Suggested agenda topics for the ALAC/NCSG meeting in Prague?

[Mary.Wong at LAW.UNH.EDU]

Thanks, Evan and Bill. 
 
One thing that has increasingly bothered me - connected with the poor
communications and outreach ICANN did for the new gTLD program rollout -
is the still-substantial misunderstanding over IDNs, especially in
regions such as Asia. I'd be surprised (and pleasantly so) if there is a
large number of applications for new IDN-based gTLDs when Reveal Day
rolls around next week. If there isn't, or even if there is, perhaps
NCSG & ALAC could coordinate on efforts to increase ICANN's commitment
and attention to users in those parts of the world that are likely to be
heavily reliant on IDNs for Internet access and participation.
 
Note: I'm not saying ICANN should get into the business of ensuring
greater Internet access in under-served regions of the world, which is
beyond its mandate; rather, I'm saying that its "one world one Internet"
slogan would be undermined if in rolling out IDNs it fails to ensure
thorough implementation and understanding of what those are. 
 
Cheers
Mary

 
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Chair, Graduate IP Programs
Director, Franklin Pierce Center for IP
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From: William Drake <william.drake at UZH.CH>
To:<NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Date: 6/5/2012 3:45 AM
Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] Suggested agenda topics for the ALAC/NCSG
meeting in Prague?
Hi

Now that we've gotten back into the groove of regularly scheduling
these meetings to complement the evening libations, we need to figure
out how to make them more participatory.  Perhaps it's natural with
crammed agendas and just one hour, but we sometimes fall into a pattern
where the chairs and a couple of officers from each side do most of the
talking while our members sit there.  We should try to open it up a bit,
perhaps by having some members take the lead on certain agenda items, or
at least come prepared with something on them.

And I agree with Evan that they could be more action-oriented.  It's
fine to get together and say yeah, we think that too, but if no joint
force multiplying action ensues it's sort of a wasted opportunity.

Being the liaison to ALAC (as Evan is to NCSC) I'm on their listserv
and haven't seen much discussion there yet of this matter.  So since
we're both starting from a dead stop, maybe we could try to juice things
a little on both sides and then pass relevant coordination messages
between.

Personally Evan, and in line with the suggestion that we skip mind
shares on points of disagreement, I'd suggest that compliance has never
been a big seller in NC. LEA, WHOIS, etc, we're just not on the same
page enough (in some cases, internally as well as bilaterally).    And
conflict of interest——to me personally anyway, I don't see this as
something we need to carry the flag on, the corporate SGs are all over
it and the board is already grouping toward a response
http://prague44.icann.org/node/31635.  What about trying to isolate some
longer-term strategic issues that otherwise not get any play but that go
to those bits of "the global public interest" that we share?

Internationalization and the larger geopolitics that impinge on it is
certainly one of these, I'd think.  NCSG has raised this in its last few
meetings with board, and while the early efforts were far too anodyne,
the last one actually got to some useful inputs and responses that maybe
could be pushed a bit through joint action.  Ditto the linked but
separable questions around engagement with developing country
governments and stakeholders.

And I imagine we might have comparable approaches to the CEO Farewell
Reception ;-)  So what else is there?  Can we identify three big ticket
items, making for 20 minutes on each? Something on new gTLD roll out
issues?  ALAC has a new gTLD WG some of our members participate in,
maybe there's something to be discussed related to its efforts?

What do people think are the pressing public interest issues at stake
now that NCSG and ALAC could collaborate on?

Bill



On Jun 4, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:



Hi all,

>From the ALAC point of view, the hot topics are Compliance, Conflict of
Interest, and i18n (internationalisation) issues.

What would NCSG folks like to deal with when we meet?

Note: from a personal PoV I would like to have an agenda that resulted
in Action Items to work on -- possibly resulting in joint work or
statements -- as opposed to just a general "let's try to figure our
where each other's minds are at" discussion that doesn't really lead to
followup. I'd prefer to concentrate on areas of shared interest.

-- 
Evan Leibovitch
Toronto Canada


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