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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> IFIP Working
Group 8.2--Kevin Crowston [mailto:IFIPWG82@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>M.Cushman@LSE.AC.UK<BR><B>Sent:</B> March 6, 2006 1:18 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
IFIPWG82@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> FW: GNSO
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Would you be willing
to circulate this to your students to enable them to participate in this
survey? Also you may wish to forward this to any other colleagues outside
universities who may be interested.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Mike</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike Cushman [
</FONT></SPAN><A href="mailto:m.cushman@lse.ac.uk"><SPAN lang=en-us><U><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>mailto:m.cushman@lse.ac.uk</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT
face=Arial size=2>]<BR>Department of Information Systems<BR>London School of
Economics and Political Science<BR>Houghton
Street<BR>London WC2A 2AE<BR>Phone: +44
(0)20 7955 7426 Fax: +44 (0)20 7955
7385<BR></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://is.lse.ac.uk/"><SPAN lang=en-us><U><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>http://is.lse.ac.uk/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=6>ICANN appoints
London School of Economics to conduct independent review of
GNSO</FONT></B></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">An
expert team of researchers from the<U> </U></FONT><U><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff>Public Policy Group
<</FONT></U></SPAN><A
href="file://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicPolicy/"><SPAN
lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>www.lse.ac.uk</FONT><U></U><U></U><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>/collections/LSEPublicPolicy/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN
lang=en-us><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff>></FONT></U><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> of LSE has been appointed by the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as the independent reviewers of the
Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">The GNSO plays a critical
role in ICANN's policy development activities, particularly in relation to
generic top level domains such as .com, .net, .info, .biz, .museum and, more
recently, new top level domains such as .mobi and .travel. The review is an
integral part of ICANN’s normal operational reviews and is part of its ongoing
efforts to ensure maximum organizational transparency and
efficiency.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">This Review aims to survey
awareness of ICANN's worldwide responsibilities and to find out if people, and
particular public and private stakeholders, are satisfied with the
accountability and transparency of GNSO's procedures. The review will take a
number of forms including an online survey and in-depth face-to-face
interviews with key stakeholders.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">Professor Patrick Dunleavy,
Professor of Political Science and chair of the Public Policy Group, will lead
the review team. Commenting on LSE’s appointment to conduct the review,
Professor Dunleavy said: 'We are delighted to have been appointed for this
major piece of work which will inform the future direction and strategy of the
global Internet community. Our approach will be to ask many people worldwide,
through surveys and interviews, their views on the GNSO.'</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">ICANN is seeking broad
participation in the Review, which is seen as critical to its success. 'ICANN
and LSE are working closely together to ensure we gather as much relevant
material as possible. Those wishing to participate in the review will be able
to do so online, and during the upcoming international meeting taking place in
Wellington, New Zealand, from 25-31 March,' said Paul Twomey, president and
CEO of ICANN.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">To participate in the GNSO
Review, please visit</FONT></B><B><U> <FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff><</FONT></U></B></SPAN><A
href="http://www.icann-gnsoreview.org"><SPAN lang=en-us><B><U><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>http://www.icann-gnsoreview.org</FONT></U></B></SPAN></A><SPAN
lang=en-us><B><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>></FONT></U><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></B>
</SPAN><BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">Contact</FONT></SPAN>
<UL>
<UL>
<LI><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">Professor Patrick
Dunleavy, 0n +44 (0)20 7955 7178 or email</FONT><U> <FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff>p.dunleavy@lse.ac.uk
<</FONT></U></SPAN><A href="mailto:p.dunleavy@lse.ac.uk"><SPAN
lang=en-us><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>mailto:p.dunleavy@lse.ac.uk</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN
lang=en-us><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>></FONT></U><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN>
<LI><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">Judith Higgin, LSE Press
Office, 020 7955 7582, email:</FONT><U> <FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>j.a.higgin@lse.ac.uk <</FONT></U></SPAN><A
href="mailto:j.a.higgin@lse.ac.uk"><SPAN lang=en-us><U><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>mailto:j.a.higgin@lse.ac.uk</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN
lang=en-us><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>></FONT></U><FONT face="Times New Roman">
</FONT></SPAN></LI></UL></UL>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">About the
GNSO</FONT></B><B><U></U></B><U> <FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff><</FONT></U></SPAN><A href="http://gnso.icann.org/"><SPAN
lang=en-us><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>http://gnso.icann.org/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN
lang=en-us><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff>></FONT></U><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><BR>The GNSO manages policy issues such as selection
criteria for new top level domains; competition policy impacts and contractual
conditions for top level domain registry agreements. It has been particularly
active in discussions about WHOIS and data management, intellectual property
protection, registrar conduct and the transfer of domain names. Policies are
developed by consensus through the GNSO six constituency groups which includes
registrars, registries, intellectual property interests, internet service
providers, business and commercial users and non-commercial user interests.
The GNSO's policy program is managed by the GNSO Council on which each of the
constituencies has elected representatives from ICANN's five different
regions.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">The GNSO conducts its policy
making initiatives through the activities of each of the constituencies at
face to face meetings, via regular teleconferences and at special meetings of
policy committees or taskforces. The GNSO is currently working on development
policy for the introduction of new top level domains, on internationalised
domain names and on registry contractual conditions.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face="Times New Roman">About
ICANN</FONT></B><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT><U> <FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff><</FONT></U></SPAN><A
href="http://www.icann.org/index.html"><SPAN lang=en-us><U><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>http://www.icann.org/index.html</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN
lang=en-us><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff>></FONT></U><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><BR>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organised, non-profit corporation that
has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation,
protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD)
Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management
functions. As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving
the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to
achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to
developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up,
consensus-based processes.</FONT></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>