[At-Large] [Fwd: Re: Report to monthly telcon from ccNSO]

Tue May 8 11:31:27 EDT 2007

> To have an ALAC WG is a good idea. Meanwhile, we may wish to accelerate
> the
> drafting of the users' guide on IDNs. I asked PAC for more materials for
> drafting but haven't got a reply. I assume Nick wrote to Tina as well. Any
> response?

Having a Guide is a good idea, but I don't think that's our main mission.
More important IMO :

> we do need have our own policy advocacy vehicle
> through RALOs asap.

And this can be a working group of sorts.
BTW, I certainly did not mean and did not say that you're not contributing
to IDN discussion; what I said that because ALAC does not have a formal
structure dealing with the issue, the impression has been created in some
circles that ALAC as a group is not paying much attention to the issue.
Siavash

> Hong
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> On 5/8/07, Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart at icann.org> wrote:
>>
>> You may remember the discussion in Lisbon, where I suggested that the
>> ALAC could call for volunteers from the regions to act as
>> backup/colleagues for each of the liaisons, but also to establish
>> additional capacity to deal with follow-up to other issues, working
>> groups in GNSO processes, etc.
>>
>> If we can get together a list of the issues that need to be followed,
>> I can craft an email to the various at-large regions, and coordinate
>> lists of volunteers, creating email lists for these groups of people,
>> and facilitating information flowing to them to/from other policy
>> areas? Would that be helpful?
>>
>> We're of course happy to provide the service and support to ensure
>> communication between groups of people following processes and
>> updating wikis etc to give these working groups of At-Large 'homes'
>> online...
>>
>> On 08/05/07, Jacqueline A. Morris <jam at jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:
>> > Siavash
>> > Good point - we haven't had ALAC working groups per se on any issues
>> in
>> the
>> > past. Now that we have gotten (mostly) over the hump of creating the
>> RALOs,
>> > setting up a process to create WGs on issues might be a good idea. We
>> have
>> > started some initiatives on the IDN issue, such as the User Guide,
>> which
>> we
>> > need to follow up with Staff.
>> > Jacqueline
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Siavash Shahshahani [mailto:shahshah at irnic.ir]
>> > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:57 AM
>> > To: alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>> > Subject: [At-Large] Report to monthly telcon from ccNSO
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> > On the eve of monthly telecon here's my brief report from the
>> goings-on
>> of
>> > ccNSO mailing list:
>> >
>> > The most prominent item of relevance to at-large community has been
>> IDNs.
>> > In fact it seems that among all ICANN constituencies ALAC is the least
>> > involved pro-actively in the subject. I know that Hong is actively
>> > participating in the IDN Working Group(albeit without voting power)and
>> is
>> > a member of the President's IDN Committee, but perhaps some kind of an
>> > ALAC Working Group can be set up under her leadership to lend weight
>> to
>> > individual user interests in this matter. This is specially important
>> > because with most of the RALOs having been formed, ALAC can be
>> expected
>> to
>> > speak for a large international cross-section. As you might know
>> there's
>> a
>> > joint GAC-ccNSO Working Group on IDNs which is supposed to finish its
>> > initial deliberations in Puerto Rico and report specific
>> recommendations
>> > to ICANN Board. Further, there was a move in ccNSO to write to ICANN
>> Board
>> > expressing concern that GNSO recommendations on IDN might be adopted
>> > without sufficient input from the rest of the community. In the
>> initial
>> > draft of the letter, ICANN constituencies were identified as GAC, GNSO
>> and
>> > ccNSO, with no mention of ALAC. On my intervention, ALAC was also
>> > included, but somebody pointed out that ALAC is not doing any work on
>> this
>> > matter(or has no working group on this)- just to let everybody
>> know(!).
>> > This letter will be going to ICANN Chair soon and I wouldn't be
>> surprised
>> > if we were asked to provide a substantive and detailed input.
>> >
>> > Siavash
>> >
>> >
>> >
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