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New U.S. National IPR Coordination Center
by Jeffrey A. Williams July 15, 2008

July 15, 2008

All, An FYI that will be effecting all of us: The U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Commerce and Postal Inspection Service announced last week the creation of a new National IPR Coordination Center that will be central point of the US federal government fight against counterfeiters. The fact sheet is available here: http://149.101.23.4/pi/news/factsheets/IPR_FS070117.htm I copied below the press release by Office of Public Affairs of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security US Immigration and Customs Enforcement July 10, 2008 Contact: Brandon Alvarez- Montgomery ICE Public Affairs Phone: (202) 538-1846 www.ice.gov News Release NEW NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS COORDINATION CENTER OPENS IN VIRGINIA Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Commerce and Postal Inspection Service open command post to take joint action against counterfeiters WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today the opening of a new high-tech National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) in Northern Virginia that will help maximize member agencies authorities and resources to counter the global threat of intellectual property rights violations. Intellectual property rights crimes are increasing in volume and complexity, costing legitimate companies and their hard-working employees billions in irreplaceable revenue, sa id Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. These crimes threaten the health and safety of American consumers, and put illicit funds in the hands of criminals here as well as unknown recipients overseas. This center will fuse federal resources and promote partnerships with industry in new and powerful ways to protect American business and consumers from falling victim to dangerous and illicit goods. The center will host the restructured partnership of its components, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, with the Department of Commerce, Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Justices Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to combat counterfeiting and trademark piracy. Intellectual property is one of Americas most precious assets, said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez. The Bush Administration has recognized the critical task of protecting intellectual property both domestically and internationally. This new IPR Center is just another example of this Administration stepping- up the fight against counterfeiting and piracy. DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez joined business leaders, members of Congress and law enforcement officials to dedicate the new facility in Crystal City, Va., and to explain how this state-of-the- art center will function. The ICE- led IPR Center co-locates, for the first time, the regulators and law enforcement agencies that work to protect public safety and national security by stopping the importation of counterfeit, substandard and tainted products and the theft of intellectual property. Private sector rights holders across industries, across regions, and even among competitors will unanimously agree that the fight against IP crime cannot be won in isolation, said Keith Williams, president and CEO for Underwriters Laboratories, one of the world s leading product safety testing and certification organizations, who took part in the ceremony. The Center is perfectly positioned to build global partnerships capable of achieving exponential success in our collective battle against counterfeiting while fostering innovation, encouraging investment in research and development, and ultimately protecting the health and safety of consumers. Since 2000, the IPR Center has been the federal governments central point of contact in the fight against IPR violators. Under the new structure, and in the state-of-the-art facility, partners will employ a task force model to more effectively use authorities and resources to attack this international problem. The agencies will jointly manage investigative leads, investigations and operations and head off conflicts in enforc ement activity. In addition, they will strategically reach out nationally and internationally to train other law enforcement at every level about investigative best practices, to broaden intellectual property protection and to expand transnational enforcement capabilities. For international law enforcement agencies, the IPR Center will serve as a one-stop shop for partnering with the U.S. government to dismantle the criminal enterprises behind the flow of counterfeit items. For more information, contact: The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, 2451 Crystal Dr., Suite 200, Arlington, Va. 22202, 1 866-IPR-2060. E- mail is IPRCenter(a)dhs.gov # ICE # U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was established in March 2003 as the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE is comprised of five integrated divisions that form a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827

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Today's Senate hearing on IP enforcement
by Jeffrey A. Williams July 15, 2008

