At Large Summit Closing General Session 5 March 2009 ICANN Meeting Mexico City >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We will be having simultaneous translation in this morning's session. If you are not trilingual, please gets yourselves a headset. Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We will be having simultaneous translation for this morning's session. Please get yourselves a headset. And we will be starting this session at the fashionably late hour of five or seven minutes past, because it's five minutes past now. Alejandro assures me that it is not unusual for things to start a few minutes late in his fair city unless it is a movie or the bull fights. But we're not having a bull fight here today, are we? >>ALEJANDRO PISANTY: Good morning, all of you, and welcome to this closing session of the At-Large Summit. Welcome. Good morning, welcome to the At-Large Summit closing general session. We have a -- I was going to say we have tight a schedule. We have -- Cheryl Langdon-Orr having organized this session, we have a packed and tight schedule, and we will be reminded to stick to it, despite the delay in starting. As Cheryl has said, that's not unusual for Mexico City. We tend to allow some warm human time for people to accommodate between different events. We'll start with the program. I have been asked to be the master of ceremonies. My role is only majordomo role, and I will hand over the proceedings to Cheryl Langdon-Orr. >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: Good morning, all. In my official capacity as the At-Large Advisory Committee chair, I want to take just a very few short moments to thank each and every one of the at-large structure representatives who have joined us for what, I think, really is a watershed moment in our exercise of getting the voice of the Internet end user into the policy development processes of ICANN, the At-Large Summit. This is, however, a summit of the at-large structures what was what you will be hearing today is a report back to the assembly on the activities that the representatives of the some 124 now at-large structures who have been brought together for this summit have achieved in their all too short a time together. What have I seen, though? I've seen a forging of real policy development and commentary coming from five different working groups on topics that were voted to be worked on by the representatives themselves. You'll get a report from each of those groups. And they are working groups on matters that are important to, indeed, in the case of working groups number 1, 2, and 4, it goes exactly to the work of the President's Strategy Committee. These are integral commentaries brought from the edges to ICANN's attention. We've also run thematic sessions. And I was marveled at how many people who were not our delegates, how many of the rest of ICANN, were sitting around, engaging with our at-large delegation in these thematic sessions. I've seen nothing but wonder, good, and occasional amazement that this has actually gone far better than so many of us would have hoped. The most important achievement, however, that I think we've made is, we've got a network of at least 140 actively-minded, similarly minded, energetic people worldwide who are now taking back to their many thousands more Internet end users the message of what ICANN is interested in doing on their behalf and that ICANN does wish to hear directly from them. So every ALS now knows where their place is to put direct representation in the public comment periods on things that ICANN lodges. The RALOs are invigorated. The cross-regional networking has begun. And now, starting with Wolf, from EURALO, we're going to hear an overview of the summit structure and events. Thank you, Wolf. [ Applause ] >>WOLF LUDWIG: Good morning, everybody. When we designed the program of this summit, this was quite a challenge. We were clear from the very beginning, we did not want the conventional type of a broadcasting event, but we wanted an interactive summit, according to the philosophy of the Internet. We composed a program consisting of tutorial elements such as the general opening session, such as the first thematic sessions on different issues, like IPv6, IDN, all what we did on Saturday. Another important element was the Fayre and Poster Exhibition, which gave an excellent opportunity to all attending ALSs to represent themselves, to show what they are doing in their day-to-day life and work. Another very important element was the selection of the five working groups. We did two surveys in advance of the summit to find out about the main concerns and priorities of our ALS communities. And according to the findings of the two surveys, we selected the five topics of these working groups. The working groups started well in advance of the summit, with preparatory work, preparatory statements, and ongoing discussions here in Mexico, repeated sessions, and coming up with final statements. Another important part of this summit program was the thematic sessions, giving personalities in our ALS communities the chance to select a topic and to prepare it well in advance and to make presentations, panel discussions, with interesting speakers here in Mexico. On Tuesday morning, we had five general assemblies of all the RALO structures discussing their regional highlights and challenges. As many of you may have attended yesterday afternoon, we had an interesting session on e-crime and e-abuse which was well attended as well. All these program elements we are now bringing together today in this closing session. I now have the pleasure to introduce and announce Andres PIAZZA. [ Applause ] >>ANDRES PIAZZA: Thank you very much, Wolf. Good morning. It's a pleasure if possible me to be able to talk to you in Spanish at this closing session of the at-large summit. In the other sessions, the Spanish-speaking Internet users, we had said how important it was to have this possibility. And we had to do it in English. And here we are taking a step forward. I'm going to give a brief description of the work of the working groups, what they are doing. The first one has to do with the commitment in terms of participation on the part of the ALSs and the at-large