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<h2 style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 0.0001pt; background: rgb(102, 153, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">January 2010 — Volume 3
| Issue 1 </span></h2>
<h3 style="background: rgb(0, 85, 126) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">In this issue:</span></h3>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(0, 85, 126) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: white; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Staff
Focus</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(0, 85, 126) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: white; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Interview
with the new VP of Gov Affairs, the Americas</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(0, 85, 126) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: white; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IDN
ccTLD Fast Track</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(0, 85, 126) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: white; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Government
Advisory Committee</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(0, 85, 126) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: white; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nairobi
Meeting</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(0, 85, 126) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: white; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Policy</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(0, 85, 126) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: white; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Fellowship</span></li></ul>
<h3 style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 0.0001pt; background: rgb(0, 54, 77) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">Staff Focus<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">By Doug Brent, Chief
Operating Officer</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;"></span></h3>
<p style="background: rgb(102, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">The “Staff Focus” is a monthly report about what is on the minds
of ICANN staff. Each month will be written by a different ICANN staff member.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Happy
New Year ICANN Community!</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
December, Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO, posted an important piece on the past
year in review. It seems only fitting to begin the New Year with a look at what
might lie ahead in 2010 for ICANN. So here’s my take.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We
know that fully internationalized names will exist in the Internet for the
first time! The <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/">fast track
process</a> has yielded the first set of strings going into the IANA delegation
process as of 21 January, and names should appear in a few months.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We
also know that the first Accountability review, called for by the <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/documents/affirmation-of-commitments-30sep09-en.htm">Affirmation
of Commitments</a>, will take place. Likely, this will identify both the many
strong steps the entire ICANN community and organization have taken to support
meaningful accountability, and identify future actions that can further improve
our work.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">While
it is too early to predict how far the <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm">new gTLD program</a>
will progress, work already underway points to some likely outcomes. The work
on intellectual property protections by the IRT (special community group), then
handed off to the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/">GNSO</a> for
recommendations, is likely to come to fruition. Appropriate trademark
protections are an essential part of the new gTLD process, and adoption of this
work will be an important step.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Other
major aspects of the new gTLD program under discussion right now include if and
how to run an Expression of Interest process and the right set <br>
of conditions for registry/registrar separation and integration. Both of these
questions have been discussed on-line and on conference calls and are scheduled
for more discussion at ICANN’s Nairobi meeting. And, we can expect more
information on the root scaling study, TLD demand, security considerations for
registries, three character names and variant handling, a new draft applicant
guidebook, and more.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There
is also a great deal of ongoing policy development work in the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/">GNSO</a>, which has more than 18 working groups
now running concurrently, and in the <a href="http://ccnso.icann.org/">ccNSO</a>,
which also has a full agenda, including looking at long-term country code IDN
policies and aspects of delegation and re-delegation. <br>
<a href="http://www.atlarge.icann.org/">At-Large</a> community work also has
reached an all time high as they offer the individual user perspective on a
range of issues. Along with this <br>
policy development work, is work in the GNSO, At-Large and other parts of ICANN
to fully implement organizational improvements and streamline processes. This
is combined with organization reviews of the ccNSO, the <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/committees/dns-root/">RSSAC</a> and more.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Having
tried to make some assessments of likely 2010 outcomes, I also have some
questions on my mind heading into this year:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">With
the Affirmation signed last year, how do the staff, Board and community
build explicit public interest concerns into all of our processes? How can
we assure that the public interest is always being served?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For
years, the notion of improved participation has been discussed (and I’m
sure even this phrase means different things to different people). How can
people participate in a meaningful way without becoming experts in all of
the work ICANN does? How can remote participation be made better and more
integrated into the meetings? How can work be prioritized and/or supported
so a volunteer community can continue to lead?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As
fiscal year 2011 (beginning 1 July) will have virtually no budget growth,
how will the community, Board and staff work to make the trade-offs
between essential new programs and expenditures, and fund them by cutting
others?</span></li></ul>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So,
I’ve assessed likely outcomes and offered some questions, but I guess no look
forward would be complete without at least one prediction. Mine <br>
is that when Rod writes his 2011 in review piece for the community, it will
demonstrate even more significant outcomes – both substantive and process
related - than it did in 2009.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Happy
New Year!</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Doug
Brent<br>
Chief Operating Officer</span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 0.0001pt; background: rgb(0, 54, 77) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">ICANN’s New VP of
Government Affairs, the Americas — Jamie Hedlund</span></h3>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.icann.org/en/magazine/archive/images/jamie-hedlund-jan10.png" alt="Jamie Hedlund" border="0" height="200" width="150">We are pleased to introduce Jamie Hedlund, Vice President
of Government Affairs for the Americas. We did a quick interview with Jamie to
learn a bit more about him and his ideas for ICANN.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Tell
us a little bit about yourself, what is your background? </span></em></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jamie</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: I grew up in the city of Chicago. My
mother was the first woman elected to City Hall and my father was a litigator.
