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Re: [NA-Discuss] Foreign Policy and the Internet
by Bob Bruen Aug. 14, 2012

Aug. 14, 2012

Hi John, John Levine wrote: That said, I agree with your theory about what DoC was doing. They've made it quite clear for a very long time that they're not going to use access to the root to pressure other countries. I am sure you have been around long enough to know that what people say/do today has little to do with what someone else may do later. When that someone gets a hold of authority in the future, access to root may well become leverage. It should not be necessary, but I can provide examples of this and I bet everybody can. --bob -- Dr. Robert Bruen Cold Rain Labs http://coldrain.net/bruen +1.802.579.6288

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Foreign Policy and the Internet
by Glenn McKnight Aug. 14, 2012

Aug. 14, 2012

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/09/158482024/foreign-policy-the-un-takes-on-the-… Foreign Policy: The UN Takes On The Internet by REBECCA MACKINNON [image: Terry Kramer, U.S. ambassador to the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT), speaks on August 1 at the Information Technology Council in Washington, D.C.] Enlarge<http://www.npr.org/2012/08/09/158482024/foreign-policy-the-un-takes-on-the-…>Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Terry Kramer, U.S. ambassador to the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT), speaks on August 1 at the Information Technology Council in Washington, D.C. text size A<http://www.npr.org/2012/08/09/158482024/foreign-policy-the-un-takes-on-the-…> A<http://www.npr.org/2012/08/09/158482024/foreign-policy-the-un-takes-on-the-…> A<http://www.npr.org/2012/08/09/158482024/foreign-policy-the-un-takes-on-the-…> August 9, 2012 *Rebecca MacKinnon is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a former CNN bureau chief in Tokyo and Beijing, co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, and author of *Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom*.* On Aug. 2, the U.S. House of Representativespassed<http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/242007-house-urges-obam…> a resolution <http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hconres127> urging the White House to stop an obscure U.N. agency from asserting greater control over the Internet. It is the "consistent and unequivocal policy of the United States," the lawmakers affirmed<http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hconres127/text>, "to promote a global Internet free from government control and preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet today." President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recentlycomplained<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/clinton-hits-black-helicopters-cro…> of "black helicopter" conspiracy theorists harming the national interest after they blocked U.S. ratification of the Law of the Sea treaty for the second time. When it comes to the Internet, however, Congress, the White House<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/260214/us_will_push_for_open_…> , technology companies<http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2012/08/google-applauds-bipartisan-r…>, and civil liberties groups<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-harris/internet-governance_b_1643856.h…> are all on the same page: All agree that the United Nations — a body representing the interests of governments — should not be given control over a globally interconnected network that transcends the geography of nation-states. The Internet is too valuable to be managed by governments alone. Yet there is less agreement over how well the alternative "multistakeholder" model of Internet governance is working — or whether it is really serving all of us as well as it might. The immediate threat to the Internet as we know it is the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT)<http://www.itu.int/en/wcit-12/Pages/default.aspx> scheduled for December in Dubai by the International Telecommunication Union<http://www.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx> (ITU), a U.N. body whose remit has thus far been limited to global telephone systems. Members meet behind closed doors. Their policy proposals were until recently accessible only to members — until activists forced transparency upon them through a website called "WCITLeaks<http://wcitleaks.org/>." The leaked documents reveal how a number of governments — in league with some old-school telecommunications companies seeking to regain revenues lost to the Internet — are proposing to rewrite global international telecommunications regulations <http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/itr/> in ways that opponents believe will corrode, if not destroy, the open and free nature of the Internet. (For readers wanting to delve into details, a number of nonprofit organizations including the Center for Democracy and Technology<https://www.cdt.org/issue/itu> and the Internet Society <http://www.internetsociety.org/wcit/> have published analyses of the leaked documents and other recent ITU statements.) A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like "crime" and "security" that are currently unregulated at the global level due to lack of international consensus over what those terms actually mean or over how to balance enforcement with the protection of citizens' rights. Other proposals focus on changes to who handles technical coordination and the setting of standards that enable all the devices, networks, and software across the Internet to communicate and connect with one another. Most of those technical coordination functions are currently handled by a constellation of institutions whose doors are open to all groups with a "stake" in the Internet's future: engineers, activists, unaffiliated individuals, and corporate and government representatives. These institutions are not exactly household names. Only a tiny fraction of the billion-plus people on the planet who increasingly depend on the Internet have ever heard of the U.S.-based nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) <http://icann.org/>, which coordinates the global domain-name system, the collection of regional Internet registries<http://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/regional-internet-registries> that coordinate IP addresses, or the Internet Engineering Task Force<http://www.ietf.org/> (IETF), which develops global technical standards so that devices and software all around the world can interoperate with one another — let alone any of the other organizations that coordinate Internet-related resources and standards. This governance ecosystem has worked astonishingly well in managing the Internet's exponential growth, largely because the system is so open and decentralized that any person anywhere on Earth with engineering or software-programming skills can invent new software applications, devices, and other networked technologies that can all interconnect with one another without needing to obtain permission or buy a license from anybody. Some other ITU proposals would shift some of these organizations' roles to the ITU itself, which — because it primarily serves the interests of U.N. member states and excludes other stakeholders in its decision-making processes — will reflect a bias toward centralization, bureaucracy, predictability, and control. This would inevitably corrode if not destroy the Internet's openness and permission-free qualities that have made the Internet such a powerful platform for innovation and empowerment. This is by no means, however, the first attempt by powerful governments to assert power through the ITU. China, Russia, and many developing countries have complained for nearly two decades that the new, nongovernmental multistakeholder institutions are dominated by Americans and Western Europeans who manipulate outcomes to serve their own commercial and geopolitical advantage. These critiques converge with the interests of former and current state-owned phone companies wanting to restore revenues of yore before email and Skype wiped out the need for most international phone calls. "There is still a continual theme that the glories of the past in terms of the telco monopolies of decades ago can somehow be reconstructed within the landscape of the Internet," writes Geoff Huston<http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2012-07/carriagevcontent.html>, chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Center. Doing so might also raise government revenues in some places, and thus a number of developing-country governments have lined up behind Russia, China, and other authoritarian regimes in support of empowering the ITU. To continue reading this article, visit ForeignPolicy.com<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/08/08/the_united_nations_and_the…> . -- Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight Http://www.globalcatalysts.com http://newsocialmedia.wordpress.com

