From peterws at tobeistodo.demon.co.uk Wed Mar 3 00:01:14 2010 From: peterws at tobeistodo.demon.co.uk (P. Wingfield-Stratford) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:01:14 +0000 Subject: [Netreach-L] Candidates needed for Leadership Positions at ICANN In-Reply-To: <4B8ACE15.5060107@gih.com> References: <4B8ACE15.5060107@gih.com> Message-ID: To Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond From Peter Wingfield-Stratford peterws at tobeistodo.demon.co.uk Ref Participation in ICANN I have browsed the ICANN Website, followed a Discussion on improving participation. Interesting : I have something to say too. Sadly ICANN dont seem to have any mechanism to add debate to a posted topic or to an item in a topic. ICANN is a Closed little world. The ICANN is supposed to be about Communication, Yet ICANN doesnt seem enabled to empower people to Communicate. Re On Line Discussion of ICANN busines. Of Course ICANN needs On-Line Discussion, just see the content of debate on this.. ICANN doesnt seem aware of the power of Computer-Mediated Conferencing. What is that one might hear back ??? Netreach had several systems that individual members ran on the Dialup of those days to give users a debating space that allowed separate topics and sub-topics to be added to the stack of content. These were examples of Computer-Mediated Conferencing.. NetReachers will recall EIES, which was a real Computer-Mediated Conference system, run over the "Internet" out of MIT but only in Text.. I ran MIST in Oxford for 10 years until the hardware was becoming a trifle flaky and also the use of Dial-up Conferencing had apparently become overtaken by the use of simple E-Mail and the Internet. My MIST system was a sub-set of the routines developed for EIES, which ran on multi-user mainframe computers under UNIX. MIST operated a very featured system of real CMC on a single-user PC machine. It had incredible flexibility and potential for tailoring the features, also an excellent security framework. Users could use Alias, real names or keep their stuff anonymous. Conferences had moderators, a structure enabling management of debate, participants and the possibility to make questionaires and voting. There was a hugely configurable Database with searching built-in which gave great versatility and security in storing data. All these are things needed if ICANN were seeking to enable On-Line debate. I even have a version of MIST that operates over the Internet, but single-user only. MIST was used to connect my Server in Oxford with PC computers in the jungle in South America via the INMARSAT Satellite network directly from my Barn in Oxford. It was able to be configured quite simply to do that. Nowadays such software could be operated readily by Mobile phones from anywhere in the globe. People would of course nowadays expect software that delivered HTML pages just like the usual systems of the Internet and multiple users and security - all the other stuff we expect in 2010.. The Communitree Conference system was the first of this family of Conferencing software, for Apple. Lynn Hurn ran one for years also in Brontlys in Wales. There were other CMC systems but they fell out of favour because of changing standards, demise of Videotext, Service Provider charges and restrictions. Windows had a lot to answer for in how the firm cut out so many good software innovators. NetReach had the Prestel Videotext Conference system which ran in demonstration conditions on a ship, HMS President on the Thames opposite the Law Courts. It is surely not difficult now to create or to buy-in a pukka Computer-Mediated conferencing system having some or all of the features required for Debate by ICANN delivered in a modern way via the Internet. The problem is only that no-one seems to remember the power these systems had and how useful they could be. We have all become obsessed by tacky commercial systems of E-Mail stacks which seem like discussion, Blogs full of trivia, Social networks and so forth. These all lack vital features of a real powerful CMC Conference software. Anyone can start chats now, no-one can track what they discuss and apart from Wikipedia, does it matter. All the participants of such E-Mail stacks live in their little worlds. Thats not real debate. The cause of the difficulty is they are not true CMC. I have all the source code for MIST routines, that is the interactive framework of interpreter-language scripts out of which the MIST appearance and the Conference structure was created out of the underlying MIST interpreter and database delivery system. Nowadays we dont need the underlying delivery system as we can re-create the CMC directly by software development in an Internet-savvy Programming system like Java. If ICANN wants to do something useful they MUST enable public participation at least in their Topic database. They need buttons to add comment and an editor or monitor to mediate debate. They need someone to issue Press releases onto the Search-engines to publicise the debates. I would happily assist there, but really the issue is ICANN needs a proper CMC and to show people how to use it and to use it to have debates and involve the feedback from external non-ICANN participants. NetReachers for Ever ! NB Did you see the debate on how Google et all are driving all humankind into a clone-situation of self-feeding interests and consumerism on BBC