January 2012 - Bc-gnso - lists.icann.org

for expedited review: draft BC comment on registry proposal for Continuity Operations Instrument (COI)
by Steve DelBianco April 17, 2012

April 17, 2012

Per discussion in Dakar and on our 10-Nov member call, here is a draft of BC comments on the a proposed alternative to the for Continuity Operations Instrument in the new gTLD Program. Jon Nevett prepared this draft. This comment period and docs are described here<https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/rysg-proposal-cof-17oct11-en.htm>. These comments are due 2-Dec, giving us 10 days for review and approval. This is less than the 14-day period required in our charter, so I am requesting an expedited review period. If any member has substantive objections to the expedited review, we can go to 14 days and submit our comments after the ICANN due date. All BC members are invited to suggest edits. Please use track changes and circulate to BC list. Thanks again to Jon for taking the lead on this. Steve DelBianco vice chair for policy coordination, BC

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Business Constituency response to WHOIS Review Team questions
by Steve DelBianco Feb. 8, 2012

Feb. 8, 2012

Attached is the response of the Business Constituency (BC) to questions from The WHOIS Policy Review Team. This document was reviewed and approved by BC members in accordance with our charter. Sarah Deutsch served as Rapporteur for this response. -- Steve DelBianco Vice chair for policy coordination ICANN Business Constituency http://Www.bizconst.org <http://Www.bizconst.org/>

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Costa Rica Meeting - planning a social event with the Board & business community: RESPONSE REQUIRED
by Benedetta Rossi Jan. 31, 2012

Jan. 31, 2012

Dear BC Members, The Chair is negotiating whether we could have a social event with the Board & the local business community in Costa Rica. A head count from business is required today. Other information will be requested at a later date including arrival/departure dates, hotel name, contact details in Costa Rica, but for now can you please let me know if you are planning on attending the meeting. The social event is currently being scheduled for either the Sunday, Monday or Tuesday evening. All of these dates are tentative, but this information will help develop the interest of the Board and local business community in Costa Rica, so please try to send me an RSVP asap so the Chair can proceed with the necessary arrangements. Thank you, -- Kind Regards, Benedetta Rossi BC Secretariat https://community.icann.org/display/gnsobc/Home www.bizconst.org bc-secretariat(a)icann.org

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Latest draft advice on Consumer Metrics for gTLD expansion
by Steve DelBianco Jan. 27, 2012

Jan. 27, 2012

As I've mentioned on recent BC member calls, John Berard and I are on a Working Group looking at definitions and metrics for Consumer Trust, Choice, and Competition in the gTLD expansion. I've just circulated the third draft of "Advice" to the board on the definitions and measures. (attached) After the WG finishes its edits, this draft advice will be posted for public comment. We will conduct a public work session in Costa Rica as well. Then a final version will go to GNSO, ccNSO, ALAC, and GAC for them to amend / send to the Board. BC member comments welcome. It's clear that we need a careful review of all Measures in here. If possible, indicate your comments and edits about Measures and 3-year targets within the respective table row. -- Steve DelBianco Executive Director NetChoice http://www.NetChoice.org and http://blog.netchoice.org +1.202.420.7482

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.CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes - call for public comments
by Marilyn Cade Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

Elisa Cooper, the BC WHOIS Rapporteur, or Steve DelBianco, V.Chair, Policy Coordination, may offer additional comments.The Chair's purpose is to forward to all BC members. Like all members, I look to our Rapporteur for WHOIS, supported by our Vice Chair, Policy Coordination, to advise. However, for any new members, WHOIS is a key priority for BC. Marilyn Cade, BC Chair http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20jan12-en.htm.CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes Forum Announcement: Comment Period Opens on Date: 20 January2012 Categories/Tags: Contracted Party Agreements Purpose (Brief): ICANN is opening today the public comment period for the Fundacio puntCAT's, request to change its Whois according to EU data protection legislation. The public comment period will be closed on 3 March 2012.The .cat registry, submitted a Registry Service Evaluation Process (RSEP) on August 2011.At this time, ICANN has conducted a preliminary review in accordance with the Registry Services Evaluation Policy and process set forth at http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/rsep.html. ICANN's preliminary review (based on the information provided) did not identify any significant competition, security, or stability issues. The implementation of the request requires an amendment to the .cat Registry Agreement signed 23 September 2005. This public forum requests comments regarding the proposed amendment.Public Comment Box Link: http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/cat-whois-changes-18jan12-en.htm

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Announcement from the Secretariat: Webinar with CFO Xavier Calvez on Thursday & Friday - please rsvp to GNSO Secretariat
by Benedetta Rossi Jan. 24, 2012

