<h2 style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#6699CC"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">November 2009 — Volume 2
| Issue 10 </span></h2>
<h3 style="background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">In this issue:</span></h3>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Special
Seoul Edition</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Internationalized
Domain Names (IDN's)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">New
gTLDs</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Strategic
Planning</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Affirmation
of Commitments</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">GNSO
Improvements</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Independent
Reviews</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Board
Members & Councillors</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Board
Resolutions</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:white;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;background:#00557E"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Fellowship
Update</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#00364D"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">Special Seoul Edition</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">WHAT WAS IT?</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ICANN's 36th international public
meeting was the last of three held annually to conduct policy development and
outreach. It was hosted by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers) and KISA (Korea Internet & Security Agency), a public agency
that plays a major role in developing and researching the Internet in Korea.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
meeting was opened by three local dignitaries: Mr. See Joong Choi, chairman of
the Korea Communications Commission; Mr. Heung Kil Ko, Senator and Chairman of
the Culture, Sports, and Tourism, Broadcasting and Communications Committee of
the National Assembly; and Ms. Hee Jung Kim, president of KISA. </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr.
See Joong Choi spoke about how the Internet was 40 years old, and the impact it
has had in that time. He talked about how important IP addresses were as assets
for the future and that they become a common resource for all. And he welcomed
the introduction of IDNs as paving a "new way toward the future".</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr.
Heung Kil Ko spoke about how Korea was a leader in the knowledge and
information society, with 77.6 percent of its citizens online. He spoke of the
importance of an efficiently and stably managed IP address system, as well as
dealing with security threats such as hacking and phishing. The conference
would hopefully lead to close ties between ICANN and Korea, he added.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms.
Hee Jung Kim also heralded the introduction of IDNs, and welcomed a recent
change in the agreement that ICANN has with the United States government as
strengthening the autonomy of the IP addressing system.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There
were 1,207 attendees to the conference from 111 different countries. The
participants engaged in a wide range of discussions about the Internet's domain
name system and related issues.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHAT
HAPPENED AND WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS? </span></strong><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Many
meetings, workshops, public forums and informal discussions were held over
seven days by the different stakeholders of the ICANN model:</span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Business
interests</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Civil
society – – including the At-Large Summit of individual Internet user
representatives</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Governments
and government agencies</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Internet
service providers</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Registrants</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Registrars</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Registries</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
technical community</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Several
key issues and themes evolved over the course of the meeting. They are
summarized in this magazine.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Further
information about the meeting, including presentations and transcripts, is
available at <a href="http://sel.icann.org/">http://sel.icann.org</a>.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ICANN's
next international public meeting will take place in Nairobi, Kenya beginning
on 7 March 2010. </span></p>
<h3 style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#00364D"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">Internationalized Domain
Names (IDN's)</span></h3>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHAT
HAPPENED </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
most significant progress at the Seoul meeting was the approval of the
"fast track", which will see a limited number of internationalized
domain names introduced to the Internet's root possibly before the end of the
year. To celebrate the occasion, a special evening reception was held on the
Monday.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
fast track was formally <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-30oct09-en.htm#2">approved by
the Board</a> on Friday, and although there remain concerns about their
introduction, the Chairman noted it as an historic achievement and the vote was
met with a standing ovation by the audience. Dozens of press articles from
across the world also recognized the event.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For
the first time, Internet users that speak something other than Western
languages will be able to represent an entire Internet address in their own
language.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEXT
STEPS </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Applications
to the fast track will open on 16 November. </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MORE
INFORMATION </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Official
announcement of the approval: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30oct09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30oct09-en.htm</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fast
track webpage:<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Check
out the IDN video on our home page: <a href="http://www.icann.org/">http://www.icann.org/</a>.</span></p>
<h3 style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#00364D"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">New gTLDs</span></h3>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHAT
HAPPENED </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
third version of the Applicant Guidebook, as well as a range of other papers
and explanatory memoranda, were produced for discussion at the meeting. A <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/6739">main session</a> on the program was held
on the Monday.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In
particular, additional work was done on the “overarching issues” that need to
be addressed before the introduction of new top-level domains (see below for
more specific information).</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ICANN
staff revised the deadline to the opening application date for new gTLDs.
