I agree with Wendy that we need to find ways to accept inputs/contacts from public without bothered too much by the spam. IF we have decent spam filter, we could perhas deal with it, right? And, frankly, we here in Bali have been quite busy in making RALO start and thus have little energy to look into the RegisterFly - and we will have election of ALAC members and officers in the coming weeks before Lisbon which will also consume our extra hours as being volunteers. Europeans may be in similar mode. But, I appreciate Wendy and others to investigate this case and collectively come up as ALAC for the comment to ICANN in a timely manner. Thanks, izumi 2007/3/1, Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com>:

A couple questions.

Is anyone monitoring <http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/> ? We should have a way for the ordinary Internet user to get in touch with ALAC, and through us, ICANN (as if we can get in touch with ICANN), but I thought we had closed this forum due to spam. It seems still to be alive, and collecting several dozen complaints about RegisterFly, for one. Can we establish better means of getting public input???

1.1 - Do we want to say something about ICANN's failure to demand data escrow, as the general public had thought was provided for in the RAA (3.6)? I see this as a place where even ICANN's standard "no third party beneficiary" language wouldn't save them from suit by a harmed registrant.

--Wendy

-- 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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