Thanks for this, Olivier. In defining a strategy for Europe, ICANN (and its community) should avoid a mission creep. ICANN is in charge of "assigned names and numbers" issues as they pertain to the Internet. Although other issues like net neutrality, censorship, accessibility and such are equally important, they are not within ICANN's remit if they are not directly related to names and numbers. Regarding privacy, I would be interested to know what is ICANN' strategy. If it is to lobby the EU for a wide open WHOIS, as mandated by the AoC, this may be an issue when engaging into partnerships with the local community and authorities. ICANN should unambiguously state which side they are on. As to defining what is geographical Europe, I think we should stick to the definition of the geographical regions in the ICANN context. As imperfect as it may be, it is the one the ICANN community understands. It is not ideal, but introducing still another definition may confuse things even more. Patrick On 06/08/13 15:26, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
Dear EURALO members,
please find attached, the summary of the ICANN Strategy for Europe meeting at ICANN 47. If you would like to provide feedback on this, please be so kind to channel it to the mailing list and we'll compile a response to Andrea Beccalli.
Kind regards,
Olivier
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