community at ICANN. This one was chaired by Hawa Diakite and Fatimata Seye, and the main focus was linked to the active participation policy as regards general subjects of ICANN's agenda and other issues having to do with translation of documents and the outreach to the regions regarding these thematics, and the face-to-face meetings, as well as travel. The second working group, chaired by Sébastien Bachollet and Vanda Scartezini, the discussion was linked to ICANN's future governance structure. I wasn't part of this working group. The principal task or concern of this group has to do with the new role of the at-large community and the interaction the noncommercial stakeholder group. Working group 3 had to do with the new gTLDs and the Internationalized Domain Names. This was chaired by (saying names). The perspective from the point of view of the users having to do strictly with registrars. I understand this is essential, and the documents drafted by -- or that will be drafted by this working group will be an important input both because of the quality of the participants as well as the importance of the issues. Perhaps this has been one of the biggest successes of the summit. Group number 4 was made up -- was chaired by Adam Peake and Wolfgang Kleinwächter -- I'm sorry about my German -- and linked to accountability, transparency at ICANN, a topic that users have been always concerned with. And the issues or the considerations that were discussed here go deeper, even deeper into the relationship regarding what is the subsequent communication from the board and different constituencies when ALAC issues a pronouncement or a statement. The fifth working group, which is DNS and security, this had to do with ICANN's mandate. And this was chaired by Beau Brendler, Lutz Donnerhacke, and Patrick Vande Walle. This was perhaps the most technical group. The issues were the most technical. Nonetheless, the ALSs who were present and their member -- the at-large community members who were there were able to -- they were able to capitalize. An important contribution as regards capacity- building. And I haven't seen thoroughly the statement that was issued. But the contribution made by these people was extremely important. Now we're going to go to a short video summary of some of the activities of these working groups. Thank you very much, and goodbye. [ Applause ] (Video playing) >>SEBASTIEN BACHOLLET: I would like just to say that when we dream about this meetings submitted in the Lisbon meeting, we couldn't imagine that it will happen like that with so big success. Thank you very much to everybody. >>VANDA SCARTEZINI: Good afternoon. My name is Vanda Scartezini. I am VC chair, I'm an ALAC VC chair. We are at a summit here with the participation of all of the groups, the regional groups from all over the world. To deal with various issues having to do with (inaudible) issues and ICANN-related issues related to users. Our concern is with the users. So we're working here in group one, which is dealing with participation, how we can improve participation of users. I'm going to give the floor to my friend, who was the chair, and that is Fatimata. Fatimata, please. >>FATIMATA SEYE SYLLA: Thank you, Vanda. I'm Fatimata Seye Sylla. I'm from Senegal, and I'm a member of the ALAC Executive Committee. And I am also the president of working group 1, which has to do with ALAC's engagement in ICANN. We had to work very quickly and very deeply, so we had to prepare the topics before we arrived in Mexico so that we could -- our work could be more profound during the ALAC summit. So we worked together, and we produced a document on participation, on the ALS participation and the at-large structures who have been accredited by ICANN to participate in policy development and give our advice and our opinions. Don't forget that ALAC issues only advice. So we have a certain amount of recommendations regarding this working group to say -- to ask ICANN or request of them how -- according to the way we think from our point of view, how we can do it so that the basic communities and the final users can contribute to ICANN activities. I will again give the floor to Vanda. >> Well, this is not Vanda. >>THE INTERPRETER: The gentleman is speaking in Portuguese and I don't speak Portuguese. Sorry. (No translation). >> I'm Rudi Vansnick, ISO Belgium and working group member. I was part of working group 3 focusing on new gTLDs and new gTLDs IDNs. It was a rough time because we had to go through something like 300 pages we received only two days before coming to the summit. But, nevertheless, we did a great job. We went through all the documents. We have been sitting together with new ALSs, and we finalized a draft which we are going to bring to the summit, final statement, and we hope in the next round the at-large will again be part of this working group. >>HONG XUE: Hi. Hello. I'm from working group 3 of the At-Large Summit. This working group is on the new gTLD, including IDN gTLDs. So I myself, along with other colleagues, going to talk about working groups work generally, the users' experience in this working group, and especially our documents, that is, statement on new gTLD program that is being developed by ICANN. Here, I want to re-emphasize on the said part that it is our drafted documents a statement on new gTLD program. I want to emphasize a couple of key points. One issue is that ICANN cannot indiscriminately apply a very high fee to all the applicants in respect to their sources from developing countries or developed country. This is really unfair, because it's become tremendous barrier to those applicants from developing world, and especially it's not consistent with United Nations millennium development goal and the mission of ICANN. ICANN has social responsibility in managing its domain name system. Another issue that should be taken into account of new gTLD fee structure is that there are commercial operators and there will be noncommercial operators. So for those who have no intent or have no capacity, no reason to monetize this TLD in the future operation, this shouldn't be a subject to the equally high fee that's going to be imposed on the commercial operators. The last, but least, point -- this is the most important one, you must include it. Don't cut this part. This is independent. We're, too, grateful that ICANN introduced this new mechanism to make the people to advocate for the public good. And at-large community are very willing to be the source of the independent objector. We volunteer our services. Of course, if ICANN can accept it, that would be strongly supported by user community. Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Dev Anand Teelucksing from the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society. We have just concluded a session in working group 3 on -- regarding the introduction of new generic top-level domains. The new -- the introduction of new generic top-level domains I think would be a great thing for the global community and giving users choice and domain names. We just completed a session. And we've outlined some concerns we've had regarding the newly released draft two of the new gTLD guidebook. And we will be releasing that. And I must say, taking all of this -- from this working group, having only just joined it just very -- less than two weeks ago, I have already established a rapport with a lot of the people inside, because the atmosphere -- >> Hi, my name is Darlene Thompson. I'm part of working group 4, which is transparency and accountability. We got a lot done over the last few days. We've covered all kinds of subjects, and including those were also those in the draft implementation plan for improving institutional confidence. And we would like to recommend items 2.4 and 1.13. We would also like to mention that the timing of documents is very important for transparency, as well as public input and giving enough time for that. >> I'm Didier Kasole. I will speak about the budget and transparency. We would like to have more participation of ALAC in the preparation of the budget and also in organization. And we would like to have more details about how allocation is done in this so far. >>WOLFGANG KLEINWÄCHTER: Okay. My name is Wolfgang Kleinwächter. I was the chair of the working group 4 on transparency and accountability. I want to say some words on accountability. According to the ICANN bylaws, ICANN is accountable to the global Internet community, and with 1.5 billion Internet users, I think this is a great challenge for ICANN. The at-large community represents to a high degree the individual Internet users. And we think we have to move one step forward. One step in the right direction could be that we have a formal procedure how the board deals with advice from the At-Large Advisory Committee. And the second thing is, after we have created now five regional at- large organizations and have more than 100 recognized at-large structures, the time is ripe that the at-large community gets two voting seats on the ICANN board of directors. >>LUTZ DONNERHACKE: Working group 5 of the ALAC summit is dealing with DNS security issues, especially those regarding the prominent case of DNSsec. We strongly recommend to sign the root as soon as possible, as well as all top-level domains, because we need a valid trust chain. And furthermore, we encourage ICANN to modify the registry and registrant contracts in order to allow the registrant to deploy DNSsec in a very effective and convenient way. For all other issues on DNSsec, DNS security, we encourage ICANN to deploy the already-existing approaches regarding domain abuse, registration abuse. And we hope that ICANN will do this as soon as possible. Thank you. >> My name's Neil Schwartzmann. I'm with the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail. We started with a very bare bones document, and through what I think was an incredible collaborative effort, we came up with something that both I'm personally proud of and something that my constituents I think will be most pleased with, particularly as CAUCE is a member of the APWG, the Antiphishing Working Group. I think that some of our recommendations were extremely solid, and I'm very proud and very happy to have been a participant of this working group. (Video concludes). [ Applause ] (Video ends.) >>ALEJANDRO PISANTY: Our next speaker will be Karaitiana Taiuru, if you can come over. >>KARAITIANA TAIURU: Good morning. My name is Karaitiana Taiuru from the Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organization. We have five Regional At-large Organizations that represent the voice and the opinions of the end users from all around the world. They are Africa RALO, Asia-Pacific RALO, European RALO, Latin American RALO -- sorry, and North America RALO. Almost any nonprofit organization can become a Regional At-Large Organization or, as we call them, a RALO. RALOs usually meet once a month and provide policy input, ICANN submissions, and represent the voice of the end users in their regions. This week, all RALOs have concluded the general assemblies which usually occur between every 12 and 18 months. This has been an important time for all RALOs to meet in person, maybe for the first time to meet their new members, and to address some important issues that have occurred since the last time that we all met. I know for a fact this week, many issues were discussed and rectified. Now I'd like to introduce the RALOs and their representatives to you. The Africa RALO is the chair, Didia Kasole is the chair and Fatimata is the ALAC member. The APRALO of course is me, Karaitiana Taiuru. The European RALO is Wolf Ludwig is the chairman. The Latin America-Caribbean RALO -- >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: There's an update there. There has been an election so this is the outgoing chair. >>KARAITIANA TAIURU: I apologize. The outgoing chair is Carlton Samuels. The North America RALO is Evan Leibovitch is the chairman and Darlene Thompson is the secretary. Now I'd like to ask you to enjoy the short film that we're about to play for you highlighting some of the highlights from the five RALOs from this week. Thank you. [ Applause ] (video playing:) >>NARALO: Well, the first thing that we have done today is we got to know a little bit more each other, of the participants, and we haven't been revolutionizing the society today, but we are in the process of improving our area of work, and I think we