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NOW ONLINE: Updated At-Large Organisational Chart
by ICANN At-Large Staff Jan. 25, 2011

Jan. 25, 2011

Dear All, The updated At-Large Organisational diagram is now available at: http://www.atlarge.icann.org/orgchart The chart has been updated for the following two reasons: * To include the At-Large selected Board member in the diagram * To align the geographical color scheme with the RALO regions -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org

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Re: [NA-Discuss] NARALO input to the ALAC budget
by Beau Brendler Jan. 21, 2011

Jan. 21, 2011

OK, here's some notions: How about $5,000 for regional survey research work on matters of policy importance to consumers in the NA region. So that we don't have to keep winging it so much when we need to talk intelligently about what people want. How about $1,000 to make an outreach video for YouTube, Blip.TV and other fora that ICANN doesn't seem to see the value of. How about $3,000 in travel expenses for members of the NA community to travel to other ICANN regional and community meetings (not the thrice-weekly big meetings, but the frequent smaller ones the organization holds for the contracted parties and others)? The user community should have a forum to voice user needs at these meetings and be there as a representative to check on what everyone else is up to. How about $10K for creation and maintenance of a real NA RALO web site and presence? Not some crap wiki on the ICANN site. -----Original Message----- >From: Gareth Shearman <shearman(a)victoria.tc.ca> >Sent: Jan 20, 2011 5:04 PM >To: "<na-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> List" <na-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> >Subject: [NA-Discuss] NARALO input to the ALAC budget > >Further to Darlene's note: > >Please review the page at this link: > >https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+FY12+Budget+Developmen… > >Send your submissions to me using the Excel form linked from the above page. > >In the past we have unsuccessfully requested: > >Money for a NARALO general assembly of our ALSes - next opportunity is ICANN meeting #45 which is currently scheduled to be in North America in October of 2012. >Money for regional outreach events, taking advantage of events sponsored by other organizations. > >I think we need to include these two items in our request. > >Let's hear *your* ideas - I'm not going to try and do this alone! > >Remember - time is short. > >Thank you, >Gareth >------ >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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FYI: CIRA "Impact" Awards
by Evan Leibovitch Jan. 21, 2011

Jan. 21, 2011

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NARALO input to the ALAC budget
by Gareth Shearman Jan. 20, 2011

Jan. 20, 2011

Further to Darlene's note: Please review the page at this link: https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+FY12+Budget+Developmen… Send your submissions to me using the Excel form linked from the above page. In the past we have unsuccessfully requested: Money for a NARALO general assembly of our ALSes - next opportunity is ICANN meeting #45 which is currently scheduled to be in North America in October of 2012. Money for regional outreach events, taking advantage of events sponsored by other organizations. I think we need to include these two items in our request. Let's hear *your* ideas - I'm not going to try and do this alone! Remember - time is short. Thank you, Gareth

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FW: RALO Project Proposals for FY11
by Thompson, Darlene Jan. 20, 2011