I was fortunate to be able to study in France for one year during high school
and to work in Paris during the summer before college. After college, I worked
in orphanages in Chile while that country returned to democratic rule. My first
job after law school was in Mexico City. After a brief (and somewhat depressing)
stint representing infomercial producers, I spent three years at the US Federal
Communications Commission working on wireless auctions and international
regulatory issues. I then joined Sprint where among other things I participated
in the ITU's WRC 2000 in Istanbul where I helped safeguard the company's 2.5
GHz spectrum from being reallocated for other services. My family and I then
moved to Colorado where I worked on the business side for Level 3
Communications, a major Internet backbone provider. While there, I spent a year
as the chief of staff to the head of Level 3's EU business unit. During my four
years in Denver, my wife completed her doctoral thesis in education and we
decided to return to Washington where she founded a charter school. I became a
lobbyist for Yahoo! Inc. where I worked primarily on broadband and copyright
issues, including net neutrality and webcasting royalties for streaming music.
Most recently, I headed regulatory affairs for the Consumer Electronics
Association where I spearheaded our efforts to secure more spectrum for
wireless broadband devices and services. On a more personal note, my wife and I
are very fortunate to have three happy and healthy children aged 11, 9 and 6
1/2. Like most parents of young kids, when we are not working, we spend a lot
of time shuttling them to school and sporting events.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
attracted you to ICANN?</span></em></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jamie</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: There are many aspects of ICANN that
I found compelling. The critical role that ICANN plays in Internet
infrastructure is really exciting. I figured that ICANN's mandate to ensure a
single Internet must inspire everyone who works here. I'm also the type of
person who thrives in organizations faced with complicated challenges. ICANN's
diverse stakeholders and bottom-up development process knows no parallel - it
is an experiment in governance in which the stakes, the maintenance of a single
root, are incredibly high. During the interview process, it also became clear
to me that there are a lot of very smart, dedicated people here who are passionate
about their work. Rod is clearly an inspired and inspiring leader who promises
to do great things as ICANN continues in its evolution. In short, I was
attracted to ICANN's mission and the people who carry it out.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is your vision for Government Affairs within ICANN/what do you want to
accomplish?</span></em></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jamie</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: My focus is on the Americas. I hope
to build on the foundation laid by my predecessor and by Theresa Swinehart's
Global Partnership organization. In Washington, I hope to keep policymakers
informed of ICANN's progress in carrying out our obligations under the
Affirmation of Commitments. I also hope to raise awareness of ICANN's role in
the global Internet beyond those in Congress and the Administration with whom
we have worked closely. ICANN has a great story to tell and there are many in
government, industry and the public interest community who could become our
supporters. In the Americas, I look forward to working with Theresa and Pablo
Hinojosa to ensure that governments in this hemisphere understand and
appreciate our independence from the US Government and our open and transparent
policy development process.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
challenges do you see? </span></em></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jamie</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: ICANN's biggest challenge in the
government affairs realm will be to secure the support and "buy in"
of the governments and other stakeholders in the ICANN model. This will require
unrelenting outreach and education efforts, especially when some in the ICANN
community inevitably feel disappointed by the results of a policy decision. On
a personal level, there is a lot I need to learn about ICANN. My window into
ICANN while at Yahoo! was a narrow one, focused primarily on IP issues. I look
forward to meeting and working with staff across the organization whose help
will be critical if we are to properly inform and educate policymakers.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is your first priority in your new position? </span></em></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jamie</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: It's hard to pick just one when
there is so much happening now. Rod will be in town for my first week on the
job. I guess my first priority will be that our meetings on the Hill and with
the Administration are successful. Fortunately, Rod has significant experience
in DC and doesn't really need much preparation. More generally, my first
priority will be to develop narratives that convince policymakers that the
ICANN model is succeeding and worth keeping.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How
do you see ICANN’s staff supporting you in achieving your goals?</span></em></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jamie</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: It would be impossible for me to
develop the narrative mentioned above without significant support and input
from staff across the organization. The pieces are all there - all I need to do
is to put it into a format that will be appreciated by Congress, the
Administration, other governments and industry and public interest
constituencies. I know that everyone is incredibly busy but I hope they will
not mind me pestering them for help and information. I also hope that they will
be patient with me as I make my way up the steep ICANN learning curve.</span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 0.0001pt; background: rgb(0, 54, 77) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">IDN Fast Track—First IDN
ccTLD Requests Successfully Pass String Evaluation</span></h3>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN
is pleased to announce the successful completion of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track
String Evaluation for four (4) proposed IDN ccTLDs. The requests are associated
with Egypt, the Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.
