ICANN AtLarge Process Forming AP RALO Challenges

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ICANN AtLarge ProcessForming AP RALOChallenges
OpportunitiesFeb 25 2007AP-Star in Bali
 

• Izumi Aizu
• ICANN ALAC
• Institute for HyperNetwork Society
• ltiza_at_anr.orggt

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LAC-RALOThe First RALO established

• Latin America and Caribbean Regional AtLarge
  Organization
• ICANN agreed for the MoU
• 2 prep meetings held
• RALO in other regions
• Asia Pacific
• Europe

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Sao Paulo Meeting
Opening Ceremony
ALAC Meeting with ICANN Board
LACRALO prep meeting
LACRALO-MOU Signing
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AP-RALO

• 2006
• Operating Principles consensus reached
• MoU Draft almost agreed
• Feb 28 AP-ALS meeting to set out AP-RALO here in
  Bali

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ALSes in Asia/Australia/Pacific

• 13 ALSes already certified
• Arab Knowledge Management Society (AKMS) (Oct
  2003) (jo/Arab)
• NII Enterprise Promotion Association (Jan 2004)
  (tw)
• At Large _at_ China (Jan 2004) (cn)
• ISOC Taiwan Chapter (PDF) (Jan 2004) (tw)
• Internet Society Vasudhay Kutumbhkum (ISVK)-
  India (Feb 2004) (in)
• Internet Users Network (Japan) (Jun 2004) (jp)
• Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) (Mar
  2005) (au)
• Internet Users Society - Niue (Jul 2005) (nu)
• Pacific Islands Chapter of Internet Society
  (PICISOC) (Jul 2005) (fj)
• Internet Society Hong Kong Chapter (Dec 2005)
  (hk)
• Hong Kong Internet Forum (HKIF) (Mar 2006) (hk)
• Aotearoa Maori Internet Organisation (Apr 2006)
  (nz)
• InternetNZ (May 2006) (nz)
• Under due deligence
• Emirates Internet Group (Dec 2006)

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EU-RALO

• Formation close to closure
• Jun 2006 Frankfurt Meeting
• Oct 2006Berlin Meeting
• Can they reach MoU at Lisbon meeting in March?
• North America Canada is ahead
• Africa still takes time?

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Policy Issues for AtLarge

• In general, all ICANN issues which affect
  individual users
• Existing issues
• WHOIS
• IDN
• New gTLD Policy
• .xxx
• Registry behavior
• Emerging issue
• Domain Name Tasting
• Proposed a user survey

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Minimum criteria for an At-Large Structure

• Commit to supporting individual Internet users'
  informed participation in ICANN by distributing
  to individual constituents/members information on
  relevant ICANN activities and issues, offering
  Internet-based mechanisms that enable discussions
  of one or more of these activities and issues
  among individual constituents/members, and
  involving individual constituents/members in
  relevant ICANN policy development, discussions
  and decisions.
• Be constituted so that participation by
  individual Internet users who are citizens or
  residents of countries within the Geographic
  Region in which the ALS is based will predominate
  in the ALS' operation. The ALS may permit
  additional participation by others that is
  compatible with the interests of the individual
  Internet users within the region.
• Be self-supporting (not rely on ICANN for
  funding).
• Post on the Internet (on the ALAC's website or
  elsewhere) publicly-accessible, current
  information about the ALS's goals, structure,
  description of constituent group(s)/membership,
  working mechanisms, leadership, and contact(s).
• Assist the RALO in performing its function.

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Coming Challenges for AtLarge

• Make substantive participation
• ALS certification process Ombudsman Report
• Review for AtLarge Framework
• Advice or Vote at the Board
• External (independent) Review to be started
  shortly
• LSE Report as outcome of GNSO Review
• How ICANN Community as a whole think
• Post-WSIS situation
• Multi-stakeholder approach more prominent
• Government, Private Sector and Civil Society

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How to bring lifeto RALO and ALAC?

• Relationship with ICANN
• How to make it sustainable
• How to raise more awareness and become more
  active
• Where should Secretariat function be located?
• Five regions, or central coordination?
• Relation between RALO and ALAC, ALAC and staff
• Staff support has been a problem.
• Dependent, independent, support, collaborate?

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ALAC won the Soccer tournamentin Brazil!!

• ALAC won over GAC?LAC?Registras and ICANN

Goalllll!!!!!
Golden Ball for Winning Head Coach
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Need for more support and collaboration

• Multi-stakeholder approach is not only about
  composition, but more on interaction and
  collaboration among different stakeholders
• How do you like to make ICANN policy process
  work?
• How in each country/economy to set policy that
  work?
• AtLarge is still in its infancy, need community
  support as a whole
• Who needs AtLarge after all?