Jan. 24, 2012

Dear BC Members, Please see below an announcement from the GNSO Secretariat regarding a webinar scheduled for Thursday and Friday this week with Xavier Calvez, ICANN CFO, and his team to discuss the Framework for the FY13 Operating Plan and Budget. Please follow the instructions in the email below and rsvp to the gnso secretariat email address if you plan on attending the webinar. Thank you, Kind regards, Benedetta Rossi BC Secretariat ________________________________________________________________________________________ A webinar with Xavier Calvez, ICANN CFO and his team to discuss the Framework for the FY13 Operating Plan and Budget /17 / is scheduled on: THURSDAY, 26 January 2012 at 20:00 UTC 12:00 noon PST; 15:00 EST; 21:00 CET 07:00 Melbourne 09:00 Auckland Friday 27 January 2012 For other places click on the link http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Budget+Webinar&iso… <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Budget+Webinar&iso…> and FRIDAY, 27 January 2012 at 14:00 UTC 06:00 PST: 09:00 EST; 15:00 CET; 22:00 Beijing: 23:00 Tokyo For other places click on the link: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Budget+Webinar+&is… <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Budget+Webinar+&is…> Please choose your date! The Webinar will the same on both days. This webinar will be held in English only. An Adobe Connect Room will be available and the link will be sent with the reminder For more information about the FY13 Framework, please see: http://www.icann.org/en/planning/ops-budget-framework-fy2013-en.pdf * It is important to inform us which day you would like to attend so please RSVP to gnso-secs(a)icann.org <mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org> * *If you require a dial-out please contact the GNSO Secretariat at:* *gnso-secs(a)icann.org <mailto:gnso-secs@icann.org>* -- Kind Regards, Benedetta Rossi BC Secretariat https://community.icann.org/display/gnsobc/Home www.bizconst.org bc-secretariat(a)icann.org

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ICANN Policy Update: Volume 12, Issue 1 - January 2012
by Benedetta Rossi Jan. 23, 2012

Jan. 23, 2012

Dear Members, Please find attached ICANN's Policy Update: Volume 12, Issue 1 - January 2012, for informational purposes. Kind Regards, Benedetta Rossi BC Secretariat https://community.icann.org/display/gnsobc/Home www.bizconst.org bc-secretariat(a)icann.org

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Bloomberg / BNA story on ICANN's latest Applicant Guidebook
by Steve DelBianco Jan. 13, 2012

Jan. 13, 2012

The attached article came out today. NetChoice quotes are consistent with what BC has said about respecting Governments & GAC and concerns over lowering technical requirements for "needy" applicants. And below is NetChoice statement on opening of the application window, which was picked up in Ziff Davis PC Mag<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398809,00.asp>, and Yahoo News<http://news.yahoo.com/proof-pudding-icanns-domain-expansion-netchoice-says-…>: The Proof is in the Pudding for ICANN’s Domain Expansion The plan to create new Internet domains could and should benefit Internet users and businesses, particularly those around the world who write in alphabets other than Latin. But ensuring that the benefits outweigh potential harms will depend entirely on what the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) does next. “Today is a big day, but not nearly as big as what happens three months from now when ICANN starts selecting which domains to approve, and how to implement critical protections for users and businesses,” DelBianco said. “Even as it moves forward, ICANN must ensure that these new Internet domains are held to the highest possible standards of performance and integrity, so that users and registrants can realize the promised results.” NetChoice, an active participant in ICANN’s Business Constituency, believes that this expansion plan should proceed, but has urged ICANN to continue making improvements – even after the application deadline opens – to ensure users are protected. “ICANN has a great opportunity to prove wrong those critics who want to see this program scuttled or permanently delayed. But that will only happen if the organization remembers that protecting Internet users – and the Internet itself – is its top priority.” -- Steve DelBianco Executive Director NetChoice http://www.NetChoice.org and http://blog.netchoice.org +1.202.420.7482

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here's a GREAT piece by Cory Doctorow which touches on many of the issues we like to discuss
by Mike O'Connor Jan. 13, 2012

