TBH I care less about the registrants in this matter than about end-users being denied access to important Internet destinations.

There is also a related issue here in that the rationale for this measure is to remove domains engaging in end-user abuse (phishing, malware, etc) and illegal activity. So perhaps the proposed change may be desirable in principle but flawed in execution.

Anyway, thanks for getting involved in it.

- Evan


On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:22 PM Jonathan Zuck via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:
Wait so we DO care about registrants?! ;)

Seriously, we just assigned two people to read the agreement, yesterday, and report back to the CPWG.

Jonathan Zuck
Director, Future of Work Project
Innovators Network Foundation
www.InnovatorsNetwork.org

From: CPWG <cpwg-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Evan Leibovitch via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2023 12:12:27 PM
To: CPWG <cpwg@icann.org>
Subject: [CPWG] Something of actual importance to end-users
 

Let's briefly put aside the boasting about ALAC's incremental involvement in the trivial agendas set by ICANN's vested interests. Here's a real example of an issue that can negatively affect end-users. The aims of the proposed modification may be laudable, but there's too much room for arbitrariness and too much potential to curb political speech unwanted by a government.

BTW ... Why was this not already flagged by ALAC as cause for concern? Why did I have to find out about this in the media rather than from the inside. Was ALAC intending to ignore it?

This is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. ALAC is obsessed with the trivial and the self-absorbed, but asleep during the issues that actually affect the constituency we're supposed to serve.

Does ALAC have what it takes to fight for the public interest on something that actually matters?
Is it capable of balancing the various intertwining issues? If the CPWG meets on this issue I'll be there.

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
@evanleibovitch / @el56
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