[atlarge-discuss] Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] Some news of the Rio meeting

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Milton and all former DNSO GA members or other interested parties,

  Thank you for your brief but interesting view of the going's one in Rio
for those not attending

Milton Mueller wrote:

> This is a report on policy issues, it reflects my views alone (MM).
> Most of these reports focus on the GNSO Council.
> NCUC was represented at the meeting by Eung Hwi
> Chun and Milton Mueller. Gabriel Pineiro was unable
> to make the trip due to its cost.
>
> WHOIS: PROGRESS ON PRIVACY
>
> Whois issues dominated the discussion on the GNSO Council Tuesday
> March 25. Both ICANN's Board and the registrar and registry industries
> are showing increased concern over the legal implications of using
> WHOIS data to publicly display domain name registrant contact data.
> NCUC members Ruchika Agrawal of EPIC and Kathy Kleiman of ACM-IGP
> have played an important role in bringing these issues to the fore.
>
> More work is necessary because the GNSO's WHOIS Task Force,
> which lasted for two years and just completed its work, failed to
> consider the impact of privacy protection on demands for more
> accurate WHOIS data. Thus, the Council agreed to initiate a new
> policy development process (PDP) related to WHOIS and privacy.
>
> PDPs are triggered by "issues reports." Two issues reports were
> submitted on WHOIS/privacy/accuracy issues, one by Marilyn Cade and
> one by the NCUC.
>
> The ICANN staff now has 45 days to prepare a final issues report
> on privacy. The staff issues report will integrate the suggestions
> of the NCUC and Cade papers, and serve as the foundation for the
> Terms of Reference of a new Task Force. In the meantime, GNSO
> constituencies should be determining who will represent them on
> the Task Force, and also thinking about names of outside experts
> who might also be placed on this Task Force.
>
> Business constituency's Marilyn Cade also submitted a third issues
> report on increased accuracy of WHOIS data. Cade's report called for
> stringent new measures to force users to make their WHOIS data accurate,
> without providing any protection from public use and access of the
> data. Fortunately, the Council voted to delay any further policy
> development on WHOIS accuracy issues until the privacy policy
> development process was finished, or until we have at least six
> months of experience with implementation of the new accuracy policy
> passed by the Board. This vote passed with support from all Council
> members except for 3 abstentions from the Intellectual Property
> Constituency.
>
> ALAC METAMORPHOSES?
>
> The ALAC discussed some of its organizational plans before the
> Council. NCUC Council member Milton Mueller challenged the ALAC
> on its apparent plan to rely on organizations, rather than
> individuals, to build its membership base. "The whole point of
> the At Large," Mueller said, "was to provide a space where
> individuals are represented and act in their capacity as
> individuals."
>
> NEW TLDs 1: ODD RESULTS
>
> The GNSO was asked by the Board to determine whether the name
> space should be structured and if so, what kind of a structure
> it should have. In response to this request, the GNSO Council
> created a Committee of the Whole chaired by Business Constituency
> member Philip Shepherd, a strong advocate of a "taxonomized,"
> structured name space, in which ICANN decides whether names
> "have value," help users navigate the Internet, and so on.
>
> Most committee members, however, favored a TLD addition process
> in which applicants, not ICANN, propose the names, and ICANN
> responds to demand. NCUC was the only other constituency
> besides BC to prepare a position paper on this question, calling
> for regular annual addition of 30 TLDs with no "structure."
>
> Despite the clear lack of support for a "structured" TLD name
> space, the committee report to the Council (drafted by Shepherd)
> said that the Committee endorses the idea of a structured
> space. Mueller objected strongly to this wording during the
> Council meeting. What impact this will have is not yet determined.
>
> NEW TLDS 2: THE LYNN MEMORIAL ROUND of TLD ADDITIONS
>
> Outgoing ICANN CEO Stuart Lynn's call for an adhoc addition of
> "a limited number" of sponsored TLD additions (sTLDs) was presented
> to the public on Wednesday. The report had to be discussed only
> one day after it was posted on the web. Lynn proposes a highly
> cumbersome "beauty contest" process for the new TLDs, with
> evaluations by multiple committees outside of ICANN.
>
> Public commentors in the audience had some fun with Lynn's proposal,
> asking why the call for a "limited number" of sTLDs in the Board
> resolution had been turned into "a few." The public forum also
> criticized Lynn's proposal only to allow existing registries
> "with experience" to operate the new sTLDs. Because new and more
> efficient proposals for adding TLDs are gaining support, many
> commentators expressed concern that this process not be seen as
> a precedent for the future. Indeed, several speakers agreed that
> this round of additions should be named the "Stuart Lynn Memorial
> Round" of TLD additions, both to honor the outgoing ICANN CEO and
> because it reflects so completely the type of processes ICANN
> relied on in the past.
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Regards,
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