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At his first meeting as CEO of ICANN, Fadi Chehade showed up ready to work AND to listen. ICANN's new CEO described his objectives for the organization which included 1) affirmation of purpose, 2) operational excellence, 3) internationalization, and 4) evolution of the multi-stakeholder model on which ICANN is built. He also described significant organizational changes to ICANN leadership and staff to support public engagement, technical functions, registry and registrar services, contractual compliance, communications, and stakeholder and governance support. Generally speaking, attendees at the ICANN meeting were encouraged by what they heard from the new CEO.
In addition to the excitement surrounding the new CEO, a number of other issues also took center stage at the Toronto meeting including the Prioritization Draw, the Trademark Clearinghouse, the URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension), the RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement) Negotiations and Whois.
Prioritization Draw for New gTLD Applications
Just prior to meeting, ICANN published a plan for the prioritizing of new gTLD applications through the steps leading to delegation. This new plan describes the assignment of priorities through the use of a Draw or Drawing — the priority assigned to each application will be used to schedule the release of initial evaluation results, pre-delegation testing, and contract execution. To participate in the Draw, applicants will be required to purchase a ticket for $100. The Draw is tentatively scheduled for early December 2012. With this new proposal, internationalized top-level domains will be given preference and the first set of initial evaluation results is scheduled for release towards end of March 2013, with the first new gTLDs being delegated in Q2 of next year.
Trademark Clearinghouse
Attendees at the ICANN Meeting were given a sneak peek into the Trademark Clearinghouse. While the bulk of the development work has been completed, it appears that some refinements are still required before submissions can be accepted. There are also some questions regarding how data within the Trademark Clearinghouse will be accessed, and there are two different models being proposed — a decentralized model where each registry would receive a copy of the Trademark Clearinghouse database, and a centralized model where registries would access data directly from the Trademark Clearinghouse. At this point, the Trademark Clearinghouse is expected to begin accepting submissions in Q1 of 2013. (MarkMonitor will be providing Trademark Clearinghouse submission services.)
URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension)
The (URS) was meant to provide low cost alternative to UDRP for the suspension of clearly infringing domains. According to ICANN, URS fees were originally targeted at $300 – $500, however there were no providers willing offer the service at this price point. As a result, ICANN issued an RFI in September of this year to identify additional providers. Some in the community have asked ICANN to underwrite the URS for a period of time.
RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement) Negotiations
ICANN and Accredited Registrars (with input from Government and Law Enforcement) continue to work towards amendments to the RAA. Significant progress has been made on areas related to Whois verification and data retention, though certain key issues remain open. According to ICANN, a draft of the RAA will be posted for public comment by the end of December and a new version will be finalized by March of next year.
Earlier this year, the Whois Policy Review Team published their final report containing 16 recommendations including making Whois a strategic priority, defining a single policy, implementation of Proxy / Privacy Accreditation program, adopting new standards to support IDNs, etc. Some had expected the recommendations to simply be implemented by ICANN staff, but the ICANN Board asked the policy-making group within ICANN to assist in determining whether to proceed with implementation of the recommendations or whether a full Policy Development Process should be initiated instead.
By Elisa Cooper, Vice President of Marketing at Lecorpio
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By picking Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has managed something rare, for him: He's made everyone feel good. Conservatives are thrilled, of course — they'll have the "big choice" campaign they've been demanding from Romney. The Obama campaign is ecstatic — now they can more easily tie Romney to the unpopular Republican Congress and its determination (in last year's debt ceiling fight and in the "Ryan Budget") to force deep cuts to Medicare to balance the budget without raising taxes.
But don't overlook the celebration at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, which faces an uphill struggle to convert dissatisfaction with House Republicans into a "wave" that could reverse their 2010 disaster and put Nancy Pelosi back in the Speaker's chair.
Though Congress is dismally unpopular — just 12% approval in a CBS/New York Times poll last month -- that doesn't necessarily translate to the local level, and many swing voters can't even say accurately which party controls the House. In late June, veteran handicapper Charlie Cook dismissed Democratic hopes of a fourth "wave" election (following the upheavals of 2006, 2008 and 2010), as Democrats would need to pick up 25 seats to regain control of the House. Redistricting setbacks steepened the Democrats' odds, and Cook rates the party's congressional hopes "a pretty unlikely scenario, absent a strong wind at their backs." (An Obama landslide or sudden economic recovery might fit the bill, but neither seem likely.)
