Greetings IRT members, observers, etc.

As we have some newly-freed up time today I thought it might be timely to pass along an article reporting on ICANN and privacy and proxy registrations that appeared front and center on The New York Times' online edition on October 4, 2024.
(See attached.)

[Because NYT online is subscription based, I have copied the text only (the pix are mostly of scenes of Reykjavik, the address under discussion, and persons including politicians interviewed for the piece) to make it accessible to all as a pdf.  As an update to the lesser circulation number I cited at the end of the piece when I created it, the Times reported on "Nov 4, 2024 — It had 11.09 million subscribers at the end of the third quarter."  (As a further parameter, on June 4, 2024 "The New York Times Company announced it had surpassed two million digital subscribers outside the United States, more than a third of which are in Europe".)

I believe it is safe to state that it was widely-circulated, but am otherwise passing it along to each of you without commentary beyond noting that ICANN and contracted parties are mentioned by name in the piece.  

Each may inform her/his own opinion, and some may opine upon how this reflects upon the Empowered Community, evoking as it may the often quoted line from Robert Burns' 1786 poem, "To a Louse":

      “Oh, would some Power the giftie gie us,
       To see ourselves as others see us”

[Spoiler alert: the poem is written from the perspective of a church-goer, who observes
  a louse (the singular of lice) crawling on the back of a woman's bonnet in church.]

Cheers,

John McCabe 
(speaking personally, for myself)


On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM Dennis Chang via Gdd-gnso-ppsai-impl <gdd-gnso-ppsai-impl@icann.org> wrote:

Dear IRT,

 

Thank you for your feedback on revised language for threshold questions A & C.  There are no further objections to the language in preparation for GNSO consideration! Well Done! We will begin coordinating the next steps with the GNSO liaison. 

 

Additionally, we are working on threshold question #3 assessment materials concerning the Intellectual Property and Law Enforcement Disclosure Frameworks that ICANN org had developed with the previous IRT.  We are cancelling IRT Session 13, scheduled for this Thursday 30 January, to allow us to complete and circulate the materials and to allow the IRT time to review before the next call.  We will be sending cancellations out shortly.  

 

Please continue to evaluate review of our proposed assessment and handling of candidate threshold questions D, G, I, and J which was sent out to the List on 23 January 2025 and can also be found in the IRT Threshold Question Tracker: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rqfRaG1yL8HU48u0_3rIHkREoWN0Psr0rT_I...> . 

 

Please reply on the list if you have any objections by Monday, 3 Feb 2025.

 

Happy Lunar New Year!

Wishing you the most charming holidays on this year of the Snake.

 

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Kind Regards,

Dennis S. Chang

GDD Programs Director

Phone: +1 213 293 7889

Skype: dennisSchang

www.icann.org  One World – One Internet

 

 

 

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