have succeeded, with Evan's contribution as the chair of that group. We took into consideration all points of view and in the near future, we are going to keep on working on that and you will see, we will come up with something great. >> I think we accomplish a lot today in the fact that we were able, first, to see each other, people that I didn't know before, now I have met them. I think we accomplish a lot today in the fact that we went through the agenda all the way to the end. And I learned a lot about the GNSO and all the operating processes that have been going around. So I really, really got a lot from this meeting. Thank you. >> LACRALO: (In Portuguese. No translation.) >> LACRALO: Hi, I am (saying name), Internet Argentina. We just came out of the LACRALO meeting at ICANN. Our main goals at this meeting were to follow the elections that we had to take for the various positions, representation positions, and also to look at things that are important for the Internet communities in the world, especially in the Latin American region. >> LACRALO: Good afternoon, I am Andres Piazza. I am a representative of AGEIA DENSI Argentina at the General Assembly of LACRALO, the Latin American and Caribbean region. We just closed the face-to-face session of the General Assembly for the 2008-2009 period. During this session, we have worked especially in the renewal of the authorities for the following periods. We have elected (saying name) from Brazil as the representative of the ALAC committee. She is a delegate for our area. (Saying name) and myself will be working, facilitating communications in the LACRALO region with the ALAC members and all the ALAC committee. He will be chairing the General Assembly for this region, and I will be the secretary. And we have a period of hard work ahead of us. We have scheduled some nonregular meetings or extraordinary meetings in order to promote participation. And in the afternoon, we will be meeting with the work groups for the At-Large Summit. They have a very intense agenda. And we will also be, while we're here at this meeting, we are at the disposal of any Internet user in the Latin American region in order to listen to their concerns. >> I am from the University of West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. I am a member of LACRALO. I have just demitted office as the secretary to LACRALO. LACRALO was the first Regional At-Large Organization organized in ICANN. We have engaged in the policy development process for more than three years now. There are still challenges to participation from the region. As you know, the region is very diverse, consists of English-speaking Caribbean islands and of course Spanish-speaking central and Latin America. The Internet and what did affords the Caribbean is very important to us, because we see the Internet as a development imperative. Our job, then, is to take the concerns ever our English-speaking Caribbean uses through ALAC into ICANN to underscore the importance of the Internet to our development. And, hopefully, to ensure that the concerns and the issues that would be beneficial to the Caribbean users are certainly aired in the ICANN councils and responded to. [ Applause ] >> APRALO: Hi, today is an APRALO meeting, hence important decisions taken, including appointment of two vice chairs today. Apart from that, we did discuss about various issues of APRALO and the participation. We also had the benefit of ICANN people coming and briefing us about the compliance issues as well as GNSO issues. So today's meeting was attended by almost all the APRALO members, and it has set the tone for the agenda for the next meeting which is going to happen in Sydney. >> Hi, though we, as members of APRALO have met so many times over Skype and teleconference, so far, this opportunity brought us together face to face for the first time. And it's quite an interesting and valuable opportunity for us. And we discussed quite a lot. And among the things that we discussed, we also explored the possibility of increasing participation by increasing the number of ALSs in every region. We covered so many aspects and re-elected the chair and elected two vice chairs. And I think the activity is gaining an increased momentum. Thank you. >> We saw a new election of two vice chairs, the chair, and a secretary, which covered quite a wide and diverse region. So today we have representatives from Hong Kong, China, Pacific Highlands, Oceania, the Middle East, and from Japan. So for us, we're quite happy. We have got that wide regional distribution of representatives. And we have also made a commitment for multilingualism to encourage further participation in APRALO. Likewise, we have made a new commitment to use Skype for our communications, thus removing another barrier of communication and participation from the AP region. >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: Hi, my name is Cheryl Langdon-Orr, and apart from being the chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee, I am also the Asia-Pacific regional at-large organizational member representing ISOC AU. It's an awful lot of letters, I know. And we have just had our APRALO regional meeting. It was very productive. It was very interesting, and we had very robust discussion about a whole a lot of matters, including regional involvement together in IGF, in ICANN activities. We have elected our new chair, two vice chairs, a Secretariat. We have planned our work program for the next 12 months. And most importantly, we have had an opportunity to meet, greet, and renew a network that runs from the Arab states through to the antipodes. [ Applause ] >> EURALO: ICANN must provide an enabling environment for the RALOs and to enhance further ALS participation. Therefore, RALOs need budget allocation to become more operational and more effective, to serve the purpose of our common goal. >> EURALO wants to strengthen the bottom-up structure of ICANN, and we just had a discussion about the WHOIS policy which is an important issue for the Europeans to strengthen privacy, also, in ICANN policies. >> Hello. I am (saying name) from Romania, from EURALO as well. EURALO sees this not as the end of the meeting but the beginning of a process. And since we