Details of the successful evaluations are provided <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-en.htm">here</a>.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by
the ICANN Board at its annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea on 30 October 2009.
First requests were received starting 16 November 2009. The process enables
countries and territories to submit requests to ICANN for IDN ccTLDs,
representing their respective country or territory names in scripts other than
Latin. IDN ccTLD requesters must fulfill a number of requirements:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the
script used to represent the IDN ccTLDs must be non-Latin;</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the
languages used to express the IDN ccTLDs must be official in the
corresponding country or territory; and</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">a
specific set of technical requirements must be met (as evaluated by an
external DNS Stability Panel comprised of DNS and IDN <br>
experts).</span></li></ul>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
request and evaluation processes entail three steps:</span></p>
<ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Preparation
(by the requester in the country / territory)</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">:<br>
Community consensus is built for which IDN ccTLD to apply for, how it is
run, and which organization will be running it, along with preparing and
gathering all the required supporting documentation.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">String
Evaluation</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: <br>
Incoming requests to ICANN in accordance with the criteria described
above: the technical and linguistic requirements for the IDN ccTLD
string(s). <br>
Applications are received through an online system available together with
additional material supporting the process at <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/</a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">String
Delegation</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">:<br>
Requests successfully meeting string evaluation criteria are eligible to
apply for delegation following the same ICANN IANA process as is used for
ASCII based ccTLDs. String delegation requests are submitted to IANA root
zone management.</span></li></ol>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At
this time ICANN has received a total of 16 requests for and IDN ccTLD through
the String Evaluation process, representing eight languages. Four of these have
now successfully passed through the String Evaluation and are hence ready for
the requesting country or territory to initiate the application for String
Delegation.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN
is looking forward to the String Delegation function for these four requests,
as well as finalizing the remaining received requests in String Evaluation, and
receiving additional new requests in the Fast Track Process. A staff support
function is available to help all countries and territories interested in participating
in the Fast Track Process.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Please
email:<br>
<a href="mailto:idncctldrequests@icann.org">idncctldrequests@icann.org</a> for
any inquiries for participation.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Updates
about received numbers of applications and the number of completions will
continue to be provided on the Fast Track Process web page at:<br>
<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 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Press
Release:<br>
<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/releases/release-21jan10-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/en/news/releases/release-21jan10-en.pdf</a></span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 0.0001pt; background: rgb(0, 54, 77) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">ICANN Remains Committed
to Nairobi and Africa</span></h3>
<p style="background: rgb(102, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">The following is a blog post from Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President
& CEO, posted 22 January concerning the upcoming ICANN meeting in Nairobi.</span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(102, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">To view the post along with comments from the community, please go
here: <a href="http://blog.icann.org/2010/01/icann-remains-committed-to-nairobi-and-africa/"><span style="color: white;">http://blog.icann.org/2010/01/icann-remains-committed-to-nairobi-and-africa/</span></a></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We
have listened to the community. Many are looking forward to Nairobi, some
expressed concerns, particularly in light of the events in downtown Nairobi on
January 15. Accordingly, ICANN staff and Board have reexamined the security
situation</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">During
our re-examination we first explored moving the event out of the downtown
Nairobi area to a suburb, but determined that no suitable venue was available.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Second,
we reached out to the Kenyan government as well as other nations with
operations in Kenya for their risk assessments of the situation. The <br>
consistent feedback was that the overall risk assessment of Nairobi had not
changed. Accordingly, based on the ICANN CEO’s recommendation, the ICANN Board
has approved moving ahead with the ICANN Nairobi meeting.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At
the same time, we recognize that many developing country cities have higher
ambient levels of street crime and much of the world (the U.S. and Europe
included) faces international terrorist threats and attacks. Both are simply
