On 2 Aug 2010, at 15:38, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:
On 02 Aug 2010, at 16:39, Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:
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?
AFAIK ccTLDs policies are developed at the local level, with the local Internet community. I know several ALSes which are actively involved in this. I would like also to draw your attention to the initiative launched by Rudi Vansnick and Ron Sherwood aiming at building bridges between ALSes and their local ccTLD.
This is a really good approach. How is it working?
I think this is the way to go, and the most pragmatic approach we can have. I think the message that needs to get across to governments is that a misbehaving ccTLD operator is damaging for a country's image.
for those countries that care about global opinion, how is this done? has it ever been attempted in the area of ccTLDs.
As long as ICANN will be tied by a MoU, AoC or whatever other clever name they will invent to mean "contract with DoC", many ccTLDs will not want to play the ICANN/USG game, let alone agree to common policies.
That US centrism is another problem that needs to be dealt with in the long run. Seems a wonderful area for GAC and ALAC cooperation. But I think you are right, a lot of topics that may now be blocked from solution or even serious discussion, might loosen up if ICANN wasn't a US corporation. a.