come from various regions, it would be nice to include a lot of the members of the association. [ Applause ] >> AFRALO: This morning, we had a meeting of AFRALO. This is the entity that represents Africa. This debate was very interesting, very important with regards to the participation of the ALSs at the level of ICANN. We have agreed to get organized in a group that will be made up of various persons. They will be each specializing in one topic in such a way that we will be holding an important position within the ICANN structure in the decision-making process. The topic that we have chosen is participation of ALS at the level of Africa, and also at the level of the decisions that are made by ICANN, so that the African region may also have a say or a voice in interprets of Internet development in the world. Thank you very much. >>KAWA DIAKITE: Thank you, I am Kawa, and I represent ISOC in Mali. Today we will be speaking of various things, and specifically about participation. I will be creating a work group that will deal with participation, and we will make a general assessment of our group in Africa. We will see how we will be getting organized, and we will promote participation -- the participation of Africa in these works. >> I am Michel (saying name) from Cameroon. I am here within the framework of ICANN works. I am a new member, a new at-large member. This morning, we worked on the policies that are necessary for the evolution of participation. And we have thought that the concept of strengthening our capacities and our institutional strengthening was an important item. This is why we would like to draw the attention of all the competent authorities in ICANN, the board and others, because we must be capable of moving this process forward and to contribute our own way to the development of communications. These are our current concerns, on the other hand, we also believe that we will have to define the necessary structures in order to add value to our contributions. Of course we will conduct a self-assessment, and each of the members of our team will do so, but at the same time we need to be capable of putting into practice a communication and awareness tool so that the population that is often marginalized may also anticipate, and so that we can follow the millennium goals. [ Applause ] (video ends). >>ALEJANDRO PISANTY: We now have Hawa Diakite. >>HAWA DIAKITE: . (no translation.) Of the summit. There were various topics that were dealt with. First of all, the future direction of ALAC, and the review organized by Patrick Sharry. Another one of the topics was that of registries and registrars, and the abuse of domain names, which was organized by Garth Bruen and Rudi Vansnick. Third topic, the global participation and regional perspectives which was organized by Karaitiana Taiuru. I apologize for my mispronunciation. Also, of Wolf Ludwig. Finally, there was also a debate on WHOIS, which it is better to go little by little or more quickly, but we have decided that we need to be cautious. We have to -- There was another topic organized by Beau Brendler and Wendy Seltzer. Thank you very much. >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: Perhaps just to continue, some other thematic sessions that were running were organized by (saying name) Jensen, Power Issues in the New gTLDs, Gender Development and Big Business. We also have the -- how are Internet rights and principles related to the work of ICANN and why -- I can see it now. How are the Internet rights and principles related to the work of ICANN, and why are they needed to protect the user interest in the ICANN context, organizer Max Senges. And now we have some thematic session video highlights. And I am finding these video highlights absolutely fantastic. Go ahead. Thank you. (video playing:) >>GARTH BRUEN: Hi, I am Garth Bruen from Knujon.com, and we just finished a presentation with Rudi Vansnick from Belgium the Internet society. And we covered a lot of abuses within the registrar and registry space. And it's clear that some people were very supportive of our information. There were people from the industry, from the registrar industry, who were not pleased with the presentation, and there were some ICANN staff who also questioned the authority of our information. And this is the first presentation of its kind at an ICANN session. So we should have expected that there would be considerable debate and disagreement about the facts. But we hope that this theme will continue at other ICANN sessions, and more parties will be directly involved and they will be able to present their sides of the issue as well, and they will be able to challenge our data with their data. Thank you. >>RUDI VANSNICK: My name is Rudi Vansnick. I am a member of the EURALO, of EURALO and the chair of ISOC Belgium. The purpose of the session we did this evening was to try to make understandable the issues a consumer and Internet user encounters when he goes to the domain name space. Especially when we see or he sees or she sees that the identity of the owner of that domain name is falsified. And that makes it very confusing for the consumer for getting identification of the one he wants to try to be confident with as the end user is, at the end, the one who decides to buy the product of Internet. It could be a product, it could be a service, it can also be a domain name. And if the end users tomorrow decide to not buy a domain name or not visit a domain name because they don't trust it, well, that part of the business will go down. >>GLEN McKNIGHT: Hi, my name is Glen McKnight. I have just attended the session as an observer. Very informative session. I wasn't aware of the extent of cybercrime that is associated with people who are posting phony information. It's a serious issue that all countries have to be concerned with, and I'm hopeful that ICANN can step up to the plate with their new auditing procedures to deal with this issue? Thank you. >> Outreach is very important to the North American region, just as it is to all the other components of at-large because this is how we help ICANN to realize its vision of getting participation from at- large, which is not necessarily Internet policy experts, but to get the opinions and