facts of life. Also, as with all ICANN events, we will continue to monitor the
security situation in case there are any material future changes. For any ICANN
community members who do not travel to the event, remote participation will be
available for many of the meetings.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Given
that ICANN is committed to “One world. One Internet. Everyone connected.” we
have engaged and will continue to engage with the whole world.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We
greatly appreciate the assistance of Kenya, the host country, and their
commitment to address ICANN security concerns. In addition, the ICANN board has
approved further security investments by the CEO as necessary for the event,
and the CEO will become personally involved in reviewing the security plans.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
love Kenya. I have been to Nairobi six times and greatly look forward to
participating in this important ICANN International meeting.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rod
Beckstrom<br>
CEO and President</span></p>
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<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dear
Community: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As a
part of our efforts to provide more information for attendees and potential
attendees of the Nairobi ICANN meeting, the staff are pleased to provide
advance notice of an upcoming pair of teleconferences to brief you about
logistical and security arrangements, and allow you to ask questions.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
teleconferences will be approximately one hour long, depending upon the length
of the Q&A, and held as follows:</span></p>
<ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thursday,
28th January, 0600 UTC</span></strong><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">(1130 New Delhi,
0900 Nairobi, 1400 Beijing, 1700 Sydney (for the Eastern Hemisphere)</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Friday,
29th January, 2000 UTC</span></strong><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">(1200 Los Angeles, 1500
New York, 1700 Buenos Aires, 1800 Sao Paulo (for the Western Hemisphere) </span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li></ol>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" align="center"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
<hr align="center" size="2" width="100%">
</span></div>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">*CONNECTION INFORMATION:* </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Toll-Free
(North America Only): <br>
+1 (800) 550-6865 / USA <br>
Toll: +1 (213) 233-3193</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">International
Dial-In Numbers: <a href="http://www.adigo.com/icann/">http://www.adigo.com/icann/</a></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Access
Code: 3856</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Adobe
Connect: <a href="http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/nairobi-logistics/">http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/nairobi-logistics/</a></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If a
number your country is not listed, please send an email to <a href="mailto:support@adigo.com">support@adigo.com</a>, with a subject line of
'dial out for ICANN Nairobi Call 1' for the first call, or 'dial out for ICANN
Nairobi Call 2' for the second call, providing your name, full telephone number
including country code, and your location up to 1 hour before the call you want
to attend begins. If you drop from the call or have connection problems, you
can send an IM to either adigohelp (skype or AIM).</span></p>
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<hr align="center" size="2" width="100%">
</span></div>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">*AGENDA:*</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1)
Virtual Walk Through of Logistics - Nick Tomasso and Joe Kiragu</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nick
Tomasso, ICANN General Manager for Meetings and Conferences, will take
attendees through a narrative of the logistical arrangements from the point
that attendees disembark from the plane through to arrival at the hotel.
Following that our Kenyan hosts will take the participants through the process
of moving from their hotel back and forth to the other hotels and the
conference site. Requirements on arrival will also be recapped. Joe Kiragu,
Board Chairperson, Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC), will add any
comments he thinks appropriate.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2)
Review of Security Situation and Arrangements</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Geoff
Bickers, ICANN’s Director of Security, will review security arrangements for
attendees. Geoff will also provide an overview of existing security information
that has been published with reminders of online links for further information.
Board Chairperson, Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC), will be invited to
make any comments he wishes to add.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">3)
Remote Participation Options</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nick
Ashton-Hart will briefly review remote participation arrangements for Nairobi.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://nbo.icann.org/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><img id="_x0000_i1029" src="http://www.icann.org/images/nairobi-logo-273x145.png" alt="ICANN Meeting 37: Nairobi" border="0" height="145" width="273"></span></a><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Q&A: </span></strong></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Questions
and Answers related to the above subjects will be taken from the audience.