July 15, 2008

All, An FYI that effects us all: Today's hearing at the Senate Finance Committee International Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and American Competitiveness July 15, 2008 at 10:00 a.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building Member Statements: Max Baucus, MT Charles Grassley, IA Witness Statements: Andrew Lack, Chairman, SONY BMG Music Entertainment, New York, NY Jeffrey Kindler, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY John Barton, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA J. Walter Cahill, International Vice President, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts, Washington, DC http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/hearing071508.htm Andrew Lack: QUOTE The content community, governments, consumers, and ISPs themselves are beginning to respect the notion that the carriers of digital content must play a responsible role in curbing the systemic piracy that is threatening the future of all digital commerce. Industry has been hard at work on these critical issues, but we need the help of the U.S. and foreign governments to make the Internet safe for e-commerce in copyrighted material by encouraging marketplace solutions to take hold. END of QUOTE Testimony of Andy Lack Chairman, SONY BMG Music Entertainment before the Senate Finance Committee on International Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and American Competitiveness July 15, 2008 Good morning. My name is Andy Lack, and I am Chairman of SONY BMG Music Entertainment. Thank you for the opportunity to address the Committee on the issue of intellectual property protection in global markets. I commend Chairman Baucus, Ranking Member Grassley, and the members of the Committee for recognizing that this issue is of great importance to the entire U.S. creative community, as well as to the U.S. economy and to U.S. society as a whole. This Committee has been a tremendous champion for strong and effective copyright protection in global markets, and I thank you for your leadership. Sony BMG is a recorded music joint venture that operates in more than 40 markets around the world and employs approximately 2300 workers in the United States. Headquartered in New York, SONY BMG is one of the four major record companies in the music industry. I think its worthwhile to highlight that, even though SONY BMG is a global company with integrated interests in all facets of the music business, ultimately our assets are thoroughly intangible because they are based in the creative work of the artists themselves. For this reason, economic survival in the music industry is reliant upon the adequate protection of intellectual property. The stakes for our national economy are high. It has been reported, and the Administration has so testified before Congress, that roughly 40% of the U.S. economy is dependent upon IP protection in one way or another, and the core copyright industries are alone responsible for an estimated 6% of U.S. GDP. But the continued growth of this vital economic sector is seriously at risk. This Committee has highlighted the importance of the global fight against piracy, and we need your help now more than ever. My industrys story is but one, yet it is telling: While people listen to more music today than at any point in recorded history, paid consumption is sharply down, as piracy and the acquisition of music through illegal channels continues to skyrocket. Creating opportunities for business growth is critical to ensuring the survival of one of the world's most vital, diverse and competitive industries. The record industry currently faces a piracy phenomenon on two fronts. One involves the physical marketplace, in which we confront increasingly organized and multinational criminal enterprises involved in massive production and trafficking of pirate CDs and other optical media. The second front of the piracy war exists in the online marketplace. Here, too, global criminal organizations are engaged in illegal distribution directed at generally law abiding citizens who, in the privacy of their own homes, are now actively involved in trading or sharing unauthorized recorded music files. It is necessary that any global IP protection regime address the piracy problem on both the physical and digital fronts. Page - 2 - Music companies are not alone in confronting the pernicious threat of counterfeit products and digital theft. A coalition spearheaded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, The Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy (CACP), has highlighted the broad scope of the threat that counterfeiting and digital theft poses to the U.S. across more than two dozen sectors of the U.S. economy. The Coalition has emphasized that the threat from counterfeiting and digital theft robs the U.S. economy of hundreds of billions of dollars of GDP and hundreds of thousands jobs, threatens health and safety in many sectors, and is driven by organized crime. SONY BMG has employed a multi-pronged strategy to address these challenges. First, we are expanding legitimate avenues for digital distribution through creative new business models and experimental licensing arrangements. Second, we are educating the public and our industry partners about the risks involved with piracy and steps they can take to curb infringement. And, finally, we are taking enforcement actions against infringers, and against services that effectively encourage or induce infringement. However, a company like SONY BMG, and copyright industry bodies like RIAA, cannot fight piracy on our own. Today's pirates often operate through multinational criminal syndicates simultaneously involved in replication, printing and distribution around the globe. They rely on traditional means of avoiding punishment such as bribery and other forms of corruption, but also have new tools in their arsenal that increase their stature -- force and other threats of violence, and the ability to rapidly change the location of the various components of their enterprises when confronted with governments prepared to tackle piracy issues. Pirates actively seek out jurisdictions in which either the law, lax enforcement of the law, or the general inefficiency and corruption of the judicial system, offer relative safety for their operations. Company representatives and counsel have in some countries already experienced threats on their lives or physical intimidation when their investigations began to make progress. In some cases, this has prevented any enforcement activity by the private sector. We therefore look to the U.S. Government for leadership, at home and in bilateral and multilateral settings, to keep intellectual property protection at the top of the enforcement agenda and ensure that law enforcement agencies have the necessary tools and underlying legal framework to accomplish their goals. Adequate enforcement requires adequate resources, and to that end we believe that law enforcement must have dedicated personnel who are focused on seeking out and stopping illegal trafficking in pirated goods. The U.S. Government should encourage countries with existing organized crime laws and investigative procedures to bring them to bear against syndicate operations involved in piracy. And where such laws and procedures are not in place, the U.S. Government should encourage governments to adopt them and to include, among predicate offenses, intellectual property rights violations. Aggressive and constant monitoring of the implementation of bi- and multilateral trade agreements by our trading partners to ensure compliance is of paramount importance, and we salute the work that USTR, working with other U.S. Government agencies, does in this Page - 3 - regard. We also applaud the U.S. Government for the