Instead of giving a date, or quarter, the launch date will be dependent on
community efforts to find solutions to the overarching issues. This approach
prompted some in the community to argue that ICANN needed to demonstrate its
determination to the process.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
result at the end of the week was a compromise solution, <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-30oct09-en.htm#5">approved in
a Board resolution</a>, that asked staff to look into how to introduce a system
for allowing “expressions of interest” to be shown in new gTLDs. That
process may allow for likely demand to be gauged and provide useful data to
move some discussions from theoretical to pragmatic.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
Applicant Guidebook is out to public comment until 22 November.</span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Trademark
Protection</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
issue of how to protect trademarks in the event of a massive expansion in the
domain name space continued to be an issue of much debate. A <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7116">special session</a> was held on the
Wednesday to discuss the issue.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Following
public comment on a report produced for the previous meeting in Sydney (the IRT
report), possible solutions to the issue were reduced from four to two in a
staff paper released prior to the meeting. Those solutions are: the creation of
an IP Clearinghouse, or database of validated trademarks; and a Uniform Rapid
Suspension process for use in clear-cut cases of trademark infringement.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That
paper has been put to the GNSO for review.</span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Malicious
Conduct</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Two
sessions on Monday afternoon addressed the concern that a large expansion of
the domain name space will present new opportunities for abuse of the DNS, such
as phishing, malware, the distribution of illegal content, and so on.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
broad concern is that with a large number of new companies entering the domain
name market – both registries and registrars – that there will not be
sufficient awareness of the problems of dealing with the criminal element
online.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Summaries
of the input received so far on this issue as well as a report by ICANN staff
with proposed mitigation measures were posted for review prior to the meeting
and a <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7116">panel discussion</a> dug further
into both.</span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l6 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Security
and Stability</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7084">session on Wednesday</a> focused on a
report that reviewed how the Internet's current systems could scale to
accommodate new Internet extensions, as well as other security related issues
such as the introduction of a more secure form of the current system, called
DNSSEC.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Broadly,
there are some concerns that if a large number of extensions were introduced to
the Internet at the same time, that the systems currently in place would not be
able to cope.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There
was some discussion about whether the report effectively recommended that new
gTLDs would need to be delayed or spread out over time, although there was no
agreement on that point and it remains for ICANN's Advisory Committees in this
area (RSSAC and SSAC) to review the report, public comments on the issue, and
report back to the community.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
root scaling report is <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#rsst-report">out for public
comment</a> until 29 November.</span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l7 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Demand
and Economic Analysis</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Further
economic analysis will be commissioned by ICANN in order to address outstanding
concerns raised following review of the two previous economic studies.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEXT
STEPS </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Feedback
from the meeting, as well as comments sent to comment periods covering the
third version of the Applicant Guidebook and papers related to the overarching
issues, will be used to produce a fourth version of the guidebook for the
Nairobi meeting in March.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Staff
will review the possibility of introducing a system where potential gTLD
applicants are able to provide “expressions of interest” in new Internet
extensions in order to help the work move forward more effectively.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MORE
INFORMATION</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
new gTLD program webpage contains the latest information as well as extensive
background information on the whole process: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Root
scaling study session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7084">http://sel.icann.org/node/7084</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trademark
Protection session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7116">http://sel.icann.org/node/7116</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Malicious
Conduct and new gTLDs session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7117">http://sel.icann.org/node/7117</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Malicious
Conduct and Consumer Protection: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7288">http://sel.icann.org/node/7288</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Registry/registrar
separation session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7083">http://sel.icann.org/node/7083</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">New
gTLD update session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/6739">http://sel.icann.org/node/6739.</a></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#00364D"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">Strategic Planning</span></h3>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHAT
HAPPENED </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ICANN
held its first strategic planning session for 2010 on Wednesday morning.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
strategic plan is the process by which the organization's priorities are mapped
out, feedback is received from the community, and all the input is pulled into
an Operating Plan, from which the organization's budget is decided and
allocated.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
session was more interactive than previous years with an online survey asking
people to rank the importance of various areas of work e.g. implement new
gTLDs, strengthen accountability, etc.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
plan recognized four main areas of focus for ICANN: </span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Preserve
DNS stability and security</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Promote
competition, trust and consumer choice</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Excel
in IANA and other core operations</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l2 level1 lfo7;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Maintain
ICANN's long term role in the Internet eco-system. </span></li>
</ul>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Within
these, no less than 18 projects were highlighted as being of strategic
priorities over the next three years.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> NEXT
STEPS </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A
draft plan will be drawn up based on community feedback and provided to the
Board for review. The plan will then be put out to public comment in early