Members will be asked to raise their hands in the Adobe Connect room (or ask in
Adobe Connect chat to be placed into the queue) wherever possible. Nick
Ashton-Hart will call on questioners on a first-come, first-served basis. There
is no hard close for the call; the presenters are happy to remain online until
all questions have been answered; if for some reason a participant drops or
must drop and a question arrives for them, this will be passed along so it can
be answered.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
agenda and material presented will be identical at each session.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Recordings
will be posted online for those unable to attend.</span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 0.0001pt; background: rgb(0, 54, 77) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">Policy Update</span></h3>
<p style="background: rgb(102, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">For an in-depth look at the following Policy topics, go to the
January Policy Update at:</span></strong><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/update-jan10-en.htm"><span style="color: white;">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/update-jan10-en.htm</span></a></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Malaysia
and Colombia Join ccNSO </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On 8
January, the country code Name Supporting Organization (ccNSO) accepted the
membership applications of Malaysia (.my) and Colombia (.co).</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Wildcarding”
Study Group Seeks Volunteers </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
ccNSO Council approved the task description of an ad-hoc group that will study
the use of “wildcards” or synthesized DNS responses.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Public
Comments Published about Proposed IDN Policies </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
ccNSO received several public comments on a paper that proposed overall
policies for the introduction of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) into
country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). A summary of the public comments has
been published.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ccNSO
Adjusts Its Relationship with IANA </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
ccNSO Council expanded its Tech Working Group’s mandate to include a formal
liaison role with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Schweiger
Is New Chair of Incident Response Planning </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
ccNSO Council has appointed Dr. Joerg Schweiger, board member of Denic, as the
new Chair of the Incident Response Planning Working Group (IRP WG).</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ccNSO
Drafts Agenda for Meeting in Nairobi </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
ccNSO has publicly posted its first-draft agenda for its activities at the
upcoming meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ccNSO
Prepares to Update Its Website </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
ccNSO is considering ways to update and improve <a href="http://ccNSO.icann.org">ccNSO.icann.org</a>.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Inter-Registrar
Transfer Policies WG Consults with Compliance Team </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) aims to provide a straightforward
procedure for domain name holders to transfer their names from one
ICANN-accredited registrar to another. The GNSO is reviewing and considering
revisions to this policy.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Post-Expiration
Domain Name Recovery WG Presents Final Survey Findings </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To
what extent should registrants be able to reclaim their domain names after they
expire? At issue is whether the current policies of registrars on the renewal,
transfer and deletion of expired domain names are adequate.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">GNSO
Improvements: New Council Seated; Now What? </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Members
of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) community are working hard
to implement a comprehensive series of organizational changes designed to
improve the effectiveness and accessibility of the organization. The GNSO
Improvements fall into five main areas;</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Restructuring
the GNSO Council;</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Revising
the GNSO Policy Develop ment Process (PDP);</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Adopting
a New Working Group Model for Policy Development;</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Enhancing
Constituencies; and</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Improving
Communication and Coordination With ICANN Structures.</span></li></ul>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To
understand the GNSO's new structure and organization, please see the discussion
and diagrams on the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/">GNSO
Improvements webpage</a>. For the reasons and history motivating the
improvements, see the <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/background-en.htm">Background page</a>.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Can
Differing Proposals for Recovered IPv4 Addresses Merge into One Global Policy? </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Regional
Internet Registries (RIRs) are discussing a proposed global policy for handling
IPv4 address space returned from the RIRs to IANA. According to <br>
the proposal, IANA would act as a repository of returned address space and,
once the free pool of IANA IPv4 address space has been depleted, allocate such
space to the RIRs in smaller blocks than it currently does.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">RIRs
Close to Approving Transition to 32-Bit ASN </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Regional
Internet Registries (RIRs) are discussing a proposed global policy for
Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). The proposal would change the date for a full
transition from 16-bit to 32-bit ASNs from the beginning of 2010 to the
beginning of 2011, in order to allow more time for necessary upgrades of the
systems involved.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Opportunity
to Appoint a Board Member Enlivens At-Large Discussions </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN’s
Board voted on 27 August 2009 that the At-Large community should, in principle,
be able to appoint a voting member of the ICANN Board. Since then, At-Large has
been discussing the process to be used, including the selection criteria and
candidate requirements.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Community
Expands to 120 At-Large Structures </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Two
organizations representing individual Internet users have been newly accredited
to the At-Large community as At-Large Structures ("ALSes"), bringing