Jan. 20, 2011

Hi all, Please see the e-mail below. So, we need to firstly, select a budget liaison for this region to lead the regional budget request development and we need to do this as of yesterday! Any volunteers? Until someone steps forward, I will try to keep this moving forward in the mean time. Secondly, if ANYBODY has a proposal, as outlined in the second e-mail below, please let us know for inclusion for consideration. Also note that such submissions will have to be in complete form and submitted by Jan. 25. Please note that we need to have BOTH items completed by next Tuesday, January 25 so we need to fly at this quickly. Discussion? Suggestions? 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) 979-5610 dthompson(a)gov.nu.ca ________________________________________ From: Matthias Langenegger [matthias.langenegger(a)icann.org] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:34 AM To: Thompson, Darlene Cc: Heidi Ullrich Subject: FW: RALO Project Proposals for FY11 Hello Darlene, As part of the budget request process for FY12, the ALAC Finance and Budget Sub-Committee has requested NARALO to select a budget liaison to lead the regional budget request development. Unfortunately, there is not much time available to submit the budget requests. The ALAC is expected to discuss the regional requests during its meeting next Tuesday. To insure we can provide the ALAC with the regional requests in time, it is important to have a regional budget liaison who will take the lead on this. Could you please select somebody in NARALO to fulfill this role? This could of course also be yourself. The person would need to reach out to the regional members, identify the key projects for the next fiscal year (in correspondence with ICANN’s strategic plan), draft a proposal and submit it to the ALAC before Tuesday. The details for submission of budget requests are listed in the attached email below. Thank you for your help, Matthias ------ Forwarded Message From: Matthias Langenegger <matthias.langenegger(a)icann.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:14:59 -0800 To: Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla(a)gmail.com>, Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa(a)fmai.org>, Aziz Hilali <hilaliaziz(a)yahoo.fr>, Hong Xue <hongxueipr(a)gmail.com>, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa(a)gmail.com>, "charlespmok(a)gmail.com" <charlespmok(a)gmail.com>, Pavan Budhrani <pavan(a)registry.asia>, Wolf Ludwig <wolf.ludwig(a)comunica-ch.net>, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl(a)gih.com>, Andrés Piazza <andrespiazza(a)gmail.com>, "admin(a)ttcsweb.org" <admin(a)ttcsweb.org>, Beau Brendler <beaubrendler(a)earthlink.net>, "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson1(a)GOV.NU.CA> Subject: RALO Project Proposals for FY11 Dear All, ICANN produces an annual operational plan and budget to accomplish the goals and priorities of the ICANN Draft 2011-2014 Strategic Plan <http://www.icann.org/en/strategic-plan/draft-strategic-plan-2011-2014-27nov…> (PDF). As part of the fiscal year operational plan and budget development process for 2012, ICANN has requested that the ALAC submit projects to be considered for inclusion in ICANN's draft Operational Plan and Budget. In turn, the ALAC Finance and Budget Sub-Committee has requested RALO suggestions for possible project submissions The deadline for RALO submission of such projects to ICANN is 25 January 2011. The ALAC Finance and Budget Sub-Committee has requested that the Regional leaders select a budget liaison to lead the regional development of FY12 budget requests. Please inform staff as soon as possible on the choice of your regional liaison. The At-Large FY12 Workspace provides the relevant information on the new FY12 Budget development process as well as useful background information (see: https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+FY12+Budget+Developmen…) Please note: All project requests must use a template which can be found on the At-Large Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Development Workspace. The following information must be included in the preparation of any project for possible inclusion in ICANN's 2012 Operational Plan and Budget: * Activity – The project activity being requested. * Description – A description of the project activity. * Strategic Plan Impact - How the proposed project activity accomplishes the goal and priorities of ICANN's Strategic Plan or how the project activity will improve ICANN's Policy Development Process. It would also be useful to show that the requested activity advances ICANN policy development process. * Start Date - When the project activity will start. * Duration - How long the project activity will take place. Additionally, the template also requires a breakdown/analysis on what resources (staff support, technical support, language services, telecom support, ICANN meetings) are needed to accomplish the project activity. ICANN Finance Staff will do a budget estimate for each of the resources needed to accomplish the project activity. The ALAC will review all RALO FY12 budget requests during their meeting on 25 January at 14:00 UTC. The ALAC will submit their budget requests on 31 January 2011. Following review by ICANN staff, all FY12 budget requests to be included in ICANN's operational plan and budget framework will be posted for public comment. Kind Regards, -- Matthias Langenegger Manager, At-Large Regional Affairs Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Email: matthias.langenegger(a)icann.org Main Tel: +41 (79) 644 65 35 Fax: +41 (22) 594 85 44 Skype ID: matthiaslangenegger ------ End of Forwarded Message

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On one aspect of the ALAC restatement of a NARALO contribution to public comments on the StratPlan for 2011-2014
by Eric Brunner-Williams Jan. 19, 2011

Jan. 19, 2011

Colleagues, I write this note provide one view on an issue discussed in Monday's NARALO monthly call. As a policy making body, ICANN shares a general characteristic of all policy making bodies engaged, for whatever reason, and where ever located, in making policy that pertains to the behavior of the vast collection of networks we call "The Internet". Its policy making is pre-scientific. Lots of policy is considered, some policy is made, but it is made without data, at least data sufficient in general to discern if the policy goal is implemented. The ability to correlate effect and cause is quite limited. Significant rhetorical resources are expended to maintain various claims of causation or necessity, but in the peer reviewed scientific literature on measurement and operations of networks, these claims are without foundation. I recommend reading kc claffy's two highly accessible works in this area: http://blog.caida.org/best_available_data/2008/04/16/top-ten-things-lawyers… http://www.caida.org/publications/presentations/2009/top_ten_fcc/top_ten_fc… ICANN's proposed registry agreement does not require new registry operators to provide access to operational data. ICANN's current registry agreements, all 17 of them, also lack provisions to require the operator to provide access to operational data. That's about 3/4ths of the DNS, higher if the root constellation operated by CNNIC and its data is excluded, for which the only data ICANN desires is contained in the registry operator monthly reports. Additionally, ICANN has never requested recursive resolver operators such as (US): SBC (AT&T), Comcast, RoadRunner, Verizon, AOL, EarthLink, Charter, ... and (CA) Bell, Shaw, Rogers, Telus, Videotron, ... to provide data to researchers. Further, ICANN has never requested browswer (stub resolver) vendors to provide data to researchers. A vast amount of data gathering is being conducted, but for user profiling purposes, to sell shoes, but not to ensure that we know the shape of things to come, and can distinguish policy successes from policy failures. Why is data necessary? In October 1986 the NSFnet phase-I backbone dropped three orders of magnitude from its capacity of 32 kbit/s to 40 bit/s. The cause was not predicted. More is possible. We have no means to associate probabilities to continued operation, or failure. The proposal I made was simple and clear (I thought). Most of the data is in North America, and subject to the particularly legal culture of the United States and Canada. To improve research access to data, and therefore the ability to conduct network policy informed by data, rather than pre-existing beliefs, which may as well be religious articles of faith, ICANN's StratPlan for 2011-2014 could be changed to make reducing the legal barriers to data a goal. The ALAC comment on the StratPlan started with the text I suggested, to the effect that most of the crucial data is "in North America", but concluded that the plan should have increased regional diversity as a goal. Rephrased as an either/or, either a goal of a global decrease of legal restraint on critical data, or a goal of regional replication of legal restraints on critical data, are the choices. I proposed the former, and as was mentioned in Monday's NARALO call, ALAC chose to substitute the latter. I hope this makes clear one view of the issue discussed on Mondays' call. I appreciate that there are other views. Eric

