With the GAC, making demands on ICANN is de rigueur, asking a fellow government to lift even a little finger to help the Internet, or prevent abuses, is beyond the pale. An insult to their sovereignty, it seems. Notice that the famous GAC principles, in all their permutations, never once require the slightest good behavior on the part of governments. They are not even required to engage a ccTLD operator in dialog -- they simply have the right to do so. When it comes to state actors, the GAC will always be very good at enumerating rights, and absolutely silent when it comes to discussing responsibilities. One state simply cannot bind another state to any action whatsoever. I suppose this arrangement is useful for preventing wars, but it is frustrating when dealing with Internet issues. Antony On Aug 2, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roberto Gaetano" <roberto@icann.org> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 1:43 PM
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However, as I have tried to explain to the GAC in many occasions when I was on the Board, we need to have a mechanism by which the global community is not impacted by a possible misbehaviour of a ccTLD. The example I often make is the wildcard, that was stopped in .com because Verisign had a contract with ICANN, and that was not stopped in .cm, because this was not the case. The wildcard is just one example. We should not forget that potentially more problems will come with IDNs, and to have "global" IDN-TLDs run under a different regime and set of rules then the "simil-cc" (fast track or not) IDN-TLDs is a serious risk. IMHO, ALAC should demand that user protection is guaranteed against misbehaviour by operators not under contract with ICANN. Cheers, Roberto
That is extremelly important..
While I like very much the general idea "ALAC should demand that user protection is guaranteed against misbehaviour by operators not under contract with ICANN", I do not see how practicaly this could be achieved with less than an international treaty, and a general strong support from everywhere. Why do we have so many difficulties to preserve whatever remains from the network neutrality? Because good and bad boys might want use similar techniques? Why GAC people did not listen neither do anything?
Kind regards, Elisabeth
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