[ALAC] [At-Large] [Registrants-rights] That Revised PICDRP

[Jean-Jacques Subrenat]

Following on Holly's remark ("what are the other few big issues that we should focus on - and campaign on?"),
I would like to develop my own previous suggestion.

- SCOPE. The narrower the issue we choose, the more there is a risk of divergent positions between ACs and SOs. The following may sound too wide, but all along I've been thinking about a list of issues under a single heading, e.g. "New gTLDs: taking stock and looking forward from the user perspective". In fact, a couple of weeks ago I suggested to Evan, as co-chair of the FCWG, that we make this our next piece of work in the WG. Evan accepted the idea, which will be fielded soon in the ALAC. But we could already initiate this in time for Buenos Aires.

- ALLIANCE. We should determine those aspects of the new gTLD programme on which the ALAC stands a fair chance of gaining support from other entities in ICANN, and build up from there. In the end, we may not have agreement from everyone on every aspect, but such an exercise would provide a platform wide enough to warrant a joint letter, and a public debate, involving the signatories.

- WHY THIS, WHY NOW? Like others in our community, I sense an impending crisis. A technical crisis, for sure, because the contradictory mechanisms chosen thus far will bring about a major clash. But also a crisis of confidence, because trust had been placed in the leadership of ICANN to navigate these complicated waters: there is now the widespread realization that the most important aspects have been gamed, and patched over not with real solutions, but with legal phrasing intended only to preserve the hind part of the Board. The crisis of confidence is also heightened by the revelations about the way the Internet has been misused for meta-surveillance. You may think that cannot damage ICANN. I think it may.

Jean-Jacques.



----- Mail original -----
De: "Holly Raiche" <h.raiche at internode.on.net>
À: "ALAC Working List" <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Envoyé: Dimanche 6 Octobre 2013 08:07:21
Objet: Re: [ALAC] [At-Large] [Registrants-rights] That Revised PICDRP

Time - again - to speak up

Evan is, of course, correct- and depressingly so. However, as Carlton says, ALAC represents the voices that aren't heard - and should be.  So tempting as it is to give up, I prefer JJ and Carlton's suggested actions - a combination of strategies that includes alliances (I know the Oz bit of GAC is 'up to the eyeballs' - or more with the unutterably flawed gTLD processes) and letters.

So
Please - a long session - and let's make it a strategy session - everyone around the table (including those in the GNSO who have issues with the gTLDs) for not only what has gone wrong (too easy to say and too long to spell out) but can we identify what can be saved?  Otherwise, we'd have to do nothing - and I don't like that response.

And another question to us all:  What are the other few big issues that we should focus on - and campaign on.

Holly

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