ALAC LIASON´s at Dot Mobi Workspace - Espacio del Enlace de ALAC en Dot Mobi

Current Position:  Murray McKercher between December 2013 and October 2014 (at the ICANN AGM)

Former Liaison: Andrés Piazza for the year 2009 - Actual Posición: Andrés Piazza para el año 2009

Reports / Reportes

alac:Preliminary Report as ALAC Liason at Dot Mobi 2009 - December 2008

alac:Reporte Preliminar como Enlace de ALAC en Dot Mobi para 2009 - Diciembre 2008

May 2015

The .mobi PAB Meeting took place telephonically on April 23^rd 1200 EST

Attendees:

David Payne Afilias

Ken Stubbs Afilias

Laurie Hirvonen (apologies) ISOC Finland

Tania Leuschner E-Plus Group Europe

 Trey Harvin ( apologies) .mobi

Murray McKercher ICANN At-Large and .mobi PAB Liaison

Agenda

1. state of .mobi domain names under management
2. promotion programs
3. IANA Transition and .mobi

John Levine, opened with some observations that the current mission statement does not reflect the current statistics or public trends in mobile usage on the internet.

General discussion followed with notes with some commercial in confidence data presented. One issue included the difficulty to get a clear picture of how  .mobi domain names are being used due to lack of whois data for some registrants.

It was noted that pushing technical standards for the mobile internet was a challenge, while players in the industry are implementing m. domain name prefixes, to indicate a mobile version of a particular web site.

Also noted:  Google updated its search algorithms to favor websites that perform better on mobile devices than desktop devices just two days prior to our meeting.

See: http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/7808-google-search-ranking-mobile.html

Noted that mergers and acquisitions in the mobile network provider ecosystem globally is providing considerable noise in the mobile internet world.

A further discussion on the IANA transition and its possible effect on TLD providers filled the remainder of the discussion.

Global trends in mobile, internet equal access issues , and judgment of the current economic issues in Europe will be added to upcoming discussions with respect to .mobi.

Official meeting Minutes will be posted when available.

Respectfully submitted,

Murray McKercher

.mobi PAB Member ICANN

25/05/2015

April 2015

The next .mobi PAB meeting will take place April 23rd 2015. A report will follow.

March 2015

Update: March meeting delayed..new meeting date TBD.

The next .mobi PAB meeting will take place March 26th 2015. A report will follow.

January 2015

No .mobi Policy Advisory Board as held in January 2015. The next .mobi PAB meeting should take place in Q1 2015. No date has been set.

December 2014

No .mobi Policy Advisory Board as held in December 2014. The next .mobi PAB meeting should take place in Q1 2015. No date has been set.

Respectfully submitted,

Murray McKercher

ICANN .mobi Liaison

21/12/2014

November 2014

The .mobi Policy Advisory Board Meeting took place October 30th, 2014 via teleconference.

The following Meeting minutes were adopted at the October meeting.

.MOBI Policy Advisory Board

Meeting Summary

13 March 2014

(telephonically)

Attendance

Ken Stubbs, Tania Leuschner, Lauri Hirvonen, John Levine, Trey Harvin and Murray McKercher

(quorum)

David Payne

(on behalf of Afilias)

Proposed Agenda

• Review previous meeting summary
• Update on RSEP for partial bulk transfers
• Review amendments to PAB charter
• New TLD timeline
• Impact of related new TLDs

Discussions

• RSEP – template form re: partial bulk transfers was modified by adding a disclaimer to what is submitted to ICANN; we are waiting for final approval from ICANN legal
• Potential issues with the new TLD timeline tend to be (i) technology issues (intranet/potential collisions), (ii) government issues (which are being negotiated); and (iii) duplicity/multiple applicants (which are usually resolved by buyouts or private auction)
• Proposed changes to the charter were unanimously approved
• Next agenda to include a more in depth discussion regarding preparations for whichever party gets .mobile (do we reposition, do business as usual, or something in between?)
• Next agenda to include a brief history of .mobi

Decisions

We had a more in depth discussion about the potential effect of the new GTLD .mobile and the .mobi brand and function on the internet. This included a historic discussion on the formation of .mobi

It was generally agreed that that the charter for .mobi had been realized effectively during its lifetime, and that now its relevance to the marketplace may have changed with the increase and acceptance of new internet connected mobile devices.