the policy input from the general public, which is groups that do not necessarily have Internet policy as their main focus. The main goal of at-large is to try and reach out to those people. And at the session, we discussed a number of creative ideas in which we can figure out ways to do this, using the community that is already at ICANN's disposal to be able to do this outreach, get more people involved, get more countries involved, and essentially make ICANN more responsible to its public. And in return, make it more in tune with what's necessary from Internet end users who have a different perspective than those of the organizations and companies that provide Internet services. >>ADAM PEAKE: My name is Adam Peake and I am a member from the ALAC from Europe. We have just been involved in a participation workshop talking about how we can increase the number of ALSs that are members and participating in ALAC. I am particularly interested in looking at how we can outreach to new types of organizations, not those who are particularly already interested in Internet governance or even Internet policy, but a broader range of organizations around the world. And I think that's really, really the main thing that I am going to try to take back from this, is how do we find funding to make this possible, and where are the appropriate places we can go and look for potentially interested individuals and interested organizations. >>EDMON CHUNG: Hello, my name is Edmon Chung, representing Internet society Hong Kong which is one of the ALSs in the AP region, Asia- Pacific region RALO. I think I'm quite excited and encouraged by the whole At-Large Summit in really making ICANN as a multistakeholder process, and I mean the at- large part, a very important part of this multistakeholder process. And in our session just now, I think the biggest element was really talking about how to conduct more outreach and to get more ALSs involved and participating in the ICANN process. And I'm very encouraged to actually know that that -- hearing from the European perspective, from the North American perspective, and from the Asian perspective, we actually were able to come together and have some action items to bring back to take over to ALAC, and also from there, I guess taking back to Internet Society Hong Kong to further the outreach and participation process for building a better ICANN,, I think. >>WENDY SELTZER: So in the WHOIS session, we entered the long- running saga of WHOIS, privacy protections, and data accessibility needs. And as a group, we concluded that individual privacy is a matter of highest concern, so that while companies should make information available in the WHOIS, individual privacy should be protected. The group recognized or considered various needs for information, particularly including access to resolved networking problems and access for law enforcement, and concluded that those were important considerations. We didn't reach any final conclusions on how to address those, but hope that productive work can be done. >> Okay, the session we just held had the title "Power Issues in New gTLDs, Gender Development and Big Business." And what we were trying to do was take a step back from the ongoing negotiations of the wording of the applicant guidebook for the new gTLDs and try to find out what the deeper implications, power implications, are, specifically in terms of gender and development. And that is a discourse that's absent in ICANN most of the time, and that is direly needed, we found out. >>ERIC BRUNNER-WILLIAMS: I provided a tour from 1999 to the present of the attempts to have an indigenous intellect intellectual property constituency and issues related to gTLDs for stateless peoples or for colonialized peoples. And where we will be going with gTLDs which don't address the $6 model of dot com, which might be more broadly useful for humanity than just vanity, commercial applications. And it has been fun. >> Hi, my name is Thomas, and I was just participating at the workshop on Internet rights and principles, and it was a very interesting session. We were discussing many things, starting from WHOIS, new gTLDs, and what the rights implications on those issues are. And like always, the issues are very complicated, especially on global level. But we have some ideas, or the members of those working have some ideas on how to start this process. >> Hi, my name is Jan (saying name) from Denmark. I just participated in this session on human rights and the Internet and related to the new gTLD program especially. It was interesting to hear opinions from all over the world on the implications that these new programs may have on the individual rights. And it became clear how complicated it is to defend registrant rights because you have the local laws and you have the complicated structure between registry, registrar, and resellers. So one of the things we hope do is impose on the registrars to give more information to the registrants and the user rights in terms of off codes et cetera. It seems tog to be a big problem for people to get their domain name back. >>MAX SENGES: Hello, my name is Max Senges. I am representing the Committee for a Democratic United Nations here as an ALS structure, and we organized a workshop on Internet rights and principles in relation to ICANN, and I think it was a very successful workshop. We identified several policy issues where we are going to follow up and try to represent user rights in terms of WHOIS privacy, in terms of freedom of speech, and when it comes to domain names and new gTLDs, in terms of cultural participation. And these are the issues related to that. Small communities that will not be able to register their international domain names and similar problems. But I think most importantly, we decided to work on a registrant rights charter which is the intention to assure that the registrants of new domain names know about their rights and have a possibility to enforce their rights. Also, there is a notion to introduce that into the new RAA review, and that is the way that we are going to pursue. Thank you. (video ends). [ Applause ] >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: It's now my pleasure to call Evan to the