Ombudsman
Participation at meetings
There is an ongoing issue about how to have real and effective remote participation at ICANN meetings.
As most of you will hopefully be aware, a specific website is set up for each meeting - you can see Delhi's here: http://del.icann.org/, and Paris' at http://par.icann.org - where a webpage is provided for every meeting. That webpage contains its own chatroom; it contains the agenda, links to presentations , and, when over, a link to the transcript.
However there is still a disconnect and an advantage if you are physically in the room. As an Internet organisation trying to serve a global audience with limited resources, ICANN wants to get to the point where participation is real and possible remotely.
Add your ideas, have a discussion, review what others think at this dedicated forum to improving remote participation.
The biggest issue from experience is time. Meetings start and go extremely quickly from the perspective of someone not in the room. Often meetings happen at inappropriate times for those that wish to attend. Sometimes by the time a question raised remotely can be introduced into the conversation, the conversation has moved on. And this in itself discourages interaction.
So the question is: what can be done to fix this? Is the answer to make sure agendas are posted earlier? How can this be enforced? Should questions be accepted ahead of time? Should meetings on one topic be stretched over several days, allowing for more effective remote input?
What are the practicalities? How do you get the physical meeting to take remote input seriously? What needs to be done? ICANN is very interested in your views on this. And for that reason we have set up a forum on this site in order to help the community discuss, review, brainstorm and formulate possible solutions which ICANN will then experiment with in an effort to provide the global community with a more effective route into the organisation's work.
Add your ideas, have a discussion, review what others think at this dedicated forum to improving remote participation.
Censoring the Internet at Paraguay (South America)
In electoral times COPACO the statal telecomunication company of Paraguay decide to censore the Internet, as they can.
This company has a monopoly over the International Fiber access of all comunication over the Internet. Every single mail has to pass their infraestructure to reach its destiny.
legal for registrars to speculate and reserve domain names?
I had an odd thing happen yesterday... I queryied the networksolutions.com WHOIS database to check on availability of a specific domain for a client; it was availabe.
Today the client asked me to go ahead and register the domain, but lo and behold, networksolutions.com has registered it, and there is no associated website. Is this coincidence? Did they use my query to automatically 'taste' the domain on the odds that i would be trying to register it and force me to BUY it from them?
Registrar Hijacking of Expired Domain Names
By changing the Registered Name Holder's contact information, registrars are able to stifle any effort by the public to contact a registrant about their expiring domain name - preventing registrant from benefiting from the sale of rights to the domain name. And that's just the beginning! Learn more here:
End of Summer Time in Europe and Remote Participation
Europe moved from summer time to winter time last night but the California won't do so until next weekend. This means that for the week of the ICANN meeting the time difference between Europe and the US is different than normal.
Anyone who wants to follow the sessions at this week's meeting will need to take account of the difference in the normal time calculations this week.
On Monday at 9am in Los Angeles it will be 5pm in Brussels and 4pm in Lisbon which is one hour earlier than last week.
Dot Name The Forgotten Global Dot (gTLDs)
Hello
This is the second time that I bring the subject up.
I found this news release by SEDO today.
Please keep reading after the newspaper cut.
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17/01/02 |
.Name Goes Live! Personlize Your Web With a Dot-Name
The World Wide Web just got a little more personal. After the release of the new commerce-oriented TLDs .biz and .info, the domain extension .name went live on Tuesday offering users a personalized space on the Net for a mere registration fee of $30/year.
RegisterFly, Class Action, ICANN and Registries
I got notice yesterday evening of a class action brought to in a US Court against RF, eNom and ICANN.
Although I can understand why the plaintiff is naming eNom and ICANN ( though i don't think that she will succeed in demonstrating that there were illegal conduct from both ) it is somewhat baffling why some other registrars and registries are left alone from this action.
On the process of trying to solve the problem ICANN stated that it had come to an agreement with the registries (all? some of them?) so domains would not be lost.
Questions for the public forum?
ICANN has changed the method by which it draws input into its public meetings - including the public forum - in an effort to make it easier to interact, and hence encourage greater interaction.
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For the ICANN public forum on Thursday 29 March 2007
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