http://homepage.mac.com/Amadeu01/iblog/B763534044 Amadeu01@mac.com © Amadeu Abril i Abril Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:23:07 +0800 Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:25:33 +0800 iBlog 1.3.8 Today's agenda has a single topic: the Internationalized Domain Name workshop . ]]> Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:16:45 +0800 Thomas is not around (even if he still provides the aggregator , and notes from hwat he can follow from the webcast). Bret does not seem to be around (even if he provides his minimalist but always relvant pills: last one, probably of lesser general interest, pointing to a presentation on .cat I made at the Registrars meeting. To our desparation, the feline ghost keeps haunting us ;-)). So both No Such Weblog and ICANN.Blog follow the event from afar. Such as CaveBear . The ones blogging from hear appear to be Ross and Susan . I added her blog and re-added Random Bytes to the sidebar.

As for me, I hope to post more regularly from now on as the sotrm of continuous and conflicting meetings has converged into the single-session days of the meeting. In which I am just an observer. ]]> Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:03:46 +0800 • GAC Plenary Meeting (Closed Session)(9:00 – 13:00) (Sarawak room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• Workshop on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) * (8:30 – 10:00) (Grand Ballroom, Shangri-La Hotel)

• At Large & Asia/Australia/Pacific Users Meeting (Open Session)(11:00 – 12:30) (Pahang room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• ccNSO Members Meeting * (9:00 – 16:15) (Kedah room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• ccNSO Council Meeting * (16:15 – 18:00) (Kedah room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• GNSO Council Meeting * (14:00 – 16:00) (Grand Ballroom, Shangri-La Hotel)

]]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:38:47 +0800 The two main topics throughout the day, from the GNSO Council/Board breakfast to the First Meeting of the Two Name Councils (the generic names and the country-code names ones) were "how to improve our wfficacy, how to better communicate, how to manage our policy-making procedures" (with usually one simple answer: better project management techniques) and, indeed, budget. Here everybody seemed to want the registrars to pay what they are asked for, but everybody is dragging their feet as all sort of rumors about last-minute changes and deals are spreading around. I hope that for once this will be discussed (note this: discussed, not just listened to) with the Board during the Public Forum. ]]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:05:12 +0800 OK, the first ICANN Meeting day is over. You know, the one with multiple meeting running in parallel, with agendas that never completely adjust for those like me wanting to cherry-picj from here and there ;-)

Besides the usual meetings from GAC, ALAC and GNSO constituencies (escept IPC, which is becoming a tradition, as well. Intellectual Property interest came here jsut for the cybersquatting issue, and the UDRP. Now it's time to readjust the "user side" of the GNSO, and a separate IPC does not seem to make sense anymore), GAC and ALAC. The novelty was that we had two separate ccTLD meetings: the new ccNSO, with its brand new ccNSO Council and apparently, the one from those not joining the ccNSO (I can not confirm yet that this second meeting actually took place, but I've been told it did).

It seems that the ccNSO will now need through the usual times of trbubling structuring that the GNSO already experienced. Let's hope it is much shorter this time. ]]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:59:33 +0800 Both the Cross Constiuency meeting (BC, ISPC, IPC) and the Registrars are inviting sTLD applicants to make a short presentation. So I'll take my GNSO Council hat offf, I'll put my puntCAT cap on for some minutes. Perhaps the NCUC is also holding a similar session.


A complete and funny first day, it seems ;-) ]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:37:24 +0800 Just before we all left for KL, the OECD published its report on gTLD allocation issues. Lots of data, many graphs, some ideas and a stupid conclusion: the best way to allocate gTLDs to registries is... through auctions. Thanks a lot. So instead of voting this year controversial budget, we should simply ged rid of ICANN and replace it with Sotheby’s?

More on this report during the coming days and weeks. Becasue some people may even pretend that this is a good solution... ]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:32:35 +0800 Besides the general agenda, today I have the GNSO Council/Board breakfast (7:30am), the GNSO Council/GAC GNSO WG lunch (13:00), the GNSO Council/ccNSO Council (first!) joint meeting (5pm). And the Reception at 7.30pm. Besides that, jumping from Constituency meeting to constituency meeting... ]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:24:37 +0800 Monday, 19 July 2004

• GAC Plenary Meeting (Open Session)(9:00 – 11:00) (Sarawak room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• GAC Plenary Meeting (Closed Session)(11:00 – 13:00) (Sarawak room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• GAC Plenary Meeting (Closed Session)(14:30 – 18:00) (Sarawak room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• GNSO Constituency Meetings (9:00 – 17:00) (Shangri-La Hotel)

◦ Cross Constituency Meeting (9:30 – 11:00) (Grand Ballroom, Shangri-La Hotel)

◦ Non Commercial Users Constituency Meeting (Time TBA) (Negeri Sembilan room, Shangri-La Hotel)

◦ gTLD Registries Constituency Meeting (9:00 – 16:30) (Perak room, Shangri-La Hotel)

◦ Intellectual Property Interests Constituency Meeting (No meeting foreseen)

◦ Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency Meeting (15:00 – 16:45) (Penang room, Shangri-La Hotel)

◦ Registrars Constituency Meeting (8:30 – 17:00) (Selangor room, Shangri-La Hotel)

◦ Commercial and Business Users Constituency Meeting (15:00 – 16:30) (Kelantan room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• ccNSO Members Meeting * (9:00 – 18:00) (Kedah room, Shangri-La Hotel)

]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:19:00 +0800 Last thing I did before I left Barcelona was checking the weather forecast for the whole week. On arrival, the fears were confirmed: it feels much hotter than the vary degrees would let you think.

Have a look at the forecast: be careful not to miss the subtle changes on Wednesday.... Working as a metereologist here must be definitely boring.....


Jul 17 Scattered T-Storms 32°/23° 60 %

Jul 18 Scattered T-Storms 32°/23° 50 %

Jul 19 Scattered T-Storms 32°/23° 50 %

Jul 20 Scattered T-Storms 32°/23° 50 %

Jul 21 Scattered T-Storms 31°/23° 50 %

Jul 22 Scattered T-Storms 31°/23° 50 %

Jul 23 Scattered T-Storms 31°/23° 50 %

Jul 24 Scattered T-Storms 31°/23° 50 %

Jul 25 Scattered T-Storms 31°/23° 50 % ]]> Sun, 18 Jul 2004 08:54:51 +0200 Welcome to the new version of my blog, this time with a commitment to survive the ICANN meeting.

You’ll find here the usual posts about the ICANN Meetings, the trips, Internet policy issues and other topics, depending on my mood ;-) The formatting is still a bit, err, hesitant, but I don’t have the time and nerves to fight with CSS and other niceties. I’ll try to polish it up after the summer. Hope not to mess that much with RSS feeds, this time.

Enjoy! ]]> Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:08:23 +0800 This is the Agenda for the weekend. On Synday, I have the PIR Board meeting all the day long.

• GAC Regional Forum (Open Session)(9:30 – 18:00) (Sarawak room, Shangri-La Hotel)

Sunday, 18 July 2004

• GAC Plenary Meeting (Closed Session)(9:30 – 13:00) (Sarawak room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• GAC Plenary Meeting (Closed Session)(14:30 – 18:00) (Sarawak room, Shangri-La Hotel)

• APTLD(Time TBA) (Location TBA)

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