[atlarge-discuss] Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] Report on Council meeting

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

Milton and all,

  Thank you Milton for this overview of the council meeting.
It appears that at least some positive things were understood
clearly regarding TLD's and name space expansion.

  It would however seem that President (Paul Twomey) has
something up his proverbial sleeve regarding Whois Privacy
concerns and that issue.  Looks like he is positioning for
yet another committee (PDP) to yet again go over what
has already been clearly shown as what is needed, demanded
and should be required by ICANN policy, to be done.
He may want to review the FTC's privacy web pages,
see: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/technology/index.html

Milton Mueller wrote:

> The GNSO Council did two significant things at its meeting.
>
> 1) New TLDs
> Council answered the Board's question about gTLDs.
> Basically, the GNSO rejected overwhelmingly the idea of a top-
> down taxonomy for the name space. The specific words adopted:
>
>  "In response to the question asked of it by the Board,
>  the GNSO council concludes: Expansion of the gTLD namespace
>  should be a bottom-up approach with names proposed by the
>  interested parties to ICANN. Expansion should be demand-driven.
>  Furthermore, there should be a set of objective criteria to be met
>  in any future expansion. The development of this set of objective
>  criteria should be the subject of a new Policy Development Process
>  (PDP). These ideas are expanded in the a report together with the
>  responses of the GNSO Constituencies and the ALAC which will be
>  forwarded to the Board in June."
>
> Both Chun and I voted for this. The opponents of name space
> expansion wanted to delay voting on this resolution. Gabriel voted
> with them, by assigning his proxy to someone from the ISP
> constituency.
>
> 2) Privacy/Whois
> It adopted a process for moving forward on the WHOIS
> issue. This is more complicated but let me summarize:
>  - In Montreal the President (Paul Twomey) will organize
> a program designed to bring forth "factual" material about
> privacy problems associated with whois.
>   - The Council will form a Steering committee to develolp a
> "terms of reference" for a policy development process."
> The chair of this committee will come from outside GNSO
> Council.
>
> Both Chun and I voted to accept this procedure, however,
> I am suspicious of it and believe that it needs to be carefully
> monitored.
>
> I would solicit your suggestions and help on:
> a) producing research/satistical material documenting
> privacy problems associated with Whois
> b) suggest names for chairing the Steering Committee
>
> --MM
>
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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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