result, the attached statement once finalised will also be transmitted to that public consultation. The consultation is open to all concerned and it is the hope of the ALAC that many members of the community will take this opportunity to comment directly. The consultation can be found at: http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#gnso-improvements-report-2008. Comments may be sent directly to gnso-improvements-report-2008(a)icann.org. The comments of others may be found at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-improvements-report-2008/ -- Regards, ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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AT-LARGE ANNOUNCEMENT: Resignation of ALAC Vice-Chair
by At-Large Staff March 18, 2008

March 18, 2008

Dear Community: The Chair of the ALAC has requested that the At-Large Staff notify you that Robert Guerra has resigned his office as Vice-Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee for personal reasons. The ALAC wishes to convey its thanks for his work in this position until his resignation. Robert remains an elected Member of the ALAC from North America and the representative of At-Large to the Security and Stability Advisory Committee. This situation is provided for in Rule 9.1 of the Rules of Procedure of the ALAC as adopted in October 2007: ³If for any reason whatsoever (including lack of quorum, lack or loss of eligibility requirements, resignation, or recall) an officer position becomes vacant before the end of the term, the Chair will promptly start an election to fill it, by sending an ³election call² message and starting the procedure from rule 9.1² In conformity with Rule 9.1 an election call message from the Chair will be forthcoming, which will provide the relevant details of the process to elect a replacement co-Vice-Chair. -- Regards, ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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I find this to be very annoying
by Gareth Shearman March 16, 2008

March 16, 2008

I don't suppose it is illegal, but if you look them up on Google, you will find them labelled as a scam. One of our customers brought the attached to us when he came in to pay for another year's service. It is designed in a very sneaky way to look like an official communication. Apparently there is a US counterpart to this company. Have any of the rest of you come across this group? Thanks, Gareth

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