actions it has taken to make China accountable for its piracy problem, specifically through the filing of actions at the WTO. Congress can continue to play a role in helping to ensure that our trading partners meet their obligations to provide adequate and effective copyright protection by holding oversight hearings such as this, by ensuring that the Administration has adequate resources to safeguard this unique American asset, and by ensuring that all trade programs provide maximum leverage to require beneficiary countries to provide effective copyright protection. Unilaterally extended U.S. benefit programs crafted by Congress continue to play a key role in providing incentives to countries to meet their IPR obligations. This Committee should also continue to pay close attention to Russias accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Russian government wishes to join the WTO; however, to date they appear unwilling to take sufficient actions against rampant copyright piracy as they are required to do by the bilateral IPR agreement concluded between Russia and the United States in November 2006. We strongly advocate that the U.S. Government not complete the WTO accession process with Russia until Russia takes actions that effectively address this critical problem. There have been some promising developments in Russia, but compliance with the bilateral agreement that has been called the roadmap to WTO accession has not yet been achieved. We are particularly concerned by the lack of government action against the individuals responsible for allofmp3.com and other similar online sites, and against the rogue licensing societies that purported to grant licenses for content that they did not control. SONY BMG, in line with the industry as a whole, has been adapting our business to the dramatic changes brought about by the digital age. In the US, only five years after the music download business first emerged in a commercially meaningful way, 23 per cent of all recorded music sold is online or mobile. Record labels are becoming broad-based entertainment companies, developing new revenue streams. The consumer has better choice, availability and flexibility in enjoying music than ever before. Our digital revenues are growing and diversifying as our business model changes from one dominant format to hundreds of channels and products. However, while broadband Internet access offers exciting prospects for the legitimate dissemination of copyrighted materials of all kinds, too often high-speed Internet connections are being used to distribute unauthorized copies of sound recordings, software, videogames, literary material, and motion pictures. The unprecedented growth of the Internet and increased availability of broadband connections, coupled with the absence of adequate copyright law and/or enforcement in the online environment in many countries, has provided pirates with a highly efficient distribution network to reach the global market. Pirates offering and distributing infringing product can now reach any part of the world with ease, regardless of where they are physically located. Consequently, the U.S. copyright industries face the daunting task of trying to enforce their legal rights in an online world where borders and distances have decreasing practical significance, and where anonymity is claimed. Page - 4 - What tools do we have to address this type of online piracy where legal action by the industry does not suffice? First, of course, we have the framework of international trade law discussed above. But industry and government must also work together to address the particular legal and technological challenges of the electronic marketplace. The so-called WIPO Internet treaties adopted in 1996 set the stage for fair international digital distribution of music. These treaties represented significant and necessary improvements in the international legal structure. Of greatest importance, the treaties made it absolutely clear that copyright holders are permitted to control the electronic delivery of their works to individual members of the public. This both anticipated and responded to the realities of the electronic marketplace, where copyright owners rely increasingly on electronic delivery to meet consumer demand. This level of copyright protection, in conjunction with technical protections (also addressed in these treaties), is key to encouraging copyright owners to make their works available through these new media. It is critical that the marketplace, with government support, continue to develop its own solutions. To that end, SONY BMG and other content companies have begun to engage in a dialogue with our industry partners to find new ways to cooperate in the fight against piracy. In particular, this past year has witnessed a virtual explosion of global public interest in developing structures in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can enhance their role in addressing the unauthorized transmission of copyright content. This is an important development, because until now ISPs have not adequately responded to the massive theft that is occurring through their networks. Today, however, a shift is underway. The content community, governments, consumers, and ISPs themselves are beginning to respect the notion that the carriers of digital content must play a responsible role in curbing the systemic piracy that is threatening the future of all digital commerce. Industry has been hard at work on these critical issues, but we need the help of the U.S. and foreign governments to make the Internet safe for e-commerce in copyrighted material by encouraging marketplace solutions to take hold. Furthermore, renewed emphasis on law enforcement training is vital to giving enforcement authorities the tools they need to quickly locate infringing Internet sites and pursue actions against the offenders who commit the most damage and/or refuse to remove the infringing content. Public education about the dangers of online infringement must be emphasized as well. As global boundaries continue to lose much of their practical relevance because of Internet growth, so must the usual lines separating the roles of industry and government in policy, enforcement and education. Close coordination will be the key to success in this challenging new environment. Finally, I mentioned the broad-based CACP coalition earlier and I would urge the Committee to give positive consideration to proposals the CACP has endorsed with respect to the creation of high-level leadership positions in the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol and other agencies, as well as the deployment of dedicated agents with adequate legal tools to protect our borders against counterfeiting and digital theft. Page - 5 - CONCLUSION Effectively addressing piracy in all of its variants is a key economic and cultural objective for the United States. Congress, the Administration and the private sector must work together to achieve this goal. Trade pressure and capacity-building through effective training continue to be primary mechanisms for encouraging foreign nations to address inadequacies in their legal and enforcement frameworks, and I urge the Committee to ensure that the Administration has all the possible tools at its disposal to exert such pressure and to provide necessary training. To this end, it is critical that the Administration be funded in such a way as to permit them to use their powers to the maximum extent, and I urge the Congress to appropriate sufficient funds to protect America's most creative, vibrant and profitable industries. We can and must prevail in these initiatives. Once again, I thank you for inviting me here today, and I look forward to your questions. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827