The original mission focused on allowing end users to find quality inter-operable content on the internet. The enforcement of quality standards became an untenable proposition for numerous legal reasons and has been dropped in the market strategy.

Content “control” has changed to the promotion of best practises for content creation. Afilias’s Device Atlas helps provide device data to mobile operators allowing their customers to create appropriate mobile internet user experiences. See https://deviceatlas.com/

More discussion is planned for discussing keeping .mobi relevant and setting a new mission for the domain name for the next 10 years.

Respectfully submitted,

Murray McKercher

ICANN .mobi Liaison

12/11/2014

October 2014

.mobi Policy Advisory Board Meeting scheduled for October 30th, 2014, November 2014, report will detail outcomes of that meeting.

September 2014

No .mobi Policy Advisory Board meeting held in September which is being re-scheduled to late October 2014

August 2014

No .MOBI Policy Advisory Board Held in August. The next .mobi PAB meeting is expected in late September 2014.

July 2014

No .MOBI Policy Advisory Board Held in July.

• During the ICANN 50 meetings in London I met with some staff from Afilias at their booth space to review .mobi marketing efforts
• Was unable to connect with Afilias Executives or other .mobi PAB members as no .mobi PAB meetings were scheduled during ICANN50

June 2014

No .MOBI Policy Advisory Board Held in June.

May 2014

No .MOBI Policy Advisory Board Held in May.

April 2014

No .MOBI Policy Advisory Board Held in April.

March 2014

The first .mobi PAB meeting took place at 11:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 13, 2014.

Agenda

• Review of the PAB charter
• Review and discussion on proposed ICANN RSEP regarding bulk transfers
• Any other business (i.e. compensation, future meeting schedules, etc)

Actions:

1. New PAB Charter was adopted
2. The ICANN Registry Services Evaluation Process (RSEP) regarding bulk transfers has been sent to ICANN Legal with limited response from ICANN Legal. It was generally agreed that the Generic Domain Division of ICANN was somewhat overwhelmed with work and the slow response was not indicative of any issues with the proposed ICANN RSEP. The .mobi PAB would appreciate more timely communications from ICANN Legal, but appreciates their current workload.
3. Future quarterly meeting will likely be held by Teleconference. Face to face meetings at ICANN gatherings are difficult to arrange, given the number of other meetings PAB members are required to attend at ICANN meetings.

Andres:
Many thanks for this report. As mobile communications become more embedded in our region, the dotMobi domain will begin to have an impact. It is a good thing that you are participating.

Best,
Carlton

contributed by guest@socialtext.net on 2008-12-03 17:30:59 GMT

Andres:

Well done!!! Very, very interesting, specially for the AtLarge community who have never had the minnimun idea about this.

Thank's

Carlos Aguirre

contributed by guest@socialtext.net on 2008-12-04 12:58:01 GMT

Prezado Andres:
muito esclarecedor esse informe preliminar. Estamos cientes que sua atuação no DotMobi será de grande importância para a comunidade de usuários finais de Internet.
Nossos melhores desejos nas suas funções em 2009.
Muito Obrigada
Sylvia Herlein Leite
Internauta Brasil

contributed by guest@socialtext.net on 2008-12-05 17:37:41 GMT

Felicitaciones, Andrés!
Estoy segura que en tu nueva posición podrás aportar una perspectiva original y sólida, que considere tanto los intereses de los miembros individuales como los de la comunidad en general.

Muchas gracias por el informe!

María Inés Bergoglio

contributed by guest@socialtext.net on 2008-12-05 18:47:43 GMT

Andres:

Your penultimate paragraph has a very cryptic reference that might be useful to clarify. You said "Also will ALAC Liason at Dot Mobi and will be providing monthly reports to that committee telling important matters related to Individual Internet Users´s interest in Mobile Internet, taking in special consideration to disclose only the information which is not considered confidential by Dot Mobi"

Would it be a correct interpretation to say that you are now bound by Dot Mobi to a Non Disclosure Agreement as Liaison?

Carlton

contributed by guest@socialtext.net on 2008-12-05 21:42:22 GMT