TV late 1st March. ? In message <4B8ACE15.5060107 at gih.com>, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond writes >Hi everyone, > >please distribute this note to your local communities. >There's a real number of opportunities there to make a significant >difference! Apologies for cross-posting. >Thanks, > >Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond >ICANN Nominating Committee 2010 > >--- cut here --- > >Call for Candidates for Leadership Positions at ICANN > >To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into >your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so >computers know where to find each other. The Internet Corporation for >Assigned Named and Numbers, ICANN, coordinates these unique >identifiers >across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global >Internet. > >ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit partnership of people >from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable >and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the >Internet?s unique identifiers. > >ICANN doesn?t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and >it doesn?t deal with access to the Internet. But through its >coordination role of the Internet?s naming system, it does have an >important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. > >More information about ICANN on: >http://www.icann.org/en/participate/what-icann-do.html > >We're looking for candidates! > >ICANN's Nominating Committee is looking for volunteers to fill several >ICANN leadership positions >and is accepting applications. The closing date is April 2, 2010. > >Positions to be filled this year: > >* Three members of the Board of Directors of ICANN >* Two At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each >from >the European and North American regions) >* One member of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting >Organization >(GNSO) >* One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting >Organization (ccNSO) > >Successful applicants will take their seats at the conclusion of the >2010 AGM, (5-10 December, Latin America.) > >For information on how to apply or to recommend someone, see >< http://nomcom.icann.org/ > > >If you have any enquiry, please do not hesitate to email >nomcom2010 at icann.org > >-- >Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD >http://www.gih.com/ocl.html >_______________________________________________ >Netreach-L mailing list >Netreach-L at gih.co.uk >http://salsa.gih.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/netreach-l -- P. Wingfield-Stratford From ocl at gih.com Wed Mar 10 12:27:55 2010 From: ocl at gih.com (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:27:55 +0300 Subject: [Netreach-L] Candidates needed for Leadership Positions at ICANN In-Reply-To: References: <4B8ACE15.5060107@gih.com> Message-ID: <4B97904B.50101@gih.com> Hello Peter, sorry for not having replied to you earlier about this. I was extremely busy in the run-up to the ICANN Nairobi Meeting, where I am at the moment. There are still a couple of days left in the meeting currently taking place. http://nbo.icann.org This has a whole section engaging public participation, and each meeting taking place has someone monitoring the chat room for comments/questions etc. And tomorrow Thursday is the public forum, in which I suggest you send questions etc. Also, ongoing processes at ICANN require public participation input at: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/ So I am surprised that you think that ICANN is not engaging enough public comment, because this is one of the *key* processes taking place at ICANN. I hope you can contribute to the debate still going on until the end of this week, and beyond. I'll try to respond to the rest of your message when I return home (and after I get a little sleep :-) ) Kindest regards, Olivier Le 03/03/2010 03:01, P. Wingfield-Stratford a ?crit : > To Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond > From Peter Wingfield-Stratford > peterws at tobeistodo.demon.co.uk > > Ref Participation in ICANN > > I have browsed the ICANN Website, followed a Discussion on improving > participation. > > Interesting : I have something to say too. > Sadly ICANN dont seem to have any mechanism to add debate to a posted > topic or to an item in a topic. ICANN is a Closed little world. > > The ICANN is supposed to be about Communication, > > Yet ICANN doesnt seem enabled to empower people to Communicate. > > Re On Line Discussion of ICANN busines. > > Of Course ICANN needs On-Line Discussion, just see the content of > debate on this.. > > ICANN doesnt seem aware of the power of Computer-Mediated > Conferencing. What is that one might hear back ??? > > Netreach had several systems that individual members ran on the Dialup > of those days to give users a debating space that allowed separate > topics and sub-topics to be added to the stack of content. These were > examples of Computer-Mediated Conferencing.. > > NetReachers will recall EIES, which was a real Computer-Mediated > Conference system, run over the "Internet" out of MIT but only in Text.. > > I ran MIST in Oxford for 10 years until the hardware was becoming a > trifle flaky and also the use of Dial-up Conferencing had apparently > become overtaken by the use of simple E-Mail and the Internet. > > My MIST system was a sub-set of the routines