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Re: [NA-Discuss] [ga] What are ICANN and VeriSign doing regarding CERT Advisory #800113 / DNS Cache Poisoning?
by Jeffrey A. Williams July 14, 2008

July 14, 2008

George and all, Good idea and also a good question. It appears that ICANN's SSAC is unwilling or unable to address this long standing and glaring problem that endangers us all on a global basis. It BTW is not a new problem by any means. It's been around for years. Thanks to CERT, by the insistence of some of us security professionals hammering them, it has finally been recognized as a huge security problem. Maybe DHS or the USDOJ can apply some pressure on ICANN to either act, or get out of the way. It's also very clear that the ALAC has seemingly not identified this security problem as being very important either. I suppose or can only surmise that the ALAC and the ALS'es could care less how many users are damaged by this problem. Certainly they cannot claim that they were not made aware. So it seems that it's full speed ahead and dam the torpedoes as fast tracking IDN ccTLD's, new gTLD's, IDN gTLD's, Fast-Flux, anti-phishing, and other less important issues is ICANN's policy priorities. See: http://www.icann.org/topics/policy/ But thank you again George, for bringing this serious security problem back into the public eye. George Kirikos wrote: > Hello, > > ICANN and VeriSign have been oddly quiet over the entire DNS cache > poisoning issue: > > http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113 > http://www.circleid.com/posts/87143_dns_not_a_guessing_game/ > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/08/195225&tid=172 > > PIR has a pending proposal to implement DNSSEC for .org: > > http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/ > > Is that something that VeriSign has plans to accelerate for the > important .com and .net registries, in order to prevent a long-term > meltdown in DNS confidence/trust should DNS cache poisoning become > widespread in August and beyond? > > No need for a "formal" press release, but I think the community > deserves to know that people are working on the long-term solution to > this problem, and making it a higher priority relative to other lesser > issues. > > Point #14 in the latest policy newsletter appears to be the only "hint" > that a few people are working on things: > > http://www.icann.org/topics/policy/update-jul08.htm#14 > > Hopefully something will happen before Cairo, as by then there might be > widespread disruptions to the internet. Perhaps the Board might want to > consider an early special meeting this week or next: > > http://www.icann.org/minutes/ > > instead of waiting until July 31st, in conjunction with the SSAC. > > Sincerely, > > George Kirikos > http://www.kirikos.com/ Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827

