Re: [NA-Discuss] [ga] ICANN opens up Question Box for Mexico City meeting
George, These are the questions that I sent through today: Twomey (two years ago): “What has happened to registrants with RegisterFly.com has made it clear there must be comprehensive review of the registrar accreditation process”. Where’s the review? The IANA’s .int registry serves the IGO population without fees. Will the Board direct the IANA to provide registry services without fees to other small populations? How does the Board intend to resolve the current impasse over the proposed amendments to the RAA? Will fees for new IDN ccTLDs also be predicated on a cost-recovery basis? Will the final set of PSC accountability recommendations be in place and adopted prior to the expiration of the JPA? When can we expect to see representatives from the at-large community seated on the ICANN Board as directors? The ICANN Compliance Department together with the National Opinion Research Center organized a Whois Accuracy Study. When can we expect to see the results of this study? Recent Breach Notices illustrate that registrar violations can span more than a year before a Breach Notice is finally sent. Will the Board recommend a more timely approach? The bylaws require constituent bodies to operate to the maximum extent feasible in a transparent manner. Will the Board refuse to re-certify constituencies that don’t publicly archive member discussions? A $60million budget is currently insufficient to fully fund GNSO Council travel expenses. How high does the budget need to be before full travel funding becomes available? --- On Wed, 2/11/09, George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com> wrote: From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com> Subject: [ga] ICANN opens up Question Box for Mexico City meeting To: ga@gnso.icann.org Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 8:25 PM Hi folks, ICANN has opened up a Question Box for the Mexico City meeting, see: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-11feb09-en.htm It'll be interesting to see whether they respond with more than just canned non-answers given that they have the time to prepare. Since we're allowed to submit more than one question, here's a few I submitted (with perhaps more to come once the next new gTLD Draft Guidebook is published). If others submit questions feel free to post them to the GA list, and we can see whether ICANN does in fact answer them in Mexico. Questions were limited to 30 words. 1. Why did ICANN use its emergency reserve fund to speculate in financial markets, losing a reported $4.6 million? Emergency reserves are supposed to be kept in risk free liquid securities. 2. In ICANN's Form 990, Paul Twomey's compensation was adjusted upwards to reflect the declining US dollar. Now that the US dollar has soared, will his compensation be adjusted downward accordingly? 3. Why is the Board Finance Committee planning an expensive hedging program, when it is possible to conduct most of its business in US dollars, shifting currency risks to suppliers? 4. One million/year is spent on telephone costs. What's being done to minimize that cost, in particular competitive tenders by suppliers, etc? What's the cost per minute of conference calls currently? 5. Why was ICANN staff researching George Kirikos' political views on President Barack Obama? (as was verified by Apache webserver referrer logs) Does ICANN keep a dossier on every community participant? 6. Why does ICANN use For-Profit companies as "comparables" in its compensation, when it purports to be a Non-Profit? Given staff's job security compared to the private-sector, isn't this unwise overspending? 7. A federal court in California awarded Verizon $33.15 million against OnlineNIC for cybersquatting. What's ICANN doing to protect registrants in the event of registrar failure? Are other registrars vulnerable? Sincerely, George Kirikos http://www.leap.com/
Additional questions: 1. RAA amendment: ability to create new Registered Names suspended if Registrar is repeatedly/willfully in fundamental/material breach of its obligations at least three times within year. Why isn’t once sufficient? 2. RAA: In the event ICANN establishes a Code of Conduct for ICANN accredited registrars, Registrar shall abide by that Code; Will ICANN ever establish a registrar code of conduct? 3. RAA amendment: “Upon execution of agreement, Registrar shall provide ICANN with a list of the names of Registrar's directors and officers”. Will such a list ever be made public? 4. RAA: “Registrar shall abide by ICANN adopted specifications or policies prohibiting or restricting warehousing of or speculation in domain names by registrars.” Will such a policy be forthcoming? 5. RAA amendment: registrar shall display conspicuous notice when election is made to utilize proxy services that customer data is not being escrowed. Is Board comfortable with this loophole? 6. RAA amendment: “In the event that ICANN publishes a webpage that identifies available registrant rights and responsibilities”. When does ICANN intend to publish such a page? 7. One would think that an organization committed to transparency would publicly post the registrar accreditation applications. Will this ever happen? 8. ICANN Staff issued a Draft Statement of Work for Funnel Review (indicating a review is consistent with ICANN's efforts to improve policies/procedures). Can we also expect a UDRP review? 9. RIRs are considering proposals to permit market-based address transfers. Does the Board have a view on this development? 10. When will ICANN articulate a transparent mechanism, that includes community agreement, for the disposition of excess new gTLD revenues, should there be any, given ICANN’s non-profit status?
Even more questions: 1. When can we anticipate a decision being reached on the topic of board member compensation? 2. Board’s thoughts on APWG’s Accelerated Domain Suspension Process proposal seeking to define accreditation requirements for entities that would expedite takedowns of domains used in phishing or malware distribution? 3. Strategic Plan: “Clarify ICANN’s role in relation to consumer protection; develop a clear consensus position by the end of 2009.” What is the Board’s current view on ICANN’s role? 4. PSC Discussion Proposal: Establish accountability mechanisms that allow the community to remove the Board collectively and reconstitute it. When do you anticipate such a mechanism being in place? 5. ICANN sponsors regional registry/registrar gatherings. Will it ever sponsor regional gatherings exclusive to the non-contracted parties? 6. ICANN’s Emergency Names and Addressing Committee (ENAC) supposedly includes 1 appointed ALAC representative from each region. Whom has the ALAC appointed to serve on this Committee? 7. Will the ICANN Compliance Department be willing to tell us how many domains have been cancelled in the last year as a result of WDPRS filings? 8. Will ICANN issue a specification requiring Registrars to allow folk to add AAAA glue for their Domain Name Servers by a fixed date? 9. The Independent Review of the Board of ICANN recommended to “Move to fewer but longer board meetings”; does the board agree or disagree? 10. GNSO Councilor comment: “the RAA amendment consultative process essentially excluded registrants and users including brand owners, and ignored their input.” Is the Board aware of such Staff mismanagement?
