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This audio podcast from ICANN’s Policy Team explains one issue per episode, answering basic questions such as “What is it?”, “Why does it matter?”, and “What can I do about it?” If you are new to ICANN or to Internet governance, Start will help you understand your role in realizing the vision of “one world… one Internet… everyone connected.”
With its next meeting just weeks away ICANN has published a US Department of State report that lists the venue, Â a conference centre in Nairobi, Kenya, itself as a specific threat from a Somalian insurgency group, Al-Shabaab. In response, a number of Internet companies have already announced they are pulling their people.
Former ICANNÂ General Manager of Public Participation Kieren McCarthy, in a Circle ID article opines that there may be a silver lining to this problem:
1) if the meeting goes forward – remote participation will have to become efficacious.
2) if the meeting is cancelled
a) it’s possible better progress can be made on the two over-arching issues to be discussed.
b) a lot of money will be saved.
c) it will reinforce the increasing sentiment that 3 big meetings a year is too much anyway.
Save the Date: Pre-Meeting Policy Briefing to get you up to speed
Whether you plan to participate in the upcoming Nairobi meeting remotely or in person, you're invited to a quick reminder of the background and current status of each major policy issue currently under discussion in ICANN. The Policy Staff will provide a briefing on Thursday, 25 February, summarizing policy issues across the different ICANN Supporting Organizations. Attendees of the previous Policy Update session, held just before Seoul, reported that the session helped them crystallize their thinking on important issues and made them feel more fully informed as they participated in the international meetings. The Policy Staff will provide the upcoming briefing online at two times, to accommodate various timezones. Plan to join us for either of these duplicate sessions: 13.00 UTC (2200pm Seoul, 0000 Sydney, 0500am Marina del Rey, 0800 Washington, D.C.) or 19.00 UTC (0400 Seoul, 0600 Sydney, 1100 Marina del Rey, 1400 Washington, D.C. Full details will be sent later, including how to register in order to receive the Adobe Connect link and dial-in numbers. But for now, save the date!
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg08300.html
At the request of Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Chair of ALAC, and the At-Large Board Selection Design Team (ABSdt), the Public Comment on the Proposed Process for the 2010 Selection of an ICANN At-Large Board Member is now open through 6 March 2010.
ICANN is pleased to announce that the following review working group final reports have been published:
The draft versions of these reports were presented at the ICANN meeting in Seoul. Comments received during the presentations and the subsequent public comment sessions were taken into account by the respective WGs when drawing up their final recommendations to the Board.
The reports have been forwarded to the ICANN Board Structural Improvements Committee with a view to issuing recommendations to the Board on implementation activities.
From the January 27 2010 Center for Strategic and International Studies event “ICANN and the Internet Ecosystemâ€. Rod Beckstrom, President & CEO of ICANN, discussed his vision for the future of the internet and internet governance. He explained how the ICANN process works in the context of a presentation he has developed about the Internet Ecosystem. Rod developed this presentation early in his tenure as CEO of ICANN in an effort to simplify the complex web of stakeholders, their responsibilities and structures that contribute to, and enhance the bottom up multistakeholder model that is ICANN. audio
via Video: ICANN and the Internet Ecosystem | Center for Strategic and International Studies.
On Jan 25 2010 ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom addressed a graduate studies class at at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He gave a quick summary of ICANN’s structure.
ICANN President Rod Beckstrom was interviewed on CSPAN on Jan 2.
18 December 2009 ICANN is publishing today for public comment a draft model for soliciting Expressions of Interest for new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs) [PDF, 192K]. According to this EOI / pre-registration model, entities interested in participating in the first round of the New gTLD Program are required to submit basic information about the participating entity and the requested top-level domain, also referred to as “string”.
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I attended the 12/14 NARALO meeting on behalf of ISOC-NY.
1. The Special Trademark Issues (STI) Review Team has issued it’s recommendations. This is a follow up to the earlier IRT proposals that were discussed at sessions like the one in NYC earlier in the year. The lack of consensus there led to the STI process which indeed has succeeded in ironing out many differences. The At-Large nevertheless has quibbles detailed here.
2. Outreach at conferences was discussed. A small number of conferences, including the Nonprofit Technology Network, has been targeted. Funds will be applied for. A brochure is needed. A brochure working group was formed. Examples are the current EURALO and At-Large brochures.
3.Theresa Swineheart gave a presentation on the newly forged ICANN Draft Strategic Plan 2010 – 2013. There is a 45 day comment period closing Jan 21 2010. There is also a survey. Feel free to also reply to this post with any comments. The reccomendations will be voted on by the GNSO Council on Thurs Dec 17.
Testing quote: Victor Forsyuk, domain administrator ORG.UA considers a re-issue domain far-fetched. “I’ve always wondered – where did this idea that ICANN might have something to take away, give … Just yesterday, the words were published by the representative of ICANN in the countries of the CIS Veni Markovski Ushitsu statement refuting the alleged support of ICANN of their claims to the domain: “ICANN has no right to maintain an organization. ICANN is concerned that the Internet (DNS) has worked.” More worries me is how these people are manipulating the facts, declaring non-existent support ICAAN, and Ushitsu – for support of their second initiative, the domain. RBM, numerous Internet community “, – he said in an interview
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