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NIST Release Draft Paper on Mobile Computing Security.
by Jeffrey A. Williams July 14, 2008

July 14, 2008

All, Will the ALAC, ICANN's SSAC be participating? Given .MOBI I would think so... Will ICANN's RAA with .MOBI registry be complying accordingly? I would hope so... See: (July 14, 2008) The US National Institute of Standards and Technology have released a paper containing draft guidelines on how to address the risks posed by mobile phones and other portable computing devices. NIST is seeking comments on the draft before final publication. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-124/Draft-SP800-124.pdf http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2221548/nist-aims-boost-mobile http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46628-1.html?topic=security Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827

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FOR SHAME!!!
by Thompson, Darlene July 14, 2008

July 14, 2008

Hi all, We just finished our NARALO conference call. Frederic just brought the participation rate of the last two questionnaires to our attention. We have 17 ALSs in the NARALO. Of them, only 7 replied to the Summit questionnaire and only 5 replied to the Win-win questionnaire. We all need to take a minute and HANG OUR HEADS IN SHAME!!! These were pretty easy questionnaires. I would encourage those of you who have not replied to them to take a few minutes and get them in NOW! I realize that the date for the Summit questionnaire is past but we are still accepting them – but we won’t be forever. Hey, if we want things to improve at ICANN, this is a good way to be heard. Elsewise, why are we here? Also, if you do not do this, I will find you and kick your butts personally! Hahahahahahahahahahah! :-) D ᑕᓕᓐ ᑕᒻᓴᓐ ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓂ ᖃᕆᓴᐅᔭᕐᕕᒋᔭᐅᔪᓐᓇᕐᑐᓄᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᑎ ᑮᓇᐅᔭᓕᕆᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᑎᔨᒃᑯᑦ ᐱᔨᑦᑎᕋᖅᕕᖓᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓂᓕᕆᔨᒃᑯᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᖓᑦ ᑎᑎᖅᑲᓂᐊᕐᕕᖓ 1000, ᐊᓪᓚᕝᕕᖓ 910 ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca ᐅᖄᓚᐅᑎ: 867 975-5631 ᓱᑲᑦᑐᒃᑰᕈᑎ: 867 975-5610 Taliin Taamsan Nunalingni Qaritauyani Atuqtauningitnun Titiraqtia Nunavut Kavamangat Titiraqarvia 1000, Nayugaa 910 Iqaluit, Nunavut dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca Hivayautik : 867 975-5631 Kayumiktuk : 867 975-5610 Darlene Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Corporate Services Division Department of Education Government of Nunavut PO Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, Nunavut, X0A 0H0 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca Ph: 867 975-5631 Fax: 867 975-5610 Darlene Thompson Administratrice du programme d’accès communautaire Division des services ministériels Ministère de l’Éducation Gouvernement du Nunavut Case postale 1000, Succursale 910 Iqaluit Nunavut, X0A 0H0 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca Tél. : 867 975-5631 Téléc. : 867 975-5610

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FW: NARALO Monthly Teleconference: July 14th
by Thompson, Darlene July 14, 2008

July 14, 2008

Hi all, In preparation for the election, Frederic needs everybody's information to be up-to-date. Please check the attached to ensure that your information is correct. Thanks! D Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca <mailto:dthompson@gov.nu.ca> ________________________________ From: Frederic Teboul [mailto:frederic.teboul@icann.org] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 2:57 PM To: Evan Leibovitch; Thompson, Darlene Subject: Re: NARALO Monthly Teleconference: July 14th Hello Darlene and Evan, and thanks for your message, It will my pleasure to oversee this upcoming election, so please do not hesitate to make me contribute to it. This week, I should get a training for the on-line voting system. But, once again, we need to have an accurate list of voters or ALSs' Authorized Representative (the most updated is attached). Would you like to propose reviewing this list during our today's conference ? Many thanks and best regards, Frederic Frederic E. Teboul, Ph.D., MBA Manager for At-Large Regional Affairs Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Phone Number: +33 6 3487 0575 (France) & +1 310 578 8642 (USA) Email: frederic.teboul(a)icann.org AIM/iSight: frederic.teboul(a)mac.com Jabber: frederic.teboul(a)jabber.icann.org Skype: frederic.teboul On 14/07/08 14:39, "Evan Leibovitch" <evan(a)telly.org> wrote: Thompson, Darlene wrote: > > Hi Frederic, > > > > To oversee the election, I am thinking that we need a good way to vote > on people. Also, if people wish to be nominated or to volunteer, they > could put their names in to you. Any irregularities should also go to > you for arbitration. > > > > Think that's about it - Evan? > > > That sounds about right to me. - Evan

