[lac-discuss-en] Finalised Results of At-Large Summit Survey - Topics for Five Workshops Chosen by Community

[At-Large Staff]

Dear All:

We are pleased to provide below the listing of subjects which the five
working groups of the At-Large Summit will address. As you may know, the
At-Large Summit has as a core element five working groups that will
deliberate upon and agree final statements on areas of policy of importance
to the At-Large community and the ICANN community as a whole.

In order to determine what the five subjects should be, At-Large Structures
were surveyed in late December 2008 to early January 2009 and provided with
13 topics to choose from; they were also able to write-in additional
subjects, which could then be ranked by those respondents who filled in the
survey subsequently.

The results as reproduced below may be independently verified at the
following URL: 
https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=NbehmmLKWssBgvENq6SN

Selection of Working Group Topics

1     At-Large engagement in ICANN (Including goals, organization (ALS,
RALO, ALAC), reviews, strategic planning, Individual Internet users
participation, etc.)

2     The Future Structure and Governance of ICANN (the Improving
Institutional Confidence process)

3     New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) including IDN gTLDs

4     ICANN Transparency and Accountability

5     DNS Security Issues within ICANN¹s Remit

As requested at the last Summit Working Group meeting, the Staff have
combined two categories ­ the original topic ³The Future Structure and
Governance of ICANN² with the topic added-in by a respondent: ³ICANN¹s
Relationship with Governments, the UN and the ITU².

Those Summit attendees who have yet to respond will be invited to choose
from amongst the above topics so that they may be assigned to the working
group most of interest to them whilst retaining a balance of participants
across working groups and regions.

The working groups will then be convened telephonically by their interim
co-chairs in the very near future to begin their work.

-- 
Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Heidi Ullrich, Marie-Hélène Bouchoms
ICANN At-Large Staff
email: staff at atlarge.icann.org