New York Times handicapper Nate Silver came to a similar conclusion, calling Republicans "reasonably clear favorites to maintain their majority." Recent polls show no advantage for Democrats in "generic" preference for Congress (asking voters which party they'd pick in the next election, without naming candidates). Silver thinks they need an edge of three or four points on that measure to win back the House. Like Cook, he sees little sign of a wave, and expects local factors (which wash in both directions) to decide House races in swing districts — unless the DCCC gets a big break.
Mitt Romney may have just given the DCCC that big break.
Obama hasn't always been House Democrats' best friend. In last year's debt ceiling fight, he seemed to throw them under the bus, right after their Republican colleagues had done them the huge favor of going on record by voting for the Ryan Budget, with its drastic cuts to Medicare — a symbolic step, since the measure would be doomed in the Democratic Senate — thereby fueling their hopes of a 2012 comeback. Still believing he'd get points for bipartisanship, Obama muddied their message by offering up his own, milder cuts to Medicare, in a deal with Speaker John Boehner that soon unraveled. And while Obama has more recently delighted House Democrats by finding his partisan voice — most of them relish the fight with Romney — there has been no illusion that the Obama campaign would bend its message or on-the-ground tactics to win the House as well as a second term.
Now, Obama and the DCCC will march in lockstep. With Romney's commitment not to weasel out of his past support for Ryan's budget, as one might have expected given his track record, Obama will make Ryan and his Medicare cuts even more central than he would have. Courtesy of his ads, politically disengaged undecided voters will get a crash course in recent congressional history. The Medicare issue has been potent for decades — it worked wonders for Clinton in 1996 — and in a best-case scenario for Democrats, it could boost the lead Obama now seems to hold into a decisive rather than narrow victory.
Thanks to Mitt Romney, House races now stand a much better chance of being nationalized, counter to Cook's and Silver's expectations.
Of course, idealists on both sides think a fight of substance over the direction of the country is one they will win, which is actually inspiring in a goofy way. Pundits have been wailing about an election that seemed to be about nothing but political tactics at a time of national crisis. Now the results will mean something, and will be more likely to settle the unbridgeable gap between Democratic and Republican visions on debt, spending and taxes — the ones at stake in next winter's fiscal cliff showdown — than if Obama won simply by "disqualifying" Romney, producing no ripples in congressional contests. And if Romney and Ryan win, their mandate will be clear.
It would be ironic if Ryan's Wisconsin seat, now added to the list of swing districts, were the one to decide which party controls Congress next year.
Peter Feld is a former Democratic pollster.


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The pound, as you may have noticed, has recently weakened substantially against the dollar and the euro. Not ideal for those wishing to enjoy some winter sun or snow. Currency has always been notoriously hard to forecast, but given the amount of quantitative easing in the UK, plus the low interest-rate environment and the poor economic backdrop, it is not surprising to see sterling take a tumble.
Rather than bemoaning your holiday cash, one way to try to take advantage is to look at funds investing in global leading businesses. The earnings of international firms are denominated in a range of currencies – so when sterling falls, overseas profits increase. Although he invests in the UK market, Richard Plackett, who runs BlackRock UK Special Situations Fund, feels many of the stocks in his portfolio have vast overseas earnings potential, and their earnings streams will look even stronger against a backdrop of weak sterling.
Mr Plackett has been managing the fund since 2004 and adopts a "multi-cap" approach to investing. This means backing companies of all sizes, from FTSE 100 behemoths to smaller firms that dominate niche areas. What I like about this approach is the flexibility. If investments are successful, they can grow with the fund, and he can potentially run smaller companies winners all the way to the FTSE 100. Interestingly, of the 65 stocks in the portfolio today, 23 have been held since his first year – so he can hardly be accused of being a short-term trader!
Investing throughout the market spectrum also provides diversification across a number of sectors. For instance, larger companies often fall into the consumer goods, financials and healthcare sectors. Although, the fund invests in these areas, its flexibility to invest in smaller companies allows significant exposure to more economically sensitive sectors such as industrials and technology.
Mr Plackett moves aggressively between larger and smaller companies, depending on his outlook. If he is cautious, the weighting in larger companies will increase as they tend to be biased to sectors with more defensive characteristics. Small and medium-sized companies account for around half of the portfolio, given his reasonably optimistic stance.