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Election update
by Thompson, Darlene Aug. 14, 2012

Aug. 14, 2012

Hi all, Over the past week we have collected all of the nomination acceptances for the candidates and have also posted questions for the candidates which they have answered. Staff is working on setting up an on-line vote for our candidates. Note that for ALAC we have Evan Leibovitch and Eric Brunner-Williams running and for Chair we have Garth Bruen and Seth Reiss. Please note that each ALS will be allowed one vote (including our Unaffiliated ALS which will have one vote being cast by Alan Greenberg). To review the SOIs and general election timelines: https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+At-Large+Elections+2012 To review the questions to the candidates and their answers: https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+2012+Candidates+Questions… Please review these at your earliest possible convenience as voting will start in the next day or two. This information will also be reviewed in our telephone conference today. Thank you, 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/N-CAP 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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VOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: NARALO ALAC Representative
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 14, 2012

Aug. 14, 2012

Dear All, Please note that the vote for NARALO ALAC Representative<https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+At-Large+Elections+2012> has now begun. ***** Question: Who should be elected as the NARALO ALAC Representative for the period of a year? * Eric Brunner-Williams * Evan Leibovitch * Abstain ***** Please note that the poll for ALSes will be open from 13-August-2012 23:59 UTC to 17-August-2012 23:59 UTC. Please note that the poll for Unaffiliated Members will be open from 13-August-2012 23:59 UTC to 16-August-2012 23:59 UTC. 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<https://owa.icann.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=bae4382542ca489294ee2fc9c14ad9f8&URL…>

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VOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: NARALO CHAIR
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 13, 2012