December, with the second set of feedback used to draw up a revised plan to be
put before the Board for approval in February 2010.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MORE INFORMATION</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Strategic
plan session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7103">http://sel.icann.org/node/7103</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Auve9xOKvl0YbWhg1NLKmA_3d_3d">Online
survey</a></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#00364D"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">GNSO Improvements</span></h3>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHAT
HAPPENED </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">After
years of hard work, the new GNSO Council sat for the first time in Seoul. There
are now two main stakeholder groups: Contracted (made up of registries and
registrars), and Non-Contracted (made up of commercial and non-commercial
interests).</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A
new chair was chosen by both houses – Chuck Gomes – and he will work alongside
two new vice-chairs: Olga Cavalli (Non-Contracted) and Stephane van Gelder
(Contracted). </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MORE
INFORMATION </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
GNSO Improvements webpage: <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/">http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
GNSO Council session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/6708">http://sel.icann.org/node/6708</a><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></strong></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#00364D"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">Independent Reviews</span></h3>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHAT
HAPPENED </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A
number of sessions that covered the review of specific parts of ICANN were held
during the week.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Currently,
two bodies are in the implementation phase: GNSO and ALAC. The GNSO process was
largely finished with the sitting of the new Council; whereas the ALAC <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7183">met the Board's Structural Improvements
Committee</a> to discuss the implementation of its changes.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Meanwhile,
going through the Working Group stage (i.e. just before implementation) there
is: the <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7094">Nominating Committee</a>; <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7252">Board</a>; and <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7098">SSAC</a>.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Other
reviews ongoing included: RSSAC (just at the start of the working group
period); ccNSO (just about to head into the review process); and ASO (terms of
reference for its review being drawn up). </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEXT
STEPS </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The reviews
will progress through the clearly defined processes in each case. More sessions
will be held in Nairobi to discuss and review that progress.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MORE
INFORMATION: </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ALAC
and Board SIC session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7183">http://sel.icann.org/node/7183</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nominating
Committee review session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7094">http://sel.icann.org/node/7094</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Board
review session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7252">http://sel.icann.org/node/7252</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SSAC
review session: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7098">http://sel.icann.org/node/7098</a>.
</span></p>
<h3 style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#00364D"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">Board Members &
Councillors</span></h3>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Since
this was ICANN's annual general meeting, there was turnaround in Board and
Council members.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In
particular, Roberto Gaetano, Steve Goldstein, Wendy Seltzer and Thomas Roessler
left the Board. </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From
ALAC: Jose Ovidio Salgueiro, Fatimata Seye Sylla, Vanda Scartezini, Nguyen Thu
Hue, and Sivasubramanian Muthusamy all ended their terms. </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From
the GNSO: Tony Harris, Philip Sheppard, Greg Ruth, Tony Holmes, Ute Decker,
Cyril Chua, Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, Maggie Mansourkia, Jon Nevett, and
Steve Metalitz all left the Council.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Special
mention was given to leaving GNSO chair Avri Doria and leaving NomCom chair
Tricia Drakes.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Peter
Dengate Thrush was re-elected as chair of the Board, and Dennis Jennings as
vice-chair.</span></p>
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0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#00364D"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">Board Resolutions</span></h3>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
full set of Board Resolutions at the public meeting on Friday can be found
online at:<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-30oct09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-30oct09-en.htm</a>.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A
transcript of the meeting can be found at: <a href="http://sel.icann.org/meetings/seoul2009/transcript-board-meeting-30oct09-en.txt">http://sel.icann.org/meetings/seoul2009/transcript-board-meeting-30oct09-en.txt</a></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And
video recordings of proceedings can be found in two parts at: <a href="http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/p77419459/">http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/p77419459/</a>
and <a href="http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/p19863704/">http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/p19863704/</a></span></p>
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0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#00364D"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">Fellowship Update</span></h3>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">My
name is Fahd A. Batayneh and I'm Jordanian – home to the Rose City of Petra,
one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. I'm a systems engineer at Jordan's
National Information Technology Center (NITC) – part of the Ministry of
Information and Communication Technology (MoICT).</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">My
focus is IT consultancy and policy development and I am a key member of the
team running the DNS mission of dot-jo. I am also an active member of Jordan's
IPv6 committee and ENUM committee. I also provide training to university
interns. It is thanks to this network that I was asked by my government to
represent Jordan within ICANN. </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I
have been involved with ICANN since the Paris meeting in June 2008 and now sit
on no less than four working groups. I am also involved in the Asia Pacific
Top-Level Domains (APTLD) organization, the Arabic Domain Names and Internet
Governance Team (ADNIGT), and the Usage of Arabic Scripts in Domain Names
Working Group (ASIWG).</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So
how did my involvement in the fellowship program start?</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On a
rainy winter day in February of 2008, I sat down at work and started going
through that morning's emails when I was delighted to see one from ICANN
congratulating me on being selected to attend the Paris meeting as a fellow. I
was speechless! To be honest, at first I thought it was a scam, but after a few
phone calls I found out it was for real and I was extremely happy that it was!
