At-Large Study Committee Launches Online Forum.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers MARINA DEL REY Del Rey may refer to:
The At-Large Membership Study Committee (ALSC ALSC Association for Library Service to Children ALSC Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation ALSC Afloat Logistics and Sealift Capability ALSC American Lumber Standards Committee, Inc. ALSC Advanced Logistics Systems Center (AFMC) ) announced the launch of an online forum to enable people all over the world to discuss the best ways to involve individual users ("At-Large Members") in ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number . The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN. (body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system (ICANN), which coordinates technical aspects of the Internet, created the ALSC earlier this year to conduct a comprehensive study and make recommendations on how to involve individual Internet users worldwide in its work. "A critical aspect of the committee's mission is to foster discussions that lead to consensus on the best method for ensuring that individual Internet users' voices are heard, and represented, within ICANN. This online forum will afford people throughout the world an opportunity to debate the issues involved and share their views," stated Carl Bildt Nils Daniel Carl Bildt , KCMG (born July 15, 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat, currently serving as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt. , ALSC chair. The new online forum enables any individuals with access to the Internet to share their views and engage in a dialogue with the ALSC and other Internet users. In addition to soliciting general comments on any aspect of the At-Large membership issue, the ALSC also will be posting specific questions for consideration and discussion. Such questions will include: What do individuals expect to gain from involvement in ICANN? To what degree should the general Internet community be involved in ICANN? How should an At-Large Member be defined? Should there be any membership requirements or fees? What processes and structures should be established within ICANN for At-Large Member involvement? The ALSC also is encouraging the development of independent studies by organizations and individuals worldwide. A "call for studies" was recently issued by the committee seeking research that examines roles, requirements, processes and structures relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc individuals' involvement in international organizations. Of particular interest is research on international membership (including membership funding) models, international membership discussion and decision-making models, and international membership representation models. "In a sense, we are sailing in uncharted waters Uncharted Waters (Japanese: 大航海時代, Daikoukai Jidai, literally Great Navigation Era) is a popular Japanese video game series produced by Koei as part of its rekoeition games. . There is no model or method in existence today directly applicable to ICANN's goal of involving and representing individuals in every country in the world," noted Bildt. "Encouraging new research and thoughtful discussion of these issues is critical to our success." The online forum can be found at http://www.atlargestudy.org/forum.shtml, and will operate until the committee's work is completed in November. About the ALSC The ALSC is an independent committee created by ICANN earlier this year to provide recommendations to ICANN's board on how to structure individual Internet users' participation within ICANN. The ALSC is conducting an aggressive outreach, discussion, research and consensus-building campaign that will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. with the issuance of a draft report for public comment in September, and the submission of a final report to the board in November. In addition to Carl Bildt, the ALSC includes Charles Costello, Pierre Dandjinou, Esther Dyson  should be added to this article, to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.Please discuss this issue on the talk page. , Olivier Iteanu, Ching-Yi Liu, Thomas Niles, Oscar Robles Oscar M. Robles (b. April 9, 1976, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico) has spent much of this decade as a third baseman for the Mexico City Red Devils (Diablos Rojos del México), and briefly as an infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers from May 2005 through 2006. and Pindar Wong. Biographies of these individuals, and information on the ALSC, can be found at www.atlargestudy.org. About ICANN ICANN is a technical coordination body for the Internet. Created in October 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet's business, technical, academic and user communities, ICANN is assuming responsibility for a set of technical functions previously performed under U.S. government contract by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, www.iana.org) An operating unit of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) that serves as a registry for both IP addresses and for a variety of protocol numbers. IANA is not an ISP and does not provide any network services. and other groups. Specifically, ICANN coordinates the assignment of identifiers that must be globally unique for the Internet to function: Internet domain names An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia. , IP address numbers, and protocol parameter and port numbers. In addition, ICANN coordinates the stable operation of the Internet's root server system. As a nonprofit, private-sector corporation, 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 through private-sector, bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes the participation of any interested Internet user, business or organization. |
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