Re: [NA-Discuss] [At-Large] Welcome Frederic Teboul to the At-Large Staff
Hello and thank you all so much for your warm welcome, I am looking forward to working with you and I remain at your disposal for any further information or clarifications, which you might require. 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) Mobile: +33 6 3487 0575 Email: frederic.teboul@icann.org AIM/iSight: frederic.teboul@mac.com Jabber: fredericteboul@gmail.com Skype: frederic.teboul Nick Ashton-Hart <Nick.Ashton-Hart@icann.org>: It is my pleasure to introduce you to Frederic Teboul, the new At-Large Regional Affairs Manager. Born in Marseille, France, he began his career in the French Foreign Service in Israel in 1997; he subsequently worked for several parts of the United Nations' system from 2000 to 2005 in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Geneva, Kosovo, New York and Athens. He comes to us most recently from the private sector, where he served as Business Development and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Director for the third-largest Greek maritime operator. His experience in the public and private sectors in a wide variety of international decision-making environments, working with governments, civil society, and industry stakeholders from more than 200 different countries, makes him a valuable addition to the At-Large team in the Policy Unit. He will be responsible in particular for supporting the Regional At-Large Organisations (RALOs), facilitating their involvement in policy development and assisting them in their work representing the individual Internet user interest in ICANN.
Hello Frederic, I have noted on the .asia website a reference to the 2008 North American Regional Registry/Registrar Gathering in New Orleans (04.30-05.02) -- Could you advise as to whether this is an ICANN-sponsored event akin to the Dubai Regional Meeting? best regards, Danny __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Hello Danny and thanks for your Email, The simple answer is both yes and no. The North American Registry/Registrar Gathering is indeed an ICANN sponsored session in the sense that it is an information-sharing opportunity organized and staffed by ICANN staff. The registry/registrar gatherings are closed sessions similar to the closed sessions at the 3 annual international ICANN meetings. The audience is geographically and role defined and the sessions targeted to the interests of those groups and to achieve the organizational requirements of ICANN regarding communicating with and achieving compliance from entities in a contractual relationship with ICANN (in this case, North American based registrars and gTLD registries.) Topics tend to focus on data escrow, contractual compliance issues, etc. No actions are taken or positions adopted as might occur in a public ICANN meeting session, but rather these gatherings focus mostly on information sharing. Similar gatherings are held approximately once a year in Asia and Europe as well and, because they are held in the region where the registrars are located, attendance often includes persons who do not otherwise attend ICANN meetings held in other parts of the world. By contrast, the Dubai meeting was an open regional outreach meeting targeting entities in the Arabic speaking Middle East to increase knowledge of and participation in the ICANN processes. The meeting explained the ICANN multi-stakeholder model and then particularly targeted the topics of greatest interest for that region: current experience with IDNs in the IDN fast track policy, the wiki tests, language and script tables, etc with some information on the roles of gTLD registries and registrars, technical operations, etc. As with the Registry/registrar gathering, no actions were taken or positions adopted in Dubai as might occur in a public ICANN meeting session, but rather the gathering focused on information sharing to broaden participation. So both meetings were organized by ICANN staff but New Orleans is not akin to Dubai in that the audience, scale, purpose and type of meeting are very different. 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) Mobile: +33 6 3487 0575 Email: frederic.teboul@icann.org AIM/iSight: frederic.teboul@mac.com Jabber: fredericteboul@gmail.com Skype: frederic.teboul On 09/04/08 13:43, "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> wrote: Hello Frederic, I have noted on the .asia website a reference to the 2008 North American Regional Registry/Registrar Gathering in New Orleans (04.30-05.02) -- Could you advise as to whether this is an ICANN-sponsored event akin to the Dubai Regional Meeting? best regards, Danny __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Frederic, thank you for the detailed answer. Perhaps one day we'll see Regional Gatherings organized and staffed by ICANN Staff that will also serve the needs of the Business Constituency, the Intellectual Property Constituency, the ISPs and the Non-Commercial Constituency. This ICANN fondness for dealing principally with contracting entities to the exclusion of other key stakeholders needs to change. all the best, Danny --- Frederic Teboul <frederic.teboul@icann.org> wrote:
Hello Danny and thanks for your Email,
The simple answer is both yes and no. The North American Registry/Registrar Gathering is indeed an ICANN sponsored session in the sense that it is an information-sharing opportunity organized and staffed by ICANN staff. The registry/registrar gatherings are closed sessions similar to the closed sessions at the 3 annual international ICANN meetings. The audience is geographically and role defined and the sessions targeted to the interests of those groups and to achieve the organizational requirements of ICANN regarding communicating with and achieving compliance from entities in a contractual relationship with ICANN (in this case, North American based registrars and gTLD registries.) Topics tend to focus on data escrow, contractual compliance issues, etc. No actions are taken or positions adopted as might occur in a public ICANN meeting session, but rather these gatherings focus mostly on information sharing. Similar gatherings are held approximately once a year in Asia and Europe as well and, because they are held in the region where the registrars are located, attendance often includes persons who do not otherwise attend ICANN meetings held in other parts of the world.
By contrast, the Dubai meeting was an open regional outreach meeting targeting entities in the Arabic speaking Middle East to increase knowledge of and participation in the ICANN processes. The meeting explained the ICANN multi-stakeholder model and then particularly targeted the topics of greatest interest for that region: current experience with IDNs in the IDN fast track policy, the wiki tests, language and script tables, etc with some information on the roles of gTLD registries and registrars, technical operations, etc. As with the Registry/registrar gathering, no actions were taken or positions adopted in Dubai as might occur in a public ICANN meeting session, but rather the gathering focused on information sharing to broaden participation.
So both meetings were organized by ICANN staff but New Orleans is not akin to Dubai in that the audience, scale, purpose and type of meeting are very different.
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) Mobile: +33 6 3487 0575 Email: frederic.teboul@icann.org AIM/iSight: frederic.teboul@mac.com Jabber: fredericteboul@gmail.com Skype: frederic.teboul
On 09/04/08 13:43, "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello Frederic,
I have noted on the .asia website a reference to the 2008 North American Regional Registry/Registrar Gathering in New Orleans (04.30-05.02) -- Could you advise as to whether this is an ICANN-sponsored event akin to the Dubai Regional Meeting?
best regards, Danny
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