ICANN AT-LARGE MONTHLY ANNOUNCEMENT

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ICANN

ICANN, SAIC, KARL ARUERBACH DAVID FARBER PERTER NEUMANN LAUREN=20
WEINSTEIN,DOMAIN...
ABOUT ICANN Grey Ribbon Campaign calls for Open ICANN Board Meetings ICANN=
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At-Large Membership Study Commmittee Daniel J ... frustrated Auerbach=20
believes ICANN is as out of synch
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/icann.html

ICANN .- Bucharest org bids, icannatlarge.com, Esther Dyson, Consumer=20
Project on...
ABOUT ICANN Grey Ribbon Campaign calls for Open ICANN Board Meetings ICANN=
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At-Large Membership Study Commmittee Bucharest ... here at the ICANN=20
meeting, having arrived in the
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/icannBucharest.html

  ICANN Sued by Karl Auerbach
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/icannLetter.html

  A letter on NSI's whois data sale
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/whoissale.html

  ICANN Stirring the "Dot-Whatever" Pot by Gary Chapman
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/garychapman.html

ICANN announces 10 new top level domain name finalists
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/10newdomainshtml.html

ICANN, SAIC, KARL ARUERBACH DAVID FARBER PERTER NEUMANN LAUREN=20
WEINSTEIN,DOMAIN ...
ABOUT ICANN
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/icannORG.html

The DOT Campaign: Making ".us" work for all of US by Katharina Kopp
Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN was established in 1998 as ... parameters.=
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In principle, ICANN oversees country-code domain names ... for domain=20
names, ICANN has become a lightning rod
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/kopp.html

ICANN Votes to Allow Voting
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/icannPanelistBias.html

INTERNET PIONEERS
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/pioneers.html

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:26:46 -0800
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ICANN AT-LARGE MONTHLY ANNOUNCEMENT

In this issue:

* ALAC WELCOMES NEW, RETURNING MEMBERS =AD ICANN=92s Nominating Committee
selected Jean Armour Polly, from the U.S.A., for the At-Large Advisory
Committee=92s open North America seat, and re-appointed ALAC member Roberto
Gaetano, from Italy, to serve for another term as a European representative
on the ALAC.  Their terms will begin at the conclusion of ICANN=92s Cape=
 Town
meeting (5 December 2004) and conclude at ICANN=92s annual meeting for 2006.

* ICANN CAPE TOWN MEETING =AD ICANN's meeting in Cape Town, South Africa,=
 1-5
December 2004 will include an At-Large meeting with end-users from the
Africa region on Thursday, 2 December, at the Cape Town International
Convention Center. Policy discussions and workshops of interest to the
At-Large community also will be featured:  a Workshop on WSIS and a Workshop
on Internationalized Domain Names have been scheduled for Tuesday, 1
December, at the same location.  All of these events are free and open to
the public and interested individuals are encouraged to attend.  The full
Cape Town schedule is posted at <http://www.icann.org/meetings/capetown/>.

* AUCTIONING EXPIRED DOMAIN NAMES =AD GOOD OR BAD FOR CONSUMERS? =AD=
 Comments
thus far on the At-Large forum are running against registrars directly
selling or auctioning expired domain registrations (see
<http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/>).  For example, Ed Perrone states, =93I
don't believe registrars should be allowed to own/purchase/traffic in ANY
domain names, except perhaps their own name that they use strictly for their
own business purposes. Registrars have too much of an advantage, too much
=91inside information=92."  The ALAC is interested in hearing At-Large=
 community
views on plans by two registrars to begin directly selling or auctioning
expired domain registrations. Is this good for registrants? Should
registrars have the right to control and auction these names and, if so,
what is ICANN=92s role?  What might this mean for ICANN=92s delete policy=
 and
Verisign=92s proposed wait list service?  Send your comments to
forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