Performance during Mr Plackett's tenure has been impressive, with the fund returning 153.4 per cent against the sector average of 77.1 per cent. Much of this is attributable to good stock selection in smaller companies. These holdings have often been subject to takeovers, frequently at significant premiums to market price. Indeed, the portfolio has typically had one or two takeovers a year since 2004.
High-quality stocks with low levels of debt are also a feature of the fund. Mr Plackett seeks businesses with solid balance sheets that have accumulated large cash reserves. He is happy to see companies build their cash levels, providing they intend to reinvest the cash into new projects or return it to shareholders via dividends. There are currently overweights in technology, industrials and construction with a zero weighting in tobacco and utilities.
Mr Plackett is optimistic about 2013, believing the Government will continue to print money, which means many assets are likely to go up further in price. The portfolio is likely to remain biased towards high-quality smaller-company stocks where Mr Plackett and co-manager Richard Arnold have plenty of experience. Interestingly, they believe equities remain reasonable value in general terms and very good value in a relative sense against other asset classes such as bonds. They believe the "opportunity cost" of not holding equities is high – something investors staying in cash over the last year have already found to their cost.
In summary, this fund is well-placed to benefit from global growth, though it means performance could be volatile if international markets suffer. Mr Plackett is often overlooked, with Tom Dobell at M&G Recovery and Nigel Thomas at Axa Framlington UK Opportunities often attracting more money, but his is definitely a fund to consider given the experience and dedication of the team.
Mark Dampier is head of research at Hargreaves Lansdown, the asset manager, financial advisor and stockbroker. For more details about the funds included in this column, visit www.hl.co.uk/independent
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Hundreds of schools are illegally excluding children – sometimes to get rid of them during Ofsted inspections or having them taken off the school's roll for high-stakes tests – an investigation by the Children's Commission for England has found.
Illegal practices uncovered during the investigation – which included a survey of 1,000 teachers – include:
* Sending pupils home for disciplinary reasons without recording it as an exclusion – 6.7 per cent of schools were guilty of this (1,600 schools)
* Sending children with statements of special education needs home if their teaching assistant is unavailable – 2.7 per cent (650 schools)
* Pupils being put down as "authorised absent" or "educated elsewhere" when the school had encouraged them to stay away – 2.1 per cent (540 schools)
* Schools encouraging parents to educate their children at home – 1.8 per cent (or 192 schools) were guilty of this.
The practices flourish, the report argues, because there is "no meaningful sanction" against schools acting illegally and the incentive structure for schools "unintentionally" encourages heads to adopt illegal tactics.
It urges a range of get-tough measures to curb the practices, including major fines and placing any headteacher found to use illegal methods of exclusion on a professional misconduct charge.
The report also warns that it is a criminal offence to falsify the register of schools to mask an exclusion, i.e. by stating the pupil is being educated elsewhere.
"At a conservative estimate, this affects thousands of children in several hundred schools," the report concludes. "It ought to be a source of shame for the whole education system that those who are responsible for the education of children are, however rarely, illegally preventing them from gaining... education.
"This issue should become a much higher priority for all those involved in our schools, regardless of the number of children involved," the report concludes.
Education standards watchdog Ofsted should be told of any illegal exclusions at a school, the report adds.
Dr Maggie Atkinson, the Children's Commissioner, said: "For a long time, illegal exclusions from school have been an elephant in the room for educators, policy-makers or others. Whenever I speak to headteachers, education psychologists or education welfare officers anywhere in England, all will admit, always in strict confidence, that these exclusions do sometimes happen. But nobody wants to go public or is prepared to name names."
She added: "It is simply not acceptable for the education of thousands of young people to be disrupted, illegally, by the actions, or the inactions, of adults whose job it is to show them an example to live up to and to educate them."
In particular, Dr Atkinson stressed: "Asking the parents of a disabled child to repeatedly take them home early simply due to a lack of support is unacceptable."
One teacher told researchers: "As far as I'm aware in our school, last year we had 12 [pupils] going off on a project. And we find invariably someone goes 'oh, there are these projects' – the chances are you're never ever going to see them again... And you hear six months later, 'just so you know, so-and-so has disappeared off the register'."
Another education professional added that schools were being slated if they had poor attendance figures "so actually if you persuade a parent to educate them at home, then they're off your roll and their non-attendance doesn't count".