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ALS input requested
by Gareth Shearman Jan. 19, 2011

Jan. 19, 2011

Further to my message of yesterday - a clarification Please forward any reaction to me and I will add it to the analysis. Thank you, Gareth To all NARALO ALS representatives: As discussed in our conference call earlier to-day, you are encouraged to input reaction from your ALS to the "Work Team C SWOT analysis" See the following line for instructions and background https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/NARALO+input+into+WT+C+SWOT+ana… Thank you, Gareth Shearman NARALO Budget and Finance Subcommittee and Work Team C member

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Summary Minutes NARALO Call 17 January 2011
by ICANN At-Large Staff Jan. 18, 2011

Jan. 18, 2011

Dear All, The summary minutes, action items and audio recording from yesterday¹s NARALO conference call have been posted on the agenda page at: https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+17.01.2011+Teleconference The summary minutes are also attached below. -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org Participants: Beau Brendler, Alan Greenberg, Darlene Thompson, Marc Rotenberg, Annalisa Roger, Evan Leibovitch, Allan Skuce, Chris Grundemann, Eric Brunner-Williams, Eduardo Diaz, Glenn McKnight, Joly McFie, Gareth Shearman, Gordon Chillcott Apologies: Monique Chatrand Guests: Olivier Crepin-Leblond Staff: Matthias Langenegger Review of Action Items from last meeting AI: Annalisa will send a list with affordable hotels in the meeting venue area to the NARALO list. ONGOING AI: Staff will send out a call for volunteer for the NARALO Showcase WG will be sent out. DONE AI: Alan will draft suggested modifications to the NARALO Rules of Procedure for Meetings and the Operating Principles (to fix an omission with regards to the votes of the unaffiliated user representative). ONGOING - Alan: this is more time-consuming than expected. There are additional areas that need fixing. AI: Beau will draft a document in response to the DOC letter CANCELED Alan: In my view it is no longer necessary to redact a document, the time has passed. Beau moved, seconded by Alan, to cancel the action item on drafting a response to the DOC letter. The motion passed unanimously. Open Public Consultations AI: Eric will draft a note on the ownership, trust, and economic (legal) barriers to operational data and the importance of data to informed policy making. Evan: We put out a statement, which basically says that the current course of action on new gTLDs is unacceptable. We also created two WGs to draft detailed recommendations. Evan: At the moment, there is only a tentative location and a tentative date for the GAC - Board meeting on new gTLDS. The location does no longer seem to be Geneva. Olivier: We have been in contact with the Board and the GAC urging them to have the meeting as soon as possible. Late February is too close to San Francisco. We are still waiting for a joint statement to announce the exact date and location. Alan gave a synopsis of the ALAC statement on Uniform Rapid Suspension. Review of Cartagena Meeting Update on ALAC Officer and Liaison Positions Beau gave a short summary of the ALAC leadership elections in Cartagena. You can find the complete list of the current ALAC members and officers at:http://www.icann.org/en/committees/alac/ Update on ALAC Policy Discussions A review of ALAC¹s policy discussions in Cartagena can be found in the Chair's report from Cartagena <http://www.atlarge.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10dec10-en.htm> . Update on ICANN developments and important Board decisions Evan: The big news was the approval of .XXX. There are still wrestling over some details but they decided to go ahead. However, there was no vote to launch the new gTLD process. Eric: The fact that the Board did not adopt the GAC recommendation was remarkable. Alan: There are about 6 sections that talk about GAC advice in the ICANN Bylaws and not a single section on ALAC advice. However, the Board has largely ignored those sections, a fact that was highlighted by the GAC recently. This will have to change in the future. Secondly, the Board revised its decision on the morality and public order (MAPO) issue and referred back to the group drafting the recommendations. That's encouraging to see. Eduardo: The first letter of the DOC was on MAPO. They said ICANN should not get involved in this. Evan: The GNSO resolved that ICANN needs to install a mechanism to deal with objectionable strings. This obviously puts ICANN in a difficult position with regards to the DOC letter. The ICANN Board will eventually have to deal with it. The GAC and the ALAC are both involved in the MAPO issue. At-Large improvements work team A has started drafting possible Bylaw changes to help strengthen ALAC¹s institutional role, although the draft modifications are not as detailed as those pertaining