It was the beginning of my – hopefully – long lasting adventures with
ICANN. </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">At
the Paris meeting, I was totally lost since I barely knew anybody and hearing
terms such as ccNSO, gNSO, GAC, ALAC, SSAC, RSSAC, and ASO - the ICANN language
- was confusing and misleading at first. But with the help of ICANN's regional
manager to the Middle East, Baher Esmat, I got to know some people and soon
grew accustomed to the terminology.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A
few months later, ICANN asked for volunteers to work on two working groups: the
Strategic and Operational Planning Interaction Committee, and the Community
Wide Working Group on Geographical Regions. I applied to both, and with an
excellent recommendation from my DNS advisor, I was accepted. Then, in
September 2009, the ccNSO announced their need for extra volunteers to two
ongoing working groups: the Incident Response Working Group, and the Joint
ccNSO/gNSO IDN Working Group. I was accepted on board with the first working
group a few days later, but it was not until the Seoul meeting that I was
informed of my involvement with the later one.</span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Working
with these groups, or with any work group established for the cause of ICANN
and the evolution of the Internet, is done on a volunteer basis and can be time
consuming, especially during the first steps of producing a preliminary draft
charter. But it is also very exciting as you have the opportunity to work with
and learn from interesting people who operate different organizations in
various ways. </span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Back
home, I am very keen to introduce my community to ICANN, and I encourage my
colleagues to apply to the fellowship program so that, if successful, they
could attend an ICANN meeting and get to know the community and how they
operate. They can then reflect on what they learned and share their learnings
with the local community. </span></p>
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0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#660000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white">Upcoming Meetings</span></h3>
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7-9: Australian IPv6 Summit 2009—Melbourne, Australia—event link <a href="http://www.ipv6.org.au/summit/">http://www.ipv6.org.au/summit/</a></span></li>
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mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8;tab-stops:list .5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">December
9: ICANN Board Meeting </span></li>
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25—31: Closed for the Holidays </span></li>
</ul>
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<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#6699CC"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:white">Affirmation of Commitments</span></h3>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHAT
HAPPENED </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
Joint Project Agreement (JPA) that ICANN had with the US government concluded
in September and was replaced by an Affirmation of Commitments.</span></p>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Under
that Affirmation, ICANN becomes accountable to the global Internet community
and a series of reviews are outlined that help ensure a high degree of public,
global accountability.</span></p>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A <a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7481">special session</a> was held on the
Wednesday afternoon where the Chairman and CEO took questions about the
Affirmation and also outlined a path forward for carrying out the reviews.</span></p>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
Affirmation was also given an hour-long slot at the public forum on
Thursday. </span></p>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEXT
STEPS </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
Affirmation outlines a number of reviews. An initial draft of how these might
work will be produced following community feedback and presented at the next
ICANN meeting in Nairobi. </span></p>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MORE
INFORMATION </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30sep09-en.htm#affirmation">The
Affirmation of Commitments</a></span></p>
<p style="background:#D4DDE6"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://sel.icann.org/node/7481">Affirmation session</a></span></p>
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