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Proposal for Discussion on Tomorrow's Call
by Dharma Dailey July 14, 2008

July 14, 2008

Dear NARALO Colleagues, Due to traveling I most likely won't be able to be on the call, but I would like to put an item on the table for your consideration. I would like to propose that a working group of interested volunteers within NARALO draft an open document to help NA community networking / ICT4D groups identify policies or processes of ICANN that may effect them. This, I think, would help one set of internet users in NA to flag policies that may be of interest to people developing, running, or using networks in under-served areas in NA. The document I have in mind would be analogous to what planning boards use in NA to methodically narrow down possible environmental problems with proposed building development. Planning boards are comprised of non-experts drawn from the locality. A document known as the Negative Declaration, gives a series of questions organized thematically such as "Would development of this project lead to more than 50,000 gallons of flammable materials being on the premises?" that help non-experts to identify the generic areas of possible concern. This allows for focused discussion of potential problems, setting of priorities. Further, the "Neg Dec" helps identify the scope of the problem, by asking that anytime a "Yes" is found, the planning board must decide whether it is a major impact or a minor impact. Of course, I am proposing a non-binding working document, that would simply help those who don't "know the ropes" of ICANN to hone in on areas that need attention vis a vis the internet users that they represent. I think its a project that we- NARALO- has the capacity to do well, does not require extensive resources- beyond for the *precious* time of us volunteers! -- and would be a step forward in educating more folks on ICANN policies within the NA context. It would be great if we could work with ARIN on this to-- they are resourced for education, have excellent people, and are friendly to the mandate of educating people on internet governence. Most likely, 99.9% of such a document in the ICANN context would work for ARIN policy land as well. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Dharma Dailey Emerging Futures Network

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Summary Minutes NARALO Teleconference
by At-Large Staff July 13, 2008

