I wish to support Wendy's call for a return to policy discussions on this list, and in light of her query regarding the WHOIS debate let me remind the list members of the formation of the GNSO WHOIS Working Group: As per the GNSO resolution in Lisbon, a WHOIS Working Group is being formed with a 120-day timeline. All may participate. The Charter for the WHOIS Working Group may be found here: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03357.html The membership of this WG extends to the following: Nominating Committee appointed GNSO councilors GNSO constituency members In addition, observers and liaisons may join the working group on the following basis: Observers shall not be members of or entitled to vote on the working group, but otherwise shall be entitled to participate on equal footing with members of the working group. In particular observers will be able to join the mailing list, and attend teleconferences or physical meetings. Observers must provide their real name, organization (if associated with an organization) and contact details to the GNSO secretariat, and the GNSO secretariat will verify at least their email address and phone contact information. Observers will also be requested to provide a public statement of interest, as for working group members. The email address of the GNSO Secretariat is GNSO.SECRETARIAT[at]GNSO.ICANN.ORG I look forward to seeing some of you engaged in the policy development process. Please be aware that the NCUC has challenged the language of the proposed charter: In considering this WG charter April 12, NCUC moves to amend it as follows: Under section 4b, Change the sentence "Determine how third parties may access registration data that is no longer available for unrestricted public query-based access for legitimate activities." to... Determine which third parties, under which conditions, may access registration data that is no longer available for unrestricted public query-based access." Also, strike the 8 paragraphs beginning "The GAC policy principles...." Reason: The opening sentence of 4b reads as if ANY third party will be given access to the data for any activity. But this begs the policy question that the WG must answer, which is WHICH third parties (e.g., just law enforcement agencies, or others) and under WHAT CONDITIONS. As for the second change, having discussed this with GAC members, the objections of the EU to the language was resolved by stating that some of the ACTIVITIES that Whois data was used for was legitimate, but this did not necessarily mean that ACCESS TO THE PRIVATE DATA was also legitimate. Also, the Whois task force has already determined that the purpose of Whois does not include many of these activities, so there is no obligation on ICANN to make the data available for those activities. http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03389.html --- Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com> wrote:
Thompson, Darlene wrote:
Frankly, Wendy, I didn't like the way the rest of the ALSs were shut out of the decision making process for the Vancouver meeting. It was vetoed by very few people when the rest seemed to want it. At least this time around it is going by group concensus rather than the GROUP being shut out of the process. Much better in my mind and much more transparency.
Perhaps you weren't on the discussion list when it was discussed and consensused down, but we tried to work transparently.
I'd love to have your input on policy discussions on the ALAC list, too! How about WHOIS privacy issues?
--Wendy
From what I can see, ICANN has been working very
hard to get things
happening despite certain ones trying there best to hold others back. ICANN even sent their Ohmbudsman to the Vancouver meeting. It was interesting at the Vancouver meeting that not one of the "old guard" ALSs, with the exception of Michael Miranda, even bothered to take part by distance. Frankly I think that this shows a dismal lack of regard to the new and emerging ALSs that a face to face meeting could change.
Thank you, ICANN, for your continuing financial support for these efforts.
Darlene
Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP c/o P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-6531 Fax: (867) 975-5605 dthompson@gov.nu.ca
-- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/
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