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Subject: Policy Post 6.16: Final Week Of ICANN Candidate Nominations
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CDT POLICY POST Volume 6, Number 16 September 1, 2000
A BRIEFING ON PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES AFFECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES ONLINE
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THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY
CONTENTS:
(1) Final Week Of ICANN Candidate Nominations Begins
(2) Election Of ICANN's At-large Directors Begins October 1
(3) ICANN Continues Movement Towards New Top-level Domains
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(1) FINAL WEEK OF ICANN CANDIDATE NOMINATIONS BEGINS
Over the course of the next week, the composition of the ballot will be
determined for the upcoming election of Directors for ICANN (the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Well over a hundred potential
candidates have announced their interest in being added to the ballot, and
those candidates are currently competing for the endorsements of 158,000
registered ICANN members.
Candidates from five geographic regions with the greatest number of
endorsements, and with at least two percent of their electorate, will
be added to the ballot, supplementing "officially" nominated candidates
named by ICANN itself in late July. There can be up to seven candidates
in each region. Voting will be conducted by region (see below).
ICANN has made web space available to all candidates, both "officially"
nominated ones and those seeking member-nomination, on its own servers.
You can find information on the "officially" nominated candidates and
on the ICANN Nomination Committee at: http://www.icann.org/nomcom/
Information on the candidates seeking nomination by the membership, as
well as the formal rules for the member-nomination process, can be
found at: http://members.icann.org/nom.html
The member-nomination process is a key aspect of the ICANN election
process. The deadline has now passed for individuals to submit new names
for nomination to the ballot, but a week remains for members to endorse
those candidates who have already stepped forward. However, although
158,000 users completed the initial online registration for the election,
less than half of those have "activated" their accounts using the PIN
mailed by ICANN in early August. Only those members whose accounts have
been activated are eligible additional candidates to the ballot, and only
activated members will be able to vote in the election when it begins
on October 1.
** Act immediately -- "activate" your ICANN membership so **
** that you can participate in this important election. **
If you have already registered as a member of ICANN's At-Large membership,
you can activate your membership using the materials sent to you in the
mail. Visit ICANN's At-Large membership site at:
http://members.icann.org/
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(2) ELECTION OF ICANN'S AT-LARGE DIRECTORS BEGINS OCTOBER 1
At-large voting begins on October 1. ICANN has not yet announced the
precise form that the election will have. The next month will offer
opportunities to learn more about the candidates and participate in
public forums, almost certainly centered around ICANN's At-Large
membership site http://members.icann.org/. Those registered are
encouraged to stay engaged and informed leading up to the election.
Five people will be elected to the Board of Directors as "At-Large
Directors," each from a different geographical region. The election is
scheduled to last ten days, and winners will be seated at ICANN's next
meeting in Marina del Rey, California, in mid-November.
For more information about ICANN, visit its official web site at:
http://www.icann.org/
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(3) ICANN CONTINUES MOVEMENT TOWARDS NEW TOP-LEVEL DOMAINS
As campaigning for the ICANN election heats up, one of the most noteworthy
issues is likely to be the implementation of new top-level domains --
additions to the ".net," ".org" and ".com" domains that many feel have
become overcrowded. For some time, ICANN has made clear its intention to
select a small number of new TLD's in the very near future, ideally by
year's end. Many informal suggestions for new TLD's have been circulating
for some time, including ".banc," ".personal," ".movie," and ".union." On
August 15, ICANN made the actual application process for new TLD's public,
as well as the criteria by which the Board of Directors intends to evaluate
applications.
The application process and evaluation criteria are complex. Applications
will be expected to address a large number of concerns. These concerns
range from ICANN's need to maintain the technical stability of the Internet
to its desire to choose new TLD's that will serve as a "proof of concept"
that new name spaces are feasible, useful, and effective at achieving
diversity. There will also be a non-refundable $50,000 application fee.
The end result is an application process requiring that participants have
access to significant resources if they hope to be successful in their
efforts.
Such conditions could make it very hard for non-commercial Internet users
and those in developing countries to participate in the TLD process. CDT
is calling on ICANN to maintain its promised commitment to diversity by
adopting procedures that will encourage applications for the establishment
of new TLDs from the Internet's non-commercial and less advantaged
interests.
For more information on ICANN's Top-Level-Domain application process,
visit: http://www.icann.org/tlds/tld-application-process.htm
For information about domain name space issues and about ICANN in general,
visit CDT's Domain Names page at: http://www.cdt.org/dns/
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