ICANN AT-LARGE MONTHLY ANNOUNCEMENT
Date:
1 October, 2004
In
this issue:
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STRATEGY
FOR NEW TLDs – ICANN recently posted an
Initial Version of New gTLD Implementation Strategy
for public comment. The report states that ICANN
“is committed to develop and implement a comprehensive
strategy for selecting new gTLDs using predictable, straightforward,
transparent, and objective procedures that preserve the stability
and security of the Internet.” It has been posted for 15 days
of public comment closing at 17:00 PDT on 15 October. You are
encouraged to email comments to gtld-strategy-draft@icann.org.
-
AUCTIONING
EXPIRED DOMAIN NAMES – GOOD OR BAD FOR CONSUMERS? –
ICANN also recently posted an “advisory” to raise
awareness of plans by two registrars to begin directly selling or
auctioning expired domain registrations. 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 “drop back into the pool”
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%). Is this good for
registrants? Should registrars have the right to control and auction
these names and, if so, what is ICANN’s role? What might this
mean for ICANN’s delete policy and Verisign’s proposed
wait list service? Do you have an opinion? Post your views via
email to forum@alac.icann.org.
-
AT-LARGE
COMING TO A COUNTRY NEAR YOU – ALAC members and At-Large
community leaders invite you to meet them at, and/or participate in,
events scheduled this fall to share information and expand user
involvement in ICANN. In the Latin America and Caribbean region,
all interested individuals are invited to attend the Latin-American
Workshop on Internet Governance in Cuzco, Peru 13-15 October,
co-sponsored by the ALAC and the UNICT (see
http://www.alac.icann.org/latin/).
A similar workshop is being planned in Port of Spain, Trinidad and
Tobago at the end of this month. Look for ALAC members Tadao
Takahashi and Erick Iriarte at these workshops, as well as at the IV
Congrès Mondial de droit de l’informatique Alfa-Redi,
Cuzco on 11-15 October. In the Asia/Australia/Pacific region, Hong
Xue, Tommy Matsumoto, and Izumi Aizu will participate in: the
International Symposium on Public Participation in Internet
Governance in Seoul, Korea, on October 26, 2004; the AP At-Large
Meeting, Seoul, Korea, on October 27, 2004; and more meetings of AP
At-Large groups will be scheduled soon (see
http://www.alac.icann.org/asia/).
To meet-up with an ALAC member, send an email to
committee@alac.icann.org.
See the At-Large calendar at http://www.alac.icann.org/calendar.htm
for links to events of interest to At-Large.
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AT-LARGE
CONTINUES TO GROW – On 7 September 2004, the ALAC certified as
“At-Large Structures” the Internet Society Congo (based
in DRC, in the Africa region) and the Internet Users Network (based
in Japan, in the Asia/Australia/Pacific region). In addition, the
ALAC is conducting due diligence on two groups from North America
that have applied for ALS certification -- America@Large (based in
USA), and the Intellectual Property & Technology (IPT) Section
of the Hawaii State Bar Association (based in USA), a group from
Asia/Australia/Pacific -- Communications and Multimedia Consumer
Forum of Malaysia (CfM), and ISOC Belgium (in the European region).
Join a group or form a new one. Information is posted at
www.alac.icann.org/announcements/announcement-24sep03.htm
and www.alac.icann.org/applications/.
-
STRATEGY
FOR NEW TLDs – ICANN recently posted an
“Initial Version of New gTLD Implementation Strategy”
for public comment. The report states that ICANN
“is committed to develop and implement a comprehensive
strategy for selecting new gTLDs using predictable, straightforward,
transparent, and objective procedures that preserve the stability
and security of the Internet.” It has been posted for 15 days
of public comment closing at 17:00 PDT on 15 October. You are
encouraged to email comments to gtld-strategy-draft@icann.org.According
to ICANN, “implementation of this strategy will introduce
competition and choice to the market for domain registration
services” and it expects the implementation of new gTLDs to be
a “transparent and straightforward allocation process”
that will “ensure the stability and security of the Internet.”
