[Chapter-delegates] Topics to be discussed during Chapter/Member meeting on 16.10.2012 in Toronto

[Thomas Lowenhaupt]

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.

We've begun to compile information about the cities that have applied - 
see it here 
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhVMdzMAZzUQdGJVcjNjUjFtWkdGa21jNjViOFhfanc#gid=0>. 
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!

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.

Broadly, our effort hopes to achieve two things:

  * Immediately open some channels so that the 39 city-TLD applicants
    can begin to talk and share Best Common Practices.
  * 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!

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 - 
*after *it signed a 5 year contract with NeuStar to operate and market 
the .nyc TLD.

We recently submitted our thoughts on how this public engagement might 
be approached - see this wiki page <http://bit.ly/PQHpBa> -  and 
tomorrow at 10 AM we're holding a Google+ Hangout to discuss our 
proposal. Join that conversation here 
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c4rsa5j4ttqet7mje6eudfaj5a4>.

I look forward to seeing many of you in Toronto.

Best,

Tom Lowenhaupt

> ...
> In a separate note, Tom Lowenhaupt from ISOC-NY will be attending  and 
> he is interested in co-ordinating with Chapters in cities that, like 
> NYC, are making geo TLD applications.
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> j
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>     Dear Chapter Delegates,
>
>         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:
>
>     1. - Synchronization of Chapter activities on WCIT issues 2. - New
>     gTLD program is it a hit or a miss?
>     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 ?
>
>     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.
>
>     Your choice will allow us to invite relevant Subject Matter
>     Experts to our Toronto meeting.
>
>     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.
>
>     With best regards,
>
>     Jacek Gajewski
>     Chapter Development Manager
>
>     On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Jacek Gajewski wrote:
>
>     > Dear Colleagues,
>     >
>     >     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 <gajewski at isoc.org <mailto:gajewski at isoc.org>> till
>     14.9.2012 COB.
>     >
>     > Ted Mooney will convene this discussion, and we will try to
>     invite experts for the top 3 most requested topics.
>     >
>     > With best regards,
>     >
>     > Jacek Gajewski
>     > Chapter Development Manager
>
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