[ALAC] [ALAC-Announce] ALAC Vote on the Rec6 CWG Report

[Hong Xue]

Haven't seen continuation of the discussion. Is the " role of the
Independent Objector" still viable? What I heard is that it becomes
obsolete.

Hong



On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> As the Chair of ALAC's gTLD Working Group and the ALAC liaision to the
> cross-community group that created this report, I am generally OK with
> its conclusions and support its endorsement. However, I note that
> there has been no discussion of this in advance of the vote being
> called.
>
> Further, I am advising creation of a Minority Report in which At-Large
> is able to state our clear intentions in the many areas of the report
> that indicated divergence or incomplete consensus amongst the
> participants. There are a few issues that were important to us -- and
> endorsed by all ALAC participants -- that were opposed by other
> interests.
>
> I ask that any correspondence to the Board of ICANN staff that conveys
> the the endorsement of the report (providing, of course, that this
> vote succeeds) to be accompanied by an indication that ALAC is
> considering production of a minority report. I would further invite
> anyone interested in this to participate in the new-gTLD Working Group
> where I hope the drafting of such a report will take place for ALAC
> consideration, and  any questions or concerns by ALAC members to be
> expressed openly.
>
> Having said that, I believe that this report is a very important step
> forward. It has successfully revisited a component of the new gTLD
> application process which At-Large generally found repugnant, and our
> views have been well represented within the new policy
> recommendations. It proposes to eliminate objections on Morality and
> Public Order to would be adjudicated by a subcontracted "Dispute
> Resolution Service Provider". It does allow for communities and
> governments to submit objections on strings that would be widely
> objectionable; however, such objections would have to be contrary to
> international law and treaties. And, instead of a third-party
> contracted process of morality judgement, all decisions on
> acceptability must be made directly by the Board which can only deny
> applications (based on string objections) with a super-majority vote.
>
> It also -- as first recommended long ago in the gTLD statement of the
> At-Large Summit -- calls for slight modifications of the Community
> Objection process and the role of the Independent Objector, to
> compensate for the elimination of elimination of "Morality and Public
> Order" objections while still enabling opposition to (very)
> widely-objected strings.
>
> This was quite the task, bringing together ALAC, GAC and GNSO in what
> I believe to be a first-ever-of-its-kind consultation. Its
> productivity and results exceeded my expectations, especially given an
> extremely compressed timeframe that required four hours per week of
> conference calls and sometimes more. ALAC was well represented and
> appears to be treated as a respected and nearly-equal partner at the
> table. It's a good precedent that, I hope, may encourage such forums
> to be used to bring sanity to ICANN's policy-making process going
> forward.
>
> - Evan
>
>
>
>
>
> On 21 September 2010 18:06, ICANN At-Large Staff
> <staff at atlarge.icann.org> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > The Chair of the ALAC requested the Staff to start an online vote on the
> Rec6 CWG report. Please note that the vote will only remain open until
> Thursday, September 23rd at 2359 UTC.
> > [...]
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Dr. Hong Xue
Professor of Law
Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL)
Beijing Normal University
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