November 2012 - NA-Discuss - lists.icann.org

Communication Strategy
by Garth Bruen at Knujon.com Nov. 12, 2012

Nov. 12, 2012

Folks, As introduced on today's call I have posted an ongoing working copy of our Communication Strategy which is the result of our meetings in Toronto: https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+Communication+Strategy Please send comments and recommendations. Per Alan's request I have clarified how we will get new NARALO members engaged in Working Groups. Thanks, Garth ------------------------------------- Garth Bruen gbruen(a)knujon.com 617-947-3805 http://www.knujon.com http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/149/724 The Death of the Internet: http://astore.amazon.com/knujocom-20/detail/1118062418 Chair of ICANN At-Large NARALO Linkedin Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1870205 Blog: http://www.circleid.com/members/3296/ Twitter: @Knujon

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Preview of Monday Call Agenda
by Garth Bruen at Knujon.com Nov. 12, 2012

Nov. 12, 2012

All, Please review the call agenda: https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+2012.11.12+Teleconference Let me know if you want anything specific added. Also, please let me know if you OBJECT to holding this call on the observed Veterans/Remembrance/Armistice Day. I have no problem since it is not the actual day, but I do not want to assume everyone is available and that ICANN staff is working. Thanks, Garth ------------------------------------- Garth Bruen gbruen(a)knujon.com 617-947-3805 http://www.knujon.com http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/149/724 The Death of the Internet: http://astore.amazon.com/knujocom-20/detail/1118062418 Chair of ICANN At-Large NARALO Linkedin Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1870205 Blog: http://www.circleid.com/members/3296/ Twitter: @Knujon

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Reminder - NARALO Teleconference Monday 12 November, 20:00 UTC
by ICANN At-Large Staff Nov. 12, 2012

Nov. 12, 2012

Dear All, The next NARALO teleconference is scheduled for Monday 12 November 2012 at 20:00 UTC. For other times: <http://tinyurl.com/bngdc5t> http://tinyurl.com/bngdc5t The agenda (TO BE UPDATED) and call details can be found at: <http://tinyurl.com/dyrbfrf> http://tinyurl.com/dyrbfrf Adobe Connect: <http://icann.adobeconnect.com/naralo/> http://icann.adobeconnect.com/naralo/ NARALO Wiki Space: https://community.icann.org/x/N5Qi If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at: <mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org. Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber, and Nathalie Peregrine ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Next Billion Users accessing the Internet on Mobile
by Glenn McKnight Nov. 10, 2012

Nov. 10, 2012

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/11/10/164824915/google-face… The chances are slim that a person living in poverty in a developing nation has access to the Internet on a computer. It's expensive and, in some places, there's a lack of infrastructure to support it. The chances are better, though, that that person owns a cellphone. It's probably not an iPhone or an Android, and he or she probably hasn't purchased a data plan for it, but it has the ability to access the Internet. Google believes that this category of cell phone user is the future of its expansion. On Thursday, Google, alongside the local mobile carrier Globe Telecom, announced a new service in the Philippines called Free Zone, Reutersreports<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/us-google-philippines-idUSBRE8A70…>. It allows basic mobile users to access Google products including search, email and Google Plus. [image: A woman talks on her cellphone in a slum area of Bhopal last month.]<http://www.npr.org/2012/04/08/150133880/indias-census-lots-of-cellphones-to…> Asia <http://www.npr.org/sections/asia/> India's Census: Lots Of Cellphones, Too Few Toilets<http://www.npr.org/2012/04/08/150133880/indias-census-lots-of-cellphones-to…> The free service is intended to eventually entice users to shell out for more advanced phones and, presumably, more expensive data plans. If the service is successful, it will expand into other countries. "It's aimed at the next billion users of the Internet, many of whom will be in emerging markets and encounter the Internet first on a mobile phone, without ever owning a PC," AbdelKarim Mardini, product manager for Google, told Reuters. Google is not the only tech company seeking to tap into emerging markets this way. As Quartz's Christopher Mims reports<http://qz.com/5180/facebooks-plan-to-find-its-next-billion-users-convince-t…>, Facebook has long considered mobile on non-smartphones in the developing world key to the company's continued expansion. To that end, Facebook has created two ways for non-smartphone users to experience the social networking service. In 2010, Facebook launched Facebook Zero<http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=391295167130>, a text-only version of its service. Users in 45 countries with "mid-range feature phones" can click on links, send messages, and update their status. The features of the app were basic, but enough to prompt the kind of wildfire success that fuller versions of Facebook had in the United States. In Africa, the number of people on Facebook jumped 114 percent in 18 months. And in 2011, Facebook and Snaptu announced <http://blog.snaptu.com/?p=202> a new app called Facebook for Every Phone. It was built for over 2,500 different types of mobile devices, constituting around 80 percent of the devices sold worldwide. It had 30 million users at acquisition. Still, there's room for both Facebook and Google to grow in these markets. Mashable's Alex Fitzpatrick<http://mashable.com/2012/07/18/mobile-phones-worldwide/> reports that approximately three-quarters of the world's population has access to a mobile phone, and that the majority of those subscriptions are in developing countries. But owning a mobile device does not yet automatically equate to having Internet access. For example, according to *The Economist<http://www.economist.com/node/16944020> *, only 81 million Indians, or 7 percent of the population, use the Internet, while 507 million own mobile phones. Narrowing that gap is the task for Internet-based companies in the 21st century. -- Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight Http://www.globalcatalysts.com http://newsocialmedia.wordpress.com