July 13, 2008

Dear all, Darlene Thompson was so kind as to minute today¹s NARALO teleconference. You can find the summary minutes and the audio file if you follow the link below. There are also attached to this mail. https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?14_july_2008 Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org Minutes of Tele-Conference July 14, 2008 NARALO Teleconference Attending: Wendy Seltzer, Darlene Thompson, Evan Leibovitch, Alan Greenburg, Gareth Shearman, Seth Reiss, Frederic Teboul, Dharma Dailey 1. Election Planning Evan¹s and Darlene¹s terms are for one year. Formal procedures to accept nominations and for voting procedures need to be adopted. Frederic will be in charge of this and should have this ready by the end of the week. Each ALS gets two votes and so do the unaffiliated individuals. 2. Paris Briefings Some briefings have been posted already (Evan¹s and Wendy¹s) and those can be read. Alan will be giving his verbally: As ICANN meetings go, this was incredibly busy and moderately productive. Decisions were made and things seemed to be moving. There was a decision on gTLDs, the Summit and on Domain Tasting. Things were not always decided as we might have wished but things were definitely moved forward. The time was *really* crunched so ALAC and the Liaisons were really run off of their feet. There were also more meetings that are cross-constituency that added more hours to the schedule. Feelings on ALAC: they still are not making any policy decisions, even those that were scheduled. Wendy found it really helpful when people posted policy statements that she could use but we need to do more. Darlene also found this to be an extremely busy meeting and is disturbed by the lack of ALAC movement on any post-Paris policy matters. Evan found it to be a good bonding experience between the NARALO and the EURALO. Things were able to be agreed upon and joint statements made. The joint sessions with SSAC, NCUC and GAC were good to put faces to names and to be able to improve our work with these ones. This meeting was extremely compressed with very little time to chat in the hallways. We have also started to turn the corner in being able to make policy statements. Alan: We need to start making conscious decisions on which policies we wish to weigh in on and which we do not. We are not doing this yet but need to. 3. Travel Policy Soon we will only get half of the funding that ALAC needs and none for At Large as per what other groups get. We need to either complain and take action or try to figure out where the money comes from. This motion has been passed but is open for comment until the end of the Paris week. In the absence of comments, this will go through. Doug Brent instituted this so comments should go to him but also to the board. It doesn¹t seem that ALAC has been doing anything on this yet. When Doug Brent put this forward, there was to be no funding for ALAC. It¹s the Board that put ALAC back in. There was no public discussion on this and no opportunity to comment on this prior to the decision being made. We need to get a NARALO working group together on this, at a minimum. Gareth and Darlene are willing to work on this and take the lead on this and to try to bring the rest of the group into this. 4. GNSO Improvements They have had 4-5 meetings on this so far with another few to go. The positions that have been put on the table are (in part): parity between registries/registrars and the commercial/non-commercial people, the business constituency wants more seats, etc. The registrars with their weighted votes might lose half of their votes which would give more power to the business constituency. Who knows what will happen at this point? Game theory. If the committee cannot come to a consensus, the board will make the decision for them. 5. Public Participation We have deadlines coming up on: updates to the RAA and Presidents public consultation on improving institutional confidence. These things are related to the JPA and to the travel policy. This may be a good opportunity to make our case known because of the lack of confidence in ICANN public participation. Evan will take the lead on this. Alan is coming to the conclusion that the At-Large structure as it is organized makes it exceedingly difficult to partake in policy discussions. Unless we can identify people within the RALOs and ALSs who are versant in various policy areas, then we will be unable to do so effectively. We may never be able to succeed if we do not have these people. We cannot continue to try to dumb the issues down and then try to give policy direction that will be useful to ICANN. Wendy thinks that there ARE some areas where the public may have input that we could do through polls and such. Darlene mentioned that we also need accountability with our ALAC members. Who is doing what? Who is showing up to meetings? Who is actually shouldering the work load? Frederic noted that of our 17 ALSs, only 7 replied to the Summit questionnaire and 5 to the Win-Win questionnaire. He NEEDS more input. Also, he needs an up-to-date list of contacts for the ALSs. 6. RAA Update We need more information on this and have requested an issues report from Frederic. Evan will request more information from Danny, as well. 7. Meeting adjourned - on time, again!

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[Reminder] At-Large NARALO Conference Call @ Mon 14 Jul 21:00 – 22:00 ()
by Google Calendar July 13, 2008

July 13, 2008

na-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org, this is a reminder for Title: At-Large NARALO Conference Call Time: Mon 14 Jul 21:00 – 22:00 (Time zone: Zurich) Where: Teleconference - Adigo Calendar: Description: 1900 UTC Start. Please find the details and participation instructions for this meeting on our meeting page: https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?meetings_and_events You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=OWdwZjJ1OWh1MG82dG10Mj… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account na-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively, you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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Icann Summit
by sylvia-internautabrasil July 11, 2008

July 11, 2008

... Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do. You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one... On March 2009 we will confirm John Lennon's words. Imagine there's no 5 Ralos It isn't hard to do on March'09 you will join us and ALSs world will be as one. This is The Opportunity, we have been waiting to change Internet's world. And we still have time to get to know each other before the meeting. An idea: Introduce your self. Let others know in an informal way what your ALS do! Let's work together! ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Sylvia Herlein Leite internauta Brasil www.internautabrasil.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------Spanish Version Imagina que no hay países no es difícil de hacer ... Puedes decir que soy un soñador pero no soy el único espero que algún día te unas a nosotros y el mundo vivirá como uno En Marzo 2009 confirmaremos las palabras de John Lennon. Imagina que no hay 5 Ralos no es dificil hacerlo. en marzo'09 nos reuniremos y todas las ALSsdel mundo serán como una sola Esta es la Oportunidad que estabamos esperando para cambiar la Interntet mundial. Y aun tenemos tiempo para conocernos entre todas las ALSs antes de esa fecha. Una idea: preséntate! Hazlo informalmente y di qué es lo que tu organización hace! ¡Vamos a trabajar todos juntos! ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Sylvia Herlein Leite internauta Brasil www.internautabrasil.org Assinatura_Sylvia_Internautabrasil

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