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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 14, 2008

July 14, 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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Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix
by Jeffrey A. Williams July 11, 2008

July 11, 2008

All, More ongoing shanagans by the RIAA effect users in a negitive way. So again, isn't it time that ICANN, the GNSO, and the IPC revoke the RIAA's membership? See: A link to a Maximum PC story, which begins: "Details of Dell's surreptitious collusion with RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) have emerged. Apparently, the computer manufacturer http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/dell_colludes_with_riaa_disables_ster… disabled the Stereo Mix/Mono Mix/Wave Out sound recording function on certain notebooks to assuage RIAA. The hardware functionality is being disabled without any prior notice and one blogger has even alleged that he was asked by Dell's customer support staff to [shell] out $99 if he desired the stereo mix option. Gateway and Pac Bell are the other two manufacturers to have bowed to RIAA at the expense of their customers' satisfaction and disabled stereo mix without warning." (There are some workarounds posted in the comments of the linked article.) 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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ALS Application from the Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities (FBSC)
by Matthias Langenegger July 11, 2008

July 11, 2008

Dear all, Please find attached the ALS application from the Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities (FBSC), a Canadian organization based in Oshawa, Ontario. Further information on the application will be sent to you shortly. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org

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Election time
by Evan Leibovitch July 10, 2008

July 10, 2008

As was mentioned last month, it's the one-year anniversary of the creation of NARALO, and the positions of Chair and Secretariat are one-year terms. According to NARALO's Operating Principles, Item 5: "The governance of the NARALO will be exercised by a General Assembly, formed by 2 representatives of each member ALS and 2 members from among the unaffiliated individuals. Each year the General Assembly shall elect a Chair and a Secretariat. Each member of the General Assembly shall be allowed to cast a vote. The election can take place by electronic mail, online balloting, written balloting, or any other means deemed convenient and accurate by the Secretariat. The Chair shall act as moderator and facilitator of the work of the NARALO. The Chair shall be empowered to issue Calls for Statements of Interest for service on the ALAC and to sign and receive any official correspondence to and from ICANN or the At-Large Structures. The Chair and Secretariat shall be ineligible to serve on the ALAC or ICANN's Nominating Committee in any year in which they serve for NARALO." Both Darlene and myself would like to stand for re-election to the positions of Secretariat and Chair, respectively. Nominations for either position will be accepted up until the conference call on Monday. If there are no other nominations put forward by that time, I will seek by consensus a renewal of our terms during the Monday call. Otherwise Darlene will determine the method for holding a proper election in accordance with the voting guidelines as stated above. - Evan

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