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ANNOUNCEMENT FROM NOMCOM: Apply Now for ICANN's Leadership Positions
by ICANN At-Large Staff Nov. 9, 2012

Nov. 9, 2012

Dear All, Please see below the partial text of an announcement inviting Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations from the Internet community for key leadership positions to fulfill ICANN's technical and policy coordination role to be submitted to the ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom): ** 7 November 2012 ICANN's Nominating Committee (NomCom) invites Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations from the Internet community for key leadership positions to fulfill ICANN's technical and policy coordination role. Interested individuals are invited to submit a Statement of Interest to the Nominating Committee for the following positions: * Three members of the Board of Directors of ICANN * Three At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each from the Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific Islands and Latin America/Caribbean Islands regions) * Two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) * One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO)... Statements of Interest for the positions described above can be submitted through an on-line application form at (http://nomcom.icann.org/apply) or by contacting nomcom2013(a)icann.org<mailto:nomcom2013@icann.org>. More information regarding the NomCom can be found at http://nomcom.icann.org. Applications will be considered in confidence and should be received by 1 May 2013 for full consideration. Selections will be announced in early September 2013. Successful candidates will take up their positions following ICANN's Annual Meeting in November 2013. Candidate recommendations are encouraged and can be submitted through an on-line form at http://nomcom.icann.org/suggest, and questions or comments may also be submitted to nomcom2013(a)icann.org<mailto:nomcom2013@icann.org>. ** For the full announcement, please see: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07nov12-en.htm Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine, and Julia Charvolen ICANN Policy Staff in support of the ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>

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Meeting Invitation / NARALO TELECONFERENCE - Monday, 12 November 2012 @ 20:00 UTC
by Silvia Vivanco Nov. 8, 2012

Nov. 8, 2012

Dear All, The next NARALO teleconference is scheduled for Monday 12 November 2012 at 20:00 UTC. For other times: http://tinyurl.com/bngdc5t The agenda (TO BE UPDATED) and call details can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/dyrbfrf Adobe Connect: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/naralo/ NARALO Wiki Space: https://community.icann.org/x/N5Qi If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at: mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org. Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber, and Nathalie Peregrine ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>

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Re: [NA-Discuss] Connecting.nyc Inc.- ALS Application 171
by ebw＠abenaki.wabanaki.net Nov. 8, 2012

Nov. 8, 2012

> ... critical portions ... kept alive with gasoline ... Diesel. Other than the particulates added to urban air quality from stationary sources, of little industrial consequence. Eric

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Re: [NA-Discuss] Connecting.nyc Inc.- ALS Application 171
by ebw＠abenaki.wabanaki.net Nov. 8, 2012

Nov. 8, 2012

> ... this has been interesting to follow I suggest that it is possible to do more -- within a narrow reading of the At Large advisory mission -- than just follow with interest. The requirements for new registries circa 2013/2014 are significantly higher than for registries new circa 2004/2005, or new circa 2001, or the subject of redelegations circa 2002 and 2004, and of course, registries pre-existing the transfer of the IANA Functions Contract from ISI to The New Entity. Independent of whether this raises competition policy concerns, these higher levels of requirements, some, in my view frivolous, e.g., ipv6 connectivity ab initio, zone signing ab initio, do not include geographic redundency, nor do they require, or merely offer guidance, on services which are in the public interest, and must, or should, be restored before services which are not. I do not claim that any redundency or order of illumination requirement will have a clear benefit when an operator is affected by an event such as the landfall of a hurricane, however, the experience of registrars located in the hurricane landfalls of Florida and Lousiana has been one of near-failure and near-miss, and it is only a matter of time until a registry is the subject of heroic efforts and/or failover programs. A redundency requirement and a critical operations first plan requirement would add to the technical, and policy cultures of stability and resiliency, and for that reason I suggest that advice is both now due, and prudent. Eric

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Updated NOMCOM Page
by Glenn McKnight Nov. 8, 2012

Nov. 8, 2012

Hi Everyone Just a quick update on NomCom The new 2013 Nomcom page is up and running http://nomcom.icann.org/ Positions available - Three members of the Board of Directors of ICANN - Three At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each from the Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific Islands and Latin America/Caribbean Islands regions) - Two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) - One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) To apply click here http://forms.icann.org/nomcom/soi-2013.php -- Glenn McKnight, B.A, M.A Chair: Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities(FBSC) IEEE HIC Committee Member IEEE PES CSI Committee Member ICANN NARALO Member Oshawa, Ontario Canada <http://forms.icann.org/nomcom/soi-2013.php> <http://forms.icann.org/nomcom/soi-2013.php>glenn.mcknight(a)ieee.org SKYPE: gmcknight

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Connecting.nyc Inc.- ALS Application 171
by ICANN At-Large Staff Nov. 8, 2012

Nov. 8, 2012

Dear All, This is to inform you that we received an ALS application from Connecting.nyc Inc. It is based in New York, USA. and would be a member of NARALO if accepted. Please find the application form attached. We will provide the due diligence for this application in due course. Kind regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Gisella Gruber-White, Matt Ashtiani, Nathalie Peregrine ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: <mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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