Hi all, The due diligence for Papergate has now come in. Its fairly thin. Here are the facts that I can see: 1. Papergate seems to be registered as a business but has not yet registered as a corporation so we have no proof of its actual existence; 2. The two web sites that they have are still under construction and have no information available; 3. We cannot get a copy of their bylaws to prove their mandate because they aren't incorporated yet; 4. As they are not yet incorporated, they have no members; and 5. We cannot prove anything in their application because of the complete lack of backup. So, we need to provide regional advice on whether to accept this group as an ALS. Apparently Danny Younger has had contact with Deby Morrow, President of Papergate and I would sure like to hear his take on this situation. I guess my major concern is fairness and transparency. When Danny Younger applied to become an ALS as an individual, he was turned down. How is this application any different? Should we be: 1. Accepting this application as an individual and accepting it on this basis; 2. Accepting this application as an ALS; or 3. Rejecting this application. This is what our region has to decide upon. Suggestions? Comments? HELP!!!!! 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@gov.nu.ca <mailto:dthompson@gov.nu.ca> ________________________________ From: At-Large Staff [mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:03 AM To: Thompson, Darlene Cc: Evan Leibovitch; At-Large Staff Subject: Regional Advice for Papergate Dear Darlene, On January 20th, we received a North-American ALS application from Papergate, LLC. Please find the Due Diligence form attached. We kindly ask you to provide us with the regional advice for this application in your capacity as At-Large Secretariat for this region. Your advice will support the review of the At-Large Advisory Committee on this application. According to our timeline for ALS applications, the due date for the regional advice was March 10th. Because of the At-Large Summit preparations we were unable to process the application according to the agreed timeframe. We would appreciate it therefore if you could provide us with regional advise for this applicant within the next two weeks to ensure that the process suffers no further delays. We would like to remind you that the DD form could contain sensitive information. Please read it carefully before sending it off to third parties. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff@atlarge.icann.org