Jan. 13, 2012

hi all, this is a great thought-provoker piece -- kindof a unified field theory of why things like SOPA and IP protection strategies in general don't work. it'll make some of you cranky, and i'd really like to have a discussion about those points. http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html here's a teaser: > General-purpose computers are astounding. They're so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they're for, how to accommodate them, and how to cope with them. This brings us back to something you might be sick of reading about: copyright. > > But bear with me, because this is about something more important. The shape of the copyright wars clues us into an upcoming fight over the destiny of the general-purpose computer itself. > > In the beginning, we had packaged software and we had sneakernet. We had floppy disks in ziplock bags, in cardboard boxes, hung on pegs in shops, and sold like candy bars and magazines. They were eminently susceptible to duplication, were duplicated quickly, and widely, and this was to the great chagrin of people who made and sold software. > > Enter Digital Rights Management in its most primitive forms: let's call it DRM 0.96. They introduced physical indicia which the software checked for—deliberate damage, dongles, hidden sectors—and challenge-response protocols that required possession of large, unwieldy manuals that were difficult to copy. > > These failed for two reasons. First, they were commercially unpopular, because they reduced the usefulness of the software to the legitimate purchasers. Honest buyers resented the non-functionality of their backups, they hated the loss of scarce ports to the authentication dongles, and they chafed at the inconvenience of having to lug around large manuals when they wanted to run their software. Second, these didn't stop pirates, who found it trivial to patch the software and bypass authentication. People who took the software without paying for it were untouched. > > Typically, the way this happened is a programmer, with possession of technology and expertise of equivalent sophistication to the software vendor itself, would reverse-engineer the software and circulate cracked versions. While this sounds highly specialized, it really wasn't. Figuring out what recalcitrant programs were doing and routing around media defects were core skills for computer programmers, especially in the era of fragile floppy disks and the rough-and-ready early days of software development. Anti-copying strategies only became more fraught as networks spread; once we had bulletin boards, online services, USENET newsgroups and mailing lists, the expertise of people who figured out how to defeat these authentication systems could be packaged up in software as little crack files. As network capacity increased, the cracked disk images or executables themselves could be spread on their own. > > This gave us DRM 1.0. By 1996, it became clear to everyone in the halls of power that there was something important about to happen. We were about to have an information economy, whatever the Hell that was. They assumed it meant an economy where we bought and sold information. Information technology improves efficiency, so imagine the markets that an information economy would have! You could buy a book for a day, you could sell the right to watch the movie for a Euro, and then you could rent out the pause button for a penny per second. You could sell movies for one price in one country, at another price in another, and so on. The fantasies of those days were like a boring science fiction adaptation of the Old Testament Book of Numbers, a tedious enumeration of every permutation of things people do with information—and what might be charged for each. > > Unfortunately for them, none of this would be possible unless they could control how people use their computers and the files we transfer to them. After all, it was easy to talk about selling someone a tune to download to their MP3 player, but not so easy to talk about the the right to move music from the player to another device. But how the Hell could you stop that once you'd given them the file? In order to do so, you needed to figure out how to stop computers from running certain programs and inspecting certain files and processes. For example, you could encrypt the file, and then require the user to run a program that only unlocked the file under certain circumstances. > > But, as they say on the Internet, now you have two problems. > > You must now also stop the user from saving the file while it's unencrypted—which must happen eventually— and you must stop the user from figuring out where the unlocking program stores its keys, enabling them to permanently decrypt the media and ditch the stupid player app entirely. > > Now you have three problems: you must stop the users who figure out how to decrypt from sharing it with other users. Now you've got four problems, because you must stop the users who figure out how to extract secrets from unlocking programs from telling other users how to do it too. And now you've got five problems, because you must stop users who figure out how to extract these secrets from telling other users what the secrets were! > > That's a lot of problems. But by 1996, we had a solution. We had the WIPO Copyright Treaty, passed by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization. This created laws that made it illegal to extract secrets from unlocking programs, and it created laws that made it illegal to extract media (such as songs and movies) from the unlocking programs while they were running. It created laws that made it illegal to tell people how to extract secrets from unlocking programs, and it created laws that made it illegal to host copyrighted works or the secrets. It also established a handy streamlined process that let you remove stuff from the Internet without having to screw around with lawyers, and judges, and all that crap. > > And with that, illegal copying ended forever, the information economy blossomed into a beautiful flower that brought prosperity to the whole wide world; as they say on the aircraft carriers, "Mission Accomplished". > > That's not how the story ends, of course, because pretty much anyone who understood computers and networks understood that these laws would create more problems than they could possibly solve. After all, these laws made it illegal to look inside your computer when it was running certain programs. They made it illegal to tell people what you found when you looked inside your computer, and they made it easy to censor material on the internet without having to prove that anything wrong had happened. > > In short, they made unrealistic demands on reality and reality did not oblige them. > the article goes on to cover a bunch of stuff from there. enjoy. mikey - - - - - - - - - phone 651-647-6109 fax 866-280-2356 web http://www.haven2.com handle OConnorStP (ID for public places like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.)

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Posting the list of "improvements" to the new gTLD program to the BC public list
by Marilyn Cade Jan. 11, 2012

Jan. 11, 2012

Two members asked to have this list posted to the bc-GNSO list. Thus, I am posting it, but you already received it via bc-private, so you can disregard this. It is a copy of the list provided for the BC call. Bene will also put it on the BC WIKI, and as she and I finalize the grid/excel version, we will get that posted to members. As noted in the earlier email, I am targeting providing it to the ExComm for a sanity check on readability and undertandabiilty for members comments on the document, and then posting to the bc-GNSO list. Just a reminder that you will have the transcript from Bene, our Secretariat in a few days, or sooner, as well, as a memory supplement, or if someone in your company missed the call and you want to engage with them on the discussions. Marilyn Cade

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