developed for EIES, which > ran on multi-user mainframe computers under UNIX. MIST operated a very > featured system of real CMC on a single-user PC machine. It had > incredible flexibility and potential for tailoring the features, also > an excellent security framework. Users could use Alias, real names or > keep their stuff anonymous. Conferences had moderators, a structure > enabling management of debate, participants and the possibility to > make questionaires and voting. There was a hugely configurable > Database with searching built-in which gave great versatility and > security in storing data. All these are things needed if ICANN were > seeking to enable On-Line debate. I even have a version of MIST that > operates over the Internet, but single-user only. > > MIST was used to connect my Server in Oxford with PC computers in the > jungle in South America via the INMARSAT Satellite network directly > from my Barn in Oxford. It was able to be configured quite simply to > do that. Nowadays such software could be operated readily by Mobile > phones from anywhere in the globe. People would of course nowadays > expect software that delivered HTML pages just like the usual systems > of the Internet and multiple users and security - all the other stuff > we expect in 2010.. > > The Communitree Conference system was the first of this family of > Conferencing software, for Apple. Lynn Hurn ran one for years also > in Brontlys in Wales. > > There were other CMC systems but they fell out of favour because of > changing standards, demise of Videotext, Service Provider charges and > restrictions. Windows had a lot to answer for in how the firm cut out > so many good software innovators. > > NetReach had the Prestel Videotext Conference system which ran in > demonstration conditions on a ship, HMS President on the Thames > opposite the Law Courts. > > It is surely not difficult now to create or to buy-in a pukka > Computer-Mediated conferencing system having some or all of the > features required for Debate by ICANN delivered in a modern way via > the Internet. The problem is only that no-one seems to remember the > power these systems had and how useful they could be. We have all > become obsessed by tacky commercial systems of E-Mail stacks which > seem like discussion, Blogs full of trivia, Social networks and so > forth. These all lack vital features of a real powerful CMC Conference > software. Anyone can start chats now, no-one can track what they > discuss and apart from Wikipedia, does it matter. All the participants > of such E-Mail stacks live in their little worlds. Thats not real > debate. The cause of the difficulty is they are not true CMC. > > I have all the source code for MIST routines, that is the interactive > framework of interpreter-language scripts out of which the MIST > appearance and the Conference structure was created out of the > underlying MIST interpreter and database delivery system. Nowadays we > dont need the underlying delivery system as we can re-create the CMC > directly by software development in an Internet-savvy Programming > system like Java. > > If ICANN wants to do something useful they MUST enable public > participation at least in their Topic database. They need buttons to > add comment and an editor or monitor to mediate debate. They need > someone to issue Press releases onto the Search-engines to publicise > the debates. > > I would happily assist there, but really the issue is ICANN needs a > proper CMC and to show people how to use it and to use it to have > debates and involve the feedback from external non-ICANN participants. > > NetReachers for Ever ! > > NB Did you see the debate on how Google et all are driving all > humankind into a clone-situation of self-feeding interests and > consumerism on BBC TV late 1st March. ? > > In message <4B8ACE15.5060107 at gih.com>, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond > writes >> Hi everyone, >> >> please distribute this note to your local communities. >> There's a real number of opportunities there to make a significant >> difference! Apologies for cross-posting. >> Thanks, >> >> Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond >> ICANN Nominating Committee 2010 >> >> --- cut here --- >> >> Call for Candidates for Leadership Positions at ICANN >> >> To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into >> your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so >> computers know where to find each other. The Internet Corporation for >> Assigned Named and Numbers, ICANN, coordinates these unique >> identifiers >> across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global >> Internet. >> >> ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit partnership of people >> from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable >> and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the >> Internet?s unique identifiers. >> >> ICANN doesn?t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and >> it doesn?t deal with access to the Internet. But through its >> coordination role of the Internet?s naming system, it does have an >> important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. >> >> More information about ICANN on: >> http://www.icann.org/en/participate/what-icann-do.html >> >> We're looking for candidates! >> >> ICANN's Nominating Committee is looking for volunteers to fill several >> ICANN leadership positions >> and is accepting applications. The closing date is April 2, 2010. >> >> Positions to be filled this year: >> >> * Three members of the Board of Directors of ICANN >> * Two At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each >> from >> the European and North American regions) >> * One member of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting >> Organization >> (GNSO) >> * One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting >> Organization (ccNSO) >> >> Successful applicants will take their seats at the conclusion of the >> 2010 AGM, (5-10 December, Latin America.) >> >> For information on how to apply or to recommend someone, see >> < http://nomcom.icann.org/ > >> >> If you have any enquiry, please do not hesitate to email >> nomcom2010 at icann.org >> >> -- >> Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD >> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Netreach-L mailing list >> Netreach-L at gih.co.uk >> http://salsa.gih.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/netreach-l > -- Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html From peterws at tobeistodo.demon.co.uk Thu Mar 11 23:43:54 2010 From: peterws at tobeistodo.demon.co.uk (P. Wingfield-Stratford) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:43:54 +0000 Subject: [Netreach-L] Candidates needed for Leadership Positions at ICANN In-Reply-To: <4B97904B.50101@gih.com> References: <4B8ACE15.5060107@gih.com> <4B97904B.50101@gih.com> Message-ID: To Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond From Peter Wingfield-Stratford peterws at tobeistodo.demon.co.uk Ref ICANN and a discussion open on DNS Naming concerned with non-latin scripts. I have some comments. 1) On the ICANN webpage of description of discussion.. It seems impossible to comment, despite the invitation to comment. Same point I made before. The ICANN system isnt a discussion space, its a publication space. Why bother to publish if no comments are possible to enter. If the system were a genuine discussion, the opportunity would be offered immediately to enter a comment. Not possible. The reason is the ICANN system isnt a Computer Mediated Conference software. Its some kind of network of permissions that take one completely away from the topic. ICANN needs a CMC software. Not a HTML publishing system. 2) On the ICANN item, comments on DNS evolution with the possibility to have ICANN DNS to cope with countries having non-latin scripts or mixtures of several non-latin scripts with or without Latin script elements in names. I am working on some smart free-text-search software at present. It has to cope with all the varieties of Latin scripts in ISO-ASCII and we are thinking about how to make room for incorporating searches that have higher than ASCII 128 characters in the Unicode system. Its a Java system of course. ICANN will need to be thinking along similar lines if the Top level DNS is to cope with the evolution of domains and nations with many languages and forms of script. Thats the end-user point of view. In India I have a friend who speaks 32 local languages ! These are the people who really will have to enter a Domain in a next-generation mobile, or computer device of some sort. They deserve to be coped with by the next ICANN DNS nomenclature. Its clear the ICANN proposition for future DNS here is stuck up a gum-tree. They want to tie everyone to English-sounding or some single all Unicode format that will fit neatly in a look-up table to derive a DNS value code. Bonkers ! thats in Unicode by the way !. Its not easy to search any name in ISO-ASCII limited to 128 values, let alone higher Unicode values. The routines we are working with do this more or less. They still have errors even though they are lightning fast. There are complexities in cursive and pictographic scripts that make term searching even more complex. Firstly the scripts run up or down the page and left or right ordered which affects how the future DNS might be entered. Then many of the scripts are made up of words, rather than character-letters as we have in the Latin characters used in most computers. DNS coding depends on spelling - an idea peculiar to Latin scripts. That may affect validation also might constrain the user of "terms" as they might appear duplicated to a DNS interpreter. The many World human languages have become a feisty mixture of local scripts and Latin, sometimes I expect several formats might be expected in a DNS on local human logic. Thats the logic of the punters who enter a DNS on their computer device wherever in this networked world. The ICANN DNS extension proposals offer to ban any of these "Human" formats in future DNS tabling. Sounds like made by Microsoft thinking. I am opening a debate on the future software design for DNS reading and DNS naming all at once. That seems intimately linked to a future need for a versatile DNS naming scheme for these countries and peoples who exist in the non-latin scripted countries. You have to rethink how the DNS tabling will work in the next generation of server systems for DNS. Its going to need to search more by pick-n-mix than lookup tables. That is a fundamental change that ICANN needs to take on board. By the way, since I CANT enter this in the ICANN system as im not enabled there, perhaps you can enter this for me. In message <4B97904B.50101 at