ICANN also states that its strategy will have the flexibility to
address issues raised through DNS evolution, changes in the
marketplace, new industry standards, and other developments.
Incorporating relevant community guidance on each of the issues
identified in this initial strategy also is listed as an objective.
If you have a relevant comment, please email it to
gtld-strategy-draft@icann.org -
AUCTIONING
EXPIRED DOMAIN NAMES – GOOD OR BAD FOR CONSUMERS? –
ICANN also recently posted an “advisory” to raise
awareness of plans by two registrars to begin directly selling or
auctioning expired domain registrations. 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 “drop back into the pool”
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%). Is this good for
registrants? Should registrars have the right to control and auction
these names and, if so, what is ICANN’s role? What might this
mean for ICANN’s delete policy and Verisign’s proposed
wait list service? Do you have an opinion? Post your views via
email to forum@alac.icann.org.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).
ALAC
members would like to explore how this might effect implementation of
the current ICANN “Expired Domain Deletion Policy”
http://www.icann.org/registrars/eddp.htm
and Verisign’s proposed “Wait List Service”
http://www.icann.org/minutes/report-vgrs-wls-22aug02.htm,
as well as basic questions about registrars’ “rights”
to domain names, and ICANN’s role regarding these auctions.
Please share your views via email to forum@alac.icann.org. -
AT-LARGE
COMING TO A COUNTRY NEAR YOU – ALAC members and At-Large
community leaders invite you to meet them at, and/or participate in,
events scheduled this fall to share information and expand user
involvement in ICANN. In the Latin America and Caribbean region,
all interested individuals are invited to attend the Latin-American
Workshop on Internet Governance in Cuzco, Peru 13-15 October,
co-sponsored by the ALAC and the UNICT (see
http://www.alac.icann.org/latin/).
A similar workshop is being planned in Port of Spain, Trinidad and
Tobago at the end of this month. Look for ALAC members Tadao
Takahashi and Erick Iriarte at these workshops, as well as at the IV
Congrès Mondial de droit de l’informatique Alfa-Redi,
Cuzco on 11-15 October. In the Asia/Australia/Pacific region, Hong
Xue, Tommy Matsumoto, and Izumi Aizu will participate in: the
International Symposium on Public Participation in Internet
Governance in Seoul, Korea, on October 26, 2004; the AP At-Large
Meeting, Seoul, Korea, on October 27, 2004; and more meetings of AP
At-Large groups will be scheduled soon (see
http://www.alac.icann.org/asia/).
To meet-up with an ALAC member, send an email to
committee@alac.icann.org.
See the At-Large calendar at
<http://www.alac.icann.org/calendar.htm> for links to events
of interest to At-Large. -
AT-LARGE
CONTINUES TO GROW – On 7 September 2004, the ALAC certified as
“At-Large Structures” the Internet Society Congo (based
in DRC, in the Africa region) and the Internet Users Network (based
in Japan, in the Asia/Australia/Pacific region). In addition, the
ALAC is conducting due diligence on two groups from North America
that have applied for ALS certification -- America@Large (based in
USA), and the Intellectual Property & Technology (IPT) Section
of the Hawaii State Bar Association (based in USA), a group from
Asia/Australia/Pacific -- Communications and Multimedia Consumer
Forum of Malaysia (CfM), and ISOC Belgium (in the European region).
Join a group or form a new one. Information is posted at
www.alac.icann.org/announcements/announcement-24sep03.htm
and www.alac.icann.org/applications/.This
brings the total number of groups certified as At-Large Structures to
18. These organizations intend to help individual Internet user
communities throughout the world participate in ICANN activities and
decision-making that affect them. These groups represent a variety of
individual users, and are wholly independent from ICANN.
Certification simply recognizes that these groups meet ICANN's
criteria for involving individual Internet users at the local or
issue level in ICANN and for promoting individuals' understanding of,
and participation in, ICANN.
The
Interim At-Large Advisory Committee
