[ALAC] Fwd: Regulated industry/sensitive new gTLDs PICS - Policy Advisory Board model

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond ocl at gih.com
Wed Oct 2 05:30:41 UTC 2013


FYI -- please be so kind to find correspondence from Ron Andruff, member
of the GNSO's Business Constituency (BC). Comments welcome.
Kind regards,

Olivier


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Regulated industry/sensitive new gTLDs PICS - Policy Advisory
Board model
Date: 	Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:40:35 -0400
From: 	Ron Andruff <randruff at rnapartners.com>
To: 	<cherine.chalaby at icann.org>
CC: 	<Heather.Dryden at ic.gc.ca>, <peter.nettlefold at dbcdd.gov.au>,
"Olivier Crepin-Leblond " <ocl at gih.com>



Dear Cherine,

 

During the NGPC discussions with the Government Advisory Committee at
ICANN Beijing concerns emerged about how to ensure that new gTLDs from
regulated industries/professions act in the public interest, and how
they can demonstrate that they are fully supportive of the interests of
those who are affected as users, not merely as registrants, in such gTLDs.

 

As you know, numerous applications for gTLDs that are representative of,
or related to, regulated sectors were received by ICANN.  In recognizing
the GAC's interest in how regulated industry/sensitive string applicants
will adequately address core concerns about the public interest impact
of their applications, I have been working with others to develop
approaches that are high level and standardized to a great extent. This
approach would allow applicants for gTLD strings associated with
regulated industries and professions (or other high risk sectors, such
as .KIDS, etc.) to demonstrate how they will develop, implement, and
enforce policies for the registration practices and standards in their
respective gTLDs.  In our view, these practices and standards should
reflect the concerns of regulatory authorities, public interest
organizations -- and most importantly, users -- to enable those gTLDs
applicants to move ahead through the review process as expeditiously as
possible.  An appropriate Policy Advisory Board (PAB) should be
established prior to approval of a new gTLD application by ICANN, as the
practices and standards it develops will determine acceptable
registrants and uses.

 

The attached Policy Advisory Board model documents provide a mechanism
by which the GAC safeguard advice for protecting the public interest can
be implemented to assure that, as Internet users interact with domains
at new 'sensitive string' gTLDs associated with regulated industries and
professions, they can be certain that the registrants are bona fide
entities engaged in legitimate activities.  This PAB approach
establishes a standard framework for appropriate safeguards at sensitive
string gTLDs that allows the flexibility to ensure that each Policy
Advisory Board is reflective of a particular string and the concerns
associated with it. The safeguards can be fully developed and
implemented through the establishment of balanced and inclusive Policy
Advisory Boards that can develop appropriate registrant eligibility
criteria and registry policies -- those policies, in turn, can be
incorporated within enforceable Public Interest Commitments
Specifications (PICS) for the registry. 

 

The focus of this model is establishing baseline criteria and a standard
threshold of certainty for the public, and for governments, through a
standardized approach to accountability and public interest. On behalf
of my colleagues and myself, we hope it might inform the NGPC and GAC
deliberations on PICS in a useful and productive way. 

 

I would welcome further discussion on this matter should you feel that
would be of benefit to your Committee.

 

Kind regards,

 

RA

 

*Ron Andruff*

*RNA Partners*

*www.rnapartners.com* <http://www.rnapartners.com>**

 



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