lists@privaterra.info wrote:
kudos to CIRA for not only developing a privacy friendly WHOIS policy - but also implementing it.
While we've been frustrated at the gTLD level , ICANN lobbyists and special interest groups seem to have captured They've captured because there has been nobody to push back.
It's totally appropriate for ALAC, in its capacity, to press the Board that continued impass on this issue -- and the resulting lack of action -- has done serious damage to public use of the Net. The board does not NEED to wait for consensus at GNSO. It can collect the various points of view and show leadership. If GNSO has been unable to recommend action -- in part because the bias in its own membership is satisfied with the status quo -- the Board is not obliged to accept that inability to act. This is ESPECIALLY the case if At-Large indicates that this is a matter of strong public outcry. I'm not prepared yet to give up on tackling WHOIS privacy for gTLDs. The CIRA initiative now gives us a reasonable point of reference and a basis for policy advancement in a way that addresses both privacy and accountability concerns. This is not a situation in which we tried and failed to influence ICANN-wide policy and are forced to withdraw to a fallback strategy ... we have not yet even made the attempt. - Evan