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I would very much appreciate a few minutes to talk about the status
of city-TLD applications. As many of you know, while cities house
more than 1/2 the world's population - going to 75% by mid-century
as per U.N. stats - no effort was made by ICANN or anyone else to
guide cities on ways to plan for the development of these critical
resources. Despite this, 39 applied. <br>
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We've begun to compile information about the cities that have
applied - <a
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhVMdzMAZzUQdGJVcjNjUjFtWkdGa21jNjViOFhfanc#gid=0">see
it here</a>. In summary, 39 city-TLD applications are pending
before ICANN, as well as 9 for regional TLDs, thus 48 "geo" TLDs in
all. Of those geo 48 TLDs, 22 have supporting ISOC chapters, 26
don't! <br>
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In Toronto, I'd like the opportunity to elicit the cooperation of
chapters in the 22 active ISOC cities to discuss ways we might
engage and contribute to the planning and development of our cities'
Internet resources. As well, I think the existence of 26 "orphan"
city-TLD applications provide an opportunity to foster development
of new ISOC chapters.<br>
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Broadly, our effort hopes to achieve two things: <br>
<ul>
<li>Immediately open some channels so that the 39 city-TLD
applicants can begin to talk and share Best Common Practices.
</li>
<li>And longer term, to prepare some guidance for ICANN and cities
for the second round of new TLDs. If 39 applied now, perhaps
we'll see 390 city-TLD apps next time!<br>
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In New York, we've advocated for the development of the .nyc TLD as
a public interest resource for more than a decade. Just recently the
city indicated that it will engage the public in the development
process - <b>after </b>it signed a 5 year contract with NeuStar to
operate and market the .nyc TLD. <br>
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We recently submitted our thoughts on how this public engagement
might be approached - <a href="http://bit.ly/PQHpBa">see this wiki
page</a> - and tomorrow at 10 AM we're holding a Google+ Hangout
to discuss our proposal. <a
href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c4rsa5j4ttqet7mje6eudfaj5a4">Join
that conversation here</a>.<br>
<p>I look forward to seeing many of you in Toronto.<br>
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<p>Best,<br>
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<p>Tom Lowenhaupt<br>
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Dear Chapter Delegates,<br>
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As mentioned earlier, during the Chapter/Member
meeting on 16.10.2012 in Toronto we would like to
discuss max. 3 (due to limited time) topics interesting
for Chapters world-wide. Following topics have been
suggested, within the given deadline:<br>
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1. - Synchronization of Chapter activities on WCIT
issues 2. - New gTLD program is it a hit or a miss?<br>
3. - Enabling chapters to be more active on specific
topics, aside those prioritized by ISOC global; 4. -
What are the priorities of action and focus of the
chapters for the next 12 months ?<br>
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We would like you to vote (deadline Friday, 5.10.2012)
for the 3 topics out of those 4 suggested above. If you
vote for topic #4, please name max. 3 of your Chapter's
priorities of action.<br>
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Your choice will allow us to invite relevant Subject
Matter Experts to our Toronto meeting.<br>
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Please note, that we are planning to launch our
bi-annual Chapter Survey in November 2012, so your input
will be used in fine-tuning of Survey.<br>
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With best regards,<br>
<br>
Jacek Gajewski<br>
Chapter Development Manager<br>
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On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Jacek Gajewski wrote:<br>
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> Dear Colleagues,<br>
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> It has been suggested to skip traditional long
round of self introductions in favor of content
discussion. We would like to focus discussion on
maximum 3 topics. Please let me know your preference by
sending me 3 most interesting for you topics to an
e-mail <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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till 14.9.2012 COB.<br>
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> Ted Mooney will convene this discussion, and we
will try to invite experts for the top 3 most requested
topics.<br>
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> With best regards,<br>
><br>
> Jacek Gajewski<br>
> Chapter Development Manager<br>
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