ICANN AtLarge Process Forming AP RALO Challenges & Opportunities Feb 25 2007 AP-Star in Bali

1. ICANN AtLarge ProcessForming AP RALOChallenges & OpportunitiesFeb 25 2007AP-Star in Bali Izumi Aizu ICANNALAC Institute for HyperNetwork Society <iza@anr.org>

2. LAC-RALO:The 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 ICANN AtLarge

3. Sao Paulo Meeting Opening Ceremony ALAC Meeting with ICANN Board LACRALOprep meeting LACRALO-MOU Signing 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 ICANN AtLarge

5. 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 @ 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) ICANN AtLarge

6. EU-RALO • Formation close to closure… • Jun 2006: Frankfurt Meeting • Oct 2006：Berlin Meeting • Can they reach MoU at Lisbon meeting in March? • North America – Canada is ahead • Africa – still takes time? ICANN AtLarge

7. 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 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. ICANN AtLarge

9. 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 ICANN AtLarge

10. 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 belocated? • Five regions, or central coordination? • Relation between RALO and ALAC, ALAC and staff • Staff support has been a problem. • Dependent, independent, support, collaborate? ICANN AtLarge

11. ALAC won the Soccer tournamentin Brazil!! • ALAC won over GAC、LAC、Registras and ICANN Goalllll!!!!! Golden Ball for Winning Head Coach 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? ICANN AtLarge