gih.com>, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond writes >Hello Peter, > >sorry for not having replied to you earlier about this. I was extremely >busy in the run-up to the ICANN Nairobi Meeting, where I am at the moment. > >There are still a couple of days left in the meeting currently taking place. > >http://nbo.icann.org > >This has a whole section engaging public participation, and each meeting >taking place has someone monitoring the chat room for comments/questions >etc. > >And tomorrow Thursday is the public forum, in which I suggest you send >questions etc. > >Also, ongoing processes at ICANN require public participation input at: > >http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/ > >So I am surprised that you think that ICANN is not engaging enough >public comment, because this is one of the *key* processes taking place >at ICANN. > >I hope you can contribute to the debate still going on until the end of >this week, and beyond. I'll try to respond to the rest of your message >when I return home (and after I get a little sleep :-) ) > >Kindest regards, > >Olivier > > >Le 03/03/2010 03:01, P. Wingfield-Stratford a ?crit : >> To Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond >> From Peter Wingfield-Stratford >> peterws at tobeistodo.demon.co.uk >> >> Ref Participation in ICANN >> >> I have browsed the ICANN Website, followed a Discussion on improving >> participation. >> >> Interesting : I have something to say too. >> Sadly ICANN dont seem to have any mechanism to add debate to a posted >> topic or to an item in a topic. ICANN is a Closed little world. >> >> The ICANN is supposed to be about Communication, >> >> Yet ICANN doesnt seem enabled to empower people to Communicate. >> >> Re On Line Discussion of ICANN busines. >> >> Of Course ICANN needs On-Line Discussion, just see the content of >> debate on this.. >> >> ICANN doesnt seem aware of the power of Computer-Mediated >> Conferencing. What is that one might hear back ??? >> >> Netreach had several systems that individual members ran on the Dialup >> of those days to give users a debating space that allowed separate >> topics and sub-topics to be added to the stack of content. These were >> examples of Computer-Mediated Conferencing.. >> >> NetReachers will recall EIES, which was a real Computer-Mediated >> Conference system, run over the "Internet" out of MIT but only in Text.. >> >> I ran MIST in Oxford for 10 years until the hardware was becoming a >> trifle flaky and also the use of Dial-up Conferencing had apparently >> become overtaken by the use of simple E-Mail and the Internet. >> >> My MIST system was a sub-set of the routines developed for EIES, which >> ran on multi-user mainframe computers under UNIX. MIST operated a very >> featured system of real CMC on a single-user PC machine. It had >> incredible flexibility and potential for tailoring the features, also >> an excellent security framework. Users could use Alias, real names or >> keep their stuff anonymous. Conferences had moderators, a structure >> enabling management of debate, participants and the possibility to >> make questionaires and voting. There was a hugely configurable >> Database with searching built-in which gave great versatility and >> security in storing data. All these are things needed if ICANN were >> seeking to enable On-Line debate. I even have a version of MIST that >> operates over the Internet, but single-user only. >> >> MIST was used to connect my Server in Oxford with PC computers in the >> jungle in South America via the INMARSAT Satellite network directly >> from my Barn in Oxford. It was able to be configured quite simply to >> do that. Nowadays such software could be operated readily by Mobile >> phones from anywhere in the globe. People would of course nowadays >> expect software that delivered HTML pages just like the usual systems >> of the Internet and multiple users and security - all the other stuff >> we expect in 2010.. >> >> The Communitree Conference system was the first of this family of >> Conferencing software, for Apple. Lynn Hurn ran one for years also >> in Brontlys in Wales. >> >> There were other CMC systems but they fell out of favour because of >> changing standards, demise of Videotext, Service Provider charges and >> restrictions. Windows had a lot to answer for in how the firm cut out >> so many good software innovators. >> >> NetReach had the Prestel Videotext Conference system which ran in >> demonstration conditions on a ship, HMS President on the Thames >> opposite the Law Courts. >> >> It is surely not difficult now to create or to buy-in a pukka >> Computer-Mediated conferencing system having some or all of the >> features required for Debate by ICANN delivered in a modern way via >> the Internet. The problem is only that no-one seems to remember the >> power these systems had and how useful they could be. We have all >> become obsessed by tacky commercial systems of E-Mail stacks which >> seem like discussion, Blogs full of trivia, Social networks and so >> forth. These all lack vital features of a real powerful CMC Conference >> software. Anyone can start chats now, no-one can track what they >> discuss and apart from Wikipedia, does it matter. All the participants >> of such E-Mail stacks live in their little worlds. Thats not real >> debate. The cause of the difficulty is they are not true CMC. >> >> I have all