podium. When he starts getting a message from somewhere else. And Evan is going to present on behalf of the whole of the At-Large Summit, a summing-up exercise called "mission to action." >>EVAN LEIBOVITCH: The counter is already going before I even get up. Maybe that's a sign. (No translation to scribes) it's a pleasure to be here with you at the At-Large Summit -- the planning and the staging of the first-ever global gathering of ICANN's public constituency. Soon after my ALS was first recruited to join ICANN At Large about two years ago, I was exposed to a diversity of opinions and emotions about ICANN, most of which I was not prepared for. It was curiosity and confusion, augmented by an unusual amount of cynicism. My first meeting, in San Juan, was what I considered to be the birth place of the current At Large, for it was the first time that every region had formalized and we finally had an ALAC that was mainly elected by and representative of the community. Between then and now, I've come to see that the vision that created the at-large infrastructure was, complex though it may be, it is the best long-term path to providing ICANN with high-quality, diverse, and genuine direction. In the six days that have just passed, I've come to see that that vision is in the right hands. In the time I've been involved, the ALAC has evolved dramatically. As an example, two years ago, I would have told you that AGP actually means a graphics card that you would put in a PC. In the time since then, I've come to know it as something also called the add-grace period, a seemingly benign tool with few equivalents in the normal world of business. At Large had witnessed that the AGP had become the core of a particularly nasty form of name space abuse, domain tasting. It was At Large that identified the tasting as contrary to the public interest, initiated processes to study it, and eventually drove measures that would ultimately lead to a dramatic reduction in its use. Since then, At Large and its representative ALAC have become increasingly involved in other areas of ICANN policy. We have become a primary supporter of Internationalized Domain Names as well as IPv6. We've asserted ourselves into the domain on WHOIS data accuracy and also into gTLD creation. We continue to study the various parts of the RAA, to identify areas of domain abuse, of registrant abuse, and especially of end user abuse. We're holding ICANN increasingly accountable as to its transparency, its enforcement activities, and its respect for the rights and needs of registrants and the billions of Internet users worldwide. The level of maturity, enthusiasm, and talent evident within At Large has clearly been evident in the events being held this past week in this, our first-ever summit. In workshops and thematic sessions, we've not only identified challenges, but we've also proposed concrete solutions that will ultimately benefit both ICANN and the public it is charged to serve. Yesterday's workshop on e-crime, another summit initiative, attracted interest throughout the ICANN community. The vision that's inspired these events was a bold one, and it was not without risk. And it has also not been easy to achieve. It is a continuing challenge to engage the interest of organizations and individuals who do not have a primary interest in Internet governance. It is an even greater challenge to be informed in languages other than English. And sometimes we still find within ICANN that merely having the ability to speak does not guarantee that we get listened to. [ Applause ] >>EVAN LEIBOVITCH: These changes can be addressed, and they are being addressed. The board governance report on the ALAC review has demonstrated admirable understanding of the vision that created At Large. The quality of At Large's policy input has, I believe, naturally led to a heightened awareness of and respect for the voice of what is ICANN's largest constituency. Some of our largest challenges, though, come from within. We need to be more active, more assertive, more educated, and more engaged, both within ICANN and within the greater community of Internet users. We cannot be intimidated by those who care not for the public good, but we must also be constructive and progressive in our approach. Some healthy cynicism is always useful. But we cannot and must not allow ourselves to be obsessed by it. We are well on our way. The summit has been a critical milestone in the maturation of At Large. I hope many of you have had a chance to participate in our many events, and I invite everyone here to go to the Web site that I hope will be on the slide that comes up soon. There we go. Anyway, I encourage you to go to that Web site to read about the constructive and realistic policy work that came out of this week's events. In it, you'll find creative and positive approaches to WHOIS, how ICANN can operate better in a global environment. And you'll also find that, in some ways, we are amongst the strongest advocates of new gTLDs. To me, the summit is an end of one phase of At Large and the beginning of another. In its success, we see a very clear point of transition. From here, that we've demonstrated that we have not only turned vision into mission, but also mission into action. On behalf of the 88 at-large structures attending here and the many more still operating at home, I want to thank ICANN staff -- and you all know who you are and where you are here -- Your help has been invaluable in helping to create an event that has been a complete success by whatever metric you think of. I want to give a special acknowledgment to summit chair Wolf Ludwig and his extraordinary talent at herding cats. [ Applause ] >>EVAN LEIBOVITCH: And I'm delighted to see Nick Ashton-Hart in good enough shape to spend some time with us and finally see the fruits of our collective sweat. [ Applause ] >>EVAN LEIBOVITCH: Stand up. Come on. [ Applause ] >>EVAN LEIBOVITCH: As we prepare to close the summit today, I hope my fellow members of At Large leave here with a strong, clear, and simple message: This is our ICANN. What happens next depends on ICANN's holding true to its vision and our communities' determination to fulfill it. Now, let's go make it happen. Thank you. [ Applause ] >>ALEJANDRO