Re: [ICANN-EU] How to proceed

[Andy Mueller-Maguhn <andy@ccc.de>]

Good morning,

>Now, how to proceed?
>
>I think, first we should encourage Andy to get in touch with the other
>selected ALM directors. They will have to prove to the Board and to the public
>that the At-Large-Membership (and ICANN itself) is a good idea and should
>not be weakened but strengthened.

agreed. Next to my offer of some more mailing-lists for generall discussion
to structure the discussion a little more, networking of the ALM directors
is a good idea. I think the prioritys should be to get to an informel network
of european user organisations (people from ISOCīs etc.) looking at the
november-meeting, and structure the stuff we have to adress there.

>Then, we will have to think more about a european At-Large-Member-Forum.

Definitely. I would prefer a more informel structure and already have scedulled
some meetings with european user groups. Iīll invite them to participate here
and in the mailing-lists mentioned in the other mail. 

Iīll also put my scedule online soon to better possibilities of RL-coordination;
old (german) version is at https://www.ccc.de/~andy/Termine/

>Does it still make sense to set up a european fund to support Andy's (1)
>travel costs, esp. for his european contacts, and (2) back office (incl. some
>people to do administrative work for him?)?

We only have a small time slot until the november meeting. I would prefer
informell questions having priority to formal questions in this period. What
I can offer is to have some meeting in RL in some european countries before
november. Money is not my acute problem, back office not really,
legal questions to realize some stuff facing icannīs entity much more.

>Finally, Andy has very much promoted the idea of a "(trademark-) law-free"
>TLD. If there are any lawyers or other law people on the list interested in
>discussing that idea and developing it in some more detail, please contact
>me by PM.

I would appreciate this; one of my main question is, how much a policy
is a legal question. ICANNīs missed to mention the public space at all
in itīs policies. I guess some problems could already be avoided be
naming clearly in what policys trade mark does apply and which are
explicitely trade-mark free.

- now on the way to the airport, to geneva, to meet some ISOC people there...

Andy

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