Greetings. 1. I am assuming everyone saw the note yesterday about Marc Rotenberg's resignation from his nom com slot on ALAC. I think this is a big loss to us and to the effort of improving relations with the NCSG/UC but we all know what it's like not to have enough time for this work. 2. I see some consensus over the past week on the possibility of sending a brief statement to ICANN on the pre-registration matter that, in effect, suggests it take a similar action to what was done a few years back, i.e., a sort of "consumer alert" (though the intended audience really would be businesses and entities interested in gTLDs). If so I will attempt to draft something brief over the next 24 hours and send it to the list for a quick round of feedback. If someone else would rather do that, let me know. 3. I believe there is a NA-RALO call scheduled for early next week. I will only be available to do that early Monday EST (say during the 9 a.m. to 12 noon slot), but not again until Thursday, as I will be in transit to Singapore. Please let me know what you would like to do -- reschedule call, cancel, etc. 4. Don't forget that it would be very helpful for us attending the Singapore meeting to have some input from all of you on policy issues. I have collected what has been said so far (some of it ranging to issues outside policy development, such as recruitment), but there's certainly room for more requests/input. 5. I was not able to attend the recent call to discuss the budget. I believe we have had a chance to review the document -- NA-RALO got basically $5K to do a survey/study and another $1K to produce a recruitment video for YouTube and other venues -- all the other requests were turned down. We can communicate some more about whether it would be a good idea to try to convene an NARALO general assembly at the Toronto meeting, as there should be some travel funds to spare -- a number of us are within cheap travel distance from there. More when I have a chance... Beau -----Original Message-----
From: Beau Brendler <beaubrendler@earthlink.net> Sent: Jun 6, 2011 1:10 PM To: ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net, dannyyounger@yahoo.com Cc: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Pre-registrations
Eric B-W wrote:
"offers of "pre-registration" by non-parties to registry application projects are contrary to the public interest, and may harm the targeted registry application projects, for which they have private redress."
After three years in ALAC, I don't recall this topic coming up, or the ALAC making a statement on it.
I would support drafting a statement that pre-registrations in this mode are contrary to public interest -- though as chair I don't want to step forward and do that without some discussion and consensus.
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From: ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net Sent: Jun 6, 2011 9:50 AM To: dannyyounger@yahoo.com Cc: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Pre-registrations
Danny,
I do not know if the ALAC offered advice to the Board on the subject at some prior point in time.
Similarly, I do not know if the ALAC has offered advice to the FTC or any other agency of a political jurisdiction on the subject at some prior point in time.
If so, then I suppose that the ALAC advice can be checked for currency and either updated and referenced, or if current, simply referenced again.
Application projects like the 2004 Catalan project, or the 2000 Cooperatives project, should engage in communications to their prospective communities, as the default, the current situation, and still a problem for cooperatives, is that no practical alternative exists to Verisign's for-profit "com" label.
How close pre-application communications offering pre-service information, and of necessity, to meet the ICANN direct fee and additional costs which are identified in the current DAG, also solliciting participation, whether unconditional, or in exchange for some current value, or expectation, can come to "pre-registration" of a hypothetical, I can't speculate upon.
The United Domains campaign is clearly not an instance of a single application project, or a cooperating group such as ECLID (Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Galacia, and the Autonomous Basque Region) communicating to their respective communities.
I'm not optimistic concerning ICANN's current CEO instructing staff counsel to make a determination that "pre-registration" volates the current registrar contract, but I think offers of "pre-registration" by non-parties to registry application projects are contrary to the public interest, and may harm the targeted registry application projects, for which they have private redress.
Eric ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss
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