Another set of questions: ALAC Review: “after a year since we first began asking, ICANN has not been able to produce current or historical data on the cost of the ALAC”; Board response? Why did the Board decide to eliminate the Board Privacy Committee which was first established at the recommendation of at-Large director Mueller-Maguhn? Is privacy no longer an important consideration? The stated goal of the WDRP Consensus Policy was to improve WHOIS accuracy. If WHOIS accuracy has not improved, will ICANN direct the GNSO to revisit this policy? In the matter of the Independent Review Process before the International Centre for Dispute, ICANN argues for a deferential standard of review. Is ICANN unwilling to be held accountable? How many cybersquatting-related lawsuits directed at registrars does ICANN need to see before it realizes that ICANN action is warranted? ICANN’s Articles of Incorporation require ICANN to determine the “circumstances” under which new TLDs are added to the root. What specific circumstances prompted the current new gTLD round? Just curious… whatever happened with the Cross Registry Information Service Protocol (CRISP)? Has anyone done anything with it? RAA amendment: “Registrar shall provide on its website its accurate contact details including valid email and mailing address.” Why won’t ICANN require identification of registrar’s primary place of business? Will ICANN’s new board-level Risk Committee be reporting to the community on the risks associated with terminating the JPA?
Hi Danny, GREAT questions. I sure hope you used the actual Question Box (its a special form they have on the web site) in addition to forwarding it to this list. If not, they may not see your questions. Just want to make sure that they see this stuff! D Darlene A. Thompson CAP Administrator Nunavut Department of Education/N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Sation 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca ________________________________ From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org on behalf of Danny Younger Sent: Thu 2/12/2009 9:58 AM To: ga@gnso.icann.org Cc: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] [ga] ICANN opens up Question Box for Mexico Citymeeting George, These are the questions that I sent through today: Twomey (two years ago): "What has happened to registrants with RegisterFly.com has made it clear there must be comprehensive review of the registrar accreditation process". Where's the review? The IANA's .int registry serves the IGO population without fees. Will the Board direct the IANA to provide registry services without fees to other small populations? How does the Board intend to resolve the current impasse over the proposed amendments to the RAA? Will fees for new IDN ccTLDs also be predicated on a cost-recovery basis? Will the final set of PSC accountability recommendations be in place and adopted prior to the expiration of the JPA? When can we expect to see representatives from the at-large community seated on the ICANN Board as directors? The ICANN Compliance Department together with the National Opinion Research Center organized a Whois Accuracy Study. When can we expect to see the results of this study? Recent Breach Notices illustrate that registrar violations can span more than a year before a Breach Notice is finally sent. Will the Board recommend a more timely approach? The bylaws require constituent bodies to operate to the maximum extent feasible in a transparent manner. Will the Board refuse to re-certify constituencies that don't publicly archive member discussions? A $60million budget is currently insufficient to fully fund GNSO Council travel expenses. How high does the budget need to be before full travel funding becomes available? --- On Wed, 2/11/09, George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com> wrote: From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com> Subject: [ga] ICANN opens up Question Box for Mexico City meeting To: ga@gnso.icann.org Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 8:25 PM Hi folks, ICANN has opened up a Question Box for the Mexico City meeting, see: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-11feb09-en.htm It'll be interesting to see whether they respond with more than just canned non-answers given that they have the time to prepare. Since we're allowed to submit more than one question, here's a few I submitted (with perhaps more to come once the next new gTLD Draft Guidebook is published). If others submit questions feel free to post them to the GA list, and we can see whether ICANN does in fact answer them in Mexico. Questions were limited to 30 words. 1. Why did ICANN use its emergency reserve fund to speculate in financial markets, losing a reported $4.6 million? Emergency reserves are supposed to be kept in risk free liquid securities. 2. In ICANN's Form 990, Paul Twomey's compensation was adjusted upwards to reflect the declining US dollar. Now that the US dollar has soared, will his compensation be adjusted downward accordingly? 3. Why is the Board Finance Committee planning an expensive hedging program, when it is possible to conduct most of its business in US dollars, shifting currency risks to suppliers? 4. One million/year is spent on telephone costs. What's being done to minimize that cost, in particular competitive tenders by suppliers, etc? What's the cost per minute of conference calls currently? 5. Why was ICANN staff researching George Kirikos' political views on President Barack Obama? (as was verified by Apache webserver referrer logs) Does ICANN keep a dossier on every community participant? 6. Why does ICANN use For-Profit companies as "comparables" in its compensation, when it purports to be a Non-Profit? Given staff's job security compared to the private-sector, isn't this unwise overspending? 7. A federal court in California awarded Verizon $33.15 million against OnlineNIC for cybersquatting. What's ICANN doing to protect registrants in the event of registrar failure? Are other registrars vulnerable? Sincerely, George Kirikos http://www.leap.com/ ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss_atlarge-lists.ica... Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org <http://www.naralo.org/> ------
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