to the GAC. Lastly, there is also a small WG drafting alternative Applicant Guidebook text for certain areas. The alternative Guidebook is more user-centric than the actual Applicant Guidebook. NARALO Input to Work Team C SWOT Analysis Olivier: Work team C looked at recommendations 5 and 6 of the At-Large improvement recommendations. We were trying to identify specific strengths and weaknesses and hope that each region can provide input on this SWOT analysis from their regional perspective. See: https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/NARALO+input+into+WT+C+SWOT+anal yses Gareth: I would like to volunteer to be the conduit for the NARALO AI: Garteh will collect the input from NARALO to the WT C SWOT analysis. Update on San Francisco Showcase Working Group Eduardo: Staff will shortly send out a doodle for the first WG call. There is also a wiki workspace to plan the SF showcase available under: https://community.icann.org/display/NARALO/NARALO+San+Francisco+Showcase+Wor king+Group Update from the At-Large Improvements WTs Annalisa summarized the recent WT B developments <https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/At-Large+Improvements+Work+Team +B> . Annalisa: While it is possible to get an Adobe Connect meeting room from ICANN for your ALS meetings, we at ISCO SF did not find it particularly useful. However, it could help draw in some members in other ALSes perhaps. Alan: It would be helpful to have one standardized page per ALS on our wiki to provide information and contact details. Beau and Annalisa agreed to that. Darlene: If we do factsheets for our ALSes for SF as LACRALO did for the Cartagena showcase we would already have what Alan is suggesting. There was general agreement to this proposal. Marc: I made a proposal to do a town hall meeting in San Francisco perhaps at Stanford University. This would be a great opportunity to draw in the interested public. Beau liked the suggestion. Annalisa: I would like to note, however, that Stanford is 60 miles away from Union Square. I could certainly help but logistics are challenging. If there are other ICANN events taking place in Silicon Valley there might be shuttles. Otherwise it could prove difficult to get bring the attendees from SF to Stanford university. Recent and Upcoming Activities of NARALO members Beau: I am happy to announce that we will produce a document on the consumer constituency in San Francisco. Alan: Beau, there seem to be two different definitions of consumers: 1) people buying stuff online, and 2) consumers of the Internet itself. Beau: My definitions is the latter Alan: Okay because the draft charters, I have seen seem to focus on the financial transaction aspect. Beau: That must be an older version. Eduardo: I would like to remind you that the NomCom is looking for applicants for the coming year. I would like to encourage you to put forward candidates. The deadline is April 4th. Beau: Thanks to all. The meeting was then adjourned.

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ALS input requested
by Gareth Shearman Jan. 18, 2011

Jan. 18, 2011

To all NARALO ALS representatives: As discussed in our conference call earlier to-day, you are encouraged to input reaction from your ALS to the "Work Team C SWOT analysis" See the following line for instructions and background https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/NARALO+input+into+WT+C+SWOT+ana… Thank you, Gareth Shearman NARALO Budget and Finance Subcommittee and Work Team C member

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consumer constituency charter rewrite doc
by Beau Brendler Jan. 17, 2011

Jan. 17, 2011

Technically I think it's actually up to Avri to send this out to the NCSG, but it's not particularly controversial and I see no reason not to share it. Not to mention that there are several members of NA RALO who were integral to the formation of the consituency in the first place (Attached). Any and all comments welcome. If you don't like attachments, I just posted after the call the full text in the comments section of the agenda page where Marc asked about it. Beau -----Original Message----- >From: Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg(a)epic.org> >Sent: Jan 17, 2011 2:53 PM >To: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg(a)mcgill.ca> >Cc: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org>, "na-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org" <na-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> >Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] REMINDER: NARALO TELECONFERENCE - Monday, 17 January 2011 @ 20:00 UTC > >It is a "ICANN Page Not Found" image. > >Eventually, I found this at a different link > >Sorry to keep raising these issues. But as a new member >to this organization, one of my first (and ongoing) >impressions is that there are more technical glitches >than there should be. > >Marc. > > >

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