PISANTY: It is my pleasure now to introduce Dr. Paul Twomey, ICANN president and CEO, for an address to this meeting. [ Applause ] >>PAUL TWOMEY: Well, thanks very much for that. I think that's been a spectacular presentation this morning. I loved the videos. That's fantastic. But I think this idea of, from -- to action, I think, is -- really has met the expectations, probably surpassed the expectations, of many on the board and the staff who have been working to support this happening, this workshop. I look forward very much to reading the policy inputs that I know are across a whole range of issues here. And let me just reinforce -- ICANN is a unique organization, a unique community. Pardon me, I can't keep my voice. Thanks. -- and in building a multistakeholder organization that is bottom-up and is global, that deals with technology that is global and tries to do that in a way that's in some sort of real time for the technology sounds great in theory, makes a wonderful academic paper, and is, as we would say in antipodes, bloody hard to do. And one of the hardest parts about it, I think, has been how to work out, incorporate, and make representative and fair the voices of the consumer, the voices of the user, the voices of At Large. And we've had a ten-year history of this, of how to -- attempts to try to make it. And I think this workshop is sort of a high point of moving -- not only working through the whole process elements, the whole representational elements of this, how to make it work, you know, we all know the history of this, many of us know the history of this. But now moving towards how do you take this in real content terms, how do you take this in terms of real voice, real input, and turn that into being a major driver of the thinking, of the considerations, of the agenda-setting of this very important multistakeholder organization that's coordinating a key part of the global communications infrastructure. So my congratulations to you all. I am also incredibly pleased to see Nick back here. So thank you. I'm glad you've decided to return to us. But also, I would particularly like to thank those who have coordinated the meeting, those who have chaired it, those who have put together the working groups, et cetera. Job which was fantastically well done. And we're looking forward to reading and considering the input that you've produced very carefully. Thank you. [ Applause ] >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: You do just need to stay there. Thanks. >>ALEJANDRO PISANTY: I would like to, though out of program, salute Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN's chair of the board, who has graciously attended and decided not to take the podium, but I guess everybody is glad to acknowledge your presence here, Peter, and your attention to the development. And, Paul, you get something from this meeting. I'm only the -- I'm not even the messager. I'm the messager of the message that you will get the message. >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: What's happening now, ladies and gentlemen, is the measurables. Here are the products, in hard copy of the working group activities. Here is a declaration from the At-Large Summit to ICANN board. [ Applause ] >>ALEJANDRO PISANTY: Cheryl will do some hammering. >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: We've had these at each of our sessions. It's kind of cute, because nobody's actually thrown one at anyone across the room. In fact, they've very rarely been used. And I haven't used mine even once. But I am going to use it in just a moment to officially close the At-Large Summit. I'd also like to mention that each of the chairs of the working group and, indeed, both you and Evan, Wolf, you and Evan, have one of these that, as we finish closing, if the chairs of the working groups come forward, we have one each for you. But right now, with the exception of KHALID, who took his -- I'll deal with him later -- right now, I just want to give you a very brief moment of how I feel as the -- in the honorable position of the chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee. And it's summed up pretty much by "wow, job well done." And job well done goes to a bunch of very important people. It goes to each and every one of the participants who joined and worked really long, really hard, really robust, really exciting, and really productive hours together -- predictive as well. It goes to the staff, who have not just behind the scenes, but in front of you all, worked really almost inhuman hours getting this ready, keeping us looking good, and making this apparently magic happen. It goes to each and every one of the regional at-large organization executive team, secretariat, whatever they call themselves, board in EURALO. Each one of them have worked hard to make this happen. And it very much goes to ICANN, and specifically, the ICANN board of directors, because without your support, in cold hard cash, we admit, but your support and your belief that we could do this, this would never have happened in the first place. I don't know what measure you're going to use on a return of investment tool, whether it's going to be the number of policy development points that come in from the individual ALSs or the increase in public participation from the edges. But by the measure I'm using right here and right now as I declare this summit closed, this has been a huge success, and thank you all. [ Gavel. ] [ Applause ] (Standing ovation.) >>CHERYL LANGDON-ORR: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a hard stop here today, and it really is very, very important that we have the public -- the public mike opening very shortly. If you are clearing the room, do so. And if you're staying for the most important part, which is the public microphone, please make sure you get your seats. What are we doing? People are lurking behind me. >>NICK ASHTON-HART: We don't have a gavel for Cheryl, because it's our experience that Cheryl doesn't require any device in order to run a meeting. [ Laughter ] >>NICK ASHTON-HART: So instead of a gavel, we're giving her a certificate for a massage in the spa of this hotel, assuming that will be far more useful to her and to us. [ Applause ]