Aug. 13, 2012

Dear All, Please note that the vote for NARALO Chair<https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+At-Large+Elections+2012> has now begun. ***** Question: Who should be elected as the NARALO Chair for the period of a year? * Garth Bruen * Seth Reiss * Abstain ***** Please note that the poll for ALSes will be open from 13-August-2012 23:59 UTC to 17-August-2012 23:59 UTC. Please note that the poll for Unaffiliated Members will be open from 13-August-2012 23:59 UTC to 16-August-2012 23:59 UTC. 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<https://owa.icann.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=bae4382542ca489294ee2fc9c14ad9f8&URL…>

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FYI: U.S. Contributions to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12)
by Eric Brunner-Williams Aug. 13, 2012

Aug. 13, 2012

Good morning all, Three fragments below from the Introductory section, the original text is here: http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/othr/telecom/196031.htm Something to reflect upon is what the government really means by the reference to "openness and inclusivenness" and ICANN and whether this is consistent with its summary of the situation made three years ago in the AoC -- "ICANN and DoC recognize that there is a group of participants that engage in ICANN's processes to a greater extent than Internet users generally." An interesting read for the day, quotes below the .sig, url at the top of this post. Eric Brunner-Williams Candidate, NARALO ALAC Rep. election 2012 "This contribution presents proposals to the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT-12) that have been developed by the United States of America for the revision of the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs). ... The United States also notes, however, that the Internet has evolved to operate in a separate and distinct environment that is beyond the scope or mandate of the ITRs or the International Telecommunication Union. Specifically, it emerged from multi-stakeholder organizations such as the Internet Society, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). These organizations have played a major role in designing and operating the Internet and have succeeded by their very nature of openness and inclusiveness. ... Therefore, the United States will not support proposals that would increase the exercise of control over Internet governance or content. ... "

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REMINDER / NARALO TELECONFERENCE - Monday, 13 August 2012 @ 19:00 UTC
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 13, 2012

Aug. 13, 2012

Dear All, The next NARALO teleconference is scheduled for Monday, 13 August 2012 at 19:00 UTC. For other times: http://tinyurl.com/8fty4np The agenda and call details can be found at: https://community.icann.org/x/9wAeAg 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

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Questions to Candidates
by Thompson, Darlene Aug. 11, 2012

Aug. 11, 2012

Hi all, Voting on the Chair and ALAC positions starts TOMORROW! I would highly encourage nominees to input their answers in the WIKi https://community.icann.org/x/7AYeAg so that the region can consider your answers prior to voting. Thank you, D Darlene A. Thompson CAP Administrator N-CAP/Department of Education P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca

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Re: [NA-Discuss] Conference Call This Monday
by Alan Greenberg Aug. 9, 2012

Aug. 9, 2012

I'm afraid that I will be travelling and cannot attend. Alan At 08/08/2012 12:23 PM, Thompson, Darlene wrote: >Hi all, > >What all would you like to discuss on the >conference call this coming Monday? If anybody >has any specific points that they would like to >have brought up, please let me know. > >D > > > >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/N-CAP >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 dâaccÃ¨s communautaire >Division des services ministÃ©riels >MinistÃ¨re de lâÃducation >Gouvernement du Nunavut >Case postale 1000, Succursale 910 >Iqaluit Nunavut, X0A 0H0 >dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca >TÃ©l. : 867 975-5631 >TÃ©lÃ©c. : 867 975-5610 > > > >------ NA-Discuss mailing list >NA-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss >Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org ------

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Questions for candidates for election
by Thompson, Darlene Aug. 9, 2012

Aug. 9, 2012

Hi all, Staff has kindly set up a Wiki page to gather our questions and the subsequent answers from the candidates for ALAC and Chair. It can be found at: https://community.icann.org/x/7AYeAg. Please feel free to post your questions there. I have taken the liberty of posting the questions that I have already received and the replies that we have from Eric and Seth there as well. I would encourage all candidates to watch this page and insert your comments on a regular basis as the election starts on August 12 – so it doesn’t give us much time. Thanks! 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/N-CAP 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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