* .POST and .TRAVEL MOVE FORWARD =AD ICANN recently announced that it has
entered into commercial and technical negotiations with two of the ten
candidates applying for new sponsored top-level domain (sTLDs).  The status
of the additional applicants is still pending (.asia, .cat, .jobs, .mail,
.mobi, .tel, .tel, and .xxx).  After the application period for new sTLDs
closed in March 2004, an independent evaluation team evaluated the
applications against specified selection criteria. After the team made their
recommendations, ICANN staff entered into contract negotiations with
recommended applicants =AD a process =93dictated by the issues surrounding=
 each
application and the responsiveness of the applicant.=94   See
<http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/stld-public-comments.htm> for
more information and email addresses for public comments.

* ADDITIONAL AT-LARGE EVENTS =AD Two more events for the Latin America
At-Large community have been scheduled in November:  an At-Large meeting
will be held in conjunction with =93V Iberoamerican Independent Congress of
Domain Names III,=94 8-11 November in Caracas, (see
<http://www.iberolatino.com.ve/index.htm>); and an At-Large meeting will be
held in conjunction with the =93Seminario-Taller Sobre Nombres de Dominio,=
=94
23-25 November in Panama (see <http://www.nic.pa/stsnd.html>.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

* ALAC WELCOMES NEW, RETURNING MEMBERS =AD ICANN=92s Nominating Committee
selected Jean Armour Polly, from the U.S.A., for the At-Large Advisory
Committee=92s open North America seat, and re-appointed ALAC member Roberto
Gaetano, from Italy, to serve for another term as a European representative
on the ALAC.  Their terms will begin at the conclusion of ICANN=92s Cape=
 Town
meeting (5 December 2004) and conclude at ICANN=92s annual meeting for 2006.

Jean Armour Polly is a professional librarian employed by the Liverpool (NY)
Public Library as Assistant Director and Administrator of Systems and
Technology. She is also known as Net-mom=AE and is the author of six=
 editions
of Net-mom's Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages (Osborne McGraw-Hill), a
directory to thousands of the best children's Internet resources.  Roberto
Gaetano has served on the ALAC since June 2003 and has been an active
participant in the Internet and ICANN policymaking process since 1997.  He
has played important roles in ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards
Institute), CORE (Council of Internet Registrars), the formation of ICANN's
original Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) and early discussions on
the formation of ICANN.

Other Nominating Committee appointments include:  on the ICANN Board, Vinton
G. Cerf (U.S.A. - North America), Joichi Ito (Japan -
Asia/Australia/Pacific), and Vanda Scartezini (Brazil - Latin
America/Caribbean Islands); on the ccNSO Council, Yassin Mshana (Tanzania -
Africa), Eva Fr=F6lich (Sweden - Europe), and Charles Shaban (Jordan -
Asia/Australia/Pacific); and on the GNSO Council, Maureen Cubberley
(Canada - North America).

* ICANN CAPE TOWN MEETING =AD ICANN's meeting in Cape Town, South Africa,=
 1-5
December 2004 will include an At-Large meeting with end-users from the
Africa region on Thursday, 2 December, at the Cape Town International
Convention Center.  Policy discussions and workshops of interest to the
At-Large community also will be featured:  a Workshop on WSIS and a Workshop
on Internationalized Domain Names have been scheduled for Tuesday, 1
December, at the same location.  All of these events are free and open to
the public and interested individuals are encouraged to attend.  The full
Cape Town schedule is posted at <http://www.icann.org/meetings/capetown/>.

