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

[Jean-Jacques Subrenat]

Hello Holly & All,

good! Here's an outline for "New gTLDs: taking stock and looking forward from the user perspective". At this stage, I see no point in actually drafting, so the following are just place-holders or, at most, headings:

1) TAKING STOCK
   - the stated rationale for a vast and coordinated expansion of gTLD space
   - the genetic weakness of a constituency-by-constituency approach: magnifying detail, losing the wider view
   - the business bias: understandable, legitimate in its own logic, but insufficient
   - from rationale to implementation: diverging interests, incremental adjustments, the loss of global aim
   - consequences for the global Internet user: areas of negative impact

2) LOOKING FORWARD
   - the new gTLD programme must be placed in the wider context: what Internet governance, what MSM?
   - diverging interests (DNS businesses vs. general user): defining a new equilibrium, but consciously
   - it is time to refocus ICANN, from being perceived as an industry association, to recognition that it serves the global public interest
   - the difficult but inescapable overhaul this implies
   - process & calendar of this joint effort.

Having only just discovered the very interesting remark by Fouad Bajwa that the ALAC needs a communication policy, I will be responding in a separate email.

Jean-Jacques.

----- Mail original -----
De: "Holly Raiche" <h.raiche at internode.on.net>
À: "Jean-Jacques Subrenat" <jjs at fastmail.fm>
Envoyé: Dimanche 6 Octobre 2013 10:12:05
Objet: Re: [ALAC] [At-Large] [Registrants-rights] That Revised PICDRP

Jean Jacques

This is exactly the sort of contribution that I was hoping for.  I just love your idea under Scope - And the suggestions under "Alliance' fit in with the suggestions both Rinalia and Carlton had.

So next steps - Can we work on both in the lead up to BA - and then set aside time (drinks/dinner if there isn't time during the day) to start making this happen

Holly
On 06/10/2013, at 12:38 PM, Jean-Jacques Subrenat wrote:

> 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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