the total number of ALSes to 120.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Issues
Active with the SSAC</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) is considering several
security related issues, including the Report of the Root Scaling Study Team,
display and usage of internationalized registration data (Whois data), orphaned
domain names, and domain name history. These and other topics may be the
addressed in future SSAC Reports or Advisories. See the <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/committees/security/">SSAC web site</a> for more
information about SSAC activities.</span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 3.75pt 0in 0.0001pt; background: rgb(0, 54, 77) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">Fellowship Update</span></h3>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As
the manager of the Fellowship program, I usually take the opportunity after an
ICANN meeting to utilize this space normally provided to Fellowship program
alumni, in order to update the community on the latest round of Fellowship
participants and their ICANN meeting experience. But as I began receiving the
follow-up reports that each fellow is required to provide after completing the
program, I found that the words of the fellows were so much more compelling,
and chose one report in particular to share in this space. Stanley exemplifies
the spirit and intent of the program, and I hope that it gives you the same
sense of “being there” that it gave me.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; text-align: right; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" align="right"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">— Janice Douma Lange</span></p>
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<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One
World! One Internet! Everyone Connected was the echo the unveiling of the
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) sent to the world at the recent Seoul
meeting. While IDNs reach a milestone in the history of the Internet, they
continue to be like a modern myth for many developing countries with language
and dialogue diversities.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My
country, Papua New Guinea (PNG), is one of the unique countries in the world
with almost 800 different languages and dialogues for each culture
respectively. My attendance and participation at ICANN’s 36th International
Public Meeting in Seoul was a personal achievement and more importantly it was
a human resource development for my country and region. PNG and its neighboring
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) need more exposure and international
collaboration to develop and enhance Internet connectivity and penetration in
the region. Thank you ICANN for giving me this opportunity through your
Fellowship program.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My
first experience as a Fellow began at the 31st ICANN meeting in New Delhi. I
was a fresh university graduate with only three years in professional work; I
was a new kid in town. Not only as a first-timer at an ICANN meeting but coming
in with limited knowledge about the roles of ICANN, its subsidiaries, and
stakeholders. The whole experience started out as chaos but eventually the
learning curve began to level off. I gained valuable information regarding the
nature of ICANN, its constituency groups and their roles and objectives.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now,
almost 2 years later, the people I have met and the wealth of information and
knowledge I have acquired during the Seoul meeting has shed light on once grey
areas and I hope to bring to life new ideas in my country while I contribute to
Internet governance in many other ways.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Papua
New Guinea’s University of Technology (PNG Unitech) is the sole custodian of
ccTLD .pg. I do not directly work in .pg administration but I see it as a
national identity in the cyber world and acknowledge it as an important asset
of the people of PNG. I work as a director for APEC Digital Opportunity Center
(ADOC); a community development arm of the university aimed at bridging the
digital divide in the country by rendering free ICT and Internet training and
awareness. About 50% of PNG’s population of 6.3 million can read and understand
basic English (literate). And from the literate population, almost 30% are
computer literate and only 5% have access to internet.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Internet
penetration is extremely low in the country and the region. One major cause of
this trend is identified as lack of knowledge by the majority of the educated
people, policy makers, bureaucrats, and many institutional managers about
Internet technology and its opportunities. Our objective at ADOC is to leverage
the Internet in all societies; thus, since its inception more than three years
ago, ADOC had trained over 3000 people in e-Commerce and other Internet
applications.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
relate my ICANN experiences to the needs of the end-users and to the status of
the Internet in my region. I do my part so that recent developments in Internet
technology and policy by ICANN and its stakeholders work to close the digital
divide. At the end of the Seoul meeting, I came back and imagined the work
ahead of me and the possibility of truly realizing my visions.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Before
my trip to Seoul, I considered the inefficiencies of my ccTLD management, the
type of government policy on ICT, and the amount of demand from the industries
and other professional organizations in regards to the available Internet
service. Since it was my second attendance to an ICANN meeting, I was familiar
with what to expect so I already had in mind how to apply what I learned to my
situation in my country.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Generally,
the Seoul meeting was awesome. From the fellowship working breakfast meeting to
the day’s various working sessions, SO and AC meetings, public forum, and board
meeting; I was on my feet all day so as to attend most sessions on time. Not to
mention the social events. To attend everything would be impossible so I
decided to spend more time on issues and technical workshops that were more
relevant to my situation.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For
example, IDNs were not a concern to me at this time with respect to the degree
of language diversity in my country – IDNs are not feasible now. I needed to
know more about IANA functions and attend the IPv6 workshop because IPv4
depletion is a global concern in the Internet community. Furthermore, PNG
Unitech has its share of IPv6 from APNIC but has yet to give a test, which was
why I was very interested to learn from others’ experiences at the IANA IPv6
Showcase. And of course, I learned a lot from the Japanese case study as well
as from the comments from RIR managers like Paul Wilson from APNIC on IPv6
deployment and traffic in the region.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One
other very important information I got was at the ccNSO Members meeting.