the source code for MIST routines, that is the interactive >> framework of interpreter-language scripts out of which the MIST >> appearance and the Conference structure was created out of the >> underlying MIST interpreter and database delivery system. Nowadays we >> dont need the underlying delivery system as we can re-create the CMC >> directly by software development in an Internet-savvy Programming >> system like Java. >> >> If ICANN wants to do something useful they MUST enable public >> participation at least in their Topic database. They need buttons to >> add comment and an editor or monitor to mediate debate. They need >> someone to issue Press releases onto the Search-engines to publicise >> the debates. >> >> I would happily assist there, but really the issue is ICANN needs a >> proper CMC and to show people how to use it and to use it to have >> debates and involve the feedback from external non-ICANN participants. >> >> NetReachers for Ever ! >> >> NB Did you see the debate on how Google et all are driving all >> humankind into a clone-situation of self-feeding interests and >> consumerism on BBC TV late 1st March. ? >> >> In message <4B8ACE15.5060107 at gih.com>, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond >> writes >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> please distribute this note to your local communities. >>> There's a real number of opportunities there to make a significant >>> difference! Apologies for cross-posting. >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond >>> ICANN Nominating Committee 2010 >>> >>> --- cut here --- >>> >>> Call for Candidates for Leadership Positions at ICANN >>> >>> To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into >>> your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so >>> computers know where to find each other. The Internet Corporation for >>> Assigned Named and Numbers, ICANN, coordinates these unique >>> identifiers >>> across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global >>> Internet. >>> >>> ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit partnership of people >>> from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable >>> and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the >>> Internet?s unique identifiers. >>> >>> ICANN doesn?t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and >>> it doesn?t deal with access to the Internet. But through its >>> coordination role of the Internet?s naming system, it does have an >>> important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. >>> >>> More information about ICANN on: >>> http://www.icann.org/en/participate/what-icann-do.html >>> >>> We're looking for candidates! >>> >>> ICANN's Nominating Committee is looking for volunteers to fill several >>> ICANN leadership positions >>> and is accepting applications. The closing date is April 2, 2010. >>> >>> Positions to be filled this year: >>> >>> * Three members of the Board of Directors of ICANN >>> * Two At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each >>> from >>> the European and North American regions) >>> * One member of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting >>> Organization >>> (GNSO) >>> * One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting >>> Organization (ccNSO) >>> >>> Successful applicants will take their seats at the conclusion of the >>> 2010 AGM, (5-10 December, Latin America.) >>> >>> For information on how to apply or to recommend someone, see >>> < http://nomcom.icann.org/ > >>> >>> If you have any enquiry, please do not hesitate to email >>> nomcom2010 at icann.org >>> >>> -- >>> Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD >>> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Netreach-L mailing list >>> Netreach-L at gih.co.uk >>> http://salsa.gih.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/netreach-l >> > -- P. Wingfield-Stratford From ocl at gih.com Fri Mar 12 08:37:53 2010 From: ocl at gih.com (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:37:53 +0300 Subject: [Netreach-L] Candidates needed for Leadership Positions at ICANN In-Reply-To: References: <4B8ACE15.5060107@gih.com> <4B97904B.50101@gih.com> Message-ID: <4B99FD61.5070300@gih.com> Dear Peter, thank you for your kind note. I understand your frustration because the Web site is not the easiest thing to navigate - it is not intuitive enough, but as I currently understand it, in these years of economic slowdown, little or no funding is currently available to re-design the site from scratch. Le 12/03/2010 02:43, P. Wingfield-Stratford a ?crit : > > 1) On the ICANN webpage of description of discussion.. > It seems impossible to comment, despite the invitation to comment. With the list of current current comment period on: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/ you can click on the subject you wish to comment on. If a subject is still in the comment period, you will then have a bar: Announcement | Comments | Add a comment | Summary/analysis of comments Click on "Add a comment" and this will open a window depending on your type of mailer you are using, which includes the email address that the comments are sent to. The comment will appear within 24H. I am sorry, but I am not knowledgeable enough about IDNs to provide you with feedback re: future DNS & IDNs. I hope this helps, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: