ICANN AtLarge ProcessForming AP RALO

Challenges & Opportunities

Feb 25 2007AP-Star in Bali

Izumi AizuICANN 　 ALAC

Institute for HyperNetwork Society<iza@anr.org>

 

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 2

LAC-RALO:The First RALO established

Latin America and Caribbean Regional AtLarge Organization

ICANN agreed for the MoU2 prep meetings held

RALO in other regions:Asia PacificEurope

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 3

Sao Paulo Meeting

LACRALO prep meeting

Opening Ceremony ALAC Meeting with ICANN Board

LACRALO-MOU Signing

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 4

AP-RALO:2006

Operating Principles – consensus reached 　 MoU Draft – almost agreed Feb 28 AP-ALS meeting to set out AP-RALO

here in Bali

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 5

ALSes in Asia/Australia/Pacific13 ALSes already certified:

Arab Knowledge Management Society (AKMS) (Oct 2003) (jo/Arab)NII Enterprise Promotion Association (Jan 2004) 　 (tw)At Large @ 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 Māori Internet Organisation (Apr 2006) (nz)InternetNZ (May 2006) (nz)

Under due deligence:Emirates Internet Group (Dec 2006)

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 6

EU-RALO

Formation close to closure…Jun 2006: Frankfurt MeetingOct 2006 ： Berlin MeetingCan they reach MoU at Lisbon meeting in

March?

North America – Canada is aheadAfrica – still takes time?

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 7

Policy Issues for AtLargeIn general, all ICANN issues which

affect individual usersExisting issues:

WHOISIDN New gTLD Policy.xxxRegistry behavior

Emerging issue:Domain Name Tasting

Proposed a user survey

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 8

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.

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 9

Coming Challenges for AtLargeMake substantive participationALS certification process – Ombudsman ReportReview for AtLarge Framework

Advice or Vote at the Board

External (independent) Review to be started shortlyLSE 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

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 10

How to bring lifeto RALO and ALAC?

Relationship with ICANNHow to make it sustainableHow to raise more awareness and become

more activeWhere should Secretariat function be located?

Five regions, or central coordination?Relation between RALO and ALAC, ALAC and

staffStaff support has been a problem. Dependent, independent, support, collaborate?

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 11

ALAC won the Soccer tournamentin Brazil!!

ALAC won over GAC 、 LAC 、 Registras and ICANN

Goalllll!!!!!

Golden Ball for Winning Head Coach

Jan 2007 ICANN AtLarge 12

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?