Although, I was not a member, my hope to return and work for my ccTLD had
inspired me to have keen interest in ccNSO membership, even if I was not
eligible at that time. I received very helpful directions and tips from ccNSO
members and council chairman on how to formulate ccTLD operations and management
policies. If all goes well for me here in my organization, I will be the first
to volunteer to represent my organization in ccNSO at my next attendance.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Before
I applied for ICANN Fellowship, I was already involved in consultation work
with the PNG national government’s Department of Communication and Information
on National ICT Policy by contributing with real insight on the status and
development of the Internet in the country. Also I was in discussions with the
ccTLD management at PNG Unitech on how to enhance and market the top level
domain name. Addressing the technical incompetence of our DNS systems and
policies were some of the topics of discussion. We explored a number of ideas
and deploying local Internet Exchange Point (IXP) was one of them, besides the
move to exchange letters with ICANN and formalize relationships to create an
accountability framework.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
inspiration of the Seoul meeting further boosted my interest and commitment to
pursue the work that I am passionate about. It has equipped me with the
information and connected me to the people that may guide me in revisiting
initiatives that have failed in the past; namely, when I attempted to create a
regional Internet users network to be registered under APRALO.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
important task for me is to educate and create awareness. The more people we
show the opportunities of the Internet to, the more demand there will be for
the Internet in the region, consequently creating competition among the service
providers and enabling essential services.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That
is my hope and plan – a work towards representing ICANN in my region for the
next generation of internet users.</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thank
you,</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Stanley
A Osao<br>
2nd Time Fellow<br>
Director<br>
APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC)<br>
PNG University of Technology</span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><img id="_x0000_i1031" src="http://www.icann.org/en/magazine/archive/images/fellowship-jan10.png" alt="Jamie Hedlund" border="0" height="296" width="395"></span></p>
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<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Policy
update:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/policy/</a></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Monthly
magazine:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/magazine/">http://www.icann.org/en/magazine/</a></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Blog:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <a href="http://blog.icann.org/">http://blog.icann.org/</a></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Announcements:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/</a></span></p>
<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Public
Participation:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <a href="http://public.icann.org/">http://public.icann.org/</a></span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: rgb(102, 153, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: white;">Growing Participation to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC)</span></h3>
<p style="background: rgb(212, 221, 230) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Interest
from Governments in the GAC has continued to grow in 2009, with a marked
increase in new members in the last months of the year. Over that period, the
GAC has had the pleasure to welcome 9 new full members and one new observer.</span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(212, 221, 230) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full
members include Burkina Faso, China, Cook Island, Cyprus, Kyrgyz Republic,
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mali, Russia, Seychelles and Ukraine.
Moreover, the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) of the
Organization of American States also joined as an Observer.</span></p>
<p style="background: rgb(212, 221, 230) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">All
governments active in the GAC have underlined the significance of this
development, which points to the growing awareness on the part of public policy
makers of the relevance of the debate around the Internet’s unique identifiers
system. They have reaffirmed their commitment to work to continue to widen the
geographical footprint of the GAC and the level of engagement of Member States.</span></p>
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more information on the GAC, go to: <a href="http://gac.icann.org/">http://gac.icann.org/</a></span></p>
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