* AUCTIONING EXPIRED DOMAIN NAMES =AD GOOD OR BAD FOR CONSUMERS? =AD=
 Comments
thus far on the At-Large forum are running against registrars directly
selling or auctioning expired domain registrations (see
<http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/>).  For example, Ed Perrone states, =93I
don't believe registrars should be allowed to own/purchase/traffic in ANY
domain names, except perhaps their own name that they use strictly for their
own business purposes. Registrars have too much of an advantage, too much
=91inside information=92."  The ALAC is interested in hearing At-Large=
 community
views on plans by two registrars to begin directly selling or auctioning
expired domain registrations. Is this good for registrants? Should
registrars have the right to control and auction these names and, if so,
what is ICANN=92s role?  What might this mean for ICANN=92s delete policy=
 and
Verisign=92s proposed wait list service?  Send your comments to
forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On 20 September 2004, Network Solutions announced the introduction of a
"New, Enhanced Backorder Service that Provides Preferred Access to Expired
Domain Names,"
(See link at http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-21sep04-1.htm).
This followed Tucows' announcement on 7 September 2004 of a similar, new
"Auction Service for Expiring Domain Names," (see link at
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-21sep04-1.htm).  If
registrants fail to renew their domain names at the conclusion of an
expiration grace period, NSI and Tucows plan to auction the rights to these
domain names, instead of allowing them to =93drop back into the pool=94 of=
 names
available for re-registration on a first-come, first-served basis, as is
currently the process.  Both registrars plan to give part of the auction
price to the prior registrant (NSI plans to give 20% or less, Tucows plans
to give about 80%).

ALAC members would like to explore how this might effect implementation of
the current ICANN =93Expired Domain Deletion Policy=94
http://www.icann.org/registrars/eddp.htm and Verisign=92s proposed =93Wait=
 List
Service=94 http://www.icann.org/minutes/report-vgrs-wls-22aug02.htm, as well
as basic questions about registrars=92 =93rights=94 to domain names, and=
 ICANN=92s
role regarding these auctions.  Please share your views via email to
forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

* .POST and .TRAVEL MOVE FORWARD =AD ICANN recently announced that it has
entered into commercial and technical negotiations with two of the ten
candidates applying for new sponsored top-level domain (sTLDs).  The status
of the additional applicants is still pending (.asia, .cat, .jobs, .mail,
.mobi, .tel, .tel, and .xxx).  After the application period for new sTLDs
closed in March 2004, an independent evaluation team evaluated the
applications against specified selection criteria. After the team made their
recommendations, ICANN staff entered into contract negotiations with
recommended applicants =AD a process =93dictated by the issues surrounding=
 each
application and the responsiveness of the applicant.=94   See
<http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/stld-public-comments.htm> for
more information and email addresses for public comments.

As the process for selecting new sponsored top-level domain (sTLDs) moves
forward, ICANN announced that it is =93pleased that the independent=
 evaluation
process, which began earlier this year, has already provided the basis to
now enter into commercial and technical negotiations with these two registry
applicants.=94 The independent review process, headed by an independent
project manager, consisted of three panels of experts to measure the
applications against the criteria posted in the RFP. Those three panels
tested the applications against the criteria in the areas of: technical
competence; business and financial sufficiency; and whether the TLD belonged
to a sponsored community.

Each panel submitted a report determining whether each applicant met the
criteria and describing the reasoning behind the conclusion. These reports
were forwarded to each applicant. In cases where the applicant had not met
all three sets of criteria, the reports were accompanied by an offer to the
applicant to respond in writing to the findings of the independent panels.
At this stage in the process many of the applicants have now responded and
the path each applicant now takes varies according to which sets of criteria
were or were not met. An update on the status and progress of the additional
applicants will be made as they proceed further through the process.

* ADDITIONAL AT-LARGE EVENTS =AD Two more events for the Latin America
At-Large community have been scheduled in November:  an At-Large meeting
will be held in conjunction with =93V Iberoamerican Independent Congress of
Domain Names III,=94 8-11 November in Caracas, (see
<http://www.iberolatino.com.ve/index.htm>); and an At-Large meeting will be
held in conjunction with the =93Seminario-Taller Sobre Nombres de Dominio,=
=94
23-25 November in Panama (see <http://www.nic.pa/stsnd.html>.

The Interim At-Large Advisory Committee
alac@xxxxxxxxx
www.alac.icann.org


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